Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 7th April

 

Deedee has been researching other cases of racial inequality in maternity services. She feels that if she'd been listened to, she wouldn’t've had an emergency hysterectomy and she wants to make sure that nobody else goes through the same ordeal.

Abi has gone back to work and so has Ty, despite his resignation. Jack is becoming a chip off the old Kevin as he lashes out at his dad rather than deal with his emotions. Kev then snaps at Glenda when she says she doesn't think he should be drinking. Presumably she will also be advising avoiding unpasteurised cheese and taking your temperature several times a day. Ty tries to get Kev to leave the pub and Kevin ends up punching him. Can't someone send Kevin to a support group? It's starting to get boring. I guess part of the point is to push Abi away and towards another fella.

Todd bumps into Theo and tells him he doesn't want to see him again but Theo talks him 'round and they head back to number 11 for some morning delight. Oh Todd, you're being used, hun. A woman turns up to Shuttleworth's, wanting to arrange a funeral for her mum and is accompanied her husband - who is Theo, of course. Turns out the family who wouldn't approve isn't his mum and dad.

Chesney is exercising his conjugal rights, not those ones, but by telling his wife what to do, namely not to hang around with Lou and Mick. Surely Gemma can choose her own flipping friends. In the meantime, Ronnie wants Debbie to go to the police re: her being found in the ginnel. Debbie is unkeen, and not just because she doesn't want to cause trouble with Mick.

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Preview of today's Coronation Street - Monday 7 April 2025

Monday 7 April 2025

KEVIN LASHES OUT With relations between Jack and Kevin still strained, Jack is furious when Kevin grounds him. Tyrone meanwhile wants to bury the hatchet but will Kevin agree? In the Rovers Glenda is unsure about serving Kevin but he snaps at her before rounding on Tyrone when he arrives. When Tyrone labels him nasty and selfish, Kevin sees red. Abi is furious when she realises how Kevin has been behaving and shocked when he verbally lashes out at her making some very cruel remarks. In the garage Abi and Tyrone discuss Kevin’s appalling behaviour and how he seems to be going out of his way to make them hate him. Tyrone calls at No.13 and urges Kevin to stop bottling up his fears, to talk to Abi and to start appreciating his family and friends. 

TODD DISCOVERS THEO’S SECRET Theo approaches Todd on the street and after apologising for his behaviour, admits he really likes him. Todd invites him back to the house. Later Todd is surprised when Theo arrives at Shuttleworths to arrange a funeral. Todd is stunned by what he discovers. Back at home Todd tells Billy about his discovery Billy advises him to steer well clear. Billy is angry when Theo knocks on the back door. 

DEE DEE IS ON THE WARPATH In the corner shop flat, Dee-Dee vents to Sarah about the treatment she received from the hospital and how she’s determined that nobody else should suffer in the way she did. When the midwife calls Dee Dee makes clear her feelings. Meanwhile an exhausted Ed calls at the hotel to fix a leaky pipe and leaves Debbie to mind Laila.

CHESNEY AND GEMMA CAN’T AVOID THEIR NEIGHBOURS Gemma texts Lou to cancel their lunch date and makes out one of the quads is poorly. Lou finds Gemma in the café and, giving her a tight smile, enquires why she isn’t at home looking after her sick child.

Ronnie suggests to Debbie it’s time they reported Mick to the police as he’s caused nothing but trouble.  Debbie asserts that she’ll call them herself. 

BETSY IS WORRIED ABOUT DYLAN Having taken a troubling call from Dylan Betsy tells Sean she is worried about how he is coping. Sean visits Dylan but he tries to reassure him that Betsy is over reacting.

ELSEWHERE In a quiet corner of the hotel bar, Debbie makes a call and explains that she’s suffered one or two incidents and could do with talking to somebody.

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Conversation Street Podcast Episode #674

On our latest episode of the podcast, we ramble on about the episodes of Coronation Street shown in the UK between the 31st March and the 3rd April (Episodes #11,531 - 11,536).

Everyone loves a good hospital scene on Corrie, right? Right...? Oh well, this week, we got a whole bunch of them in any case, with Dee-Dee's traumatic experience as baby Laila comes a little earlier than planned coming front and centre. Will Dee-Dee be able to give her little bundle of joy up, though? And have James' dreams of a loving family unit been cruelly dashed? Meanwhile, Kevin starts his chemotherapy this week, just in case the Bailey story didn't deliver enough medical drama, but at least we also got the delightful scenes with Todd and Theo to fall back on for a bit of levity! Also this week, Christina's back at the Rovers and she's baying for Jenny's blood, Debbie takes a mysterious tumble in the ginnel, and Chesney finally catches up with the viewers by figuring out the identity of the mysterious silver van man.

Up next on the podcast it's The Kabin, and we share the newly released details about this year's British Soap Awards, as well as our thoughts on Corrie legend Thelma Barlow's new short film, Sleepless in Settle. We round off the podcast with a bit of feedback - including a plug from one listener for Calum Lill's first post-Corrie project!

Street Talk - 00:14:25

The Kabin - 02:24:33

Feedback - 02:43:32

For this week's bonus podcast, we do  a classic character profile, taking a look back at the characters of Angela and Tommy Harris. Arriving on the cobbles in 2003 under the alias Nelson as part of a witness protection scheme, the Harris family brought plenty of drama to Coronation Street over a three year period. From Tommy’s tough love parenting and Angela’s struggle to keep their family together, to Katy’s shocking affair with Martin Platt and the tragic events that followed, the Harrises had a short but unforgettable stint on the show. Was Tommy too controlling? Did Angela make the right choices? And do the Harrises deserve to be remembered more than they now are? We discuss all this and more in this week's episode!

