Hollyoaks

My wife watches the omnibus every Sunday. Makes me question my life-choices.

Dear all,

I would just like to drop a quick comment on the great channel 4 show 'Hollyoaks' It's a great show and after 3 years it's stil going strong.

Watch it,

Jawad!!!

It's only been the past 6 months or so that I've started watching Hollyoaks (finishing a-levels left me with free evenings after work until uni started) but I have to say it's pretty damn addictive! I think you just have to take it as it is - a lighthearted soap with a mix of serious and not-so-serious storylines. Great stuff!

Hollyoaks deals with the trials and tribulations that many teenegers/early twenty year olds do. Instead of simply concentrating on the boring stuff, like school or college, Hollyoaks adds a more interesting and fun way to telling the stories. Sub stories like murders, sexuality, family problems and pub life are shown to make the programme more realsitic to student life.

Hollyoaks is not noticed enough like other programmes, but it is definately much more funner!

Hollyoaks is many things. One thing that it isn't though, is well acted out. It has one of the poorest collections of actors/actresses I have ever witnessed on TV. There are a few which are satisfactory, but overall it's terrible. They cast the actors purely on looks, a lot of the cast were models prior to being on Hollyoaks. And I must say the writers seem absolutely clueless, as most of the story lines seem to be totally unoriginal and cliché...

On the other hand, there is a certain spark to the show which makes you enjoy watching it, and carry on watching it. There are a few lovable characters, and a few which you hate so much that you watch the show again just to laugh or cringe at. There's the adictive-ness that I think you will always find in soaps, which is why I must recommend anyone who hasn't started watching this to never start watching this, as you will too become hooked to a simply awful show.