Coronation Street Blog: Coronation Street Friday 9th February episode review

Hiya! It’s just Jordan with my review of this Friday’s Casual+y. I mean Corrie. I think. It’s hard to tell when we’re subjected to so many bloody hospital scenes. I’ve been quiet on the blog for a couple of weeks. Honestly, I just haven’t felt like watching Corrie at all recently. It’s boring. There I said it. Like most of Twitter have. Perhaps I should compile all my tissues and issues with it into a separate blogpost. Anyway…

Happy birthday, Eva Price! Yes, on Friday everyone’s favourite Corrie bombshell-turned-Blood Brothers turned 30 on Friday, her ridiculous storyline to let oh-so-desperate-for-a-baby Toyah have her unwanted baby just heating up. Tell me it's not true! I don’t know why Toyah couldn’t just let her long-lost-sister she didn’t know about til last year do the responsible thing and set about adopting a baby who needs it. Instead, as we know, she has failed to tell Peter that their surrogate miscarried and so is now embroiled in some daft lie which will see Eva leave Weatherfield, pop out a baby and leave it for pickup at Collection Point A, allowing Toyah and Peter to bring it up as their own. A teary Toyah sits in the back room, finally breaking down to Eva. The craziness of it all has hit her, but of course, Eva talks her back round. She then takes her out to feed the ducks (?) and when they return to the pub, Adam is waiting for Eva with a big bunch of flowers and an invitation to a sushi restaurant. When trying to squeeze into her dress for the date, Toyah drops the bombshell that Leanne has organised just what every secretly pregnant woman wants: a birthday booze-up. They seem to get away with this though, with Toyah making sure to serve her drinks the whole time and Eva putting on an Oscar worthy drunken performance. While this party is going on, Billy begs Adam for more painkillers and when he is refused, he gurns us into the ad break.

I love Carla to bits. She spent ten years becoming a modern Corrie stalwart. And then for no particular reason, after a year-long break, she turned back up. Obviously, with a secret. A secret issue. As we know, Carla hates Tracy. And now Carla has gone and nicked her storyline from 1995 and is need of a kidney. Why, Oates, why? Anyway, to sum up about three almost identical hospital scenes in which the Connor clan gather round Carla’s bedside discussing how to drag out their latest drama, (she tells Daniel he was just a fling and tells Peter to keep his nose out) it is decided that Aidan (having just been tested successfully) will serve as a donor. It’s a good job he turned up as her long-lost brother a couple of years ago! In typical Carla style, she promises to drive the new kidney at full force, vowing never to give up her beloved red wine.

Phelan’s always one step ahead but I think you’ll find that his long-lost daughter Nicola may be two steps ahead as Friday night’s episodes told us. Gary and Nicola’s plan to catch a rat is only jst beginning. As revealed earlier in the week, Seb is now living with Nicola – even though she is his social worker. Through a series of coincidences, including Pat barging his way into the taxi office, waiting for Eileen with a cake and Faye calling up at that moment to book a taxi, Pat learns just where the daughter of the woman he framed is off to. There’s a bit of a scuffle and a drama when he follows Faye to Nicola’s house which is eclipsed totally when pregnant Nicola discovers she is bleeding. Fearing she may be losing the baby, Pat rushes her to hospital. It turns out that there is nothing to worry about and she is expecting a healthy baby boy. But the panic leads Pat to invite Nicola to live with him and Eileen. Nicola gratefully accepts and seems to have initiated this outcome herself, as she later explains to Gary that moving into number 11 could bring her closer to the truth about her serial killer dad. Oh, and in other news – Liz now suddenly has her job back at the medical centre. Hmm. Okay then.