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I could start a whole thread about Hollyoaks! It's been alternately infuriating and entrancing me since I was about 10.
I find that some of the characters in Hollyoaks are far too nice (-er than they would be in real life, especially the "Lads") and some of them are unrealistically twisted (i.e. everyone is a honey-child or a rapist). I guess it's hard to write realistic characters for a pre-watershed show, as they can't swear. You'd be surprised how much of life is wrapped up in swearing.
On the other hand, the show does try to tackle some issues, and although it's hamfisted it was good to see a self-harming character with body issues work through that on a teen drama show, even if that was slightly scuppered by the fact that she and the other female cast members went on to appear in Loaded which is hardly pro-feminist There's also a transvestite in it now. I think sometimes these positives are overlooked by people looking for something to hate on.
Indeed, I once spoke to someone who said that The Good Life was a better show than HO because it had better "morals". No, I said. Hollyoaks is a better show in spite of The Good Life's morals. The Good Life probably put self-sufficiency and the adoption of left-wing politics in Britain back by about a hundred years simply by force of smug.
In summary, when Hollyoaks is bad it's usually endearingly crap in a British way, which, like Ganesh possibly, I prefer to stuff like the OC which is "throw-vase-at-TV" trite to my peepers.
As for the cast...well first of all blah blah my firend dram a school Lee Otway dirty bugger blah blah, but also everyone round here knows at least one of them, and they're supposed to be roughly 50/50 alrights/dickshites. |
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