jessmcrae76
More plot per episode than can be imagined. Higher cliffs to hang from, thicker glossier makeup, higher heels and hair, flasher cars, brighter clothes. Not much soccer, but you didn't tune in for that purpose presumably. As Tanya Turner Zoe Lucker found a role of enormous power and variety. She lights up the screen in every scene she's in, especially when Jase, both true partner and nemesis, was around. Dragging Joan Collins in for an episode or two was true to the genre but not to the show. You enjoy the gesture only for its trueness to type, not its product.Addictive in a way most television could never be, sly but blatant and insane. Sorely sorely missed.
ShadeGrenade
Without a doubt the worst decade for British television was the Noughties. We got 'Big Brother', 'Little Britain', 'Celebrity Love Island', 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here', 'Celebrity Wrestling', 'Pop Idol', 'Fame Academy', I.T.V.'s ill-fated 'Crossroads' revival, 'Strictly Come Dancing', and 'Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway'. Dreadful shows every one of them. In his novel '1984', George Orwell envisioned a future in which a totalitarian regime brainwashed citizens with trashy novels designed to destroy intelligent thought. He was almost right: for trashy novels read trashy T.V., and there was no better an example of this than 'Footballers' Wives', a train wreck of a series that made 'Neighbours' look like Shakespeare. It centred round a group of...well, footballers' wives who drank, took drugs and slept with every man who crossed their paths. It was surprising that the feminists failed to invade the studio where it was made to pelt the cast with eggs and flour bombs. Perhaps having women in key positions of power on British T.V. nowadays has blinded them to this? 'Footballers' Wives' flopped originally, and it was only when the tabloids came galloping to its rescue with a blitz of coverage did it secure a second season. So now you know who to blame for this cynically-motivated crap. There was even an American version, mercifully brief. On May 3rd 2006, common sense prevailed finally, and it was axed, hopefully never to return.
adam hinchliffe
One has to question the mentality of the British people when so many of them tune in daily to the kind of filth we see so often on our screens. Footballers Wives is a classic example of this. It glorifies every aspect of human greed, selfishness and immorality and does not in any way portray the real lives of our sporting heroes (or their spouses) in an accurate or favourable way. Instead it shows these people as nothing more than shallow headed imbeciles who believe wealth and fame is the ticket to eternal happiness. Of course, the real objective of Footballers Wives is not to idolise the lifestyles of the cast, quite the opposite, it is to demonstrate that what they are doing is slowly destroying themselves. Abusing their bodies through excessive drinking and drug-taking and indulging in practically every sexual vice going, will in the end be the destruction of everything they cherish. It is probably worth remembering that most of the people we consider 'celebrities' are no different to ordinary people. They just have a talent to do something good. Either they can sing, dance, act or play sport. But besides this, they are just human like the rest of us. The real heroes and celebrities in this world are the ones who don't seek publicity or wealth. They don't aspire to the vain trappings of a materialistic lifestyle either. Instead, they just live their lives as ordinary decent hard working individuals trying to achieve what is best for themselves and their neighbors.
alanmryan100
This is one of the best shows to watch, you don't need to know everything that has happened beforehand to watch and the storyline's aren't very taxing after a long day at work.The show follows (as you've probably guessed) Premiership footballers and their wives. There are Jason (seasons 1 & 2) and Tanya (season 1 - ), the constantly sparring, schemeing and cheating couple. He's a sex-mad, homophobic bad buy and captain of Earls Park Rangers while she's a cocaine addict, attempted murderer and TV's biggest bitch.Next there's the dull Walmsley family, who only lasted 1 1/2 seasons on the show.The Pascoes consist of Kyle (season 1 - )and his glamour model wife Chardonnay (seasons 1 & 2), as well as his mother Jackie. They are very Posh and Becks. In season 1 Jackie got pregnant with Jason Turner's baby, and then Char learned she couldn't have kids so they came up with the crazy idea that she and Kyle would bring up Jackie's baby. But as ever in FW things went wrong and it turned out that the baby had both male and female reproductive organs. At the end of season two, Jackie left with baby Paddy. Will she return?There are also other characters, Salvitore Biagi (another footballer), who had an affair with Donna Walmsley, Freddie Hauser (his new love interest), Stefan (her father, manager of Earls Park) and Frank (who Tanya tried to kill and also works at Earls Park).Overall this show is great!
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