Coronation Street Episode Review, Friday 3 August

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It’s the day of Aidan’s inquest and the Connor clan are steeling themselves to relive the terrible ordeal and anxiously wondering if Eva will show up with baby Susie.  Eva makes an entrance, late but perfectly accessorised, mother and child in matching pink and with the devoted Adam in tow.   He clearly didn’t get the pink outfit memo and has rather let the side down in a boring black shirt. Johnny is the first to speak and gives a harrowing account of finding his son’s body, but it’s Eva who makes sure there isn’t a dry eye in the house.  ‘I was his last chance and I failed’ she sobs.  Johnny seeing her guilt, gently shakes his head, finally realising that no one is to blame for Aiden’s death and all the recriminations in the world will not bring his son back.  Meanwhile at the back of the room Adam clutches baby Susie and you see the realisation dawn that Aiden was and always will be the love of Eva’s life. As she pitifully tells the inquest that she loved Aiden with all her heart he knows that he will never be able to compete.  The inquest is over and Peter has appeared, apparently for no other reason than to stalk Carla and be cruel to Toyah, the man is such a charmer. An emotionally drained Eva is in need of a hug and Adam dutifully obliges but later confesses to Peter that he doesn’t know how he can compete with a dead man ‘He’s only going to grow more perfect’, he muses. ‘Don’t waste your life wishing for something you can never have’, Peter tells Adam. Hmm pot, kettle Mr Barlow, isn’t your current raison d’etre to get an unwilling Carla to have dinner with you?

Meanwhile Sean is trying to deal with the aftermath of the mugging by making flippant remarks and pushing away anyone who tries to help him. He brusquely refuses Craig’s offer of help and pretends he doesn’t know Carol. It’s only later in the pub as he frantically tries to wash the clothes he’s slept in and hungrily eyes up the food the regulars are eating in front of him, that his dire circumstances dawn on him.

Gemma is dissuaded from attending the inquest when she’s reminded of the Dubonnet mountain waiting at the Rovers. Her solution is to invent the Uber-Duber, (a cocktail which appears to be at least palatable) and flog it to the gullible punters. It’s a better idea than Henry’s one – start a Rovers instagram account. There’s only so many images of hot-pots and Liz McDonald in spandex that the internet can stand. Gemma’s Uber Duber’s are selling like…err…hot-pots and Mary is on the Karoke murdering ‘Sex Bomb’. When a fight for the microphone breaks out between her and Gina (I always had her down as more of an Ed Sheeran fan), Gemma’s years of experience of being kicked out of pubs comes in handy as she breaks up the fight, earning a nod of approval from ‘old-hand’ Liz McDonald.  It should be Gemma’s moment of pride, but a fall is lurking around the corner in the form of a public-school educated scoundrel. Watched by Chesney, Henry takes a furtive phone call and then skulks around the back of the pub to meet with a posh looking woman, (who we presume is his fiancée), to assure her that he will let Gemma down soon. Posh fiancée seems remarkable nonplussed that her betrothed is playing at pub with an ex-girlfriend but that’s the ruling classes for you. To misquote Oscar Wilde: ‘They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility!’

Daniel offers the empty shop to Brian in light of his impending fatherhood, which will mean he’ll need a proper income rather than low-paid jobs like waiting tables…oh no hang on... It may be too late though, Brian is looking after a clearly besotted Joseph in a camoflague den and seems to have found his true calling as a Bear Grylls themed childminder. Looks Dan-aed might be stuck with the shop. I hope the moths in the freezer trick worked!

Amy’s violin concert has been cancelled, meaning that Steve can go to a County match instead. But when Tracy lies about a bridal fair so that she can got to a warehouse party in Blackpool with Abi and Beth he keeps the cancellation a secret so he can have one up on his future bride. Has this ever worked for you Steve? Learn from your mistakes man!

Tracy, Abi and Beth have their glowsticks at the ready as they head off to an acid house party. Abi appears to be dressed as Ian Brown and wastes no time in mocking Beth’s choice of outfit. As acid house raves finished in roughly 1992 I’m wondering if all of them might have got this very wrong and maybe need to remember that they’re all pushing 40 and would probably feel a lot more comfortable in a nice Boden shift dress. Steve catches the girls and plays a guilt trip on Tracy about her missing Amy’s non-existent concert. She’s so relieved to be ‘let off’ that she agrees to him getting a County season ticket. 1 nil to Steve.

Back at the Rovers Eva is saying her goodbyes when Adam tells her he needs to talk to her. He can’t live with knowing that it’s Aidan that she really wants. She tells him she needs him, but his mind is made up. When he says that she doesn’t love him as much as she loved Aiden she can’t deny it. They part as friends but turns out that the hardest goodbye is yet to come. Johnny and Eva finally reconcile. Both accepting that neither are to blame for Aiden’s suicide. Eva tells him he will always be Suzie’s Granddad and invites him to come and visit whenever he likes.  Finally it’s time for Eva to bid farewell to Leanne and Toyah. Toyah all but begs her and Suzie to stay, leading Eva to explain that Toyah’s attachment to Suzie is the main reason she’s leaving. As Toyah hand Susie back and watches her and Eva get into the taxi you can almost hear her heart breaking.  ‘It’s just me and you now babes’ says Eva to her little girl as they leave the Cobbles.  Good luck Eva. May your laugh echo around vineyards of France!

By Kelly at twitter https://twitter.com/mskelstar

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