Ab Fab, Little Britain, and now Footballers' Wives. Billed as the British Desperate Housewives, Wives follows the lives and lies of the female half of the players of Earls Park Football (or, as we Americans call it, soccer). Creepy nurses who make out with their comatose patients, hermaphrodite babies, poodles ground up and served for dinner, cheating, lying, manipulation and more all come into play on this raunchy soap. None of the characters are likable and all deserve what they get, however, this is the best sleazy soap since Melrose Place. And wife Tanya makes Melrose's Amanda Woodward look like Mother Teresa. Tanya is a coke-snorting, lying-blackmailer, sexually insatiable, man-stealing bitch that is easy to love to hate. The show started in Britain in 2002 and I have to say I like the way Britain airs it shows better than we do here. In the course of nine months, we get to see between 22 and 26 episodes of a show and during some of those months there may only be one or two new episodes. In Britain, a show will air a handful of episodes one year, with hardly a break in between eps, and then start the new season (or series as the Brits call them) the next year. For example, series 1 of Footballers' aired in early 2002 and then series 2 began in early 2003. I just watched series 1 and 2 and series 3 is currently airing on BBC America. Series 4 and 5 have already aired in Britain. On the DVDs of the show there is even a slang dictionary so one can tell their bollocks from the sod and not confuse welly with wanker. This is one truly guilty pleasure.
peace out,
paul
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