To counteract all the dreadful reviews on here - Eastenders is my favourite soap, I've been watching it since it first started in 1985 and I never miss it. You have to accept it for what it is, and for me it's an easy watch to help me wind down in the evening with characters I've come to know and love (or hate!) It's a pantomime, yes, but it also covers a lot of social issues and provides information and support for a lot of people. And what would Christmas Day be without the traditional Eastenders episode to look forward to? I can understand it would be easy for a casual viewer to criticise it, and it must be difficult to get into a soap when you need so much archival knowledge to really enjoy the storylines but for the diehard fans it's still a treat.
Long live Eastenders!
Long live Eastenders!