What's the general appeal of UK soaps focusing on dreary streets of working class people...

What's the general appeal of UK soaps focusing on dreary streets of working class people? I don't see where the escapism is.

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Thats why uk telly is so much better. Even the comedy is about sad losers just trying to get by.

Feels a lot more real, that's why. But still with more interesting things happening to ordinary people than actually happen to ordinary people.

When suranne jones was in it, she was the hottest thing my teenage self had ever seen

Bongs don't talk to their IRL neighbours anymore, so it's like a community simulator, where you can spy on and gossip about the characters.

It's to give stupid, poor people a means to feel superior that they don't get in real life.

Wtf I was just reading Phantom Blood last night and this just like Ogre Street

British people love feeling superior to others and revel in others misery, even if its fictional.

Its sorta like how Germans play "street sweaping simulator" video games.

usually has a few QTs on there at any one time, mixed in with the ordinary looking slags

>UK
>soaps

Corrie started 27 years before Phantom Blood's manga was released. Who knows, maybe Araki took some inspiration from it.

What did xir mean by this?

it's easy, comfy watching

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Nobody watches these things to 'feel superior' whatever that means.

Why did they kill off the best character I say best character?

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Wasn't he a pedophile or something?

He was too much for one street to handle, I said too much to handle.

no? I don't know where you got that, he left cos he was old and retiring in general

David Platt is bald

It’s schadenfreude not escapism

He's not a kid anymore, it happens.

I was absolutely convinced he was a pedophile or something... oh well.

>Corrie post pandemic

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they're invested
these programmes have been going on for generations
I've never watched them but I'm guessing stuff like rape, burglary, car crashes and arson are commonplace because how else are you supposed to keep this shit interesting

Not all tv needs to be escapism for losers

Emmerdale is the best soap there is, fight e faggots!

I've only seen glimpse of it but you're pretty much correct. Not sure if it was Corrie but there one time a train got derailed and crashed into the town.

Those kinds of big crimes might happen once a year as a big story, at least as Corrie goes, maybe the other soaps have more. Like they had the tram derail and crash into the street for their 50th anniversary story. But generally it's just interrelationship stuff for the day to day.

You're obviously a soap fan. There is some psychology involved in writing soaps, the characters are deliberately flawed to make the viewers feel better about themselves and their shitty lives.

It's not exactly hard watching. Throw it on during dinner a few times a week. Or watch the omnibus on a Sunday morning taking it easy.

They're the only one dumb enough to watch television