In the recent past, soaps had a healthy, rough balance of
Melodramatic OTT, humour and a good dose of real life, however in the last few years it feels that most of the soaps just focus too much on real life issues, take Corrie for example, in the last few months you've had, Bethany's grooming storyline in which it heavily implied she was ganged raped (the storyline itself was brilliantly done) very soon her uncle will also become a victim of rape and in between all of that you've had the very violent, drawn out and frankly tiring Pat Phelen storyline, which has gone beyond what The Richard Hillman storyline did 15 years ago.
Its too much sometimes, this is why I watch Hollyoaks, as when it does an issue, real life based storyline it normally does it justice and in the background of that storyline, you've got some serious crazy, OTT storylines, its the only soap where most of the characters in their late 20s are already grandparents! :-D its managed to keep.its humour.
I'm not suggesting that we should go back to the days when Corrie's main rival was Crossroads and everything was tea and crumpets and black and white, but please. Enough of the issue based storylines for a few months at least soap producers.
