Coronation Street weekly update - Dev, death and anniversary schmaltz

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Sunita died this week and the nation buried their faces in their cushions on their sofas, grieving for the moment when comedy Dev had to tell his kids that their mum had gone to the great corner shop in the sky.  Fortunately, we were saved.  As the Devster switched his face to emote, the camera panned away and out of the living room.  It’s odd, because I kind of do feel sad for say, Sophie, who’s feeling the loss of her pal Sunita in the shop but I just can’t muster any emotion for Dev because the acting is clumsy and inept. Even the twins out-acted their dad.

So, Sunita’s dead and gone after we see Karl leaving her hospital room and then the nurses rushing in, wondering why her breathing tube has come undone. Did Karl pull it out? The post-mortem reveals death by smoke inhalation and the investigation is closed, leaving Karl to butter up St Ella.  She's no longer the landlady of the Rovers Return because the Rovers Return no longer exists. And yet... yet...  she is still in every bleedin' storyline and every bleedin' scene. I'd much rather she wasn't in my favourite soap.

But butter her up he does. So much in fact that Jason gets that look on his face like he’s doing hard sums. And this time, when he puts two and two together he gets St Ella’s number just right and dumps her before she can dump him.  Karl challenges Jason to a fight up the ginnel but Jason has the good sense to walk. “You’re not worth it,” he spits out at Karl and St Ella, “…neither of you are.”  I don’t know about you, but I gave a little cheer.

Tina’s baby scan reveals she’s carrying a boy for Gary and Izzy but when she gets back to the flat from th’ospickle, it’s been broken into. At Izzy’s insistence, Gary spends the night on Tina’s sofa, watching over their investment in Tina’s tum. But that’s not all Gary's watching and if Izzy knew that Gary was developing feelings for the woman carrying his child, she wouldn’t have let him anywhere near Tina’s flat, break-in or not.  I don’t know about you, but I gave a little tut.

Now then, answer me this. Why does Rita, a woman who used to be a singer in a jazz club, a woman who’s been around the clubs and the pubs, lived the highlife, mingled with lowlife, get so uppity about Dennis eating a space cake? She’d have been on nodding terms with jazz cigarettes back in the day, you’d think. But she comes down heavy on Dennis when she finds him giggling after eating one of Sylvia’s home made hash-brownies.  In what was frankly an embarrassing scene, she marches Dennis along with Roy who marches his mum, to see Doctor Carter for drug awareness advice.  I don’t know about you, but I cringed.

Daft storyline of the week has been Eileen sticking her nose in where it should not be stuck. She turns up at Paul’s fire station to plead her case about Paul not being ready to return to work after Toni’s death. Paul’s raring to get back to work and get stuck in but Eileen thinks not, and tells his boss so. But when she’s sitting in the office talking to Paul’s gaffer, in walks Paul and Eileen’s busted.  Cue lots of arguing and making-up cuddling on Eileen’s sofa. I don’t know about you, but I rolled my eyes.

And finally, in the best story this week, it’s Ken and Deirdre’s wedding anniversary. They’ve been married twice, you know, but despite prompting from Deirdre and reminding from Tracy, Ken still forgets to buy his missus a card. He does bake an Ocean pie and invites the family for tea. And with the happy couple sitting down to celebrate their marital bliss with those other well-matched couples Peter-n-Carla-n-Tracy-n-Rob around the Barlow tea table, what could possibly go wrong? Actually, not much. It was almost a good night for them all apart from Rob trying to wind up Peter for not drinking. Even Deirdre bopped around the living room to Uptown Girl on the stereo. I don’t know about you, but I bopped too.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly/subscribe.htm

This week's writers were Jan McVerry, John Kerr, Simon Crowther. Chris Fewtrell. Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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