Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 25 September 2026

Welcome.  We open at Chariot Square Happy Hour where Izzy, Sean, Michael and Carla are enjoying a few drinks.  Glenda comes in looking for Debbie who is missing again.  Carla, Izzy and Michael leave and Sean queries Glenda about being ill.  She explains she is sick of Eva.  Eva meanwhile is lying at the foot of the cellar stairs where she was despatched by Sam.  Sam goes upstairs and eventually finds his phone (and why is he phone addicted?) and then in one of those absolutely stupid twists, does not phone anyone and does a runner.  He returns to the scene of his earlier crime where Nick and Toyah are completely understanding about him trashing the Bistro office.  However the viewers can now spend the entire episode worrying about Eva who had it easy - no acting - just sleeping on the cellar floor.  Every so often we get a shot of the prone Eva taking another breath.  

I suspect I am unsympathetic b****** (with due apologies for the language) but I am having trouble believing in Christina's grief.  Not a hint of a hidden daughter for what 35 years? and now hardly able to function.  A shock maybe - but all consuming?  Anyway Christina is contemplating life, the universe and the answer to life (42) in Victoria Gardens when she is found by Bernie.  Bernie is far more sympathetic - but then she has lost one child, her lost, now found child, is seriously ill and so perhaps she understands.

Tim and Sally have completely lost Lucy, thinking she is minding Shanice upstairs, whom Ronnie finds considerably the worse for wear in Victoria Gardens.  Lucy claims not to be a kid and being really bored.  Tim discovers she half inched the vodka from the kitchen cupboard.  Sally sends Lucy to bed with a bowl in case of nasty accidents.  Tim is not surprised that Lucy is acting up.  They do not know what to do for the best.  

Debbie has been sent to the closed Rovers by Sam looking for Carl (her phone has died yet again) and she wanders around (although closed the front door is unlocked).  She sees Eva and leaves the Rovers but by the time she meets Carla, Izzy, Michael and Sean (continuity error as Sean did not leave with the others) outside Audreys she cannot remember visiting the cellar and as she is distressed Carla takes Debbie back to her flat above the cab office.  Debbie looks as though she does not recognise it and later asks Carl if Carla is his girlfriend as she had not recognised her.  Ronnie and Carl argue over the latter's flakiness - Ronnie wants him out.  

Eventually Glenda returns to the Rovers and finds signs of an intruder from Sam's earlier frantic searching, Glenda hears groaning from the cellar and then summons the emergency services.  It may well be important that she seems to have bashed her abdomen.  Her blood pressure is low and she manages one word "Pushed".  

This episode was "odd" as it was clearly set on the same day as Thursday and I wonder if the plan was originally to show them together for some reason.  Once again the chapeau must be tipped to the wonderful Sue Devaney who is seen in one shot almost shuffling along as a "little old lady" rather than the dynamic business woman.  Once again another slip down the ladder mentally and I suspect she will be accused of Eva's incident.  However it would be nice for some light and shade - do all the stories need to depress us?  Is no-one on the Street doing anything positive and uplifting?  For those worried about him, Theo Silverton has returned to Ambridge, ended his marriage to Fallon, taken up (within days) with the posh and apparently very attractive daughter of the lady of the manor who finds him equally attractive (thanks to a Tango lesson) and has nicked (he is a policeman) a Doberman for savaging sheep.

I may or may not be here next week - it will depend on events as on the Saturday I am catching a plane to India and will not be around for three weeks.  I hope to be back for the 26 October episode all being well.  

Written by Susan Oudot and directed by David Kester.

Kosmo

@Kosmo100

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Coronation Street Episode Review - Friday 3 July 2026

Hello again.  A Friday episode so I am back on duty.  We tie up one long running story tonight in that Will told the truth in the last episode.  The jury are taking time over their deliberations but before long we are all back in court for the verdict.  Ollie keeps an eye on Will and his mental 'elf whilst waiting for the outcome.  Inevitably having found her guilty on the lesser charge she is also found guilty of the more serious charge relating to being in a position of authority.  Megan instantly loses it, proclaims her innocence and has to be removed from the court as she screams at all of the Driscoll family and then she has a go at her solicitor advocate, Adam, who obviously does not like his client very much.  She will serve two thirds of her five year sentence which unlike a real court was handed down the same day.  

Speed Dahl's suppliers are delivering poor veg but more importantly Leanne is not answering calls from Idris following his interference with her phone to prevent Sam getting hold of her.  Last time round Alya warned Leanne off and now Alya is suggesting he needs a second chance, then she realises that Idris does not say sorry.  Later Mary delivers flowers for Leanne and reckons she has the second best job in the world to which Alya asks what is the best job - Mary answers "Ben Shepherd's PA".  The card merely says Idris.  Leanne might text him in the next three hours.  So apology accepted.  

In Roy's Rolls, Abi lives at Flat Four, The Precinct, Peel Street, Weatherfield and it seems her landlord is giving her the runaround.  She is on the phone for ninth time in two weeks and the flat is damp and has a weird smell.  Leanne sympathises about poor landlords (she has probably had a few) and suggests withholding rent - but Abi {whom we have not seen for weeks} cannot afford to be homeless with Alfeh.  There is a leak in the gully and it has been botched before but now needs repairing properly.  She does not even know the landlord's name.  Abi goes and passes Nick and Toyah as they come in.  Leanne confirms she is going to see Sam and Nick asks if she will put in a good word for him.  When she gets to Sam she does put in a word for Nick and calls Sam "mad" as in angry which he points out is not exactly the best word to use in a mental health unit.  Sam forgives Nick and the lad accepts he is not better yet and needs to be properly better before he comes home.  Leanne is accepting Idris's apology , then tells him about her three children.  Idris's phone rings as Abi descends the stairs into Street Dahl.  Idris does manage to apologise to Leanne and answers his phone to his very angry tenant who now knows who her scumbag landlord is.

