Coronation Street fans have blasted “boring” scenes that aired following Carla Connor’s breakup with Lisa Swain after her wife came back from the dead on the ITV soap
21:00, 01 Dec 2025Updated 21:01, 01 Dec 2025
Coronation Streets’s Swarla fans have blasted the soap as ‘boring’ now the couple have split up(Image: ITV)
Coronation Street fans have blasted “boring” scenes that aired following Carla Connor’s breakup with Lisa Swain. For just over a year now, Carla Connors ‘s romance with DS Lisa Swain has enthralled views, and they have become a a social media sensation known as Swarla, but their engagement was marred when Lisa’s wife Becky came ‘back from the dead’ earlier this year.
When Lisa arrived on the scene, she revealed that her wife Becky, also a police officer, had been killed in the line of duty some years earlier but she got a shock a few months ago when it emerged that was all a corrupt police cover up centring on a crime gang, and Becky had been alive and well and living in Spain as part of a corrupt cover up.
Unable to put up with the situation any longer, Carla called time on their relationship towards the end of last week and fans were left wondering what kind of aftermath would be on the cards. On Monday, Carla met Lisa round at the pub where she told her that she had moved out of number six and was looking at flats.
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Becky came back from the dead earlier this year and it has all been too much for Carla to take (Image: ITV/Coronation Street)
After begging to talk about things again, Carla insisted they had done enough talking and tearfully told her that she can’t have her heart broken again. She added: “I’ll be in touch about my stuff,” before leaving the pub altogether. Becky was clearly thrilled with the split, and instantly set about telling their daughter Betsy how great it would be to get Lisa to move back to Spain with them.
It seems that there is now no hope for Swarla, and fans took to social media on Monday to blast the “senseless” plot twist. One wrote “Carla saying she needs to find a place to live and Lisa just sitting there not fighting for her alleged soul mate. God, it’s getting so boring now. It’s not even good angst because nothing about this makes sense.”
Another said: “This storyline has gone from making my heart hurt to making my brain hurt!”
A third added: “Trying not to be dramatic but this storyline isn’t an emotional rollercoaster, it’s a sky dive and the parachute has malfunctioned #swarla.”
Since making herself known, Becky has spent the last few months turning up unannounced at number six and bonding with Betsy once again, all the while trying to win her family back. In recent days, Becky had wormed herself in at number six, having persuaded Carla (Alison King) to let her live with them after claiming that there was a gang after her life.
Last week, Lisa (Vicky Myers) found her not-dead wife drunk on the street, having helped herself to one of Carla’s good bottles of wine, prompting Lisa to help her back to the house as she stumbled over the threshold.
One fan said the twist in the storyline was like ‘a sky dive and the parachute has malfunctioned'(Image: ITV/Coronation Street)
While all this was going on Carla was waiting over at the Chariot Square hotel where she had booked a table for lunch for herself and Lisa and was dismayed when she didn’t turn up. Later on, Becky had sobered up, showered and came downstairs in a bathrobe, where set about ordering a takeaway for herself, Lisa and their daughter Betsy when Carla arrived back to her own house and was distraught to see the family scene playing out.
Lisa explained: “She was a right mess, so I brought her back here, and then, well, then I saw your missed call. But, Carla, I tried to call you back.” When Carla noted that Becky had made a ‘remarkable recovery’, Becky said: “Always did, didn’t I, Lise?” but the factory boss raged: “Don’t do it! Don’t bang on about your shared past. We all know that you go way back, all right, right before I was even on the scene, but I’m sick of hearing about it. She always does it, Lisa. I want you to leave now!”
When Carla stormed out, leaving Lisa in floods of tears, fans took to X then to share their outrage. One wrote: “How dare you?! @itvcorrie How dare you make me cry over a fictional couple breaking up on TV?! I have NEVER, EVER cried over a couple like I have over #Swarla breaking up! Absolutely fantastic acting from both Ali & @VixMyers Think their performance made it way more emotional!”
Another said: “here comes your ticket out of here” was a 10/10 line and 10/10 delivery from Ali King. If Lisa did choose her old family she’d actually be booking a ticket to Spain (out of there) with them. Just 10/10!” and a third ERE COMES YOUR TICKET OUT OF HERE [heartbroken emoji].”
A fourth wrote: “If the breakup happened today, what fresh hell are we to be subjected to on Friday? I don’t think I can cope,” and a fifth said: “It honestly must have been so exhausting and intense to film those scenes for AK, VM and the camera crew.”
One wrote: “How dare you?! @itvcorrie How dare you make me cry over a fictional couple breaking up on TV?! I have NEVER, EVER cried over a couple like I have over #Swarla breaking up! Absolutely fantastic acting from both Ali & @VixMyers Think their performance made it way more emotional!”
Another said: “here comes your ticket out of here” was a 10/10 line and 10/10 delivery from Ali King. If Lisa did choose her old family she’d actually be booking a ticket to Spain (out of there) with them. Just 10/10!” and a third ERE COMES YOUR TICKET OUT OF HERE [heartbroken emoji].”
A fourth wrote: “If the breakup happened today, what fresh hell are we to be subjected to on Friday? I don’t think I can cope,” and a fifth said: “It honestly must have been so exhausting and intense to film those scenes for AK, VM and the camera crew.”