Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 1st February

It's Paul's case back in the Media City meeting room a.k.a the magistrate's court. It doesn't look good for Paul - the crew have built that prison set and (like the hospital) they're going to get use out of it, but instead he gets a community order, an anger management course and 120 hours community service. So it's all back to normal in the Mayhew-Foreman-Spellman household. Except...

Todd calls Will to instruct him to do something shady. It looks like Todd's evil plans are bearing fruit - it did seem like he was going to be the Hooded Claw to Paul's Penelope Pitstop, carrying out his bad deeds, but being foiled every time. This one backfires somewhat as Summer interrupts Will smashing up the flat, runs down the stairs and smack into a car. They really should pedestrianise that street. Paul tells Billy and Craig that it was Will wot did it and Billy gets more angry than a vicar should do, really. Todd gives Will £50 and tells him he never wants to hear from him again.

(On a side note, I've just realised that the under-used Ajay was also the lovely Jas in Two Doors Down. If you haven't seen that, you'd probably like it).

 
Tyrone and Fiz do the full Jack and Vera re: Tyrone's snoring and Fiz's elbowing, much to Alina's amusement. Tyrone moans about being outnumbered by the women in his household. Can't he count Cerberus as being on his gender side? Alina appears in a towel and Tyrone gets embarrassed. I very very very very much hope TPTB aren't going to force Ty and Alina Pop! into an affair, not least because I want her and Michael to get together (once Grace has slung her hook).

Nina continues Asha's education by showing her some Aubrey Beardley nudes before the watershed. I guess now that Sophie and Kate have left to go travelling (I have decided that they got to New Zealand before lockdown rather than they are wandering across Asia spreading Coronavirus in their wake) that there needs to be some new lesbians, but what about two middle aged ladies discovering their love for each other - for instance Yasmeen and Elaine - rather than the traditional attractive young women? Anyway, they share a socially distanced snog.

Meanwhile, Aadi goes a few points down in everyone's estimation by quoting from The Art Of The Deal by failed president Donald Trump, although he does suggest doing grocery deliveries (Ocaadi?) from the shop.

We need to talk about Peter. Corrie has recently portrayed coercive control with the major storyline of Geoff and Yasmeen and the minor one of Corey and Asha, but Peter 'n' Carla is always portrayed as true love with some bumps, rather than a toxic controller and his victim. He forced her out of her dad's pub and into the arms of badger boy Adam, then blamed her for his own alcoholism, told her he never wanted to see her again and then persuaded her back when she had an escape route via that Northern Irish charmer of last week. Isn't he a bad'un as well? Anyway, they go for a historical building day out and then to the pub where Peter finds it hard to deal with the beer, the prattling and the fruit machine and rushes off. He admits to Carla that he's been throwing away his medicinal whisky as he is worried it's going to kill him and that he's being set up to fail. He insists Carla take him to the hospital to see the alcohol nurse.

Meanwhile in Money Worries Street, Leanne can't pay the leccy bill and refuses to ask Nick for help. Why doesn't she go back to work? Simon has a scally friend in the chippie who offers to lend him some money. Is this Jacob a nephew of Rotten Rick the money-lender?  Or is he selling drugs along with the saveloys? Simon tells Leanne he's sorted out a pre-paid electricity meter for which Leanne thanks him. You pay more per kwh with those things, Leanne! No wonder she's in financial straits.

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