Home and Away
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1988 · Drama

Home and Away

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Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

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RELEASE DATE
1988
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Drama
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Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

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@ROW_F_REGRET2026-01-18 16:00 UTC

If whispered monologues were currency, Home and Away would settle the national debt.

@ENDING_LEAKS2026-01-09 09:00 UTC

Home and Away has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.

@SCREEN_SHADE2026-01-19 12:00 UTC

Home and Away confuses "subtle" with "the cast forgot to act".

@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2026-01-24 08:00 UTC

Even the popcorn looked bored during Home and Away.

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r/boxoffice · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 4.3k points

[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Home and Away?

Rewatched Home and Away last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.

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r/boxoffice · u/ExpositionDump🔥 2.4k points

Hot Take: Home and Away's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece

Look, I wanted to love Home and Away. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.

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r/boxoffice · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 1.8k points

The cinematography in Home and Away is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows

Honestly, Home and Away would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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