Coronation Street - NO SPOILERS! Grief is driving Abi crazy, Nina’s memories are hazy and no one gets the point of Daisy

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New thread - and many thanks to the people who tagged me asking me to start it. It genuinely meant a lot that you wanted me to start the new thread

Both episodes seem to revolve around the flippin coffee machine and glass cups!!!! How many more times could they have been mentioned?!

And yes, Emma needs to calm the eyebrows. They were too thick Nd too close in the middle. Feel sorry for her because she must have done them herself and no one has said anything to her.

The whole coffee machine thing was ridiculous. Everyone behaving as if a coffee machine is some new fangled posh invention they’ve never heard of in coronation street when in reality almost every house I know has one.

Just remembered something I meant to post last night. Might not make sense to anyone else but it struck me.

Remember when there was the panic in Yasmeen's living room about the mouse and Ryan came in there was a sort of freeze frame moment with all three women in various attitudes? It reminded me so much of a renaissance painting.

I know. I'll shut up now.

Oh that scene was so ridiculous @TellingBone! Elaine freezing with her butt mid air off the cycle machine and even when she unfroze she didn’t rest her ass. She carried on with the “ooh look at my bum” pose while she was speaking. Awful.

And Yasmeen seems to have been taking acting tips from Dev these days.

At least Yasmeen isn't taking acting lessons from Ed. That really would be painful.

That Elaine though, shouting like that at whatsername the neurotic hoarder woman! Horrible and rude, and just so shouty! And it's not even actually her house, though she's throwing her weight around like it is. Yasmeen now has another bully living in her house.

I can’t stand Elaine. She’s long outstayed her welcome on Corrie. She should have left when the Geoff stuff ended. Also can’t stand this golden girls situation they’re trying to forge with Yasmeen, Elaine and Cathy. They don’t gel at all. It’s so forced. End it. Get rid of Elaine. Cathy too.

I liked the scene between Amy & Steve. How did Sam escape? I must have zoned out momentarily.

I don’t think they actually showed the scene where Sam got free. My understanding was that Sharon phoned her nephew when she saw nick arrive at the platts, and somehow this meant rag and bone man could move the van (with Sam in it) and then must have “discovered” Sam trapped in the back.

Oh thanks UhtredRagnarson I wish I had zoned out at all the Golden Girls/mouse scenes and compostible pods references.

@FantasticButtocks

That Elaine though, shouting like that at whatsername the neurotic hoarder woman! Horrible and rude, and just so shouty! And it's not even actually her house, though she's throwing her weight around like it is. Yasmeen now has another bully living in her house.

Yes, Elaine is a cf

I saw a mouse
Where?
Under the chair
Under the chair, right there...

A little mouse with clogs on,
Going, "Oh, I declare
I can't watch no more of this shite"

That's me
Done.

I liked the scene between Amy & Steve

I did too. It just seemed so normal

And since when has Amy got all sensible?

Another question because I missed Friday. Does Sam think he was kidnapped or did he just get in a van for some reason?

God the screeching between Elaine/ Yasmeen/ Cathy I was wincing at the tv, awful.

Also hate Sharon’s annoying ‘heh heh’ laugh throughout every sentence she rasps out through her false teeth.

Sam thinks he was a silly boy and got in a van he shouldn’t have been in to have a nosey.

One thing I was confused about- sam discovered a plastic bag with a drink, crisps and a shop bought sandwich in it and he ate them. Surely that would strike him as odd? I was waiting for Natasha to say “you must be starving” and him to say “oh no, there was food in the van” and then they would realise it was planned.

Amy has always been quite sensible when speaking to her dad (but then he’s always playing the pantomime Buttons, so anyone would look sensible next to him), and she’s given quite sensible advice to her mum too, who usually ignores her or argues with her!

Yes I wondered when the food would come up, but it didn’t. I also thought he’d escape through the hatch on the roof when he was looking up at it, but he didn’t!

Poor Sam, blaming himself.

Honestly I give up with Corrie I only watch now so can snark on here,
The golden girls scenes were atrocious painstaking my daughter is learning her end of y6 play at the moment and I guarantee the acting will be better!

@UhtredRagnarson

Sam thinks he was a silly boy and got in a van he shouldn’t have been in to have a nosey.

One thing I was confused about- sam discovered a plastic bag with a drink, crisps and a shop bought sandwich in it and he ate them. Surely that would strike him as odd? I was waiting for Natasha to say “you must be starving” and him to say “oh no, there was food in the van” and then they would realise it was planned.

He did mention the food. Shona told David about it in the pub, just after David said something about how lucky Sam was in general, and so he commented again, something like "see this is what I mean!"

Ahh. Thank you @excelledyourself- I must have zoned out at that part. Again. That’s happening more and more often these days

Yes, I think David said that the driver must have forgotten his packed lunch and left it in the van.

I was mote interested in what Sam did when he needed a wee.

Sorely the police would have mentioned to his family that Sharon's connection to Harvey?

@eddiemairswife

I was mote interested in what Sam did when he needed a wee.

Me too