Show details - EastEnders

Eastenders needs a reality check. I used to live in the East End of London 50 years ago, and they try to make out it's still like that - it's not. Nothing like. When Denise worked in the post office, there wasn't even a safety glass, or any enclosure round her! As if! That was a dreadful error - and why wasn't she ever held up by armed robbers? If anyone is flying anywhere, they just always get tickets at a moment's notice, always find the money from somewhere, ridiculous excuses are thought up for their absences, obscure relatives found, and note that the flights are always late in the day, so that they have time to run around Albert Square first to "sort everything out", go see people, add more drama, but they never pay the gas bill, or stop the electricity first, do they. And how come that they can pack up a whole life in one small holdall, which never seems to weigh more than a bag of sugar? Also, the writers need to be more realistic with the characters. Just because they decide that "X" will always wear lots of gold jewellery, doesn't mean that every single time they come onscreen, even first thing in the morning, they are walking about like an Argos catalogue! People wear different things on different days. Denise, for example, would not bother with all that bling every single day, also Chelsea. Do they ever think what season of the year it is? Even when it's cold, too much decolletage is on show. The women always wear lowcut tops. It looks ridiculous. They want to make it a gritty true to life soap, but they just don't think about the realities of everyday life in the East End. The plots are almost puerile in their simplicity. Archie wanting the pub - going about it with Janine like Laurel and Hardy. It's like wading through treacle. You always know that in a few weeks, the truth will always come out. How come someone is always hiding around the corner, or outside the lounge door of the Vic, always overhearing something vital! Noone ever hears anyone approaching! The floorboards in that pub probably creak like crazy. I could just go on and on... so many things are ridiculous, but coming from the East End, I have watched it from the beginning - so can't stop now. Some of the characters are way past their sell by date, some of them are just awful actors. I am sorry "Peggy" is going. She's a mainstay. The younger actors coming up are excellent and a joy to watch. (Well, most of them, anyway!) I shall carry on watching, and complaining!!

What a dreadful place Albert Square is. So many murders, shootings etc. Marriage breakdowns, criminal activities and miserable folk. I should hate to live in theis surreal world. The east end was never like this when i worked there

It is the most immoral and amoral show on TV. It has little to do with reality and how it manages ever to get awards is beyond me as it seems to operate at gutter level perpetually. It mainly consists of arguments with screaming from end to end. I cannot condemn it strongly enough - the English language does not have the words.

I try very hard not to watch any of the major soaps because I have a theory that they are all written by the same team. East Enders in particular (from what I hear through 2 closed doors) seems to consist of some 28 minutes of people shouting, screaming and falling out with each other. That's when they're not swopping jobs and partners of course. Many scenes seem to have absolutely no logic or reason, and characters just drift in and out with no introduction or explaination as to where they've suddenly appeared from. If ever my wife and I divorce (unlikely after almost 45 years, I shall cite East Enders in the papers!!