Ty is having a difficult day so he and Fiz arrange Cassie to childsit and will have an evening in the pub.  Ruby and Hope are up to no good - they are doing something on their phone intended to cheer up Ty so Cassie leaves them to it and joins Ty and Fiz in the Rovers.  She will be back in time for Dorin at 7.  No doubt the "good" thing they are doing will be capable of more than one interpretation.  Maggie accuses Lauren of having a resting miserable face as I assume the normal term was not permitted.  To be honest Lauren rarely seems to like working and I have no idea where she is living as I thought Abi took her flat.  

We close in a very wet, mould infested flat where Alfie is coughing like a trooper smoking 500 a day and Abi is only just holding it together - this is more like a typical Manchester back street story and we already know the guilty party.  I hope it shames all landlords into ensuring they do the right thing.

The schedules for next Friday are telling me that there will be an hour long episode so if right I will be back then.  I think we are also near the end of the Sam story for now - the news that Megan was a proven liar has helped and he knows was is real now and when he is not in control so I am not sure there is much more of that story either.

Written by Carmel Morgan and directed by Mickey Jones.

Kosmo

@Kosmo100

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Episode Review Friday 1 May 2026

Good evening.  I remind you that it is still Thursday of last week and Carla's wedding day which has now had 7 outings.  We open with Todd running away from Theo who cannot be bothered to chase him as he knows where he is at all times thanks to the watch which Todd wears.  Theo only wants to talk to him.  Todd manages to disappear down the ginnel under the flats at the precinct, removes the watch and lobs it into the children's playground where Theo eventually finds it.  Todd phones George from a call box (there is one?) on Inkerman Street and Christine collects him and thereafter he is safe at number 11.  However George assures Todd that Theo will never hurt him again and Christina notices that George's red top is NOT the same top that he was wearing earlier and he is decidedly shifty when she asks him about it.

Shona has come back to the Street as she forgot her phone which she cannot find and then she heads to the hospital to see Harper.  

Elsewhere Maggie has Megan by the throat at the top of the stairs up to the flats and at the bottom of the stairs is Will who gets to hear that Megan had an abortion of his / Daniel's child - Will has still not given the game away.  Megan and Maggie stop fighting and Will argues with his grandmother.  He is pretty vile to Maggie in the precinct.  

Jodie's surprise visitor was not the strange men - but was Lily who wants an explanation as to why Jodie is going - but she gets very little other than a promise that she will come back one day.  Jodie lets herself back into Number 8 as she goes looking for cash and her treasures which she needs to take with her.  Once she finds some cash she also sets about trashing the place, cutting her hand on some glass and leaving blood around the place.  Jodie is about to go when Sarah comes in as she had heard David the dog yapping.  Jodie applies blunt force to Sarah's head.  Why does nobody turn the lights on?  For some reason Shona returns to find her phone followed  by David and an ambulance is summoned and they go to hospital where David just about deletes a voicemail message from Jodie about their earlier encounter and how she knocked him back.  Shona guesses that the men who were looking for Jodie earlier must have returned and Sarah walked in on them.

Summer has let herself into Theo's flat above the Dev's shop which has the scaffolding outside.  She finds Todd's phone which he had left behind when Theo enters the flat as well and throws the phone out of the window.  She asks if Theo has done something to Todd but does not get an answer.  Theo then says that Summer had to end sometime.  

Ronnie has that Carl in the back of his car and gets a voice message from Debbie asking him to tell her when she gets right doolally about the good which Carl did (might not take long) and that he was always the apple of her eye.  This makes Ronnie change his mind and we gather that Carl is dumped outside the Emergency Department and Ronnie is later seen cleaning the car of all potential evidence.  However Carl is then in a bad way and his life is hanging in the balance as they start chest compressions.  

The three witches Sisters, Eva, Toyah and Leanne are all invited to assist the police with their enquiries into the abduction and incarceration of Megan but at the time Toyah finally arrives it seems that Kit has heard some other news on the grape vine and will not be pursuing them - although we are not told what he now knows.  Sam is in hiding and having a meltdown.  

Once back at the Rovers Eva cannot find Maggie but two women find her lying in Victoria Gardens and it is time to summon another ambulance.  She does not look at all well.

Betsy was not carrying any ID so could not get in anywhere in town and stumbles out of the tram station with Lauren following.  Somehow later they manage to get to be outside Dev's shop (as Lauren had helped herself to the last wine at the wedding reception) at which point Lauren decides she needs to relieve herself and goes into the ginnel and Betsy stumbles into the yard at the back of the shop.  She eventually screams. It looks like Theo has been ended.

There was a lot in the episode - Betsy remarked that heels and cobbles are incompatible.  Lily is having something going on which was not clear to me with phone calls being made.  Sam is in meltdown and on his own.  David the dog was particularly yappy at the comings and goings.  I think the three "sisters" were released because Will finally told all to the police, but I might be wrong.  No doubt the answers to many of the questions raised in tonight's episode will be answered in the coming months.  For holiday reasons I am not going to be here for the next three Fridays - have a lot of fun in my absence.

Written by Alasdair Morrison and directed by Suri Krishnamma.

Kosmo

@Kosmo100

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