Baywatch is definitely a guilty pleasure show from my youth, my best friend and I would watch it at some point during each summer. If you're going into it expecting high art then that's your own mistake, in terms of sheer comedy and entertainment? It is excellent, the storylines manage to both be formulaic yet at the same time absolutely out of left field. I mean there's always some kind of accident occuring on the beach, but is it someone drowning, does someone require surgery or is it a chemical weapon that needs to be disarmed... also somehow on the beach? The answer is always yes, yes it is.
Having read other reviews I disagree that the acting is terrible outright, it isn't Tom Hanks in Philadelphia but we're not talking Tommy Wiseau level either. It is a perfectly adequate soap opera standard of acting, which is fine for a show that really doesn't take itself that seriously.
Having read other reviews I disagree that the acting is terrible outright, it isn't Tom Hanks in Philadelphia but we're not talking Tommy Wiseau level either. It is a perfectly adequate soap opera standard of acting, which is fine for a show that really doesn't take itself that seriously.