Coronation Street Episode Review; Friday 9 November 2018

At long last you can put a face to the initial.  That is the mysterious "E".  Not a reference to a drug supplier or merely a partner in a restaurant in Nottingham but Elsa (although not much of a lioness on performance to date) aka Nick's wife.  Her story is that she fell for Nick when he walked into a restaurant and they fell in love and married in a matter of months.  This is the same Nick who this week has assured Carla he can talk Leanne round and has also told Leanne that he can talk Carla round.  Elsa (above) had just been watching Carla inside Nick's swanky car where Carla found his expensive wedding ring.  Elsa followed Carla back to Roy's flat and dived up the stairs to confront her rival in love (as she thought).  Carla put her right on that one but made no mention of Leanne.  Carla did however tell Nick that either he sells his half of the factory to her for a fair price or she will tell both Elsa and Leanne the truth.  Nick has already told Elsa he wants a divorce (but not why) and he has not found the courage to tell Leanne he needs to get a divorce before he can make an honest woman of her again.

Talking of becoming an honest woman Tracy does have a conscience and is insisting that Steve employs Abi on the switch, although Abi's customer contact skills leave more than a little to be desired I would say, more training beckons (Eileen is visiting the distant Nicola again).  Tracy is almost on the point of taking Steve back when Amy comes in (above) and implies that it will be more or less over her dead body.  She stomps home to Number One catching Adam eating a sandwich because there is no food in his flat and grandad's bread goes off otherwise.  Steve follows and Amy says that if her parents are to be back together it will be on her terms.  Adam and Amy spend the afternoon drawing up a contract which Steve assures Tracy will be summat and nothing; they can just sign it and all will be well.  Tracy puts back on "her" engagement ring which Steve had found in the desert.  I wonder just what Amy and Adam have put in the contract?

Earlier in the week Geoff was pretty sure that Gina saw Tim as more than a friend and early in this episode she clocked an eyeful of Tim getting dressed.  Geoff tipped Tim the wink and although Tim did not believe him he took the opportunity, during a prison visit to Sal, to hold Sal's hands and declare that she was the most important woman in the world as far as he was concerned and that they were all supporting her.  Gina is stood above them (above) and she realises her dreams are just that - with no foundation - Tim really does just see her as a mate.  So within a flash she is on one o' them interweb findamate sites and signing up for love and romance.  Sally is pushing ahead with her plans to reform prisons from the inside and the fall out earlier in the week between the sisters is resolved for now at least.  Tim tells Geoff that he had it wrong (he didn't but that closes the matter off).

In a blink and you almost miss it way the progress on the fit out of the new salon was damned by Claudia as taking far too long, apparently Maria needs to visit twice a day.  Maria upset Audrey by sneering about her salon and customers to Kate and Rana with Audrey in earshot.  There is a big hairdressing awards do on Monday and Claudia has a surprise planned for Audrey (my bet is on some form of lifetime award for services to the industry which Audrey will not want).  Also Maria has bought an unappealing looking dress (above) to wear on Monday.  Perhaps it will look stunning once she is inside it but as shown tonight it looked suitable for someone of about 95.

Am I the only person in the world who does not get the Kate and Rana vibe?  Let me put aside Rana's change in sexual preference and the immense pressure from her family (she has been excommunicated once again tonight by her mother despite spending 6 weeks on a cruise with her).  Surely any young couple with their backgrounds would at least want to spend some time on being together before embarking on the life changing decision of having a child?  Much of this episode consists of Kate rampaging around making arrangements to have a baby including seeing a doctor to get details of suitable clinics and asking for advice from Toyah, all of which she is telling Rana in the picture above.  To me Rana looks as though she has seen a ghost she looks that scared!  She has spent the episode trying to decide if she is ready to be a mother.

And that my friends is what happened on Friday on the Street, written by Sam Holdsworth and directed by Nic Phillips.   

This time next week MsKelstar will be in this slot.

Kosmo
@Kosmo100

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