(Monday 11^th & Tuesday 12^th May 2020)

Tony reluctantly agreed to have the surgery to remove his ‘brain tumour’.  Now, I know this is meant to be a really emotive, tense storyline and part of me is crying out at the telly, asking why Tony has to endure yet more trauma after everything he has already been through at evil Breda’s hands – being kidnapped, nearly murdered and losing his son in such a brutal way.  Why is he being terrorised by his own father like this?  Why can’t he just have some peace?  But the glaring plot holes are irritating and distracting me, I’m afraid.

Firstly, why on earth would Edward be Tony’s surgeon?  He’s his father.  It’s completely inappropriate.  But more than that, even if that didn’t matter, Tony wasn’t even speaking to the bloke last week.  He’d had an affair with his wife and tried to steal his family.  And even before that, they hadn’t been on speaking terms.  He waltzed into his life, full of lies, having been absent since he was a child, bedded his wife and shattered his already shattered world.  Why on earth would Tony let this man cut his head open and dig around inside his brain?  It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Also, he opened him up and then did nothing because there was nothing to do.  And yet, nobody even noticed that?  Did he hire a load of actors to assist him with surgery?  Or make them sign a code of silence?  I understand the plot, Edward’s intentions, his vile nature, his determination to get Tony out of the way so he can secure Diane for himself.  I understand the reason for the story.  But there were more holes in it than Tony’s head and it makes the characters look very ignorant to have ever trusted him or gone through with the procedure.

However, Verity saw through him immediately and got hold of Tony’s notes so at least one person knows about her father’s lies.  He has threatened her into silence but hopefully she will expose him.  I can’t quite work out if she is a goodie or a baddie though so we’ll have to keep watching to see what happens…

John Paul made another play for George.  I mean, I can’t blame him.  I’m a raving lesbian and even I think he’s gorgeous!  Moving on…  James was not prepared to let John Paul go so easily because he is so desperately in love with him (and Harry and I’m sure there have been several others).  He tricked him round to the house under the guise of collecting his stuff and demonstrated the life of luxury he could give him if John Paul forgave him for attempting to murder his sister and they got back together.  John Paul was not moved.

With Sid and Juliet on a school trip, Jordan befriended cash strapped Charlie, locking him into this county lines storyline.  Charlie agreed to hide drugs for him in exchange for the cash he needed to buy a new games controller, having broken his old one in temper.

Due to the Coronavirus, Hollyoaks has had to suspend filming

Hollyoaks now airs Mondays & Tuesdays, 6:30pm on Channel 4 (sneak peek on E4, 7pm)

These reviews are based on the E4 episodes

In place of normal episodes, Hollyoaks airs ‘Hollyoaks Favourites’, Wednesdays-Fridays, 7pm on E4