Vacation viewers miss the large plot level of Jill Halfpenny’s infidelity because the textual content message fails

The new Channel 5 drama follows a group of families in an idyllic Mediterranean villa, but the journey turns sour when Jill Halfpenny’s character Kate discovers her husband is cheating

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The Holiday: Channel 5 releases trailer for new drama

Channel 5 debuted the first episode of new thriller The Holiday, starring Jill Halfpenny, on Tuesday night, but several fans missed a key plot point in the show when on-screen text messages were “too small” for viewers to read .

The four-part series follows a group of families on vacation off the blissful blue waters of the Mediterranean, but their stay is thrown into disarray when a bombing affair is uncovered.

The new Channel 5 drama stars Coronation Street and EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny as Kate who discovers her husband Sean, played by Killing Eve actor Owen McDonell, has slept with one of her friends.

However, when Jill’s character Kate made the devastating discovery of her husband’s infidelity when she opened his phone, several fans took to Twitter to complain that they couldn’t read the text messages on their home screens.

With many missing out on the explosive reveal of the cheating drama at the heart of the thriller series, fans have urged the TV shows to make the messages bigger, with the caption: “Watching The Holiday on Channel 5; Note to directors if your character is reading texts on a phone, please take a close-up of the phone or the words will be too small to read from my chair.”

The new Channel 5 drama stars Coronation Street and EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny
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Another wrote, “What did I miss can’t read the texts,” while a third posted, “I hate when they show phone screens and I can’t read what the messages are saying.”

Another social media user wrote, “Must either get a bigger TV or test my eyes, can’t read these phone messages!”

Another fan said, “I’m trying to read the lyrics,” while another moaned, “Why do the producers keep thinking we can all read what’s on people’s phones? They keep doing it!”

Adapted from TM Logan’s novel of the same name, the new thriller joins a group of friends as the former Strictly Come Dancing winner’s character tries to get to the bottom of infidelity – but the stakes rise when it ends in death was teased moments of the first episode.

The cast also includes Midsommar actress Liv Mjones, Sherlock’s Siobhan Hewlett – both playing members of the friends group who vacation together – and their husbands, played by The Trial of Christine Keeler actor Aidan McArdle Doctors actor Andrew Macklin.

The new thriller is an adaptation of TM Logan’s novel of the same name
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Former soap star Jill explained how her role as Kate Mitchell on EastEnders helped her prepare for her final round in the Mediterranean.

She told Digital Spy, “I think soaps act so fast that they can help you on set when you’re particularly pressed or have an hour to shoot the last scene of the day, because soaps do it all the time acting so fast, it’s not such a gear change for me to be like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do this, we’re probably going to take the first take or the second, I have to be right there.

“So maybe it doesn’t throw me off as much as it throws on people who haven’t been working at that rate.”

The four-part series begins with a blissful vacation in the Mediterranean
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She continued, “I think people just don’t appreciate how quickly soap operas have to move to get the content out there.

“Obviously everyone would like to have a lot more hours than with soaps and be able to light it up in a way that’s different for each person.

“But sometimes it’s just like, ‘The scene is linked, it’s multicam, we’ll do that.’ Once you’ve experienced that, I think it would do you good to say, ‘That’s fine, I don’t have to work on the print labels’.”

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