Coronation Street Episode Review; Weds 10th April 8.30pm

As promised, here is part two of this Wednesday's Corrie, all wrapped up in a handy blog review.

Fearing Rick's threats against his family, Gary begins work offering high-interest loans on the old people's estate and wins over a gullible old dear.

Kate confronts Alya about sending Carla the threatening (and slightly spooky) messages. The girls both agree on avenging the factory boss over Rana's death.

At the old lady's home, Gary deliberately fails to deal a dodgy loan and instead offers the OAP some security advice, and a bit of cash.

'Tall Matt' makes his Prima Donor debut, as Gemma tells Chesney she has booked them a caravan holiday in the UK. Chesney is slightly disheartened.

At the hospital, Sinead's ringing of the bell symbolises the end of her cancer treatment and hopefully heralds a new era for the young parents. At home with baby Bertie, the couple discusses a 'naming' ceremony, which appeals to their joint atheism, but Sinead's family may be an obstacle.

Apologising to Leanne and Nick, Imran offers to make another(!) dinner to clear any bad atmosphere at the Victoria street flat. At the Rovers, Imran questions Wayne about the factory accident report.

Carla's psychosis continues to worsen. Visited by Kate who admits that Ayla sent her the threatening social media messages, Carla does nothing but convey an emotionless, yet, inwardly tortured demeanour.

As her paranoia deepens, Carla questions Kate's story and struggles to anchor to the truth.
Carla's psychosis then has a visual representation as she erratically scrawls her paranoid theories on one of Ken's newspapers.

Back on Victoria Street, Gary offers condolence to an upset Alya but is distracted by Rick. Admitting he got no loan uptake from the OAP estate, Rick lays the charm on a passing Alex and offers him £300.

At The Rovers, Gary remains distant with Sarah, whilst taking Alex to one side, and giving him advice about Rick's loan offer.Later on, spotting Alex receiving the cash, Gary confronts Rick but is soon receiving further threats from his new 'boss'.

Outside of No.1, Carla overhears Rick's threats and her inner paranoia and turmoil go into overdrive.

Interesting then, how Gary and Carla were instrumental in the factory collapse, and now both seem to be paying the price. Thoughts?.

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Coronation Street Episode Review; Weds 3rd April 7.30pm

Welcome to Wednesday's episode review, part one, wrapped up in a handy blog review.

Carla's had little sleep after the disastrous memorial confession, her only ally now is Peter. Uncharacteristically, Roy has lost faith in Carla and is struggling to handle the duplicity of her truth bomb. When Wayne visits the cafe, he lets Roy know that a lead has suddenly arisen in the factory investigation.

At the Platts', Nick chases Gary's paper trail in hope of hiding any sufficient evidence in pinning the roof collapse on the builder.  Meanwhile, Gary receives a text from Rick whilst Nick pays Carla a visit and makes a vaguely undisguised threat. Is Nick covering his own back?

Still smarting from Gemma's April Fools prank, Chesney is starting to get find his latest love a little irksome. Matrimonial bliss it is not, but is the domesticity starting to wear thin? Still feeling in the mood for japes post-April 1st, Gemma has only just started.

At the Kabin, Brian is getting engrossed in Radio Weatherfield's latest quiz, his knowledge of Donna Summer is slightly surprising. Cathy tells Gemma that Brian is a radio quiz hound and has been banned from several stations. Hatching a late April Fool at the kebab shop, Gemma plays the radio quiz in Brian's place, little realising she's being pitted against Mary. Chesney isn't impressed at Gemma's cheating.

Meanwhile, Geoff reveals that he's growing veg for Yasmeen and gloats that his crop is ready to ripe.
Distracted from radio quizzes by customers paper complaints, Brian offers Paul a new job - as a paperboy! Billy offers Paul some support, evidently besotted, and little to do with Summer's obvious matchmaking. Meanwhile, Nick tells Paul that Underworld's days look doomed.

Also, looking doomed is Kate, as she shares lucid dreams of Rana to Michelle in the Rovers back room. Peter's sudden appearance riles Kate and he begs Michelle to not involve the police, but it's too late; Kate has already made the call. Defending Carla's fragile emotional state, Peter tells her that Kate is fine with everything, and fails to get her to flee before the police arrive. Before we know it, Carla is marched off by the police and is arrested on gross negligence manslaughter charges.

At the station, Carla admits that she knew the roof was badly damaged and tells them that 'Jim / John' told her that it was hazardous. Blatantly lying about the mysterious builder, she admits the truth and takes Rana's death as her own Murder, whilst readily exonerating Gary in the process.

Is Carla heading to jail?

I'll be back soon with a review of the 8.30pm episode. See you in a bit.

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Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 29 March

Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your review of tonight’s hour-long Friday episode.

Seb has some good news for a change, hurrah! He’s got a job on a new building site in Prestwich. Unfortunately for him it’s the same site where Gary and his two Polish builder mates have also just been taken on. In the Rovers sourpuss Seb glowers and fumes that he can’t work in the same place as Gary.

