Oh Sally! When will she learn? Her condescending tones are sure to irritate, but well done to Alya for putting up with it and remaining respectful. She had no choice really but Carla would do everyone a favour if, in her inimitably direct way, she could just have a word with Sally. Alya says she's she has already done spread sheets at university so she doesn't really need Sally to show her basic compeer skills. When Tim calls in Underworld and asks for a reading lesson that evening, Sally replies, 'If I can teach Miss Know-All, I can teach anyone.' Sally is immensely pleased with the way she announces the bonus. Afterwards she turns to Alya and explains to her that 'You have to pepper it - it's middle management initiatives,' she explains. Great dialogue!
Good news for the factory workers - £100 bonus this Christmas. Maddie is anxious that she might not get it as she has not worked there for a year yet. Alya shows great wisdom. Maddie thinks she'll ask Sally but Alya says not to 'put that idea in her head.'
Tracy's anger is building. She hears about the bonuses at the factory and the spa day planned for Carla and Michelle and she sees red. Maddie's comment enrages Tracy further. 'Cool lady, Carla - pulling out all the stops.'
Tracy comments, Cool? More like a block of ice, if you ask me.' Liz also angers Tracy further by saying how much Carla has lost, but is working hard to make things better. Liz tells Tracy to do us all a favour and grow up.
When a character in a soap bemoans their lonely state, we know it will not be long before love comes calling. Having met Antony Cotton and posted on this blog that he will meet a vicar called Billy, we know what is just a around the corner on the Underworld night out.
Tony is very persistent in his attempts to take over Tracy's business. Once more she gives him short shrift. Maybe, in a desperate attempt to be solvent she will give in to his demands. Remember the advertisement over the summer, where Liz becomes Tracy in the mirror's reflection?
'Business booming, I see,' says Tony sarcastically as he walks into Barlow's Buys. Tracy rebuffs him again. He says to Liz, 'Six months and her company will be mine.' Liz is anxious about it - as well she might be...
Some madness going on in the gym and Kal sorts it out pretty swiftly. The look that the gym idiot gives Kal is worrying. Will he see him again? Might there be repercussions?
Tracy storms out of the bistro to which Ken has taken her to cheer her up. Carla is there and while Carla decides she is not going to let Tracy spoil her evening, Tracy cannot bear it. After a swig of 'vinegar' or what Nick would call wine, she leaves. 'Food on top of that - think I'll throw up.'
Ken tries so hard to appease her but Tracy can only see a hopeless future. She has sold Rob's stuff, and her wedding presents but still business is bad despite the time of year. Tracy's resentment anger and jealousy are all caused by Carla, the woman who Tracy feels has ruined her life. 'She destroyed Rob, she destroyed Peter and now she's destroying me.'
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Monday, 1 December 2014
Coronation Street Review Monday 1st December 2014
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Aren't you supposed to return wedding gifts if the wedding doesn't happen?! I'm pretty sure that's the expectation.
Yes I think you are intended to return the gifts. But, this is Tracy, so normal standards may not apply.
Perhaps Tracy's business would stay afloat if she was NICE to the customers. I for one would not darken the door of her shop or Audrey's. Completely unprofessional rude staff - particularly Audrey's where all their family drama and gossip ensues.217
I didn't quite understand who that guy in the gym was. If he was an ordinary member, Kal should have read him the health and safety riot act in private, not simply give him a slap on the wrist like a naughty kid.
I thought the gym guy was a member of staff, hence he'll get fired to make way for the new guy.
Well done AmandaB! That's it, of course.
Isnt the "gym nutter" going to join as a permanent character - Golaith or someone? I thought I read it here.
So Tracy is playing poor old me. She talks to all the customers like something on her shoe then wonders why she doesnt have any. Still manages to employ Toad boy and strutts into the Rovers and orders a glass of red. Tiresome tiresome tiresome.
And would a bright attractive University grad, really eschew trendy Manchester to work in the tin pot back street faktray where there seem to be more managers than staff? Hm
Here's a previously unimaginable statement: I really liked the scenes with Tracy and Todd together.
Are you done choking on your corn flakes?
Good. They are two unbelievably horrible characters who really seem to get each other of late. Tracy pulled him out of his funk, Todd rescued her from Brain Damage the Musical. Is it too much to hope that they become each other's redeemer?
Re: Alya, she was introduced as a fashion or fabric design or something like that grad. A trainee with Carla would seem to be a pretty good albeit convenient job. It will be weird tho' with Sally. Where are they both going to sit? Who will do what -- is there enough work to keep both of them? How stepped on will Sally perceive her toes to be?
Sometimes I think the stuff with Tracy being deluded is so bad it's actually good but the whining is getting too much now. What I'd like to know is how Tracy planned to pay for her big wedding in the beginning?? Rob worked at the shop with her so I don't see how the debt situation she's in now would be any different if Rob was still there.
And you'd think that by now she would be tired of making herself look like a fool in front of Carla.
I thought the scene with Kal in the gym was odd.
Snobby and insecure Sally was funny.
Possible steroid abuse gym storyline on the horizon??
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