EastEnders is a program I watch occasionally as it is sometimes on when we eat our evening meal. I used to watch it regularly until about 5 years ago, when the doings of a bunch of at best amoral losers and scumbags wallowing in a moral cesspit of their own making became too wearing to endure. A brief moment of levity was when Alfie & Kat ran the Queen Vic, but even their story ended in heartache and misery. They were replaced by the severely limited acting "talents" of Barbara Windsor and her god awful clan of low life criminals, the ubiquitous Mitchell family. They are "Old East End" which in EE speak means they're all into petty crime, bullying, and amoral shagging. One of them even raped his own daughter ffs!
In this week's episodes former knucklehead clan chief, the crack addicted and alcoholic Phil Mitchell, has a big row with Muvva and sets fire to her beloved Queen Vic which is completely gutted in the blaze. Phil is trapped inside as searches for cash to feed his drug habit, but tragically some effin' halfwit rescues him! WHY DIDN'T HE DIE?? In fact why didn't they kill off all the Mitchells in an orgy of knives guns and alien abductions. Would've made my day!
Peggy eventually walks away from The Square with tears in her glassy eyes to who knows (or cares) where, hopefully never to be seen again.....yippee!
It seems Alfie & Kat are coming back, no doubt to eventually run the Queen Vic again. Maybe the BBC have picked up on some of the disdain I'm sure some viewers must feel for the ghastly Mitchell clan? Probably not.
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