Coronation Street Blog: Coronation Street Friday 11th August double episode review

Hiya! It’s just Jordan with my thoughts on Friday’s episodes of Coronation Street. I’m having an incredibly busy summer but I do try to get these reviews done, and if I manage, it will always be before the next set of episodes finish airing. Here we go!

Fantastic comedy prevailed in Friday’s episodes, provided by a prying Liz and a flustered Steve. Steve and Leanne have become the oddest couple on the Street, yet surprisingly not the most contrived. Unfortunately though, the couple who have rushed into a relationship simply because they made a baby, are finding things a little more difficult than they first imagined. Eva and Toyah are both convinced that their sister’s marriage of convenience will last and Liz is concerned to hear that her son is getting no action in the bedroom. This is where the good, proper, natural comedy came into play in Friday’s episodes. Discussing your sex life with a parent is a universal stomach churner, and that universal feeling found its way right onto Steve’s hilarious face. Still, at the heart of it, Liz just wants Steve to be happy. It’s not just Liz who is concerned about her son’s non-existent sex life. Of all people, Tracy is taking an interest in the bedroom antics of her ex-husband. Trying to do something nice for his sudden fiancée, Steve orders a huge bunch of flowers from Tracy. She’s certainly doing business today! Or rather, Mary is. Poor Mary has been left to run the shop while Tracy sups red wine in the pub. This causes a delay in the delivery of Leanne’s flowers, so he demands they are brought round to the pub. Typically, however, the romantic gesture doesn’t go to plan for Steve; it actually earns him a slap across the face! The Wicked Witch of Weatherfield has been meddling as usual, and decides to change the message on the card to something mysteriously naughty! She even quips that Leanne is experienced enough in the bedroom department that there really shouldn’t be a problem for her. This prompts Leanne and Steve to have a serious chat in the backroom, where they decide that this marriage of convenience isn’t all that convenient and they call the whole thing off, with Tracy proudly taking credit for helping someone she sort-of cares about and someone she couldn’t care less about.

"That is the most uncomfortable kiss I've seen since Liza Minnelli's last wedding"

Eva should be celebrating, but she’s not. The scorned blonde bombshell is on the warpath as soon as she watches Aiden leave the florists’. She marches in, demanding to know the recipient of the flowers he has just ordered. Tracy bleats on about client confidentiality, but takes delight in informing her that they were indeed not for her. The cool, calculating Pricey (not Katie) is straight onto formulating a plan, totally blasé about the fact that the sale for the flat has gone through and she is now a homeowner. That blissful blonde brain of hers has become increasingly more vengeful as the weeks have went on, and when Aiden finds a letter from the hospital informing her that her scan is today, she quickly twists together a plot. Aiden has casually announced that he is going to a business meeting, so Eva immediately encourages him to go and she will meet him at the hospital. With the help of Toyah, she prints off a baby scan from the Internet and anonymously reports Aiden to the police for drink driving, in order to delay him getting to a scan for a non-existent baby. Aiden later arrives at the hospital to find Eva waiting outside, fake scan in hand and tells her the tale of the delay, which unbeknownst to him, she constructed. Regret soon falls thick and fast upon the face of Eva when Aiden tells her that today is his late mother’s birthday and thanks to the police stopping him, he has been unable to put flowers on her grave. Salt is poured into Eva’s remorseful wounds when her philandering fiancé is filled with joy over the scan photo. Interestingly, this is the first time we’ve seen Eva show any sort of rueful emotion towards her ridiculous scheme. I’ve said it before – but my opinion still stands that having an affair is not the worst a person can do and Aiden does not deserve to fall victim to Eva’s wickedly immature plot.

“Good luck”

“Good luck? She’s about to show a stranger’s foetus to the fiancé she hates! She’s not going on school sport’s day!”

Elsewhere, Chesney's first shift back at work since the stabbing goes awry when finds himself inundated by some thugs. He runs outside and stumbles into the medical centre, where he promptly faints in front of Liz thanks to a panic attack. He swears Liz to secrecy about the incident and when he can’t think of any other way to explain his way out of it at work, he quits his job. Fiz plays the level headed big sister role well, calls this a bad move and persuades him to just go home to Sinead. He won’t even confide in Sinead that something happened and the last we see of Chesney, he is still shaken up, jauntily setting up another “issue” storyline. Woo. Hoo. We also saw Rosie finally secure the job as PA for Todd's law firm after proving her skills by taking photos of the scantily dressed husband of a client who rightly thought her husband was having an affair. Why she didn't just mention that she was a PA for Carla back in 2008 I'll never know! Oh, and as well as all that, Michelle did some more sighing before agreeing to a trip to Brighton with Robert and Gary accepted his offer for that dodgy illegal job offer in Germany. Silly man!