Rant number 119
When I get home from work each day, I tend to pop on the TV for something to let my brain unwind to. Often I'll watching something like Big Bang Theory, My name is Earl or the Simpsons. Nothing too brain taxing you know? Yes of course you do.
After the half an hour/hour has passed however, I have to dive for the buttons each and every time, to avoid bloody Hollyoaks.
From the opening moments of its annoying theme tune, Hollyoaks depresses, distresses and disgusts me. I don't want to see it, any of it! I want it to go away, and take all its friends with it.
It upsets and distresses me so much that many people who watch soaps do so to have some kind of narrative in their lives. If you need to sit down for an hour 3 times a week to find a narrative - you should spend it doing something else, like communicating with people.
Whats worse: soaps are an addiction. Each episode is a little cliff hanger, a miniature hook, a cliffhanger. It tries to grab you and say 'go on, you need to watch the next one now to find out whats going on.' The whole thing is a vicious and endless bloody circle.
Now, soaps really wouldn't bother me so much if they weren't so unhealthily miserable. People are meant to want to watch TV as escapism, not to be depressed to the point of melancholy.
If I want to see people being miserable, I'll go into Wetherspoons during the day or something. I don't need it from my TV.
I hate soaps.
Rant over.
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