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There's no surer sign of a fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps like the long-running, top-rated EastEnders traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now, though, dwindling audiences are spurring EastEnders' producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. In a recent plotline, a character was taken hostage by his deranged stepson and saw his wife shot as she came to his rescue...
There's no surer sign of a fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now dwindling audiences are spurring producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. Take the hapless citizens of Walford, a fictional London borough that is the setting for EastEnders, one of Britain's top-rated soaps. Recent episodes have seen a troubled adolescent kidnap his estranged stepfather, chip-shop owner Ian Beale, to exact revenge for his psychopathic mother's death...
...opined, was the apotheosis of pop music. It was depressing. I wanted buzzy synths, enormous sunglasses, robot DJs—I wanted French music. I had expected to find Paris dauntingly cool and found myself instead in a Coca-Colonized country.The traditional notion of the French as stolid anti-Americans is complicated by their love for our pop culture. Many French critics hated the recently released “Simpsons” movie—one radio review called it vulgar, stupid, and American, as if the third adjective naturally followed the first two. Nonetheless, the movie stayed in theaters...
Calm as the horizon, lying flat on his stretcher with his stolid wife and 50-year-old son in chairs beside him, Nick was down. About an hour earlier he had bent over to put on his socks and his leg had collapsed. So his wife and son dragged him to the car, and here he was in my hospital...
...Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band has evolved into a four-piece version of Silver Bullet Band-era Bob Seger. Like its predecessors, Echoes is predictably ghee-tar heavy, with lyrics focused on a core of universally agreed-upon values (authenticity, integrity; you know the drill). It's tuneful, stolid, competent--but also a little dull. Like a rock...