This show is very disturbing. I hate it. It's about a family called the Cranes, and there's also this woman who's a witch, but a good witch, who also has a little girl. The witch's house has these evil spirits in her basement. This isn't the disturbing part. The disturbing part is there's this freak, Vincint, who's a long lost son of the Cranes. He's queer, crazy, and a murderer. If that isn't enough to scare you, he wears this hideous costume, that makes him look half man, half woman. Sometimes he wears it, sometimes he doesn't. He looks normal without it, but when he's wearing it, half of his face is flesh, the other half is a Phantom of the Operah mask. Each half of his shirt is a different color, and his pants, one side is.. well, pants, but the other side is half a skirt. In addition, his hair is long and girlie.I was very disturbed by this show.

If ever you thought television couldn't sink so low, watch this incredible tripe. You will sit - open mouthed - as you watch scene-after-scene get worse than the one before.It calls itself a drama, but I have watched it just to cheer myself up on a dismal day.The dreadful acting is only surpassed by whomsoever called him/herself a scriptwriter. I would not be at all surprised if the orangutan - yes, there's an orangutan - wrote the scripts, but I reckon it would do a better job.Poor John Mills will be spinning in his grave to see his daughter Juliett playing a ditsy witch named Tabatha. And 'Tabatha' isn't the only character the mediocre scriptwriters have stolen from the 'Bewitched' television series of the 60s. You will also find 'Hecuba' and even the farcical 'Dr Bombay', played by the original actor! Then there was the 'living doll' Timmy who, when he came alive, talked of himself in the third person and with a terrible lisp, whilst wearing gloves stolen from a Mickey Mouse marionette. (The poor actor has since died.) No, for a fun afternoon watching a car crash, tune in to Passions... it's like Little Britain and The Office rolled into one, but without the intentional comedy.

I watched a few months of this show when it came out. All I can remember is the ridiculously slow pace of everything. So today they showed the premiere episode on Sci-Fi, and all I can say is, good god, that was awful.There's a woman who supposedly used to be Princess Diana's best friend (yes, THE Princess Diana). We get flashbacks to phone conversations she had with the Princess: "So, Diana, what time are you and Dodi coming over? Hello? Diana?" This stuff must have been written by a group of 12 year old girls playing make-believe at a slumber party or something. It's so poorly done it makes you cringe. Then there's the young couple spending the day making out and reciting prattle to each other on the beach. The scene is repeated, virtually verbatim, on five separate occasions. And then we've got the angry Mexican guy - did I mention the dialog is written by a group of 12 year old girls? Nowhere is this more evident than in the clichéd this-is-how-people-write-not-how-they-actually-talk rubbish that comes out of this guy's mouth. Even more unfortunate is the fact that when this actor was in school, no one ever took him aside and said "Hey buddy, this line of work just isn't for you". He speaks all his lines with that "I memorized this, and now I'm reciting it" emotive quality. As far as the writing, I found it impossible to believe that the folks who came up with this have ever written a high school English paper before, much less an actual script. Then there are a pair of teenage girls who unfortunately wound up with dialog for a pair of 6 year olds: "Oh, I've got a secret." "Tell me your secret!" "Promise you won't tell?" "I'm your best friend, you've got to tell me your secret!" Good lord, this is just putrid.And don't even get me started on the completely out of place theme music that keeps intruding on every scene. Obviously it never occurred to these folks that the mood of the music should coincide with the mood of the scene. And then there's the constant cutting from one scene to another to another, apparently to give the impression that something is happening when absolutely nothing is.To give you an even better idea of how truly awful this thing is, you'll notice that a lot of the other user comments mention the character of Timmy as being the best part of the show. Timmy is a 20 year old midget who plays a 5 year old kid, and talks like a combination of Minnie Mouse and Pee Wee Herman. Yes, that's the "best" thing about the show. What more can one even say? This show is as stoopid as stoopid can possibly get.

I have been a found of Juliet Mills since I was a child. Little did I know that she would marry the gorgeous and 18 year old her junior, Maxwell Caulfield, from Grease 2. Not only that, they have been almost 25 years too. Besides, Juliet Mills' Tabitha would delight her departed godfather Lord Laurence Oliver and her godmother Vivien Leigh. Her acting father, Sir John Mills, should have guested once on this show. He died recently at 97 years old. While I am crazy about Juliet too, the show has improved since it's debut in 1999. I really wish Juliet won the Emmy Award last night. Without her, this show would have bite the dust like All My Children without Susan Lucci. I hope we can honor Juliet by getting her something else like an M.B.E.(Member of the British Empire). The last British born actress in daytime to receive this honor was Anna Lee in 1982 from Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. I know an M.B.E. is a lower honor than an O.B.E.(Officer of the British Empire), a C.B.E.(Commander of the British Empire) or Dame Commander of the British Empire but Juliet should be rewarded with something. Since nobody at All My Children appears not to care about Eileen Herlie who has played Myrtle Fargate since the seventies, maybe the Passions fans would be more willing to do something. It only costs postage! There is nothing much more than that. There is no $15,000 to upkeep a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which Juliet deserves too. Anybody who knows anything about an M.B.E. knows that it goes to ordinary people who do extraordinary things or for years of service. But for soaps even in England, the M.B.E. has been bestowed upon British actors on Coronation Street and EastEnders. Please help me do something to honor this special lady.