‘Worst BBC drama ever made!’ fume The Way viewers as they sink claws into ‘over the top and silly’ series
FUMING BBC viewers have insisted that The Way is the worst drama to have ever been made as they ripped into the 'silly' programme.
It left some fans even questioning if they "need to be on drugs" in order to understand it and get through the rest of the series.
Set in the valleys of South Wales in Port Talbot, the depressed locals form an uprising after being left devastated and flawed when a local steelworks leaves the town for good, which causes mass concern.
The bold three-part series boasts a stellar cast as it stars James Graham, Adam Curtis, Michael Sheen and Callum Scott Howells but it seems that even they haven't been able to turn around the fortune of the fledgling drama.
Fans had already been left divided over the programme's first episode and the second did not help when it came to understanding the plot.
Amid the riots and fleeing from the small Welsh town, the show included baffling fantasy elements with nods to The Wizard Of Oz and The Lord Of The Rings,
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It left viewers perplexed as they insisted the programme was beyond belief and the "worst in history".
Hitting out, one furious fan unapologetically said: " #TheWay Im still watching this,as I think it will go down in history as the worst @bbc drama ever made,and I will be able to say I watched it live."
Another added: "Has there ever! been a WORSE!! #Drama on #BBC as this! one ??"
A third then suggested that they needed to be heavily intoxicated in order to stomach another episode of the programme, writing:"I think I might try #TheWay again on a Friday night after several large home pour gins."
Someone else said: "I feel like I’m watching this on drugs #THEWAY."
Before a fifth chimed in to add: "Sorry #theway it's just not working for me?? A small uprising in Wales and people fleeing like refugees!!?? To over the top and silly without being a comedy !!?"
An official synopsis for The Way reads: "Fleeing unrest, the Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will they lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?
"With wit and powerful emotion, The Way taps into the chaos of today’s world through the fictional story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events."
The Sun columnist Ally Ross previously had his say on the show saying: "The problem here, though, is The Way is one of those dramas with absolutely no limit to its ambitions or ego but a very very tight budget and even at the height of the Port Talbot “anarchy”, I reckon, there’s only about 75 people involved.
"Indeed, the rioters are in danger of being outnumbered by the random Welsh dingbats like 'Simon the prophet', who runs around in his pants quoting William Butler Yeats, and Michael Sheen, who as well as directing this mess plays the ghost of a dead miner and patriarch of the Driscoll family.
"Someone really should’ve had a word here and said: 'Michael, darling, loved your Brian Clough, but I’ve seen more convincing coal miners on RuPaul’s Drag Race.' But they didn’t.
"They indulged all his proletarian fantasies and every other mad political whim, with catastrophic results."
The Way airs Mondays at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.