As Laura's young life slowly ebbs away due to stomach cancer, I ponder what kind of cancer it is, how is it caused, and can we viewers read anything about it for awareness purposes?!! Anyway, the answers to my questions seem ever distant tonight as Laura's life, and cancer battle, are near their tragic conclusion. Tonight, Kelly’s still fraught at her Mum’s killer confession, and Gary rushes to Laura’s hospital bedside, to be told by a doctor that she has just days to live. Kelly puts a brave face on it by burying her head in the sand and readying for the hairdressing competition. Simon and Gary both try to persuade her to consider her Mother’s impending death and Father’s murder, but they fail. Can she see sense before Laura dies? Let's hope Kelly has more luck in being adopted/fostered than what little Elsie’s future is now looking like!
You've got to feel sorry for Imran, haven't you? Nope, that's right, he brought this all on himself and deserved everything he got tonight. Toyah needs so much better, and losing gorgeous little Elsie (no, you are broody) in the process, is just too harsh. Tonight, Imran meets Toyah who tells him they will lose the little girl, and that he’s been reported to the Solicitors regulators for the huge conflict of interest. I’m glad about that, that was my gripe with last week's court case (aside from the other obvious legislative misnomers) I'm guessing Imran is going to hold onto Alfie, now that Elsie is leaving, so another fight beckons, I feel.
Ah, it seems so so long ago now. It was pre COVID times. Reliable family man Tyrone Dobbs had a liaison with Alina Pop, Fiz then met Phill, and N0.9 Coronation Street rocked to its yellow & blue foundations. Fast forward a year or so - Fiz is now ready to leave the street entirely, taking the girls to start a new life with flash Phill, with Tyrone destined to sell up. It has been a lengthy storyline employing a plethora of soapy dramatics, and as a Ty and Fiz fan, I have loved it. Will Fiz leave the cobbles after 21 years? Tonight, Fiz tells the factory girls about her new posh abode, whilst Ty nurses a maudlin pint with Kev. Kevin then tells Fiz that Tyrone is putting a front on the girls, rather than feeling pleased about her new life. The exes discuss their shared past and probable future with some nostalgic emotion. I'm unsure if this is the end for the Dobbs and Brown clan? That scene of the two of them sharing a drink in the Rovers was my highlight tonight. I would love a two-hander of just those two, please Corrie!
Elsewhere on the street - Sam's prodigal chess championing continues to excite(!). Faye admits the truth to Jon, prompting Emma to confirm a future in Australia. Faye and Craig learn they had a false pregnancy test. Grim.
Even though she wasn't in the episode, I think Debbie Webster got the best line of the night;
Tonight was a grim affair saved only by Fiz and Tyrone’s story. What are your thoughts?
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Monday - Roy tells Nick that there's a children's chess tournament being held, and suggests that Sam likes to compete.
Wednesday - The semi-finals are held IN THE BISTRO.
Did the organisers not have a venue in mind? They left it awfully late. Lucky that Nick turned up on the eve of the tournament, entered his son and offered them an otherwise empty venue.
It was disclosed at the start of the episode that the original venue was now out of action for to a flood, so Nick stepped in and said they could use the bistro as a replacement venue. It was mentioned
Jeanie (anon): No, undoubtedly the best line and response of the night was: "You're like a little mini-Roy." Sam "That's quite a compliment."
Glad to see Sam back--he delivers these comic lines so beautifully, particularly as the straight man to uptight Dad Nick.
Kelly not seeing her mother is down to Gary's and Maria's cowardice for letting Laura take the blame for Rick's death in the first place.
If either of them had the decency to tell Kelly the truth,then perhaps she wouldn't be over the edge hating her mother but no Maria and Gary are only concerned about themselves[especially Gary].
With regards to Abi's storyline,it's little Elsie I feel sorry for the most not Toyah who I think is a hyporcrite.
Toyah the supposed 'counselor'lied to Peter about little Susie .denied a grieving Johnny [after Aidan's suicide] his only grandchild the first few weeks of her life and would still have been raising Susie as her own daughtter with the Connors none the wiser had Eva had not changed her mind and wanting her daughter back
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