Coronation Street Blog: Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 30th July

David wants some alone time with David (Four Legs), much to Shona's suspicion. She discovers that he lied about his whereabouts on the previous evening and so employs Billy to find out what her boyf is up to. Billy follows David to a bar, or rather the outside of a bar, where we can see Josh wining and dining a man. It turns out that David is not planning on knifing Josh, but is instead keeping an eye on potential next victims. Billy sends David home and the Rev turns ~~caped~~ dog-collared crusader and warns off Josh's friend. But Billy's meddling leads to the man beating up Josh, who is now in a coma, because we need to have a hospital scene this week. David goes to visit his attacker and says what he can't say when Josh is conscious. He fingers the wires of the life-support machine, wondering what'd happen if he pulled them out. But he satisfies himself with telling Josh that he pities him and that he, David, has a life to live and he's not going to throw that away because of Josh.

Daniel and Sinead should be careful doing all that sex....you know what happened the first time they did it - it almost led to Sinead marrying Chesney. Daniel offers to go to a clothing auction on Sinead's behalf and brings his spoils into the factory - where moths fly out. After watching a youtube vid, he puts the clothes in the freezer to kill the eggs and larvae. He speaks to Carla about it, who realises that this could be the ruination of Alya, so she tells him it's all fine and to keep schtum.

I'm terribly disappointed that Henry, Earl of Newton, has re-appeared without his slimy sidekick Hugo. But we get a great selection of scenes with Henners and Gemmers practising running the pub with landlady-punter role-play, brainstorming (Unhappy Hour (two-for-three cocktails), the Veggie Not Pot), and mixology/drinking the cellar dry. Leanne, who seems to have decided that she is the Rovers landlady, chucks them out, but later, after some wise words from Queen Rita, she says she will show Gemini the ropes.

The residents are feeling the fall-out from Eva's ~~moonlight~~ nine o'clock flit. Daniel has received a note, Handsome Imran has had an email, whereas the Battersby girls are ruing the fact they'll never see Susie again. Unless they get the Eurostar. I know Leanne and Toyah are a bit daffy, but surely they can use Occam's Razor and realise that there's not many places Eva could've gone? The Connors have to tell Johnny that Eva has gone off to ~~a potential lead role in an ITV Sunday night psychological thriller~~ France (by the way, if and when Brexit happens, are we going to see characters at the end of their contracts filling in lengthy visa forms before spontaneously disappearing to Europe?), which doesn't improve his mood any, especially when he finds out that Aidan's inquest is on Friday. He says he longer cares about the factory and won't say that Aidan wasn't of sound mind.

Sean is still pretending he's not homeless and Dev tells him that his friend's bedsit is up for rent. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the deposit, but Dev says he will see what he can do, leaving Sean to spend one more night in the tent.

Sorry - no review next week as I'll be in Belfast. If I bump into Big Jim, I'll try and persuade him not to do the upcoming baby swap storyline!

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