Elsewhere Rana’s loved ones are finding their own ways to grieve. Kate, Alya and Yasmeen are planning a memorial service to celebrate her life. Imran, on the other hand, is opting for the looking moody, trashing his flat and shouting accusations at anyone who crosses his path route. He probes Beth, threatens Wayne, accuses Nick of looking shifty (fair point), and then tells Michelle and Johnny that Carla has done a runner because she’s guilty. He also angrily rejects Toyah’s counselling, telling her he’s fed up with her wandering around like Kofi Annan. How dare he? There’s no way the former UN Secretary General would be able to rock a high-neck Victoriana blouse as well as Miss Battersby can.

In the café Gina is moaning to Kev about having to leave Weatherfield. He tells her that Sally will come round, but when he goes to see Tim in the cab office to plead Gina’s case, and remind him that he still hasn’t paid his bill at Websters Auto, it doesn’t go down well. Stressed and overworked, Tim loses his rag. Calm down dear you’ll give yourself a heart-at…*oops spoiler alert*.

Baby Bertie is home and Ken has decorated the flat with bunting. Both new parents are wondering how they will cope, with Sinead panicking that she needs to watch him all the time and Daniel worrying that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Ken reassures him that no parent does. And he should know.

Over at No. 4 Wayne has called in to ask Sally some questions about the roof collapse. Tim gets irate again, accusing him of intimidating his wife. But Wayne calmly assures them that he is just trying to get to the bottom of the accident and that there is absolutely no way that Sally is to blame. I like Wayne, can we keep him?

Over at the Bistro Robert catches Ryan spying on him for Michelle and immediately sacks him. He then tells Billy he will take on one of the ex-offenders the following day.

Back on the Street as Sarah and Gary celebrate his new-found employment, they find that someone has vandalised Gary’s van and stolen all his tools, making it impossible for him to work at the new site. Sarah is convinced it’s Seb. She storms around to Eileen’s to accuse him, but Captain Sulk has an alibi. He was over at the Prestwich site turning down the job so that he wouldn’t have to work with Gary. On hearing this Eileen tells him he’s made a mistake because, and I quote: ‘Jobs are scarce round here’. I actually laughed out loud at this. Has Eileen ever looked out of her front door? Weatherfield is the only town in the country with near full employment. Unless you count Ryan, but it seems to unfair to let him skew the figures, since if he was any thicker you’d have to water him twice a day.

Over at the builder’s yard it transpires that Gary knows full well who’s taken his tools. It’s loan shark Rick Neelan. Apparently, Gary borrowed £15,000 from him but has missed the last three payments. What the? When did this happen? If Gary had £15k sloshing around in his back pocket could he not have used some of it down Furniture Village getting a mattress for him and Sarah to sleep on? Anyway, because of ‘late payment fees’ Reprehensible Rick is now demanding £20,000 and gives Gary until six o'clock tomorrow to pay up, before threatening violence to both him and Sarah. Let’s hope for both their sake's that Peter hurries up with his hush money!

That’s all from me, let me know what you think of this weeks episode in the comments section.

Kosmo will be back next week and I'll see you back here in a fortnight. Missing you already...

Kelly
@mskelstar

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Coronation Street Episode Review; Weds 27th March 7.30pm

Its the day of Rana's funeral.  At The Rovers Carla texts Michelle to let her know that she won't be there for her sister.

Roy tells Wayne that he accidentally set the boat on fire, but Wayne dismisses his worries that it had anything to do with the factory roof collapse. Gary questions Wayne's coincidental connection to the factory, whilst Sarah's struggle to find more work causes Gary to ponder Peter's blackmail offering.

Later, Gary makes an angry phone call to someone and demands cash. Can we assume its Peter that he's talking to?

Ahead of the Islamic funeral, Imran is still struggling to come to terms with his mother's insistence in a traditional send-off. As Kate visits Imran, Saira makes it clear that she doesn't want Kate attending the funeral. She says it due to fears of local gossip but fails to hide her conspicuous homophobia.

Imran struggles to contain his anger but Kate admits defeat and gives Imran a letter to read out at the ceremony.

Back behind the bar of the Rovers, Michelle wishes she could help out but Robert is still awol from the Bistro. Ali visits his mum and laments at how he felt being with Rana in her final moments.
Later on, Ryan and Ali head over to open up at the Bistro but the place is unlocked. Fearing a break-in, they find Robert has returned.

Also at the Rovers, Roy and Wayne reminisce about their past times on Coronation Street. Introducing Wayne to Brian, Brian admits that he is still struggling to solve the mystery of Sylvia's ring but Wayne offers to investigate instead.

In the back room, Kate tells Johnny and Jenny that she won't be attending the funeral, but they still can. Although struggling to keep it together, Johnny knows that his daughter's grief is only just beginning.

Meanwhile, Sally exits the taxi having arrived back from the hospital, and is confronted by a grieving Alya. Blaming Sally for the loss of her best friend, she is also warned to keep her away from Rana's funeral.

On Victoria Street, Imran fervently defends Kate and passes the heartfelt written note to his Mother.
Can Saira really stop Kate from saying a final goodbye to Rana?.

I'll be back soon with a review of the 8.30pm episode. See you in a bit.

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