The most awesome thing

....on German TV is a daily soap opera called "Verbotene Liebe" which translates to Forbidden Love. And verboten it is. Verbotenly bad and cheesy and full of amateur actors and atrocious writing. Which makes it the most awesome thing because it's must-see trainwreck TV. I've been watching this for more than ten years. I know no shame.

The original forbidden love was (of course) between twins Jan and Julia -ew- who first met when they were 21 and had no idea that they were related when they fell in love. That little info only leaked after Julia got leukemia and their mother finally told the truth so that Jan could be a blood (or something) donor. Whatever. After that they continued for years to make sad puppy eyes at each other and longing for some sibling sex. Yes, I just grossed myself out by writing that. They eventually left my TV screen never to be seen again. The quality of the show took an unexpected turn into a better direction. It seemed that once the writers were free of the explosive incest love story they started coming up with stories of couples we could actually root for. Because, honestly: who wants to see brother and sister riding happily ever after into the sunset. These ones didn't, thanks Xenu.

Which brings me to my current problem with the show. And I've had many over the years, trust me. There's another forbidden love at the moment between siblings Leo and Sarah. Except they're not. Siblings, that is. Which us viewers have known for ages but we were still forced to watch some tragic scenes (tragic in every sense) and were supposed to feel sorry for the two most unlikable characters on the show. Who are both engaged to other people. Sarah's engaged to a man who's been left at the altar once before and it's clear that the writers are determined to fuck with this character again. Since he's an idiot (whose last name means "man") I'll be fine with that. Leo of course is engaged to a saint-like nurse in her late teens who is blissfully ignorant of all the looks exchanged between her fianceé and her (of course!) BFF Sarah. I feel like shooting her every time she says "we're the perfect couple! And our BFFs are a perfect couple too! Let's all get married on the same day!"

So you see, it's a typical soap opera just with more lesbians and murderers than your usual soap. (Not that I put those two into the same category!!)

Not sure why I wrote so much about this, this is going nowhere, sorry. And I'm off now to watch the latest episode. But watch this space for more random rants about the most awesome thing on German TV.