Worst thing ever created! Horrid! Horrid! Horrid!
There are some things I bet mankind would wish he could un-invent. The atom bomb, religion and Hollyoaks would be at the top of that list. I only ever watched this to pass time at a crappy job on Sunday mornings. Thank heavens I don't have that job anymore as this show was giving me high-blood pressure. That's how angry it got me. That's how bad the acting is.I know people comment on movies that have okay acting as having terrible acting and I am well aware that a lot of American soaps like Sunset Beach and Days of Our Lives have rather poor acting but THIS has THE ABSOLUTE WORST and THE MOST PITIFUL excuse for acting I have ever seen.
The characters of Max, OB and Justin are performed quite well but the all of the rest are simply awful. I know for a FACT that many of the so called actors are chosen by their looks alone and not for their acting abilities. A rather stupid way of casting a TV show it is. Many TV shows do this but no other show has such A DISGRACEFUL DISPLAY of acting than Hollyoaks.
The direction is dull, miserable and very bleak. Every scene is lit with grey light that puts an incredibly depressing atmosphere on everything. When this ain't the case it's painfully obvious it's being helmed by a film-school graduate desperate to show off his non-skills.
Even the pathetic stories are nothing more than childish morality plays and Sunday-school style 'don't do this' kind of lessons. Since the target audience is mainly teenagers the producers tend to condescend to them with endless amounts of these simple cautionary tales. They don't even attempt to make it subtle. I'd be really offended watching this as a teenager if they thought I was as ignorant and naive as the badly written characters. They are SO VERY BAD you'll either be rolling around on the floor in laughter or be enraged at such an atrocity.
score 1/10
CuriosityKilledShawn 3 July 2000
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