Eastenders should be banned
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I don't watch soaps anymore either, but Eastenders was always the most depressing of all of them. Everyone lives in dingy, dark, gloomy flats and goes around with long faces shouting and snapping at each other. They also seem to live in a time warp and haven't moved on since WWll. I keep expecting to hear air raid wardens and see everyone sitting around in shelters with curlers in their hair.
I was talking about Eastenders, Mathepac. I always feel that, - despite the gritty storylines, -the whole setting and look of the place and everyone living and working and mating within a mile of the square and whole families living in flats beside their relatives, is like one of those old wartime films and it's hard to imagine the characters in a normal 21st century setting eg a modern housing estate.
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S.L.F
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Yuck awful stuff
I watched Deep-enders for a while then just couldn't watch it anymore how can people watch such dull angry people, has a single marriage survive without an affair or something really bad happening.
I know the writers both hate Christmas but really every single Christmas I watched it I recall something really awful happen (eg. Dirty Den giving Angie divorce papers on Christmas day).
For me the worst of the lot was when Pauline went to Ireland and they really took "Pigs in the Parlour" to an extreme (if I recall correctly Tony Blair to his credit apologised).
There was one character yesterday that really got to me - she looked like she was contorting her face to look even gloomier and depressing than the others. She reminded me of Myra Hindley - evil looking. Dont know her character name but she is blonde, around 50 and lives with Phil.
Ah, I know who you mean .......she has been in a few things before Eastenders, one of them was in a prison or something. I dont watch EE either, but I have switched through it a few times and spotted her, I dont think she is making faces, that is just her real face, she is just not very good looking.
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I always presumed that Eastenders was produced by the manufacturers of Prozac.................
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sunrock
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Eastenders is unfortunately a realistic portrayal of peoples demeanour in the gritty east end of london.
You might as well call for a ban on hillstreet blue, or on war scenes in poor countries.If you don`t like it just don`t watch it.
You might as well call for a ban on hillstreet blue, or on war scenes in poor countries.If you don`t like it just don`t watch it.
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mercman
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Funny I think it is the very same as living in certain parts of any modern city. Not much different than parts of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford etc. plus Belfast, Derry, Ballymena etc. To those that don't like it maybe it is simply to much of a reminder of what is going on down the road.
I agree with the remarks about Eastenders. Fair City is a much more realist. Nobody in that soap lives or works near their relatives or just gets a job as a mechanic or chief without any training and murders are quite rare, about one a year and everyone is so happy all the time
By the way the women nobody seemed to know the name of is Shirley.. she reminds me a bit of Carol in Fair City
By the way the women nobody seemed to know the name of is Shirley.. she reminds me a bit of Carol in Fair City
Oh God, yes. I remember the 'poor Irish' being very impressed with Pauline and assuming she'd be the kind of rich person who would 'own a washing machine'. And the local teenagers being overawed by Pauline's son who had 'been to a night club'. This was in the 1990s not the 1950s
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Chocks away
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Eastenders banned? Not sure about that. But it's viewers could be sectioned . Hey, don't get excited. It's just my opinion.
. Hey, don't get excited. It's just my opinion.Should "could" be "should"?
Well I don't know what her character is all about but she always looks like a bulldog chewing a nettle with a wasp stinging its nose.
Dreadful viewing all in all. At least a show like Coronation Street has likeable and humourous characters/storylines.
What's even worse, it seems to be on every station at once. The last time I remember there being humour in it was about ten years ago when Phil and Grant used to be quite funny. But they've probably left by now...haven't watched it since.
But am sick of seeing it coming on. Yes, I can change station but why are we paying a licence fee for such abysmal depressing rubbish.
But am sick of seeing it coming on. Yes, I can change station but why are we paying a licence fee for such abysmal depressing rubbish.