Episode Review Friday 27 February 2026

Welcome to tonight as Bernie wakes in her cell in Weatherfield police station where the police force currently believe that she attacked and left Mal Roper the worse for wear.  She has an early morning visit from Kit who is absolutely convinced that she did not do it.  Initially she answers no comments, however she eventually volunteers she was getting rat arsed in the Corner Shop rather than rampaging the streets to deal with the unlovely Roper.  The police then go off to check the CCTV.  

At Shuttleworth's Damien Ripley arrives - they were doing his aunt's funeral and he is Joan's son - who passed away in the undertakers in the Thursday episode.  He would like them to continue the family tradition as so far he has not heard the vicious rumours floating around that George is bumping people off for the inheritance!  As Damien leaves the undertakers Adam and the angry Mrs King appear and start abusing George and his business ethics, calling him a conman.  Mr Ripley backs out of having anything to do with Shuttleworths.  At the police station Kit takes details from Mrs King but Kit can see no reason to pursue any investigations.  However Adam reminds Kit of Christina's murky past and so sticks in a poisoned quill to get Kit to take it further.  Sarah and Sean tittle-tattle over the dead sisters in the Rovers later.  Tim comes in and reports that Mrs King and Adam felt they had a good meeting with Kit.  Christina pooh poohs the whole thing but George is seriously worried.  

Jodie pours away the milk and unloads the dishwasher of dirty plates and loses the list of jobs left by Shona who arrives back from the hospital as David falls downstairs late for work.  Shona tells him off for what he has not done as cleverly orchestrated by Jodie.  Later Jodie is working in the cafe and Bethany is picking up some food and queries how Jodie managed to find Shona's lost ring down the back of a sofa at the Platts when Shona was convinced she lost it in Audreys.  As Bethany leaves the cafe Shona comes in still completely worn out and in need of caffeine and admits she snapped at David earlier which was wrong.  Bethany turns on her heel and asks Jodie to take Lily to the cinema tonight so that Shona and David can have some one to one time.  Jodie is less than amused by this turn of events.  However she goes along with it and David and Shona just about have five minutes to themselves and are about to unmake the bed when Jodie and Lily return - turns out the film was an 18.  They had to come home as there was nothing on for an hour and Lily has football training in the morning.  Jodie consumes the brownies which David was about to enjoy.    

Steve spoke to Andy last night about Big Jim and as a result he is not going to let his father get under his skin.  He is going to forget he has a father.  Steve reckons everything is going well, he loves his job, Amy is doing well and he has the perfect girlfriend.  Mary comes in and tells them she is off to the BRIT Awards tomorrow - Ben Shephard is back in Manchester.  Well he might be there.  Steve goes and Mary seeing things are going well for Cassie and Steve remarks that it is a pity it is not a leap year.  You can almost (it is very slow) see the cogs clicking in Cassie's head.  Later in the cab office Cassie reveals to Mary and then to Tim that she is going to propose to Steve and they are getting married.  Tim just hopes Steve will say yes which plants a seed of doubt in Cassie's mind.  

Kit catches up briefly with Sarah as it looks like Bernie is going to be charged.  However Kit knows that Bernie did not have anything to do with it because, as he tells Sarah he did.  He claims he grabbed Mal and gave him a shove.  Then Mal had a heart attack which is why he is in the hospital.  Sarah-Lou tells him he has to go to the station and report himself - he would lose his job of course.  At the station just as Kit is about to end his career Bernie is released from incarceration as the CCTV in the shop proved to the police that she was getting drunk there when Mal was attacked and so she is off the hook and at least for now so is Kit.  Once home Dev welcomes Bernie back, but she wants to know how Kit knew about the CCTV as she did not think anyone knew where she was.  He lies.  She knows there is more to it than that.  

Lisa has attended Professional Standards - no case to answer, off desk duties and with Bernie in the clear Kit is back on the Mal Roper case.  He protests he is too busy but Lisa is sure he would like to know who attacked the man who had been harassing Bernie - his mother?  Lisa wants to get back to catching the bad guys,  Kit rather looks like there is one crime on the books which he would rather prefer remains unsolved.

