Hollyoaks: After Hours (2004– ) User Reviews

Hollyoaks: After Hours

[jboothmillard · 5/10 · 1 December 2005]

I have never watched Hollyoaks, but I have always thought about it since it is a teen based soap. However, I did watch this four or five late night episode special. To be honest I wasn't really that interested in the characters or story, but the possibility of some good nudity. I did get some good moments with tits and arses of women, but the story was also an interesting one. There was the story of a blonde girl having a short date like night with a rich bastard with a plane, and a story of a bunch of people who have done skydiving and then got in trouble with another rich bastard. Like I said, I don't watch the soap, but this special was quite interesting, I may consider watching Hollyoaks sometime in the future when my schedule isn't full, and if EastEnders or Coronation Street got boring, which will never happen. Good!

Fit for nothing more than an obscure foreign channel!

[sandstroke · 5 July 2004]

To put if bluntly, I thought watching this was a sheer waste of an evening. The plot was overtly clichéd in every way possible. The biggest problem with After Hours is that the so-called producers made every effort to shove in as many phallic jokes, cheap toilet humour, rubbish plot line about parachuting and the suave but dangerous hotel guest bedding the shy, needy waitress - and somehow we are expected to enjoy this. Unbelievably, UNBELIVEABLY, this has somehow made the generic Hollyoaks look sophisticated and well-structured, which is isn't, but in comparison, anything would look good. This late show was also hypocritical: the producers overloaded with swearing, which actually may have been to their benefit - I mean, it's not like a Hollyoaks script has ever been of any worth in its content despite all attempts at puns and lewd metaphors; I guess the swearing just covered this up a bit and was the most intelligent thing to be said in it. Hollyoaks features homosexual guys all the time in order to reel in on the vagaries of popular teen issues and tries to profess a positive attitude to being gay and accepting oneself, which the characters all agree with usually, and yet in this late edition nearly every other sentence had one guy denying he was gay at the expense of the reflection of "real lads" having a good laugh and a joke before a pint of bitter and some good, tough beef. Awful. They used denigrating words such as "poof" which in the proper context is understandable, guys are like this sure, but it just shows how Hollyoaks as a show is fickle with its beliefs and values and probably explains why, at the annual Soap Awards, the cast just turn up for the free ham sandwiches and milk and by rights ought to leave before the winners have even been announced; before they don't have a leg to stand on if they carry on like this.

What a waste of an evening. Once again, Hollyoaks, you express everything that is undesirable and feeble in modern television.

Worse than I could have imagined!

[smartarsebutler · 24 April 2005]

I'd never seen a late night Hollyoaks before, I'd always felt that I'd missed out, so the night this was on I made sure I videoed it so I wouldn't always be wondering what happened in the sure to happen 'dramatic event' that always seemed to take place in these. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm aware that Hollyoaks is pretty poor, but there is good in it, like Lee Hunter (I hope being in hollyoaks doesn't ruin his career for him, he's pure gold!) and er, I'm sure there are other things...ahem. I was expecting something like the Ellie and Toby Mills drama, but what did I get when I settled down to watch this after a hard nights work? Nothing of any worth whatsoever. Caprice with not many clothes on, some pointlessly kinky action with no real plot behind it other than the chance for Caprice to show her rather lacking acting abilities in her small pants. It was basically soft porn with a bit of swearing slotted in all too often (not that I'm easily offended, it was just overkill and sounded silly). Lisa walks around with very little clothes on, and has a lot of sex with a middle aged business man who then tricks her into having some non consensual lesbian foreplay, and she uses these experiences in a positive way to show her that she can be whatever she wants to be because she's a strong woman. What it actually showed was she was a bit of a ripper and she's spending an awful lot of time down the gym.

It was in two parts as well, TWO PARTS! Blimey, it was actually punishing to watch, and I think it was meant to be titillating and racy. My boyfriend said he felt slightly queasy. Well done Hollyoaks!