Coronation Street Weekly Update, February 9 2009

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Hello and welcome to the most romantic weekly update of the year. It’s Valentine’s day this week and so the update comes with hugs and kisses – proper friendly ones, none of those la-di-dah air kisses – as it celebrates with red wine and roses. Yeah, right. Anyway, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

As a person who Can Not Cook, I’m almost warming to Eddie Windass who is clearly on my side. I can’t cook but I can bake and so can Eddie who turns out a mean batch of butterfly cakes in an attempt to woo the Platts. It doesn’t work, and the Platts and Windasses are still at odds over who punched who and the wherefores and whatnots of woe are played out on the cobbles. The cakes go down a treat but cut no ice with Mrs Platt. “I haven’t been happy since 1978,” Gail moans, and if a thought bubble had appeared above her head it might have included happy days with her good mate Suzi Birchall. Tension between the two families gets worse when Len threatens Tina who tells David who tells Joe who threatens Len. What goes around comes around, all the way next door.

Over at Streetcars, Eileen and Steve discuss their new driver Boring Lewis and his furry dice. Lewis could be a relative of Fat Brenda and we may never see him either, which I think is a shame. Steve does his best to ignore Becky and she does likewise to him but they have a little entre-nous by the cab. “I’m ecstatic we’re over,” gurns Steve to barmcake Becks. “I’m euphoric!” she retorts. “Euphoric? That’s a big word for a little girl,” he says to which she replies: “You don’t work next to Roy Cropper for a year and learn nowt”. Desperately trying not to let Becky’s flirting with Jason upset him in the pub, Steve flirts with Natasha the hairdresser but both Steve and Becky know it’s each other that they really, really want. A-zig-a-zig-ahh.

Still hoping to be a nurse, Janice takes advice from Ken but he tells her to drop the book learning and become a care assistant instead. Patronising? Ken? Oh yes, indeed. What else did we expect? “I can do this,” huffs Janice. “I’ve seen Educating Rita, you know,” although I think it’d take more than a haircut to take 20 years off Ken. Perhaps a silk kimono could do it?

Martha certainly thinks so and gives Ken the present which he takes back home and lies to Deirdre that he bought it in town for himself. Deirdre’s got other things on her mind and takes to organising Amy’s 5th birthday party with gusto, wearing a very bad bra. Despite the obvious lack of any children, it was the noisiest kids’ party Corrie’s ever had.

Over at the factory, Tony locks in Carla and tells her he murdered Liam. All very predictable stuff and I started gazing into my living room fire as the scene played out. There were flashes of good acting from both Alison King and Grey O’Brien so it wasn’t totally bad, with some wonderful dialogue from writer Jonathan Harvey when Carla spoke about her betrayal of Tony with Liam. “Oh we had subterfuge all right. We even had subterfuge in me wedding dress!” But I’m tired of Tony and Carla and want this story to be over. Thankfully it looks like it’s coming to an end after Carla drove off in the rain as Tony sunk to his knees on the cobbles crying. Whether he was kneeling and not standing because he was overcome with grief as he’ll miss his lovely wife or the fact that she’d just kneed him in the groin, well it was difficult to say.

Another pregnant actress who left in the same episode as Alison King / Carla Gordon was the lady who plays Polish Wiki from Underworld. She tells everyone she’s going to Poland to look after her mum but we all know she’s leaving to have a baby.

So, is a macaroon a biscuit or a cake? That was the big discussion of the week and the answer is a biscuit, of course. Steve and Lloyd debated the merits of a macaroon before hitting singles night at The Fighting Cocks pub in search of someone to take Steve’s mind off Becky. Liz turns up which makes Lloyd think she distrusts him and the lads bump into Bill Webster who’s all backcombed hair and open shirt, with Eau de Desperation aftershave splashed all over his chest.

In the Rovers, Norris refuses a cruising with Mary and her mother. “It’s all shuffleboard and show tunes, what have I got in common with all that?” he sniffs as Mary disappears overboard.

And in the Webster household there were scenes of an harmonious nature when Sophie went out on a data with new boyfriend, Ben. He’s all “Yes, Mr Webster. I’ll have her back by half-nine, Mr Webster,” when Kev questions Ben when he turns up to take Sophie out to the flicks. Indeed, the only problem with Ben that Sally and Kev can find is when Sophie announces she’s going to start to go to church. Eyebrows were raised.

And that’s just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Joe Turner, Jonathan Harvey, Chris Fewtrell, Lucy Gannon and John Kerr.

Glenda
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