Many years ago I took my younger sister to see "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".  A fine film and the first time I have ever experienced the audience applauding in the dark.  However it was not until we were sat sitting watching the film startup that I realised it was an "X" and as she was about 5 years younger then me she was not then 18.  I am not sure it did her any harm.

Written by Alasdair Morrison and directed by Katie Fenton-Green.

Kosmo

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Episode Review Friday 6 February 2026

Welcome.  They have been saying that Debbie is going to court tomorrow for days, but today is the day and Carl has not taken the news of his family status at all well.  No sympathy for what his mother/sister was going through all that time ago.  Debbie is making final arrangements and Ryan is firmly in charge at Chariot Square.  Carl's contribution is to leave the key to the flat at the hotel reception.  Debbie chases Carl down in Roys Rolls who is his usual polite and genteel self nasty self-centred with zero redeeming features self.  He refuses to go to court today and he will be leaving Weatherfield very soon but Debbie says he can stay at the hotel until he does.  Ryan, Kev and Abi do make the court room and Adam has chosen to wear a wig although it is not a requirement when a solicitor acts.  Perhaps in deference to the old school judge who determines that this is serious, so four years inside reduced to 2 years 8 months for pleading guilty (she will serve 16 months or slightly less).   

Theo has disappeared completely having left Todd with £10 and a promise he would be back tomorrow, now he is not even answering his phone or returning calls.  Todd talks Summer out of going to Debbie's sentencing although she wants to see justice done for Billy.  Summer attempts to make breakfast for herself and Todd but there is nothing at all in the fridge or the cereal cupboard.  Summer shops and later Sarah tells Todd that Harry has done his sponsored walk of 5k and he completed the course and could she have the £10 in cash - which Todd has not got.  He is snappy because normally it would not be a problem.

Plattsville is very odd.  David and Shona bickering because both are tired.  Tim takes Jodie off somewhere and when she returns she has a box which appears to contain personal "treasures".  Sarah insists on buying David lunch before he goes back to the hospital as Bethany is there and can stay on.  He agrees.  In Jodie's box there is an usb stick which she removes so it must have some meaning before David comes in with Sarah and Jodie rapidly hides the box again.  David expressed the view that there is something wrong with Todd which leads to Sarah heading off as she has come to the same conclusion.  

Roy is not around and Nina has a raging toothache and when she goes to the dentist Bernie is left on her own and is clearly not up to coping.  Mal comes down from upstairs and swings into action as a pair of hands in the kitchen.  Abi and Kev come in with the bad news of  Debbie's sentence and this enables Summer to go off on one about Debbie's decision to get in and drive that car which led to Billy's death. 

Debbie goes into shock when she arrives at the prison where she enquires as to the availability of room service and is bothered by the incessant noise and loses her sight.  We are later told has suffered another TIA and has been transferred to hospital where she is handcuffed to the bed and is accompanied by a member of the prison staff. Kev suggests to Carl that after Ronnie has had a chance to see Deebalina they should see her - but Carl does not want to do it and will not get involved plus making remarks about his "sister" and this "family".  

Mr Tsakpo ran a lovely establishing shot as Debbie recovered consciousness and sight in the hospital of the ward ceiling and lights and then steadily coming into focus a nurse approaching the bedside.  I know we are in the new era of 30 minute episodes but this one really felt as if it was the first half of an hour.  We have a hanging story of Sarah heading out to find out what is really with wrong with the Toddster, no doubt she will find Theo back in place when she gets there.  Also I suspect the second half would have rather more about the usb stick.  This episode felt "wrong" and I will be interested to see if Monday really is part 2.  If it is then I hope that management stop it and get back to working out that episodes are Monday to Friday.  This of course was actually Wednesday's episode for those who are counting as we lost two this week which maybe has made it worse.

Written by Susan Oudot and directed by Kodjo Tsakpo.

