the tale of schizophrenic Newt and his inner demons Eli and Rae, has been gruelling to watch yet absolutely remarkable. People knock Hollyoaks (OK, I knock Hollyoaks), but I know of no other soap that's revolved a major plot around imaginary friends who the protagonist and the viewer can see but the rest of the cast can't. I'd grown to rather love Newt's girlfriend Rae by the time she'd decided to kill herself. Rae only lived in Newt's mind but it was heartbreaking to watch her leap into deep, murky water. Newt jumped next, believing he and Rae had made a "suicide pact". Meanwhile on the bank, Newt's friend Lauren could see Newt was absolutely alone; Rae did not exist. Suddenly, midweek October Hollyoaks was better than Christmas Day EastEnders and a dozen "gritty Bafta" C4 snoozeathons. It really is me writing this, not imaginary Grace. Next thing I know I'll be leading on the sodding Archersof hollyoaks, [b]

well done grace

ooh, good on grace dent.
especially after the guardian was all like "don't worry, grace dent is watching hollyoaks so you don't have to" on twitter

thanks for posting

Aww yay

It does my head in when people slag off Hollyoaks or call it the soap with "the pretty people who can't act"

It deserves more credit! So good on Grace Dent

HO defo deserves more recognition, im so happy about this, even though iv slagged Hollyoaks off recently myself for having hardly any decent storylines, this 1 was decent though, so glad tis been noticed

I put a link to that article on twitter and Nico liked it, he re-tweeted it! Hopefully Hollyoaks Insider will re-tweet it as well.

Good good Hollyoaks deserves some well earned positive recognition!

Actually I think InsideHollyoaks spotted it a while ago and tweeted something about it... it's very good feedback for the show and all the actors will love it.

I know, it's great that people are starting to give Hollyoaks the credit it deserves for being such a fantastic show