Mile High

Mile High is a fantastic show, featuring the hedonistic lifestyles of the cabin crew of a budget airline.

Despite constant whinging about their low salaries, the crew still manage to find money for booze and drugs, while soaking up the sun. There are sexy stopovers, unwanted pregnancies, crew relationships, prostitution, all topped off with lots of laughs.

It's camp, brash, in-your-face and great entertainment.

Worthy of Hollywood and the dumbing down agenda of the USA cinema and tele industry. I had to struggle during the first 30 minutes until I felt my brain melting from the sheer stupidity and low character of every acted role. I cannot believe that anyone could find the reprehensible behaviour and ill will of the entire cast. Classic stereotypes. Brits are morons. A nation of shopkeepers. Australians and Latin nations are dishonest thieves. Homosexuals are sex crazed, dizzy queen drug users and pushers. No one cares a flying F for anyone. Marco was unbelievably naive but what Will and the others did was appalling and deserved the gallows. With such people afoot I dread the future of western society. No wonder it is being made so easy for violent factions to overtake our societies, especially in the UK.

This is 100% proof entertainment - the lives of a budget airline crew -sexy young people, sex (straight and gay)'n' suntans, jealousy, back-biting and bitchiness, lurve in romantic locations and down 'n' dirty cabin-couplings. It has action-packed punchy story lines, often intense emotional moments, all at a fast pace.

With its frank hedonism and hormone-pumping 20 somethings it perhaps is more realistic than many soaps where older straight laced characters are the voice of wisdom and moderation. Here the characters go off the rails, make mistakes - and pay for all of them. It is life in a insecure and badly heavily disciplined paid job but where the constant temptation and opportunity is to shop, look good and party.

Mile High raises the question why there aren't other adult soaps reflecting the madness - and sadness - raging hormones often create. Also the bear pit of bitchiness that workplaces can be. For many 20-30 somethings it must be quite true to life - much more so than dreary evenings in the Rovers Return.

Like a budget airline itself - it's cheap, it's cheeky, it's brash but the punters keep coming back for more. Top top marks for the makers.

This is a terrific new Sunday night soap. It's late-ish (10 p.m.) start means that it's able to get a lot "closer to the knuckle" than most soaps. Whereas in most soaps the sexual shenanigans are merely implied or taken as fact, in "Mile High" we actually see the protagonists 'getting jiggy' with each other, sometimes with next to nothing left to the imagination. A few of the sex scenes to date could even be classed as borderline soft porn. And the language has a tendency towards being fairly 'Anglo-Saxon' at times, with the "f" word cropping up numerous times in most episodes so far.

The characters are also for the most part quite interesting as well, the hard-as-nails purser Janis and the "camp-as-a-row-of-tents" gay steward Will being particular stand-outs.

It's not arty-farty cerebral fare by any stretch of the imagination, but it's great entertainment and the best possible way to see out the weekend on a Sunday night. Hopefully it will be renewed for a second season once this series ends.

I started watching this series by chance and never missed an episode since. The plot is not the most brilliant, but it doesn't matter. You will like the shots, the locations and the editing. In fact the editing is the most impressive factor in this series. The characters are interacting at a level that is far beyond the reality: the crew always drinks, parties or takes drugs. Nevertheless they are perfectly able to manage their job wonderfully. They have a lot of glamor in them and it translates to the viewer. The only bothering issue for me is the frequent change of the actors. They come and go without any warning and you must accept it as an integral part of the series.