Regular readers please do not be concerned. Mickey is still alive but is experiencing some frustrations with the nice people at Sky who have informed him it will be a further 3 weeks before he has internet access. He passes on all his love to you all, especially the ladies.
Eastenders is the best soap on tv right now. That I believe is fact. There are some interesting new characters and storylines about Max and Stacey, little Lucy Beale, Sean attacking Patrick (allegedly your honour) and the arrival of more Mitchells have all been well written and acted. However when I read that this week's programmes were the traditional summer holiday episodes, I had to think seriously if I was going to devote 2 hours of my life to it this week. Previous escapades have been excruciating to watch. Sometimes you cannot believe that the episodes have been shown to the general public. The Slater girls going on holiday a few years ago may have been an all time low and seemed to be telling the story that it is ok to break into someones house and tear up all his clothes if he is a bit posh or has a job which requires him to wear a suit.
This year's episode has actually been ok. I don't know if they deliberately selected the better actors like Pat, Minty, Garry and Shirley to make sure that at the very least the performances would be bordering on professional. Or maybe it was because they did not try to insert comedy into it. Eastenders is miserable. It is meant to be miserable. If I want to laugh I'll watch an episode of Seinfeld. And it was a stroke of genius to introduce Burnside from the Bill. Alright, he is not officially called Burnside but the guy who plays him clearly comes from the school of "one style of acting and that's your lot". In fact it has been so successful they should consider more direct transfers between Sun Hill and Walford.
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