0 a film, play, or television programme that does not show life as it really is: --
As a whole the series was never less than watchable - hokum, perhaps, but entertaining.
1 nonsense: --
You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas.
Despite the hokum dished out, the actors concerned turn in creditable performances.
When you're performing this hokum, you need a heavyweight cast to give it credibility.
In the rural south in particular, hokum held on.
While hokum mocked the propriety of polite society, the presumptions and pretensions of the parodists were simultaneous targets of the humor.
Admirers of hokum warmed to its slyness and the seeming innocence that provided a context for simplistic shenanigans.
Hokum also encompassed dances like the cakewalk and the buzzard lope in skits that unfolded through spoken narrative and song.
She's playing with a bag of clichs, but she's so plucky and likable, you overlook the hokum.
