My mom is obsessed with home and away! She’s watched it for YEARS thats all I came here to say
Get her to sign up!
The thing I like about Home and Away is that you can stop watching for a while, then get back into it relatively easily. The recipe is pretty much the same over and over again - new family comes to the Bay, wreaks havoc and then settles down and heads off into the sunset. I've watched it ever since it first aired, but have taken several breaks over the years.
I feel like they have the casting just right at the moment ... as a Kiwi I'm especially loving the Parata family. There were some characters I didn't enjoy in the past - silly Olivia, Hunter (why on earth was he never charged with arson for burning down Leah's cute cottage?!), Zac and his boring family, the moody male doctor ... for the first time in quite a while it feels quite upbeat and good fun to watch (aside from the awful storyline unfolding at the moment).
It's funny how all these ex-Home and Away actors - "Sally" and "Martha" want to come back - they keep giving interviews saying they'd be keen (hint, hint, to the producers). I'm not a fan of "Sally" but they could explore a great storyline with Roo and Martha being reunited. It's the first time I think that there haven't been any teenage schoolkids in the show. Mind you, it's just as well as Roo is forever jetting off on holidays so they'd have nobody to teach them
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A few years ago we stayed at a beautiful holiday cottage in Palm Beach, where the show is filmed, and were very fortunate to watch them film a few scenes. We met "Marilyn" - oh my goodness, what a gorgeous woman - just so friendly, and very pretty. The filming schedule was about six months ahead of what was screening at that time, and we didn't recognise any of the other actors, although a few teenage girls were going crazy over them. (We weren't allowed to take photos other than those the PR approved, and they did let us have a picture with "Marilyn"). I'm actually surprised they manage to get any work done at all as the amount of people that surround them, waiting for autographs, etc., is quite staggering.