It's only natural that I would give you, my fabulous readers, a good treat on Good Friday. So today I'm starting a new segment called Soap Star Friday which will probably run for some time as I'm a huge fan of the soaps. Some more than others, but even the bad and ugly have great moments. This is what this segment is all about. Discovering the brilliance in the old as well as new soaps on TV. It will consist mostly of clips found on YouTube (We love YouTube) but also screen caps and other goodies found, stolen, borrowed or discovered on the almighty interweb.
The show we discover today is a Danish soap. It started in August of last year and ran until Christmas where in ended in a dramatic cliffhanger like all good soaps do. Since you can't understand what they are saying and I am lazy to translate you can go here to check out more background on
2900 Happieness
A colleague of mine and I started watching it thinking it was kitsch and it surely is. Bad acting and bad scripts make a fabulously fun show. We spent many days texting each other laughing over this show. Enjoy the teasers.
One of the villains of the show is this guy, David Owe who is a Danish celebrity who made his fame doing Dancing With Stars and did a couple of movies and released an album of covers duetting with his wife on amongs others Where the Wild Roses Grow originally done by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Never has such a haunting song been mutilated into something you hear at high tea, But he looks good yeah?
CyberPete March 22, 2008 06:26 PM PDT I know, the blonde guy who had an affair with Tanya - mmmmmmm
Lovely
MJ March 22, 2008 06:16 PM PDT You would LOVE Footballers Wives.
CyberPete March 22, 2008 01:25 PM PDT I tried to watch Eastenders, oh dear lord.
That was awful, watching paint drying was more entertaining.
Maybe I should start watching Coronation Street.
There is also Footballers Wives and Hollyoaks
Dinah March 22, 2008 07:20 AM PDT I am a huge soap fan. I mostly watch the American ones as the Canadian ones are never very good, and Coronation Street is the only British one I watch. But I love them!
IDV March 21, 2008 07:33 PM PDT I want to live in a silver tower now. But a taller one than on that soap, though.
Oh, Tim. Can't tell the difference between Danish and Dutch? Good job you've got your looks, isn't it!
CyberPete March 21, 2008 04:42 PM PDT A tiny bit of a difference yes
Dutch is a mix of many languages such as English, French, German etc.
Danish I have no clue, it's a scandinavian language
Who could have known yeah?
Tim March 21, 2008 04:38 PM PDT What!? There's a difference?!
Crumbs!
CyberPete March 21, 2008 04:33 PM PDT Sparkly Tim: There was much production value and very little talent.
They are speaking Danish though, not Dutch
Tim March 21, 2008 04:08 PM PDT Plus, Dutch makes them sound like they're speaking in tongues or someone's playing the soundtrack backwards.
Tim March 21, 2008 04:07 PM PDT Wow, I'm amazed by the fact that this show actually appeared to have some production values. And yet it still looks … shite.
