Tuesday, August 08, 2006
'Oaky dokey
SUDSY! Hollyoaks, Channel 4, 6.30pm
Love it or loathe it, you can't argue with 38 pages (and counting) worth of discussion on the messageboard. We couldn't remember the last time we'd given Hollyoaks its own slot on the homepage, so we thought we'd honour its popularity with our posters at long last - especially since it's actually had some good plotlines running lately.
Most exciting has been Sam the not-evil rapist (because remember, kids, if TV's taught us anything, it's that rapists are divisible into two categories: evil, and misunderstood) suddenly turning out to be decidedly more evil by breaking out of hospital after holding his dappy sister Nicole hostage with a scalpel. Nicole did not come to any harm, largely due to the very fact that she isn't blonde means she's an endangered species in this show. There's also the story of Frankie's miscarriage, which we all kind of saw coming but it's been oddly affecting all the same. And the last time we checked, Becca and Justin were still our soap OTP, and that was lovely, though we're also enjoying the relationship between Nancy and her older boyfriend Foz, or "the illustrated man" as Becca referred to him. Of course, we'd all be very scared if this show had suddenly become well-written and well-acted overnight, so to address the balance of sudden promise, they've brought in the Valentine family who are all terrible. Hooray! Glad to see some things never change, anyway.
If you're looking for further entertainment of a teen soap-based nature, why not pop over to the Hollyoaks thread and discuss which of the male characters you think is ripe for a thorough bumming? It's been far too long since we had any proper gays in Hollyoaks (have there been any at all since Nick The Rubbish Gay went back to the farm years ago?), so do think carefully about your answer.
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