The Holiday

Great twist right to the end. We really enjoyed it. Lara McDonnell has a great future in acting a head of her. Really worth the watch. I can't believe the other reviews, it's actually very good tv. We do feel sorry for Alistair's character.

Some old college friends share a holiday villa with their families. They are all utterly vile to each other and then go about a lot of improbable nonsense. Be certain that you will question the authenticity of just about every line and every screenplay.

4 hour long episodes shown on U. K. channel 5. Absolutely no redeeming qualities. Wooden acting and a plot that I think the cast didn't even know where it was going. Jill Halfpenny is a quality actor but working as hard as she was couldn't save this drivel. Terrible.

No forced People Of Colour. No Racism. No LGBTQ+ No Homophobia. No Islamaphobia. No Covid No PC Not much of anything. Missing everything that attracts viewers. How did they expect it to sell?

Very real and totally believable. A bunch of English adults and their bratty kids acting like complete idiots in a foreign country. All that's missing are the Man utd football shirts. Sound familiar?

The book has not translated to screen. Jill Halfpenny is a good actress. It's extremely slow and the flash-forward to the end at the start of episode 1 is one of my biggest TV gripes. It's like the writer and director knows it's terrible and needs something shocking to grab the audience's attention. They should focus on a good script with engaging characters. The characters appear to hate each other from the start and again, it's extremely slow!

In these current difficult times it would be wonderful to be able to switch off and watch a series that is entertaining and uplifting. The holiday atmosphere and sun, beach, landscapes are lovely but the characters are unlikeable and odious. The main character is so annoying that I am rooting for her poor suffering husband to leave her. She spends the whole time angry and suspicious, ignoring her kids, then playing the protective, caring mother and just being a wet blanket. No-one seems happy and not one of them has any redeeming feature. Honestly I just felt depressed watching this. I give it 4 stars for the location but if you are in need of cheering up avoid this horrible series. With friends like this who needs enemies.

A group of old uni friends meet up for a holiday in Malta, secrets and lies ruin the break. First off, it looks freezing, the poor actors do their best to pretend as though it's warm, it looks like Burnley in February. Dire, I think that's a fair word to describe this painful series. Imagine a soap opera that airs in the middle of the night, that nobody watches, that's what you have here, shockingly bad melodrama. You spend three hours waiting for something to happen, other than awful parenting, people marching off, and interrupted conversations. What a waste of the wonderful Aidan McArdle, I can't believe that someone of his class took a role like this. The acting ranges from average to decent. Dave yourself the hassle, read old editions of The Yellow pages, I assure you that'd be more entertaining. Painful, 3/10.

Unfortunately I watched it all, not because I enjoyed it, but for some stupid reason I wanted to see the outcome. Wish I hadn't bothered. It was too long, too dull and I didn't give a s*** about any of the characters. Also I don't know a soul on the planet who would stay on such a mundane, moody, depressing holiday. If you haven't seen this yet, trust the reviews and don't bother!

Four loosely connected families come together for a luxury holiday in the sun but soon fall out. Flash forwards warn of infidelity, violence and dark secrets uncovered. For me it was poor all round, Jill Halfpenny was a good lead, rest of the cast were all at sea, script and story were old hat and predictable. Production values were average, the direction was wobbly at times and the score was quite erratic. Not the worst of C5's recent drama misses but it wasn't good enough to hook me, disappointing piece of work, I can't recommend watching it.