Welcome to this review. I open with Carl who commences by saying I love you to Abi before she heads off to the sun and gets her to promise that she will not sleep with her husband whilst she is away and to leave finding the money for Tracy'luv to him. He then spends the episode dodging and diving leaving poor Ty to assess the brakes on Ollie's car which was given an MoT by another garage which Fiona uses; surprise, surprise those brakes are way dodgy, who would have guessed it. Carl has an exchange with James in the Rovers whilst skiving about it being good to get and hot and sticky in a gym session. Without an obvious leadup that has indicated that Carl has the slightest interest in men or indeed wants anyone other than poor Abi we get the picture above after Tracy once again attempts to return to evil self and trap him. Coronation Street should be driven by strong consistent characters living their lives on the backstreets of Manchester. As I said about Abi recently I have trouble believing that people behave like this. James leaves a message saying that he would be up for more fun in future. Carl reads it then tells Abi to enjoy quality time with her boys and he will be waiting for when she returns.
The Kabin is back again with Jenny pursuing Christina and Dom online as she convinces herself that they are about to fleece George in some way. Steve has to be served bon bons by Rita who is also on duty. Later Jenny thinks George and Christina are exchanging amusing texts (they are but not with each other) which leads to her absolute conviction that there is no body in the coffin and to prove it she enters the undertakers and removes the lid of the coffin - which obviously does contain Dom's body. Jenny is left with egg on her face. George's romance was going so well with Cheryl he gets dumped by text, never having actually met her. To calm Christina down George magics up a bottle of brandy and they steady their nerves following the earlier ructions. And before you know it Christina is flirting with George, not exactly the grieving wife as Jenny observed earlier. Christina then takes Cheryl's place for dinner at Speed Dahl.
Asha skips work using different excuses for different people. In the cafe Summer, Amy and Nina all say how good her job must be, how brave she is, how well she is doing and how important saving lives must be. She does not tell them how she is feeling about the stresses. She crosses paths with DS Swain later who asks if she is feeling better and offers to listen if Asha wants to talk. Sienna tracks her down in the Rovers where she appears to be feeling much better. Asha seems reluctant to talk. Sienna warns her she looks like she is crumbling and that she does not want that to happen. Asha pleads not to be reported and that she will sort herself out. However this is a last warning.
In a rare scene involving Tim and Abi the latter reveals she is being wound up by Tracy who is being her usual charming self with Tim saying that she will have forgotten her troubles once she is sitting in the sun holding hands with Kev. (For those not aware in another world these two are married).
Needless to say that Billie has advised the police of the assault by Miles; he did try to talk to Miles but achieved nothing which made his mind up {Given the education of children these days do any of them really consider homosexuality a problem - this story might have worked 40 years ago but now?). This rather overshadows Summer Spellman's 21st (she has been around in various guises since 2017) - a girl with more fathers than I have had hot dinners this week. Given she has her degree why is she not at work? Miles apologises to Billy at the party in the Bistro and then gets invited by DS Swain to answer a few questions down the station. I am surprised Billy making the report - surely he has heard about turning the other cheek? Obviously not. During the interview Miles reveals that he will not be involved with Noah any longer and Danielle is on board with that. Theo gets ever more objectionable in that he rails at Billy about seeking to get his son a criminal record calling Billy a self-righteous prat. Later Theo uses it as a weapon to tell Todd to choose between him and Todd which Todd conveys at the end of the episode saying that he and Billy have nothing to discuss and that Billy needs to stay out of his way.
Due to holidays I may well not be here next week and I certainly will not be here the following week. I hope by the time I return that something will have changed.
Written by David Isaac and Ellen Taylor. Directed by Merlyn Rice.
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