The one hundred forty-fourth TV show: #367 Eastenders
Is it bad to say that all soaps feel the same? Other than different faces and a different setting, so much of it feels the same that I genuinely get quite bored with the episodes and don't see the point of them as much. I get that the appeal is in part in getting to know the different people, but I saw so many faces in these few episodes that I couldn't catch up with all of them and there were a bunch of storylines I couldn't really follow - and this is while watching several omnibus editions that meant they shoudl have gone through.
I mean, oddly, the acting feels better here than I've seen in other soaps and it seems like some more are was put into it, but the stories are just fine and most of them feel repetitive one way or another. Again, this is a genre I'll never quite understand, with its sheer size making me even less likely to get there.