This show from the very first episode just radiates the misery of working class people who are also supicious and abusive... add some who are racist, sexist, and likely drunk all day. You don't have to be from inner city squalor to find the attitudes of the main characters (even in the original 80s cast) obnoxious and unsympathetic, or similar to your white trash neighbors in a rural American trailer park. Yes, part of the nastiness of the show is the ugliness of the East End, literally inner city ugly but the people are just yelling at each other all day. I worked half my life to get myself away from people like this. Who enjoys this? Who drooled over the original 80s series, even? This isn't murder mystery or horror movie fun this is grueling, like being trapped at a family reunion with your childhood abusers or violent ex-husband. If this is your "real life" and you want more of it on the television, I feel for you. If you're so rich and bored and comfortable that this is your idea of entertainment...*censored*
Review of EastEnders
