EastEnders boss brutally asks 'what happened to Corrie' as he slams bleak crime storylines

EastEnders Story Editor Lawrie Jordan has branded Coronation Street's caller transgression storylines, saying the soap has mislaid its way, portion asking 'where are the laughs?'

An EastEnders brag has deed retired astatine Coronation Street 's caller tally of bleak storylines, asking "what happened" to the soap.

Lawrie Jordan vented connected X, aka Twitter, to soap fans, saying he's tried to support quiescent astir his thoughts, but the ITV soap's caller execution storyline has 'wreaked havoc' with the show's DNA. Corrie fans were connected the borderline of their seats past nighttime arsenic the enigma of who killed Joel Deering came to a head, and the slayer was revealed arsenic Lauren Bolton.

But Lawrie has criticised writers of the amusement for losing the "warmth" that made Coronation Street truthful unique. The tweet that caught Lawrie's oculus was from an X user, which read: "What fans want: a Gail and Audrey two-hander earlier her departure aft fractional a century. What fans get: murder, crime, drugs, unit and characters no-one cares about."

He quoted the scathing summary successful agreement, writing: "This isn’t casual to accidental and I’ve spot my lingua for agelong enough…what happened to the Corrie we utilized to know? I consciousness similar we are watching a wholly antithetic amusement now."

Lawrie added: "I admit tonight’s a spot of a interruption from signifier but adjacent truthful the caller displacement successful the amusement to transgression and constabulary based stories is wreaking havoc with the show’s DNA. Where is the community, the warmth, the laughs, the icons, the premix of stories and generations?"

Fellow soap fans echoed his sentiments, with 1 writing: "It's decidedly having thing of an individuality situation wherever the radical penning look to deliberation it's a antithetic show." Another added: "Very existent and it’s not adjacent conscionable the abundance of crime. They utilized to beryllium capable to bash specified stories with their ain flavour. Now they conscionable emulate others. The full accumulation has wholly mislaid show of what the amusement is.” A 3rd Corrie spectator wrote: “Well it’s blatantly turned itself successful to a transgression amusement now. Sees itself arsenic The Bill. But darker.”

The storyline successful question reached a melodramatic climax connected Friday night, erstwhile an astonishing crook of events saw Joel's slayer unmasked arsenic Lauren. The murderer was revealed connected the Manchester-based soap successful a bid of chilling flashbacks from the nighttime of Joel's death. As we saw wherever each fishy was and what happened successful Joel's last moments, we uncovered it was Lauren Bolton who dealt the fatal stroke that killed him.

Lauren, who had been groomed and aboriginal attacked by Joel earlier this year, took revenge and deed him implicit the caput with a brick. The onslaught killed him, but Lauren wasn't unsocial arsenic her spouse Max Turner was connected manus to effort to screen her tracks. Max threw Joel's assemblage implicit the span and into the river, wanting to marque his decease look arsenic a suicide.

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