Take, for instance, the one where Charity (‘finally’?) gets trapped in Hell. The bright light slowly go (sic) away…Įvery episode I can recall catching the tail end of as a young, impressionable schoolchild seemed to involve someone being set upon by evil magicks and, from having looked at the show’s list of plot arcs, this was entirely representative of the show as a whole. Sheridan wants to stay with her friend but Diana orders her to go back. She is talking to her friend Lady Di, under the bright light.
The medics work frantically to save Sheridan. This is how the scene is described in a recap from the quite dedicated : One of the first plotlines of the very first season of the show included a major character having been a close personal friend of the recently deceased Princess Diana. Not only is it revealed that that character, Sheridan, tried to warn Princess Diana of her impending death, but Princess Di features in the show as a guardian angel who brings Sheridan back from the brink of death after she herself is involved in an accident in the same Paris tunnel. Somehow, the inclusion of a witch was not even the strangest thing about this show. Passions stood out because, at the time, few daytime television shows were bold enough to feature an evil witch and her evil animated doll sidekick as main characters. But it also had something else - something that elevated it above the rest of the pack. 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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