(Monday 12^th – Thursday 15^th October 2020)

So, Warren, Brody and Felix were in quite the pickle, trying to work out what to do over Cormac, who was now half dead on the garage floor.  Warren wanted to finish the job but the other two stopped him.  While Felix disagreed with Brody about handing themselves into the police, he did agree with dumping Cormac at the hospital, where he was in a coma and not likely to recover.

While Brody fell to pieces, Warren made it clear that he would have no qualms in putting him out of his misery if he were to hand them over to the police.  Brody finally cracked and told Sienna everything and while she was prepared to hand his previous murder confession to the police, she and Brody eventually decided that the smartest thing to do would be to take all three kids and run away.  Yes.  Running away from Warren has always worked out so well in the past!

They also don’t just have themselves to consider of course.  They seem to have forgotten that Sienna’s sister is deeply involved in their baby Faith’s life, as she was their surrogate.  What they don’t know is that she much more involved than they realise.  Suffering from post-partum psychosis, Liberty was seeing visions of Nurse Nico, encouraging her to bond with and even breast feed Faith in secret.  On the sly, poor Liberty was getting more and more attached to Faith and snappier and snappier with her sister.

Meanwhile, the McQueen family were having big problems when they started receiving threatening messaging, each with the theme of the seven deadly sins.  Seven Deadly Sins.  Seven Deadly Sinners.  Seven McQueen’s.  So, John Paul, Mercedes, Sylver, Goldie, Nana, Cher and newly returned Theresa (hooray!) gathered to work out what to do: pay up or face up to the sins of their past.  Led by Mercedes, they decided to track down their blackmailer and call their bluff, only for the cash per sin to increase and a warning to be issued: the first sin is wrath and one of them will go to jail.

Prior to this, John Paul’s only concern was his discovery that boyfriend George had mishandled Jordan’s arrest, earning him a suspension and Jordan getting released.  James had been delighted to announce the news and it had led John Paul to question George’s honesty.  This was only furthered when shaken James reported that George had burst into his house and threatened him.  This was completely true but manipulative George, who has everyone on side, persuaded John Paul that James was lying.  I so wanted George to be a good person but he is clearly evil.  I am so disappointed!

Speaking of evil, Edward attempted to cement his control over Diane by creating symptoms of a condition that mean her hair began to fall out.  He told her that the condition is due to stress and advised that she start divorce proceedings with Tony, who was devastated at the finality of the end of his relationship with the woman he loves.  When Sami realised that Verity had put off anyone taking Tony on, he felt too sorry for him and took him on himself.

Yazz was devastated when Tom broke up with her, believing that his world would eventually be too small for her big ambitions.  Wanting to prove her love for him and the love of everyone around him, Yazz began a video project of messages for Tom to let him know how loved he was, starting with Tony.  Well, it’s only fitting on their 25^th birthday that the show honours Tom Cunningham, the boy that stayed.

Eager to fulfil her new role as drugs pusher, Juliet has pressured Charlie into dealing for her but when she and Victor saw him just about managing to dodge George, Victor instructed her to drag little Ella into the gang as well.

Hollyoaks airs Monday – Thursday, 6:30pm on Channel 4 (sneak peek on E4, 7pm)

These reviews are based on the E4 episodes

Hollyoaks airs ‘Hollyoaks Favourites’ on Fridays, Wednesdays-Fridays, 7pm on E4