Review of Neighbours

Outragious, and Great

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Neighbors is in basic terms, an Australian soap about the people who live on "Ramsay Street" but since it has been running since the 1980's it has become an Australian institute and a firm British favorite.
The stories they do are usually quite outrageous, you get plane crashes, bombs, identical twins 1 evil 1 good, and thats only one storyline they have had in recent years! They always tackle dramatic story lines about illness and old age, and also the usual relationship issues and life problems.
The characters range from 0-75 ish and thus there is something for everyone as they generally intertwine what with living on the same street etc. I find the characters are usually lovable and fun, and neighbors has a lot of comedy to go along side the tragic stories so you actually care when something bad happens. Its not like a few British Soaps such as Eastenders and Emmerdale who prefer to focus on depressing stories and are at a constant low morale. Neighbors loves to bring your morale as high as possible 1 moment then crush everything with something terrible. Countless times someone has got married, had a baby, done something incredible, only to find someone else is having the worst luck imaginable.

Neighbors is a great show and the only people that tend to dislike it in England are those who frankly have never sat and watched it!! I am guilty of doing this, i thought it was rubbish, i was adamant people were lame for watching it, and then i became hooked. Thats the problem with Soaps really, you CANT call them bad because the story changes so rapidly you are watching a totally different show one week to the next, and so of course, flipping that the other way, neighbors is guilty of some boring story lines too of course, but usually they are running along side something else which means things are kept in line. The episodes are only 20 minutes long so it manages to fit things all in quite well, i really recommend it for anyone who thinks they like soaps, or wants something constant to watch. Its probably aimed more at late teens through to mid thirty year olds, but of course plenty above and below watch it too.

9/10

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Added by RB6K 8 months ago on 15 March 2008 01:50