You can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, stream all our old episodes on our own site here, or click the play buttons above to give it a listen from the comfort of this very blog! 

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Coronation Street Episode Review Thursday 3 April 2025

How confusing, again no Friday episode this week so I have been shunted back to Thursday.  Abi is fussing around Kev and he is not very keen on it.  The school has emailed to make Kev aware of Jack's recent fight.  Jack wants to go to an end of term party and in the light of the email he cannot go.  Jack says he did not cause the fight.  Debbie confirms Jack's story.  Debbie is distracted as her toilets are blocked.  Kev pops into the garage but Tyrone is struggling under the cosh when Jack and Hope appear as school has finished early - and Jack is still not going to the party.  Later Abi settles Kev down for the next session at the hospital.  He sends her away as he wants to be on his own.  Kev recalls his own mother having cancer and will try and talk to Jack when he gets home.  Time passes.

Mick wants Chesney to go for a drink later but Chesney doesn't.  Chesney joins him in the Rovers before working but is on soft drinks.  Mick winds up Chesney up about being honest and owning up to the mistakes he has made.  Mick has had a complaint about his attitude via his boss.  Much later Chesney tells the quads to sleep and they do so - most unusual.  Chesney and Gemma are about to have some rare quality time when Mick and Lou arrive with alcohol at the back door and pour drinks.  

Dee Dee has had major surgery but has decided to discharge herself.  She just wants to go home.  Ed arrives with Laila.  Why?  Ed explains that James is landing in the USA because Danny has had an accident.  Dee Dee refuses to move into the Bailey house and believes she can cope at home alone.  Ed gets her back to her flat when Debbie phones wanting her toilets unblocked and Ronnie is ill.  Ed feels he has no choice but to take the work leaving the baby with her mother.  I am sure Aggie would help her daughter if asked.  For a while Dee Dee and Laila are entirely happy but before long the baby either wants changing or a bok bok and the mother is unsure why it is crying.  Alya and Sarah respond to a call from Dee Dee so are able to assist.  Dee Dee eventually decides that she wants to lodge a formal claim citing negligence against the hospital - correctly based on what we were shown - but for the wrong reason as Dee Dee refers to "people who look like me" and "colour of my skin".  I thought we had got over the Bailey family and a link to the "R" word.  The treatment was wrong - just cite that - do not attribute cause - that is the responsibility of the hospital management.  James texts to say he needs to speak to her urgently (why not just phone?).  Danny is in an induced coma.  James is in bits.  He is unlikely to return soon.

In the cafe Julie wants a day out on the East Lancs Railway and I do not wish to carp but there were no trains running on the line today, they start this weekend.  Todd is fascinated by his phone, Eileen is not enthusiastic as she will die of boredom but George says he will bunk off and they can go to the railway.  Once they have departed Todd gets tarted up and welcomes Theo at the back door.  Theo admits it is weird not using the front door but obviously there is a need for some secrecy.  There is some banter and then they have a beer.  Theo inspects the family photos and Jason is particularly featured.  Within seconds Theo and Jason are snogging and the ad break comes far too late.  Later Theo is looking for his phone which Todd brings down from upstairs.  Theo stays for a chat and then rushes out when Julie etc return from their day out.  Theo disappears out the back door leaving his jacket which he later has to recover.  On his brief return Theo says it cannot happen again.

Hope and Jack are hanging around the precinct and see Toyah and Nick get off electric scooters - Toyah is saying that they need to do something different every month as a challenge (next month silent disco) - out of their comfort zones.  It gives Hope an idea and she dares Jack to hire scooters and go for a ride.  Hope has some dutch courage (medicinal brandy according to Evelyn) in full sight of PC Haywood and PC Tinker, so are promptly challenged, a situation which worsens when Tyrone appears from one direction and Kev climbs out of a taxi behind them.  Jack used his father's driving licence and credit card to hire the scooters.  Back at Kev's PC Haywood reads the kids the riot act but does not given them a caution and before leaving recalls that her father had chemo last year so Kev sees himself as the recipient of pity, which does not please him.  

After a further argument at home with Jacki, Kev takes himself off to the Bistro for a quiet pint where Tyrone finds him.  Hope has been grounded for a month but Kev has not yet sorted it out with Jack.  Ty tries to be sympathetic but Kev is ultra prickly and calls Hope a bad influence.  Kev says she is organ grinder and Ty does not take kindly to the comment.  The two men argue and Ty knows Kev is having a difficult time and he would like Kev to be aware that he is doing a 60 hour week at the moment, seeing little of his family so Ty would appreciate less attitude and more gratitude.  Kev is not in the right frame of mind and suggests Ty finds a less useless business partner.  Ty just wants his mate Kev back.  Kev ask what that means.  Ty responds with "I quit".

I cannot put my finger on it but tonight did not feel right.  I do not think Jack would fall for being the monkey to Hope the organ grinder - and might be aware of the pain he is causing his father.  Ty has had his own challenges in the past so might just accept it is the way it is.  Dee Dee put herself in an impossible position by discharging herself and simply should not have done that.  And I despair at what are going to be two upcoming stories.  My concerns are not the writing and directing or the acting - but those providing the underlying direction at the moment may need to go and give their heads a good wobble please.

Written by Mark Burt.  Directed by Reece Dinsdale.

Kosmo

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