Sentences with phrase «bad soap opera»

It's all playing out like a bad soap opera.

While divorce is sometimes inevitable, your divorce does not need to mirror the plot of a bad soap opera.

The acting isn't particularly impressive either, some of the more intimate scenes with Huston («Pride and Prejudice and Zombies») and Nazanin Boniadi («Zoolander 2») feel plucked directly out of a bad soap opera.

Although you're totally together with your career and family, your love life may read like a bad soap opera.

At trial, which was more like a bad soap opera, the senior Skelos came off as arrogant, nasty, willing to abuse his office repeatedly to steer jobs and money to his son — but oddly enough, not entirely unsympathetic.

I haven't posted on here for years because it's like a bad soap opera, same people same theme with the same trolls... so I did something about it but guess what it won't change like you said and you are part of the problem so keep posting and prove me right.

Australia is known for many things: diverse landscapes, aboriginal culture, kangaroos, bad soap operas and various forms of «footy».

Not exact matches

It is present in every sitcom, every soap opera, every movie, every newscast and commercial — regardless of whether the particular program is in good taste or bad, high art or kitsch, pandering or profound.

This is Arsenal, it has always been the same good times and bad times like a footballing soap opera.

So for starters I got back from work and poured myself a glass of wine, made a HUGE pop corn bowl and topped off with lots of parmesan cheese and garlic tabasco while watching a «bad for the kids» Brazilian soap opera and off to blog a little... feeling good baby!

An imaginatively constructed soap - opera with a high - powered cast, this film follows several narrative threads, all involving unfulfilled Los Angeles women who find inner peace after learning there are worse things than loneliness.

A Life in Parts chronicles the span of Cranston's career, from his days on the soap opera «Loving», to playing dentist Tim Whatley on «Seinfeld», dad Hal on «Malcolm in the Middle», and, primarily, the secrets behind his once - in - a-lifetime role as Walter White on «Breaking Bad».

Yet even as badly written and directed as it is, the character interplay is not without its occasional fringe benefits, including Richard Chamberlain's early scenes with Newman, Holden, and Susan Blakely; and a surprisingly good, though brief, performance by soap opera first - stringer Susan Flannery as Lorrie, a secretary whose love - tryst with Publicity Director Dan Bigelow (Robert Wagner) turns into a nightmare.

Benford turns out to be something of a wet noodle and the subplot involving a future rift between him and his wife (Sonya Walger) smacks of soap opera plotting at its worst.

It's almost as if the entirety of this series was nothing more than a repetitive soap opera that transparently pandered to wealth - based wish fulfillment, unhealthy ideas that an obviously bad guy can change under the influence of the right woman, and, naturally, a lot of sex fantasies.

But Hooper lacks the nerve to stand by his transgressions, and resorts to cheap effects like an over-used fluttering camera speed to imply a bad drug trip and sentimental theatrics like a third - act monologue where the villains spin monologues about their past sins that feel ripped from a dud soap opera.

Ana Maria in Novela Land (Unrated) Escapist fantasy about a slacker having a really bad day (Edy Ganem) whose fortunes suddenly change when she magically switches places with the star of her favorite TV soap opera after a lightning strike.

«Skin,» like Almodóvar's steamy «Bad Education,» crams about three season» worth of soap - opera revelations into just under two hour running length.

I tried to pay close attention, but the plot is a mess of loose threads, acronyms and soap opera ridiculousness, with adequate voice acting at best, and very poor dialogue at worst.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

But he is absolutely bland in every scene in which he has to talk (though it's not completely his fault — the soap - opera script is written at a bad, junior high school level) and quite unconvincing in the mindless action sequences filled with ridiculous mid-air, slow - motion sword play.