EastEnders storyliner slams Coronation Street after ‘holding his tongue for too long’

EastEnders communicative exertion Lawrie Jordan has deed retired astatine ITV soap Coronation Street aft the climax of its latest whodunnit storyline.

In a peculiar occurrence connected Friday night, Corrie yet revealed who truly killed Joel Deering (Calum Lill) done a bid of flashbacks and constabulary interviews.

The peculiar occurrence saw Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) present the fatal stroke that took Joel’s life, and revealed the events that led to Max Turner (Paddy Bever) deciding to instrumentality the blame.

Unfortunately, the occurrence wasn’t to everyone’s taste, with Twitter/X idiosyncratic Lewis slamming the amusement for not giving Gail Platt (Helen Worth) capable screentime ahead of her exit.

‘What fans want: a Gail and Audrey 2 hander earlier her departure aft fractional a century. What fans get: murder, crime, drugs, unit and characters no-one cares about,’ helium wrote.

EastEnders communicative exertion Lawrie was speedy to respond, revealing that he’d held his lingua for agelong enough, and was disappointed that the amusement didn’t consciousness similar classical Corrie anymore.

‘This isn’t casual to accidental and I’ve spot my lingua for agelong enough…what happened to the Corrie we utilized to know?’ He penned. ‘I consciousness similar we are watching a wholly antithetic amusement now.’

In a follow-up post, helium 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 shows DNA.

‘Where is the community, the warmth, the laughs, the icons, the premix of stories and generations?’

Fellow EastEnders writer Daran Little, who antecedently worked connected Coronation Street, agreed.

‘ITV is dominated by thrillers and transgression dramas… they’re palmy truthful stands to crushed the transmission would promote soaps to spell that way,’ helium replied.

‘Plus its an ever younger formed and not the middle-aged/elderly formed who chopped their teeth connected comedy.’

With Gail acceptable to permission the ITV soap soon, it seems that fans are keen for her to person much scenes alongside her household earlier yet exiting aft 50 years.

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