Line Of The Week
If I had to choose between Eastenders and Coronation Street aka Coronavirus Street, I cannot imagine the scenario but bear with me, I would go for the northern soap anytime. It has that happy knack of lacing its take on gritty reality with huge lacings of humour.
Take the storyline about domestic abuse featuring Geoff Metcalfe and Yasmeen Nazir. Furious that Yasmeen had lost track of time cleaning out the chicken coop and not prepared his meal, Metcalfe killed the chicken named after the author of Jane Eyre and served it up for dinner.
On the one hand, you have to suspend belief that an amateur could kill a chicken, pluck and eviscerate it and then roast it in the time it took Yasmeen to go upstairs and have a lie down, Geoff is a stage magician, after all, but on the other this somewhat contrived plotting did set Yasmeen up to utter the best line I’ve heard on British TV for a long time.
Realising that she had just put the flesh of her favourite hen into her mouth, Yasmeen screamed, “You killed Charlotte Bronte and you made me eat her”.
Priceless.
