This was the week when I fell back in love with
Coronation Street. It's had some top-class writing, warmth and
humour and the smile firmly wiped off Tracy Barlow's big fat
face.
And so it's to a wedding we go as
Tracy and Steve march up the aisle to their McBarlow wedding.
The vicar asks if anyone knows of any just impediment to why these
two should not be married in holy matrimony and Becky stands up,
clears her throat, and sits down again. She's got a bombshell
to drop but she's not ready to drop it yet.
Back on the Street, Rita and Norris leave the
wedding and return to work at the Kabin. Emily comes in later and
agrees with Rita that the wedding went well. "Oh, but only if the
same could be said about the reception!" coos Aunty Em. "Why? What's
to do?" asks Rita. What's to do, indeed.
But let's backtrack a little. Becky had only gone
and broken into the medical centre computer system, armed with
Gail's password after Gail joined forces with Becky when she found
out that she was planning to bring down Tracy B. With Kylie
feigning a faint on the waiting room floor of the medical centre,
all attention switched to her lying there. Doctor Carter's
attention was distracted just long enough for Becky to get into his
office, log in, download and print off Tracy's records, proving that
she'd miscarried the twins the day before she claimed Becky murdered
them, pushing Tracy down the stairs.
And so, with cold, hard proof in her hand, Becky
interrupted Steve's wedding speech in the Rovers and presented him
with the truth about his new bride. "Revenge is all the more sweeter
now he's chained to the cow," Becky told sister Kylie before legging
it to the airport with new bloke Danny and his little boy.
But before she left the cobbles, Becky hugged the
Croppers and cried, then took a taxi to the airport to fly away to
Barbados with Danny. Steve ran after her, of course, and tried to
beg her back but she held her head high and walked through the gate
to get on the plane. It was first class. Not only her seat on the
plane, but the whole storyline and send-off for Becky. Who
will call Roy ?Royston' now?
Elsewhere this week. Anna
dumps Owen when she finds out he's hit Faye. And there was a great
scene with Owen and his daughters in Roy's Rolls when he asks Izzy
and Katy if he was such a bad dad. Their silence says it all before
they give him a few home truths about his parenting
skills.
Over at No. 11, Eileen's desperate to keep Paul
and offers herself up to be a carer for his wife Lesley when he's
left with no one to look after his wife. Caring for someone
with Alzheimer's is a specialist task and one that Eileen has no
experience of. She does her best but Lesley smashes Eileen's
telly and it's clear that she needs more care than Eileen is capable
of, professional care. There was a slightly, I thought,
disturbing scene when Eileen hugged Lesley to comfort her, and all
the time you're watching this thinking, Eileen's only doing this
?cos she's desperate for a bloke. It's an excellent storyline
though. And the actress who's playing Lesley should be
commended for her portrayal of a dementia patient.