Christmas in prison will come as relief for Corrie’s Samia
It was hard not to think of pots and kettles when Tracy Barlow delivered her withering verdict on Maria Connor in last night’s She did have a point though.
“She might be going to prison for illegally marrying a gay Argentinian hairdresser,” Tracy told her nephew Adam. “And they only found that out because her psychopathic lesbian lodger tried to frame her for murder.
“If you ask me she was always a bunny boiler deep down.” If, as has been rumoured, Maria does end up getting
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sent down for Christmas it might be the best thing for her and for the longsuffering Samia Longchambon.
With some of the scripts that have been tossed Samia’s way over the past couple of years I’m guessing she adopted Mary’s motto “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” long ago. I’m not sure when I realised the writers had run out of things to do with Maria but I think it might have been around the time she tried to get back with Tyrone.
A little time off might give everyone involved an opportunity to refocus and, hopefully, bring Maria back as less of a laughing stock.
Her suffering isn’t quite over yet, though. She’s about to get caught up in a love triangle with Aidan, left, and Adam – two grunting blokes who always look like they’re on their way back from a day spent modelling a full autumnal range of cashmere overcoats.
That prison cell must be looking more appealing by the day.