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It's an unfair cop
- Posted at 5:18pm
- 27 February 2009
- by GarethMcLean-RT
Life is often a trial in Soapland, but generally that's only metaphorical. Sometimes, though, the trial is real. Currently, two court cases are in progress: in Weatherfield, Gary Windass is accused of beating up David Platt, while over the Pennines in Emmerdale, Debbie Dingle is charged with the killing of corrupt copper Shane.
That both defendants are in the dock for crimes they didn't commit is no coincidence. More often than not, soap criminals manage to evade the law - EastEnders' Janine got away with pushing Barry over a cliff; Coronation Street serial killer Richard Hillman died before...
A hint of reality
- Posted at 12:02pm
- 23 February 2009
- by GarethMcLean-RT
EastEnders
Though you might be weary of the Masoods' catering feud with the Beales - especially after Jane and Christian's food fight with Zainab - console yourself that at least the EastEnders family are not the victims of racist abuse. Not so long ago, persecution was the sole lot of ethnic-minority characters, and Asians in particular. So forgettable were the other storylines given to Sanjay and Gita in Albert Square between 1993 and 1998, it felt as if barely a month went by without the Hindu couple being subjected to racist abuse.
The same can't be...
Trouble for Tanya
- Posted at 4:27pm
- 13 February 2009
- by GarethMcLean-RT
Why do bright women suffer so?
The trials of EastEnders' Tanya Branning have been manifold. She was married to Max, for a start. And then there was her dalliance with crazy Sean. And her relationship with Jack. But Tanya's trials aren't simply down to her poor taste in men. She's endured humiliation, misery, upset and trauma simply because of who she is. Or, at least, was - for Tanya was once a confident, capable woman who ran her own business, brought up a family and seemed to have conquered that contemporary conundrum, "having it all". And for that...
Farewell, Jack…
- Posted at 5:17pm
- 06 February 2009
- by GarethMcLean-RT
Emmerdale won't be the same without you, Jack
The death of Jack Sugden signals the end of an era in Emmerdale. Though life will go on in Soapland - this is a place, after all, founded on the three inevitabilities of hatch, match and dispatch - it will take some time to recover its timbre. As his mother Annie returns from Spain to carry out that most awful of parental tasks - the burial of one's child - wife Diane, children Victoria, Andy and the rest of Jack's loved ones gather to grieve for a...
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