Welcome to Wednesday's edition of the Coronation Street Blog and the first of tonights two episodes.
We begin with breakfast at Number 3, Eileen's cooking for a recuperating Phelan - he's feeling rather chipper after escaping near death at the mill. He also escaped the carnage of Sally's Monday night party!. Gina filled us is in on the off-screen action, including Tracy V Jenny in an arm wrestling competition and Moira painted Sally's patio with wine vomit.
Tim (waiting for the rain to clear it up) is tidying up Sally's post-party, in preparation for some home viewings. However, after Monday nights heroics, Tim's conscience (in saving his arch enemy) is keeping him preoccupied. This leaves Sally to show a bemused Michelle and Carla around number 4, with the latter feigning interest in buying it, just for something to do. Sophie does actually sell her van to Aidan though, so a Conner / Webster transaction is assured, at least.
Over at Roys Rolls, Phelan is taking some time off from the Mill and tells Mona he's quitting the job... as Eileen is ill?. Phelan's newly acquired cocksure attitude may work on Mona, but in enters Tim, unafraid of the murderer's machiavellian misdemeanours and promises Phelan some poetic justice.
Also taking time off, are Ty& Fizz, Chez & Gemma and... Sean. Its mid-week, nobody seems to be working, so they all head to The Bistro!. With Sean seamlessly playing gooseberry, there appears to be romantic tension between Chez, Gemma and a jealous Tyrone?.
As the boxing motif continues, a punchbag is set up in Kevs old garage. With Chezney now also a contender in the boxing match, will the undercard fight see Ty V Chez?.
As the gang talk of their off-spring and share pictures, it's clear that Tyrone has lied to Fizz about Ruby's troublesome behaviour and Gemma clearly knows it.
On the other side of the street, Tim's keeping occupied and is mid shift at street cars. With Eileen at the switchboard, she sends Phelan off to give Tim a thankyou card in his cab. Phelan however, decides to give Tim another gift entirely.
Beguiled by Tim, Phelan admits the Calcutta Street scam.. only to be overheard by Eileen on the taxi intercom.
Is Phelan about to become 'unstuck'?. Maybe he could get in the ring with Tim for the charity boxing match?. That I would be ringside for!
Anyway, that's me done for another week, I'm off to a sparring session with Zeedan.
Keep an eye out for tonight's 8.30pm episode review written by @glenn_writes.
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10 comments:
Jeanie (anon):
Found the Phelan reveal incredibly disappointing and badly planned--after all he's done and all his scheming and all his cleverness, it was so anti-climatic to have him casually boast about his scam to Tim. No build-up, no nothing, just oh yeah I scammed those people. Why, after all his machinations would he casually confess like that, regardless of whether or not he's being taped? Just too stupid and out of character for words. I watched the remainder of the episode in a state of disbelief--unable to accept that the Phelan exposure was happening, that it was this tedious and mundane--I mean, chatting about it with Liz over a cup of tea, for heaven's sake!
Surely he--and the viewers--deserve something better, more dramatic, more exciting, more nerve-wracking. Perhaps leave us wondering if he will bump off Eileen and/or Nicola before he is exposed? The fact that Eileen immediately went and confided in Liz further drained the discovery of any tension. If Eileen were the only witness to Tim and Phelan's exchange, it would have made Eileen and Phelan's relationship a lot more tense and unsettling--because the motivation would be there to kill Eileen before she tells anyone. But she's blabbed it to half the street, so no suspense left there.
Still unable to believe that after all the violence and drama--dragging the bodies through howling winds and rain, torching Luke's car, sending Anna down for crimes she didn't commit--the writers have him casually blab his crimes in the back of a taxi to one of his arch enemies. Just unfathomable!
Jeanie (anon)
Was I the only one to think that Phelan's "confession" didn't sound very convincing? As Tim berated him for all his crimes, Phelan sounded more like he was being sarcastic to wind Tim up and less like he was actually confessing. All he said was "yep I scammed them all!" in a very sarcastic tone of voice. It's hard to believe that Eileen has heard Anna's accounts of what he did to her; Seb's insisting that he killed Luke; Nicola's denunciation of her own father and Liz's warnings and none of that had any effect. Yet Phelan's few sarcastic words have such a dramatic impact. You'd think she would need to find something more concrete to have such an impact.
I don't know about radio technology but presumably nothing was permanently recorded. Could Phelan and Eileen say that Tim made the whole thing up? Same with Eileen's conversation with Liz. We had a major clue as to where this story is going. Phelan swore on his unborn grandson's life. Whoah! You don't do that if you're a highly superstitious murderer and thief. Unless the writers made you say that because something ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC is going to happen.
Jeanie Anon
Pat says it because
A) He doesn't think anyone else is listening
B) He believes no one will believe Tim anyway
C) He was clearly using a sarcastic tone of voice
Michelle is a nasty piece of work sometimes, what gives her the right to go denouncing other people's taste in home decor.
umm...if Eileen heard Pat's confession over the radio does that not mean that every other driver on shift at the time also heard it???? communication over cab radio is not just base to one car it is the whole system.
Am I the only one who noticed this?
It was sloppy and a bit unbelievable of Pat. Then again, this is the Pat that showed Seb his gun. That made no sense either. Perhaps the writers are deliberately showing that Pat's weakness is that he likes to boast occasionally?
I dislike that Eileen acts as if poor baby Todd was dragged into this scam. He wasn't. He was a perpetrator. He also ran off with his adopted daughter, and has now abandoned his partner. You would think she would be angrier with Todd?
I don't believe that Liz would agree to not expose Pat.
I did appreciate Tim's strength of character in this ep: supporting his wife, standing up to Phelan. Great character!
I will say Pat's manipulation of Eileen is written fairly well - convincing her that if they move, they will be doing Tim and Sally a favour as the Metcalfes won't have to move. That was smart.
Great thought. (And maybe we’ll get to see Fat Brenda in the witness stand.)
I’ve heard it said that even the most mastermind of crooks is unable to resist the temptation to boast.
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