In Roy Cropper’s cell at Highfield Prison, The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams plays over a slow-motion scene of a cup of tea and a copy of Poor Caroline by Winifred Holtby falling to the floor. Has poor Roy been the victim of a brutal attack?
Coronation Street is filled with young volunteers who are washing cars to raise funds for Little Big Shotz. Their activities are soundtracked by Duran Duran’s 1984 hit The Reflex. Sarah Barlow is trying to get her daughter Bethany’s noncey nemesis Nathan Curtis to distance himself from her. When David Platt asks if the police have checked Nathan’s flat for DNA, Gary Windass says: ‘We’re not living in flippin’ Line Of Duty, you know.’ Considering the way the episode is edited – like a claustrophobic thriller, mainly from Sarah’s perspective – maybe they are.
Bethany needs to write an article about air fryers. With newspapers, magazines, websites and TV schedules obsessed with the culinary trend, is this an article the world really needs? Sarah continues her Eighties kick as she listens to the 1986 Erasure song Sometimes in her car. Corrie is sponsored by Argos, and Sarah is dressed almost exactly like Connie the doll from the catalogue retailer’s ads. Talk about subliminal advertising.
Coronation Street episode 11276. Originally aired 27th May 2024.
