Coronation Street fans furious over ‘missing’ scene as they slam ‘tedious’ cult plot

CORONATION Street fans have slammed the ITV soap over its “tedious” cult plot, which saw the leader Rowan repeatedly manipulate Leanne and target other Weatherfield residents. 

Things finally turned a corner when Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) turned against Rowan Cunliffe (Emrhys Cooper) and the Institute, but the storyline has since come to an abrupt end, leading fans to call out the soap over a “missing” final scene. 

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In recent weeks, Corrie fans have watched as Leanne has been completely drawn in by Rowan and the Institute. 

The pair even convinced Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) to invest her £40,000 inheritance to her the cult, a decision she later came to regret. 

While Leanne’s intentions were pure, Rowan has been scamming the residents of Weatherfield from the off. 

Thankfully, Leanne wised up to his manipulative ways and copied files off his computer, which proved he and the Institute were involved in illegal activities. 

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Luckily, she sent a copy of the records to Amy before Rowan came barging into Leanne’s flat, trying to manipulate her once more. 

Leanne played along and pretended to hand over the files but secretly sent out a distress call to Amy, who brought along Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) and her sister Toya Battersby (Georgia Taylor) for backup. 

This scene was the dramatic climax ITV fans had long been waiting for, but fans aren’t happy they didn’t see Rowan get his comeuppance on screen. 

Confused about the storyline, one viewer took to social media to ask: “Is that now the end of the Rowan/Cult/Institute storyline?”

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While another Corrie fan raged: “For months we’ve sat through and watched the tedious play out on our screens - all hoping Rowan gets his comeuppance - but we didn’t even get the pleasure of seeing him getting arrested on screen, interviewed and charged.”

It seems Rowan’s arrest is simply continuing off screen as everyone who the Institute targeted tries to get their lives back on track. 

“All we got was Nick mentioning almost as an afterthought that Rowan had been arrested and was going to prison,” one viewer explained. 

Slamming ITV bosses, another wrote: “Absolutely awful stuff from Corrie bosses!”

“You think that’s bad, they’ve still not buried Robert” fumed another fan who referred to the death of Robert Preston after he was shot on Christmas Day in 2019. 

Corrie fans feel that the soap is missing a final scene to wrap up the storyline, and it’s making them want to switch off.

Most complained about soap storylines

Over the years, all three of the main soaps have featured plots that have had even die-hard fans reaching for their phones and laptops so they can get in touch with Ofcom and complain. Here are just some of the most scandalous...

EastEnders baby theft: 13,400 Ofcom complaints - Back in 2011, EastEnders was flooded with complaints when Ronnie Branning (RIP) swapped her baby for the dead son of Kat Moon. The storyline drew the most number of objections in the soap’s long history and saw it roundly criticised by campaigners - with 13,400 flying in over the course of the storyline. Some viewers called it “distressing” and “horrific” but Ofcom ruled the scenes were not "unduly disturbing”.

Emmerdale dog-napping: 550 Ofcom complaints - Back in 2016, Ross Barton and Charity Dingle came up with a plan to steal a dog and hold it ransom - but viewers didn’t like it one bit. The nation’s pet owners rose up, insisting the storyline would encourage copycats (not to mention copydogs). Complaints over two episodes totalled a staggering 550 and soap writers quickly learnt you don’t mess with animal-lovers.

Coronation Street double murder: 546 Ofcom complaints - Marginally less people complained about a gruesome double murder than objected to a dog-napping plot when Pat Phelan was at the centre of a spate of killings. First he forced Andy Carver to shoot dead Vinny Ashford - and then Pat killed Andy. All the bloodshed back in 2017 proved to be too much for some viewers, who lodged complaints in vast numbers about the “violent scenes”.

“If that really was the end of the cult story, then it’s another nail in the Corrie coffin!” a sixth viewer raged. “Is there actually any more room for nails at this point?!

They continued: “From the way its been spoken about in interviews, it sounded like the Institute was going to be getting other residents as members and then they would be publicly exposed to the whole street but no, its literally only Amy who is sort of incised into them for the best part of a half an episode for her to be conned out the money Deidre left her in the second half and then Leanne exposes Rowan who in turn is then arrested off-screen.”

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