Eastenders

It’s unremittingly miserable and it’s on just about every day as well. Every single character is physically repellent and bad-tempered and nothing nice ever happens to anybody.

Just catching a glimpse of it ruins my entire week. Essentially, everybody in it is trying to make everybody else unhappy in some way. They do this in a variety of ways, sometimes it’s straightforward and obvious, sometimes it’s subtle and devious. Occasionally two or more characters unite in a bid to somehow ruin someone’s life. Their cooperation is usually short-lived as any unified team quickly turns in on itself and tears itself apart from within.

What this programme says to me is that life is miserable now and it is only ever going to get worse and worse and worse. Everyone in the world is untrustworthy and dedicated to the pursuit of sending others into despair.

Sometimes they produce a ‘special’. This is even more awful than an ordinary episode and you will most likely die of a frozen heart by even entertaining the idea of watching it. But watch it some people do, which is just incomprehensible. What could anybody possibly get out of watching increasingly miserable made-up people?