EastEnders (1985)

Posted : 10 months, 2 weeks ago at Jan 8 10:21

I love Eastenders, watched it for years. Yes, I agree some storylines are pretty depressing but overall, I think it's well written and the acting in fab.
Those people who knock it all the time, I have one message for you - Don't watch it then!

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 20 18:04

Well written?! Eastenders is the worst written piece of "television" in Britain, every time it is forced upon me I boil with anger because my license fee has been thrown away on this bull shit. The characters are all mundane stereotypes of what a "Londoner" is meant to be like, there is always an awful message that they try to pass on through the stories, which is so blindingly obvious to someone with half a brain that it shouldn't need saying anyway, and its constant doom and gloom of epic proportions which is highly unrealistic. If Dickens was alive now he would kill himself seeing how the English language is murdered on Eastenders every day. The plots and story lines are monotonous and predictable at every turn. This show is like reading The Sun, instead of reading real news...Read more

Rating : 1/10

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago at Oct 12 15:22

This show must have had cast of thousands by now. I don't watch Eastenders very much these days though I used to watch it regularly. It is well written - if Charles Dickens was alive now he would have probably been one of their leading script-writers! - and well acted and was a departure from many British Soaps such as Coronation Street which again though well written and acted are located in a bubble without much base in reality. Eastenders is in a bit of a bubble too -no-one reallys live in a place like that do they where no-one owns a washing-machine and spend all their spare hours and cash in one pub! - but was more gritty dealing with life has most of us experience it. Another soap out at the time it started, Brookside, dealt with similar topics but was even more doom-and-gloo...Read more

Rating : 5/10