Running from 1999 through to 2008, Passions had all the hallmarks of a regular soap opera: a limited number of set pieces in which scenes took place long, convoluted plotlines centred around the very dramatic relationships of a handful of characters and, of course, some absolutely shithouse acting. Watching any TV show in this fashion would be disorienting but - in the case of Passions - this just made an already unhinged show completely incomprehensible. Instead, it was viewed through occasional glimpses facilitated by days when you were home sick or inexplicably set free from school early. Unless you either lived immediately next door to your school or your family had in their possession a top-secret and highly illegal teleportation device, it was basically impossible to catch the show from start to finish. From 2001 to 2005, the soap opera was aired in Australia on Channel 7 every weekday afternoon in the deeply awkward 3pm timeslot.
Passions was, presumably, not meant to be seen by children.
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