Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 30th November

Well it's over now - he's gone. It's sad that he's departed, but really, it went on for too long and I think we were all sick of him in the end. But enough about Sergei the Meerkat, there's also the fallout from Oliver's death on Friday. Leanne has gone through bargaining, anger and denial but Steve is in the depression phase of grief and has taken to his bed whilst Leanne takes all that manic energy she was going to use to carry on battling for Oliver into organising his funeral, or celebration of Oliver's life she is insisting on calling it. She tells Nick that she wants him to be part of his Oliver's day but after that, it's over between then. She knows it's Nick's flat, right?

Meanwhile, in other stories coming to a head, Sally changes her mind about selling number 4. Fay(e), in her new role as trainee manager (which seems to mostly involve wiping tables), tells Ray this and he organises a discount off of a place in Hale Barnes that Sally gets over-excited about (I didn't realise Hale Barnes was a real place; I thought it was imaginary like Oakhill or Barnsley). Detective Abi smells a rat, although she doesn't smell Debbie and end up telling the fifth columnist that she thinks Rotten Ray wants to buy up all the houses on (one side of) the street. Well, that's more than Constable Tinker has worked out, even with Ray's plans in black and white in front of him. Abi sneaks into Ray's office and finds an invoice for planning application services and so she gets Sally to ring Miriam at the council and finds out that a pre-planning application has been put in. I'm pretty sure that you have to notify people if you're going to knock their houses down, but maybe Weatherfield Council have outsourced their planning department to Serco, or something.

 

Not content with demolishing the street, Ray hasn't done his best Harvey Weinstein impression for a while, so he persuades Faye up to his hotel room for a "wine tasting", greets her in his bath robe and basically tells her if she wants to carry on with the trainee managership, she should join him in the bath and then tries to dress it up as "women's lib". Yuck. Faye is supposed to be about 17 isn't she? Which makes it even more horrible.

Imran visits Yasmeen to tell her that Posh Paula has signed off work for three months and he's found another barrister, but he needs more time to prepare. Yasmeen says she needs to do the trial before the 60th anniversary now and tells Imran that he has to be her barrister. The jobbing actors of Manchester who can do a middle class accent and look good in a suit sigh into their beer at a two episode arc missed. Geoff sees an opportunity to get rid of a witness for the defence and winds Tim up, saying he knew that his son would never amount to anything. Well, not if you don't teach him to read, no. Tim socially distancedly punches his dad which leads to Tim being dismissed as a witness. In more bad news, Elaine has been found, but she's in a psychiatric unit. So witnesses are now down to Alya, who isn't very jury-friendly.

And finally, Daisy helps Jenny with a make over and a Tinder profile. I hear Dev is free? Before she can get her profile set up, Johnny comes back from the cop shop, saying that he'll be up in court in three weeks. He also tells Jenny that he loves her and he wanted to save her from a being a prison wife, and they make up.

Oh and there's some guff about Shona buying a dinosaur cake for Nick and Leanne, but really I've lost patience with this storyline. 

Also, tattie scones is correct if they're square or oblong, potato cakes if they're round. That's just the law.

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