Humax TV Tonight: 'After The Party' continues

Channel 4, 9pm.

Tonight at 9pm on Channel 4, ‘After The Party’ continues with episode 2.

As the New Zealand drama continues, Penny's (Robyn Malcolm) friends advise her to put the past behind her, for the sake of her relationship with her daughter Grace (Tara Canton) and her grandson. But Penny is struggling with Phil's (Peter Mullan) return and, despite her attempts to play happy families, she causes an argument at Walt's birthday party.

When Phil takes a teaching job, Penny tries to warn the principal about him but is dismissed. When she tries to dig up more about Phil's years away, he warns her to back off, or risk losing Grace and Walt. And Penny takes her friendship with Simon (Dean O'Gorman) too far.

About After The Party

Penny Wilding played by Robyn Malcolm (Outrageous Fortune, Black Bird, Top of the Lake), is a science teacher, basketball coach, environmental activist, mother and grandmother. Penny tells it like it is, whether she’s waging graffiti attacks on fishing boats, lecturing teenage boys on how porn will destroy their sex lives or laying her middle-aged body bare for life-drawing artists. Her attitude wins her few friends in her close-knit coastal town of Wellington, and Penny’s fine with that.

But five years ago, Penny’s world imploded when she accused her husband Phil played by Peter Mullan (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Westworld, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) of a sex crime and nobody believed her. When Penny’s now ex-husband returns to town, her daughter pressures her to let go of her accusations and move on. As her old furies rise to the surface, Penny must decide what’s more important – the truth or rebuilding her relationships with everyone around her?

Stream the whole series on Channel 4.