Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 17 July 2026

Good day.  Tonight we are back to only 30 minutes and I think this is Thursday's episode but I could be wrong.  Betsy is in hospital and Lauren for reasons that have not been explained in words of one syllable decides to tell Dylan, once DC McLaughlin has taken his statement, that Betsy does not want to see him, although Betsy is desperate to see Dylan and does not want the police involved.  Dylan claims it was all consensual and anyway Betsy was fine when he left her.  Fiz sees the police inviting Dylan to assist with their inquiries.  Sean spends much of the day looking for Dylan eventually finding him with Brody.  Dylan concocts a fantasy in which Betsy cheated with Brody after he had left and that Brody caused the injury.  When will someone admit that they are responsible, however inadvertently.  

Later Lauren tells everyone in the Rovers about Dylan's sexual practices and bans both Dylan and Sean from the Rovers which presumably means Sean has lost his job.  Dylan is particularly upset with Betsy as it seems she wants to see Brody and not him.  And there we have it.  Why would people who love each other cause each other any harm?  Lauren tells Betsy and Brody of the cheating allegation and Brody heads off to sort him out.  Why does Lauren feel the need to lie like this?  

Kit is ensuring that Sarah's and Gary's phones are completely wiped after ensuring that all the important information is stored on a usb drive for his personal use paying Jay to sort it for him.  Jake provides Gary with a replacement phone with a ring tone of "Remember Jake" as Gary has promised to attend his prize giving tomorrow (odd school terms finished today so definitely Thursday).

I get a distinct feeling Mary is not accepting Christina's apology any time soon.  Later Christina's phone pings and there are numerous text messages (unreadable) but this is not over yet I suspect with more parcels being delivered (I think).

Devious Dev borrows the money which is going to be used to keep Joseph at Oakhill now that Linda cannot pay as her business has gone bust.  However the story on the street is that Linda is actually paying and only the grown ups know the truth (Chesney and Gemma are not grown ups).  And frankly how can Dev borrow any money?  Linda is entirely onside with the story.  Can she come back please?

Tracy is none too happy with Cassie warning her off Ross who explains the flowers were for Fiz.  In the cafe Ross also tells Tracy that he wants to slow things down to zero as Ross wants to concentrate on Ty.  Tracy expresses her delight in his decision by taking the ketchup bottle from the table and squirting it on his food and into his brew.  In the Rovers later Cassie admits to Steve that she received cash when Ross slept with her.  She does not want to tell Ty this nugget but at the moment Ty does not think much of his mother anyway so I doubt it would make much difference.  

DC McGlaughlin, the new kid on the block passes DS Swain (Connor-Swain) a brown envelope plus authority from the superintendent to undertake an arrest.  We see Gary walking into the Rovers and it is implied there is enough in the brown envelope to justify him assisting them with their enquiries under caution.

I am not personally clear on why Lauren has quite such a downer on Dylan and I can only assume that she is recalling the no doubt similar abuse delivered by Joel (open to clarification on this).  I hate the story and indeed cannot even understand how or why such an act would even be contemplated.  What happened to people living their best lives on the back streets of Weatherfield?  It looks like Gary will be unable to attend Jake's prize giving.  I hope Dev gets good value for the near £50k he is funding.

Written by Debbie Oates and directed by Jordan Hogg.

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Episode Review Friday 24 October 2025

Good evening.  I cannot remember if I am supposed to like Todd or hate him.  Whichever it is he is an idiot for buying Harry a milk shake, allowing him to have it on the back seat of the car which enables the whole car to be reeking of milk shake when it inevitably goes everywhere.  Todd loses the keys to the car (or is Theo gaslighting him by hiding them).  Todd then scratches the car against some metalwork in the car park as he is driving whilst on the phone.  Then he lies to Theo about where the car is parked, although Kev, currently working alone, due to the missus having sodded off with the brother and the partner having had an accident which may well have been down to his brother, being unable to fix it passing Todd a message about the car not being repaired until tomorrow via Theo who does not take kindly to Todd's lying.  Theo extracts his revenge by pouring a bottle of chocolate milk over Todd.  Frankly by the end of it I do not want to watch either of them do anything.

Cassie attempts to make peace with Tyrone and Fiz by buying them lunch at the Bistro.  She demonstrates that she was never mother material insisting on cutting up Ty's pizza so hard it ends up on the floor after demonstrating how not to get a wheelchair through a crowd and how not to talk to the invalid by asking Fiz about him.  Needless to say the reconciliation will be even longer in arriving than it was before.  During the meal a miscreant makes off with Fiz's handbag and instantly Ollie (who is dining with Dee Dee at an adjacent table) takes off after him like greased lightning.  Despite the head start Ollie returns with the handbag and all contents and is accorded hero status.  Given Ollie suggested they go to the Bistro it strikes me that the whole thing is a setup - am I just too suspicious these days?  

Dev is at odds with both his children and Bernie.  Bernie and Gemma are preparing for the quads party and perhaps Dev and Asha will come to it and talk.  However Bernie has reached the point where she does not think that she and Dev can get past this so all the indications are that it will be one of the shortest marriages ever.  Dev has similar forebodings as he tells Cassie.

Carl is trying to make himself useful and eventually Debbie agrees to employ him.  He almost gets Abi involved in stealing a car - but she realises that Alfie needs her and cannot go through with it.  Carl is eventually employed by Debbie and before the episode is out is trying to hack into her supplier accounts possibly to rip her off, or at least that is what it looked like; I may be wrong.  