Kosmo

@Kosmo100

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Episode Review Friday 30 January 2026

Bernie emerges from Weatherfield Emergency Department whilst Dev, Asha and Gemma are all worrying about where she has spent the night.  She seems in no hurry to tell them anything deleting the missed calls and unanswered messages. Given that it is Brody's birthday her absence is raising huge concern.  

Gemma lets Roy know that Bernie will not be in and Ryan sat at a table tells her that he saw Bernie last night in the Chariot Square Hotel in one of the rooms with a man and possibly with drugs.  Bernie arrives home and refuses to explain to Dev.  However Gemma challenges her mother but Bernie does not have time for her interrogations.  Gemma is not happy.  

At the party Kit thanks Tim for giving Brody and the girls a proper home.  Tim thanks Kit for getting a games console in the house!  Bernie eventually arrives at the party where Dev can hardly contain his pending nuclear explosion.  Brody finally admits that perhaps he now has family.  

Over at worst nightmare flat Theo opens Todd's post to find he has been missing payments on his £7k credit card debt.  Theo is of the opinion that Todd needs help managing his money and suggests that as they are together they should have a joint account and it will all be quite simple for them to share.  Todd can do little other than accept.  

Todd decides to invest in his relationship by buying steaks for dinner which Theo castigates as waste and identifies that Todd does not grasp the real value of money to which he has a solution.  They should both rely on cash and only cash (not to be recommended around here as the pubs have gone cashless in the main) and then when they spend something they can see they are handing over twenty pound notes rather than just going tap, tap with a card.  Within seconds Theo has improved his thinking further and asks Todd for his cards so that he can cut them up - which he promptly does although we do not see him cutting up his own cards.  

Until the joint account is set up Todd should hand over the internet banking details of his current account and Theo can manage that as well and Todd merely has to ask if he wants some cash and Theo will simply hand it over as it will make it all so much easier for them to control their expenditure.  Todd cannot think of any reason to deny Theo and hands over control.

The electrics in the flat above Roy's Rolls are playing up and he has asked a website for an electrician.  The electrician when he arrives apologetically is the man who thumped Roy and spent the evening with Bernie at the Chariot Square.  Mal has his electrician tools to prove who he is.  

After he has attended to the electrics he reveals that he has left Alice whom Roy and Mal agree has treated them like a pair of fools.  Mal is not going back to Inverness - he has found he can get work in Weatherfield through the website so can stay in the area.  Roy offers to help Mal as he feels responsible.  There is an intermittent wiring fault and Roy offers to pay Mal in advance for the work providing he starts as soon as possible.  They shake hands on it.

Abi arrives at the garage with a morning coffee and discovers Kev sleeping in the back seat of a car under repair and no-one is answering the persistently ringing phone.  He hangs up on the caller as Abi tells him she has come to see about the roof.  Kev is not in a good mood and he tells her not to worry about him, although he is clearly falling apart.  He shouts at her to go.  

Debbie is practicing for prison - sleeping on the floor, drinking skimmed milk and peeling potatoes and is surprised when Abi advises her that she will get full fat milk inside.  Abi tells her about the state that Kevin is in and that he needs help.  Abi thinks Kev might be depressed (really?).  Debbie says she will go and see him in the morning before she goes to prison.  Abi reminds Debbie that she managed to get out of prison in one piece so Debbie can.  Debbie, right now can manage, she is worried that the Debbie she will be by the time she emerges will be different.

Bernie leaves the party to put some recycling in the right bin when Gemma chases after her.  Bernie explains that she misses Paul and that most of the time she is in control, but last night she had a wobble as she could not cope.  She tells Gemma that she wants to forget last night ever happened.  Gemma goes back to the party and coming in the other direction is Mal - the dodgy man she was with last night.  After a chat Mal appears to agree he will say nothing about last night.  However he hopes there might be a next time.  Bernie tells him she is married and does not want to see him again.  He will however be working locally so they will see each other again.  

If you know Todd or anyone else who has handed over control of their finances be worried, be very worried.  If I were Mal I think I might be buying a lottery ticket this weekend.  A job, money in advance and freedom, Weatherfield is miraculous.

Written by David Judge.  Directed by Michael Lacey.

Kosmo

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