Maggie Driscoll’s 65th birthday was supposed to be the day she became the queen of Rovers Return.

Banners were hung all over the pub, glasses were in hand, and the entire pub was filled with laughter.

Wherever Maggie went, people cheered her on, as if she had been waiting for this moment all her life.

But in true Coronation Street style, the more fun it was, the more something was wrong behind it.

From the very first scenes, Maggie appeared as the woman who had to control everything. She forced Ollie to make the exact type of cake she liked, forced the customers in the pub to cheer as she wanted, and even deliberately dragged Maria to the party even though she knew Eva would get jealous. The Rovers atmosphere went from happy to tense in just a few minutes, when Eva and Maggie had a heated argument in the middle of the pub. While everyone was busy putting down the drama, Maggie still smiled half-heartedly, as if she was used to turning chaos into a part of her party.

Then Corrie makes a classic twist: the present-day birthday scene fades away, giving way to a younger Maggie, living in a cramped house with her husband Alan and two sons, Ben and Finlay. There, all the glamour of the Rovers disappears. Instead, there are meager meals, regular arguments, and a suffocating marriage with no way out. Maggie is no longer the radiant landlady, but a grumpy, bored woman who constantly berates her husband for being useless and not making any decent money.