The Holiday

Four loosely connected families come together for a luxury holiday in the sun but soon fall out. Flash forwards warn of infidelity, violence and dark secrets uncovered.

For me it was poor all round, Jill Halfpenny was a good lead, rest of the cast were all at sea, script and story were old hat and predictable. Production values were average, the direction was wobbly at times and the score was quite erratic.

Not the worst of C5's recent drama misses but it wasn't good enough to hook me, disappointing piece of work, I can't recommend watching it.

A group of old uni friends meet up for a holiday in Malta, secrets and lies ruin the break.

First off, it looks freezing, the poor actors do their best to pretend as though it's warm, it looks like Burnley in February.

Dire, I think that's a fair word to describe this painful series. Imagine a soap opera that airs in the middle of the night, that nobody watches, that's what you have here, shockingly bad melodrama.

You spend three hours waiting for something to happen, other than awful parenting, people marching off, and interrupted conversations.

What a waste of the wonderful Aidan McArdle, I can't believe that someone of his class took a role like this. The acting ranges from average to decent.

Dave yourself the hassle, read old editions of The Yellow pages, I assure you that'd be more entertaining.

Painful, 3/10.

Unfortunately I watched it all, not because I enjoyed it, but for some stupid reason I wanted to see the outcome. Wish I hadn't bothered. It was too long, too dull and I didn't give a s*** about any of the characters. Also I don't know a soul on the planet who would stay on such a mundane, moody, depressing holiday. If you haven't seen this yet, trust the reviews and don't bother!

It's an ok show, nothing special but definitely not fantastic either. The main problem is as ever with current shows, text messages. Not everyone watches on a tablet or phone and unless you happen to have binoculars next to your sofa don't expect to see what's been written. Just hope it's not relevant to the storyline!

Some old college friends share a holiday villa with their families. They are all utterly vile to each other and then go about a lot of improbable nonsense. Be certain that you will question the authenticity of just about every line and every screenplay.