David Brown leaps to Carla's defence following tonight's wedding trauma. By David Brown. The bride is in a right old state after being slapped in front of the congregation. I do wish that Coronation Street had been more kind to the character during her final week in Weatherfield. After all, this is a woman who β during her ten years on screen β has been held hostage, raped, suffered a miscarriage, contemplated suicide and had two husbands die on her.
Did we really need to see Gail physically assault her as a parting shot? It is also, of course, the standard way that women solve their problems on soaps: by belting each other across the face. Peggy Mitchell on EastEnders, for instance, being almost defined by the open-palmed attacks she meted out. The slap came at around the two-minute mark, but a near-comatose Carla was still seen enduring the opprobrium following the commercial break.
Just get up and go, I was pleading. Why are you hanging around getting undeservedly slut shamed? The answer is, of course, that Carla needs to be hated enough by everyone in order to warrant her upcoming departure. But the blatant intention is to have Carla fall so far that her only chance of happiness ends up lying away from the Street. Now, thanks to this decade-long theatre of cruelty, she must save her own sanity by engineering an escape.
But to this Corrie fan, it feels like her punishment is far outweighing the crime. Still, there is one Carla-centric instalment still to come. Carla appears destined to leave as a beaten husk, her character tarnished and her will smashed. And visit our dedicated Coronation Street page for all the latest news, interviews and spoilers. Home News Coronation Street: Carla is slapped and slut-shamed β but is her punishment too cruel?
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