It's Webster versus Webster as Carl and Kev row about their various misdemeanours and agree on mutual assured destruction - if one tells, the other does. There have been attempts to soften Carl with his care and worry for Debbie, but in the end if you flirt with a hot babe in a car park and she turns out to be your sister in law, then you'd cool your boots, right? You wouldn't then pursue her in a sex pest-y way, telling her that he knows she wants him. This may have worked in Corrie storylines in the 1980s, but in 2025 it just seems like stalking. And whilst I'm harshing on the Webster men, Kev might have been knocked for six by cancer, making him insecure and frightened, but he's kicked Abi out several times, this "she's gonna leave me" boohoo doesn't play quite right.
Anyhoo, Ty is forced to tell Abi that Kev has been lying about the cancer returning and Abi is so mad she goes and, erm, romances Carl in the garage office. I hope that's not going to be on the CCTV. Also, is Kev going to end up co-parenting another of Abi's one night stand babies? Abi, after confronting her husband, is ready to leave him and go live in Germany with creepy Carl but Kev tells him nothing's changed, he can still go to the po-po about the dodgy MOTs and car-thievery, so Carl tells Abi to go back to her husband. Although it's actually Jack realising he'd have to become a substitute mum to Alfie and asking her to stay that makes her return to number 13.
Meanwhile, Theodd (Toddeo?) talk excitedly about a flat in town that they want to view. It's on the tramline, has a balcony, and a pool in the basement! Yeah, right. As if they're not going to end up in the flat above the builder's yard. Their car beaks down on the way to the viewing, so they have a little bit of back seat delight whilst waiting for Ty to turn up. Someone's been reading the Jonathan Harvey Official Guide To Double Entendres You Can Say Before 9 p.m. as the two talk about big ends and tools with Tyrone. They also tell each other they love one another, so presumably there is a storm coming and this is the calm?
Dve’s range of terrible accents is out on display as he talks to Aunty Rani on the phone. I'm looking forward to her turning up: we need a new battleaxe since Dame Maureen went off to law school.
Lauren, who looks quite healthy now the make up artists have stopped
putting talc on her face, frets about what to wear to the wedding of the
season. We know it's going to be a tracksuit, right? Also, it doesn't
matter as we know everything is going to go t*ts up before that.
In the Bistro, the Tilsley-Batterby-Platts talk about new coffees they could serve - the Platt White, the Cappushona, the Amernickano. The Leatte? Cortoddo? Cathygatto? I'll stop now. Sam, now that his voice has broken and he's becoming a sassy teen, tells Lily that there has been a spate of break-ins and the burglars rearrange the furniture of their victims. I think he must have been watching The Edukators on Film 4. Whilst Lily draws a wind turbine or something at Eco Club, he goes to the Platts' and moves the furniture around to get his revenge on Lily. I'm not sure what the point of this storyline is unless it's to introduce New Lily or to cause friction between Nick and David?
And finally, in what feels it should have been the A story, Deedee tells James and the assembled Baileys that she's changed her mind and wants to keep Laila. Uh-oh. Tug of love storyline incoming!
Rachel Stevenson - on bluesky
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Todd and Theo had to be stymied for the same reasons Daniel couldn't move into a house his mother had bought for him despite him having a young family, why Billy can't live in a house which is his as of right as an Archdeacon, which strained credulity during the time of Paul's illness. It is why there is a ceiling on the career prospects of any regular character, wven when it would enable character development. Coronation Street resembles nothing so much as The Truman Show at times.
I can't get my head around Abbie fancying carl. He's no dreamboat and he has no redeeming features, such as a sparkling, kind personality. The garage fling only lasted 5 minutes! The wall clock showed it. I hope it was captured on CCTV.
I don't think Kev and Abbie made a well- suited couple, really. He's a boring plodder (as he says himself - his life is the garage, a pint and the match). She's insecure and likes a bit of excitement.
I'd like to see 2 others having a secret affair - Ed and Jenny or George and Linda - if they bring back Linda!
Tim and Abbie having an affair would be interesting, especially as they are husband and wife in real life
Why are the kids still going to school? Don't they have any holidays at Weathy High?
No, Tyrone wasn't "forced" - he could have kept his mouth shut and stopped interfering.
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