Hope is fed up with Jake staring at her at school and she thinks she lets him down gently - because after all there is a three year age gap.  Even Gary spots that Jake seems soft on Hope and warns him off.  So doing the usual maths of 2 + 2 = 5 I wonder if it is Jake that is sending those hateful messages to Hope that we saw last week?  Pure speculation.

I will be away next weekend so will not be here.  Maybe, just maybe I will miss an episode of sweetness and light and lives in a Mancunian back street - this week was closer to that perhaps but it really lacked light among the cesspit of human behaviour being reported in terms of Theo and Carl.  Which is worst - I leave you to judge.

Written by Joe Turner and Carmel Morgan .  Directed by Vicky Thomas.

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Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 18 October 2024

Good evening.  It is Ronnie's birthday and it would appear he has some thing to hide other than his age (55 today).  Kit wants a chat with Ronnie and to prevent their blood sugar dropping too low it takes place in Roy's Rolls.  And what was he doing the night Joel disappeared?  Ronnie does not have an alibi - he was in the flat alone as Debbie was out all night.  Kit goes and Ed advises Ronnie that his story was that he was at home all night with Michael and Dee Dee who were asleep in the house.  The children apparently confirm that story to Kit as part of their own alibis.  Once Kit has gone Dee Dee admits she is not sleeping well at present.  Debbie needs a lift to the cake shop and wants to know why Ronnie has been to 47 Noble Street - which Dee Dee recognises as Joel's flat.  Ronnie takes the advert break to remember that he went there when helping Joel to move into Dee Dee's - and it is ancient because he does not use the satnav much preferring his phone.  The "surprise" party takes place in the Bistro.  Michael reveals that they used his car to move Joel's stuff and not Ronnie's.  Debbie wants a proper answer from Ronnie.  She gets the answer - and in two (very dark) flashbacks so do we.  Ronnie, carrying a crowbar (from the lockup), breaks into Joel's flat which they search but he is not there and realising how close they are to being very stupid they return home with their tails between their legs.  No harm done.  Alibis almost intact.  Dee Dee however stills seems somewhat distracted and rushes off home claiming a headache.

Nick has really outstayed his welcome Number 8 this morning.  However he is worrying about Sam this morning as it is the anniversary of Natasha's death.  Jesse arrives through the front door having returned from Whitby and Gail stayed overnight at his as the atmosphere at number 8 is unwelcome.  Jesse wants to calm the troubled waters - but David remains upset and hostile that Gail did not give him a chance to raise the money whilst she was cavorting at the coast (in this weather?).  Jesse buys Nick, David and Sarah-Lou lunch.  All are suspicious of his motives and he admits he has some money coming from the sale of the house owned by him and his ex.  Leanne (sporting an excellent tan) has a solution to Nick's problem.  Craig is going to move in with Kirk who is feeling lonely on his own and she is going to move into the salon flat so Nick can move back into his flat with Sam.  She tells Toyah to move out and find somewhere else - she cannot face sharing with her sister and wants to live on her own for now.  After time to think it over Toyah accepts it.  

 

After several scenes of angst and upset and misunderstanding, some passive-aggression behaviour and the usual Corrie carry on Gemma agrees to contemplate working a few shifts next week in t'Rovers and then ending her bereavement leave if all goes well.

Max seems obsessed with his mobile phone whilst Bobby talks to him.  Max does not have the faintest idea what Bobby is saying - and although he says it is Maria having a meltdown at work I do not believe him.  Bobby wonders if he has a chance with Lauren - but Max is completely elsewhere mentally.  Bobby reckons he is stuck in the friend zone.  In the Rovers Nick asks how Lauren coped with the sofa the night she used it (that Joel vanished).  She claims to have slept like a log and has no idea about the spring about which Nick complains at length.  Later when Sarah pops in to Number 8 to find Gail Max is still totally engrossed in his phone - something is going on.  

Sarah gets the crazy (is it?) notion that Jesse had it off with Damon's cash and starts following him.  Logan Radcliffe "bumps" into her and helps her recover the contents of her bag.  Sarah has just seen Jesse hugging a woman whom it transpires is the ex with the house being sold.  However the ex, Jayne Chadwick, thinks Sarah is related to Eileen and therefore has to be told about Gail.  Jayne is not impressed with how fast Jesse has moved on - but tells Sarah that it was her cheating whilst Jesse was "inside" which led to the divorce.  However he convincingly denies all knowledge of Damon's missing money which continues to worry Sarah - she should be more worried about Logan who has her keys.    

We cut to a distraught Dee Dee when Ed arrives to check on her.  She cannot tell her flashback story - but she was not asleep either that night as she found Joel in his car; likewise she was armed with a crowbar.  However we only see Joel sitting in his car and no blow is struck.  To Ed she admits she knew what they had done as she had heard them arguing in the yard when they returned.  

Leanne is packing to move and nicks Nick's air-fryer.  Apparently she has spoken to Les recently who might have over-imbibed whilst attending a wrestling match!  Since then radio silence.  Sam tells Nick that this time next we will all be millionaires, oh no sorry wrong programme, he will be celebrating two anniversaries of losing his mothers on consecutive days.  

We know someone killed Joel that night and in what looks like a pretty incriminating flashback we see Dee Dee at her kitchen sink washing blood off of a crowbar.  Roll credits.

Can we assume that Logan might be linked to Harvey / Damon?  I have a feeling that the Radcliffe brothers were living in the same drug addled estate controlled by Sharon and family. - so I suspect it will all add up eventually.  How is it that so many people wander around Weatherfield with crowbars - I am not sure they are that common to be in everyone's house or did Dee Dee find the one Ronnie used as she went out?  But did she actually do it or not?  No doubt this will run and run.

Written by Owen Lloyd-Fox.  Directed by Joshua Reeves.

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