Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

garthlotel When you realise that this has to be satire, you can enjoy how hilariously terrible and downright insane this television show is.

rodcenray Passions was a groundbreaking soap opera created by the legendary writer, James E. Reilly. JER was the go-to-guy when soaps needed rating raising story lines; he singlehandedly saved Days of Our Lives from the cancellation block with one of the shows most entertaining story lines involving popular character, Marlena, being possessed by the devil. JER thrived on supernatural story lines and made them entertaining and engrossing. Unfortunately, the soaps he worked on already established a brand which wouldn't really allow for the exploratory plots he had in mind; enter Passions, the brainchild where JER could do whatever he wanted and build a fanbase around a different kind of soap...a soap that would be unlike any you'd watched before. It wasn't your Grandmother's soap. Passions began July 5th, 1999 to a lot of buzz--both good and bad. Many were disgruntled that Another World, an established brand, was cancelled for this new soap. True to form, JER wanted to keep people talking. Remember no press is bad press. If people are talking and watching--regardless of whether they like it or not-- then JER has accomplished what he set out to do. Oh, and boy did he ever! Many people began immediately petitioning the shows cancellation when it depicted the late Princess Diana as being heroine Sheridan Crane's best friend. NBC must've known that they stumbled upon gold because Passions proved the naysayers who prophesied it wouldn't see the end of 1999 wrong. Although never a top-rated soap opera--it only topped one other show consecutively, Port Charles--Passions still managed to always hit number one in key demographics. Full of memorable characters, whacky story lines, fated couples you loved to root for and the funnest spoofs (The Boozebornes, where Ben Masters (Julian) imitates a character similar to Ozzy Osbourne in one of Theresa's fantasies or any of the musical numbers such as Edna Wallace's Chicago-inspired fantasy of "I Ain't Sorry" or Gwen's of "Love is Ecstacy"). Passions revolutionized what a soap opera could be and JER loved pushing new boundaries--just when you thought you'd seen it all JER would laugh and remind you that on his show you ain't seen nothing yet. Because of some of the more outlandish plots many "soap opera purists" found the show terrible and refused to recognize it as a soap opera. Again, people still talking means something! Witches, dolls-come-to-life, closets as portals to hell, zombies, hermaphrodites and more. Passions embraced the outlandishness and never took itself too seriously. However, to say the show lacked heart would be criminal! Just as when it knew to lighten up it also knew when to pour out some gut-wrenching storytelling. What made Passions even greater was the casts chemistry--unlike many other soap casts you could tell that everyone genuinely cared about each other and became almost extended family. Another popular soapy theme in the show was love triangles; popular ones being Gwen-Ethan-Theresa, Kay-Miguel-Charity, several combinations of Beth-Luis-Sheridan or Antonio-Sheridan-Luis and Simone-Chad-Whitney. Sadly in 2007 NBC decided to cancel Passions in favor of an additional hour of the-already-too-long Today Show. JER, true to form, traded some great slams to NBC and the Daytime President too. Thankfully, Passions proved naysayers wrong again and managed to pull a soapy move by coming back from the dead and moving to DirecTV's exclusive 101 Network. Passions managed to pull The 101 it's best ratings ever yet got cancelled once again in August of 2008. Unfortunately there wasn't another save. But JER managed to take some jabs at DirecTV too. If you haven't seen Passions then you are truly missing out on iconic, groundbreaking and entertaining television. Sadly, JER passed away shortly after Passions ended but he left behind an incredible legacy and a TV show that--whether it was being talked about positively or negatively--was nevertheless being talked about even after it's cancellation (if you've seen Family Guy the news anchor Tom Tucker got drunk one newscast and vowed to bring Passions back!). You've gotta see Passions. I promise you that you'll become addicted!

madaboo This show is just awful. The acting is so bad, and none of it is realistic at all. Whenever I see it I just sit there laughing. I can't understand how some people like it so much. There's a woman who's a witch and she's always talking with the "boys in the basement" and acting like supernatural forces govern our choices and outcomes in life. Theresa tries to make everyone's life miserable just so she can get back with Ethan and it always ends out the same. Ethan and Theresa staring at each other. Just get it over with! And don't even get me started with Fancy...The story is awful, it makes no sense, and it is exactly the same in every episode. Just kill them all off, and stop airing the show!

haudit I've only ever seen a few episodes of this show while on holiday in the US, and in the knowledge that it replaced Sunset Beach on NBC's Daytime schedule, I decided to give it a try on an otherwise uneventful weekday afternoon. I'm extremely sorry I did - NOTHING happened at all during the hour it was on air, other than me having to witness some of the most truly atrocious acting and writing I've ever been forced to endure.What is WITH this show? It's got a friggin' Orangutan in it! It's so truly, utterly dire that it makes General Hospital, and even Sunset Beach, look like works of high art in comparison.I have to say, if its a spoof of the soap opera genré, it isn't a very good one. I came away finding it dull, boring, completely stupid and quite wilfully sh*t!