Familie

'Familie' is the longest running soap in Belgium and is still one of the most popular. Even though its story lines became more and more predictable.

They describe the show as 'a show based on real-life' experiences. I doubt that. You can't imagine which situations the characters went through. Thousands of murders, dead people becoming alive again, love affairs, hostage by terrorists, ...you think of something, they've been through it.

In the beginning, the characters were all one big family: the nagging grandmother, the oldest son who is a famous businessman, the other dumb and clumsy son, the daughter with a messed up life (she was an alcoholic, survived cancer, lost 3 children,...). These days, there is almost nothing left of the original family. Which is a shame.

I think that, like for most series, there is a public for this. Once, when I was a little boy, I used to watch this show every day, an avid fan... ...but somewhere along the way, I grew up, and the series didn't. They started bringing in things like kidnappings, divorces, childbirth, alcoholics, rapes, marriage problems, an archbishop getting married, divorced, and in the end dying of aids. I could go on and on, but the tricks from the box seemed endless...

From the original casts, there are only three actors left, all the others changed, sometimes more then once, actors. Sometimes after being resurrected, sometimes after one of the time warps.

I hope that this series will not sent the example for what is to come, because, the original purpose, is long lost, a family tale

they change characters every season and most of the times it's really boring, every time they make a "cliffhanger" the next episode it's just about something boring and stupid. i only watch it when there is a little bit of action, I expected more from this I hope in the future it will become more nicer and not like " oh this character is the same but it is played by yet another different bad actor"