Shayne Ward (Aidan Connor)

[maidmarian]

Every soap nowadays portrays characters who earn minimum wage living well beyond their means. How can those characters afford to eat out most days (even just in cafes) and drink in the pub regularly, let alone wear designer clothes etc?

Then there's Tyrone, who's part owner of a busy garage, getting into serious debt by paying for a wasted holiday in Lapland (when in reality he could almost certainly have recouped a good proportion of the money by selling it on eBay) and decorating the street for a day. Also, that's no way it would be worth Fiz working a low paid job and paying childcare for two kids. Plus it seems unlikely to me that David and Kylie could afford their mortgage.


You're right Louise that the soaps used to make an effort to portray their less well off characters realistically and unglamorously. However, realism was long ago abandoned.

I agree Dazzle and Louise P with what you have
both said.
What concerns me apart from lack of realism-
is that in people who have no idea of money
planning or supportive family - it encourages
some people to think they should be entitled
to have things/do things they dont have enough
money for and get into debt. It takes a lot longer
ti get out of debt than into it.

Soaps pride themselves on showing " gritty"
subjects - serious illnesses and crimes etc.
Perhaps some time on the drudgery of
debt -but no because thats boring!!

P.S . I used to be able to do a passable
impression of Hilda singing -off key?!
I still prefer Hildas singing to.Ritas