Review of "EastEnders"

Eastenders

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-gloom and over-the-top tragedy than found in Albert Square.

But now I feel it has become formulaic spinning out the same old stories and tragedies - especially tragedies! - and I have lost interest in the show and its characters.

I like the quote that most of now live in a world where our friends are Friends and our neighbours are Neighbours! And well I no longer wish the inhabitants of Walford to be my friends or neighbours.

5/10

Comments

RB6K

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 20 17:57

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.

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, reading a porno instead of reading a novel. Its trash television at its utter WORST!

In fact instead of just commenting, il copy and paste the above into a review of my own :)

Added by Stuart 2 years ago on 12 October 2007 03:22