In February 2018, "Hollyoaks" released a 'Cards of Fate' episode, in which the fates of various characters in three months time was revealed through some cards. It flash-forwarded into Sienna Blake's funeral. In 2018, the show featured a self-harming storyline with the character Lily Drinkwell and her friends Peri Lomax and Yasmine Maalik, which won Best Storyline and Best Single Episode at The British Soap Awards in 2018. Lily's self-harming continues and leads to her death of sepsis in 2019. "Hollyoaks" also tackled a serial sex offender storyline with Laurie Shelby raping his wife Sinead O'Connor, sexually harassing co-worker Sienna Blake and Sinead's stepmother Diane Hutchinson. In 2019, "Hollyoaks" was the first British television programme to tackle the issue of far-right extremism and radicalization with Ste Hay central to the storyline and Munchausen syndrome for Maxine. On 21 December 2019, "Hollyoaks" aired a one year flash forward episode to 31 December 2020, which shown sneak peaks of the then upcoming County lines drug trafficking storyline fallout.