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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 237766" data-attributes="member: 95">I definitely agree with you in that Corrie seems to be stuck in the 2000s, to be honest this has always been Corrie’a problem, there was a news article regarding Corrie in 1967, the era of Carnaby Street and hippies and the summer of love, yet according to the article the main criticism was that The show was depicting life in working class Britian as it was in the 1940s/50s and not life in working class Britain of the 1960s, when you watch old clips of episodes from that era it does indeed look like they’re depicting a rose tinted view of the immediate post war years.It was the same in the early to mid 1990s the show seemed to have this strange 1970s vibe that never went away until 1997.And now in the 2020s I see that the residents of Coronation Street haven’t been informed that the 2000s are over, in reality an area like Weatherfield wouldn’t have any working class residents it would definitely have more professional middle class types, gentrification of urban working class areas was and is a big issue, particularly in the mid 2010s yet there has been no mention of this in the show, sure they updated the street in some ways like the Bistro, Costa Coffee and a few characters who hold professional jobs but it doesn’t feel real somehow, like the street does belong to some long ago era</blockquote>