Cut-Throat World of Coiffure: Thu Mar 10, 2011 Corrie Episode Review

Written by Jan McVerry, directed by Tony Prescott

Graeme’s attitude has gone from fab to drab since he’s been told by his girlfriend that he’ll be married off to her friend Xin to stay in the country.  Xin, on the other hand is excited and wonders what the neighbours have thought of he and Tina splitting up.  I guess they hadn’t thought about that.  Who will believe that Graeme and Xin are getting married when he and Tina are still together?  Queue terrible staged break-up scene.  In the Rovers later, we are front-seat to a massively fake row between Graeme and Tina.  Story has it that Graeme has cheated on Tina with Xin and Tina has found out about it and it’s over between them.  It’s all fun and phony games until Graeme blurts out “at least she [Xin] doesn’t go on about her dead dad!!!”  Uh-oh.  Tina is NOT happy now, for reals. The fakest part about the fight was that stupid look if glee and surprise coming from Xin’s face.  Could this storyline get worse?  Yes, me thinks it can and will.  

Audrey is blaming Claudia for stealing her regular clients at the salon.  I wouldn’t worry so much about the grey-hairs since when David takes over the salon, me thinks the clientele will be markedly different.  Gail stupidly thinks that Claud is Aud’s friend.  Audrey reminds her that in the “cut-throat world of coiffure, there are no friends.”  Cut-throat world of coiffure?  What is this, Sweeny Todd?!  Kylie has new plans for the design of the salon and David suggest she try a “mood board.”  He then tells Kylie to take a rain check before his Gran changes her mind about signing over the salon and kicks her out.  Kylie later finds out that Tina and David used to be an item and doesn’t seem happy to know that since Tina is newly single.  Joy to Kylie (and Gail) because she’s found a cancellation down at the registry office and as of the 8th of April, she officially will be Mrs. Kylie Platt. 

Sally swans past the garage to show Kev her new haircut that Jeff treated her to.  That wasn’t intentional, was it?  Never.  Kevin takes this opportunity to let her know that Lloyd and Cheryl have put an offer in on their house and he’s accepted.  Kevin got a little satisfaction out of making his wife and child homeless it would seem.  Sally starts to look in the classifieds for a two bed place that isn’t down crack alley. 

Sophie hears the news of her house being sold from Anna in Dev’s shop.  She’s even more depressed now.  When Sian gets on her again about ruining her potential by not going to school, but wasting away in a corner shop with her misery Sophie is notably peeved. Sophie lets Sian know that she’s been kicked out of college anyhow.  Sophie tells Sian that she wants the two of them to live together, but Sian is smart and sees the error of this idea and how unrealistic it is.  When Sian leaves, Sophie logs onto a social networking site and sees that on Sian’s profile there are photos of her and this “new girl” Chloe from Sian’s trip and immediately thinks that Sian is cheating on her. 

At the Kabin – the Kabin again, yes.  Goodbye Norris’s News.  Norris has taken the liberty of changing The Kabin back to The Kabin and the sign outside to match.  Rita seems satisfied with this change but she’s still unhappy with Norris and Mary mostly.  Mary, on the contrary, isn’t happy at all with this change.  Even after Rita says that Norris will reimburse her for all she’s spent on the sign, that’s besides the point for Scary-control-freak-Mary.  Later, Tina gives Rita a chest full of items that she and Graeme managed to salvage from the wreckage of her flat.  There are some priceless memorabilia that Rita is delighted to see. 

After Graeme and Tina had their “break up” Rita has taken Tina into her flat again. Rita figures Tina is doing her a favour by staying with her so that she doesn’t have to spend her first nights alone in the new flat. 

At the hospital, the doctor thinks that baby Hope is ready to go off monitors.  Fiz is shocked at this and even more so when the doctor tells her that Faye should be ready to come home tomorrow.  Fiz panics but the doctor assures her that they wouldn’t risk Faye going home if they thought she couldn’t cope.  Fiz can’t believe that Faye will be home before her daddy.  Ha-ha, oh she’ll be twelve before daddy comes home.  Fiz is going crazy cleaning up the house preparing for Hope’s arrival.  Fiz promises Chesney that she won’t dig into Joy Fishwick’s money to buy things for Hope that she needs. 

HIGHLIGHTS

- I’m really liking the way David assertively talks to Kylie, “take a rain check.”  Yeah…take a rain check Kylie. 

- What a nice, nice touch how Tina and Graeme saved Rita’s items from the rouble.  This is the kind of Corrie I love. 

- Loving Sally’s new pixie-cut hairstyle!!!  Even better that she didn’t get it done at Audrey’s!

- Norris to Mary: “Oh Mary, you must have other passions or dreams.”  Mary: “Nonsense!” Ha-ha! 

LOWLIGHTS`

- I thought the Tina and Graeme staged breakup was terribly fake seeming - ‘cept for the part of course where Graeme needles her about “complaining about her dead dad.” I suppose it’s hard though for actors to “act acting.” 

- Lloyd and Cheryl put an offer in on the Webster’s house?  Where on earth did Lloyd get the cash to do that?  I thought he was massively in debt thanks to his rubbish business partner? 

- I agree with Rita, when DID Mary become the operations manager of The Kabin?  More to the point, when did Mary become bezzie mates with Norris again?  She DID try to kidnap him, after all.  Has EVERYONE forgotten the siege in Bronte Country?! 

- What’s with all the “age” digs that Mary keeps throwing at Rita.  Yes, she’s old.  What’s your point? 

- How moody and rudey was Sophie towards Sian?