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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 385548" data-attributes="member: 673">I’m open to being corrected here but I don’t think Brookside’s sensationalism in the 90’s is any worse than what we’ve seen on the current soaps. If anything, it’s quite tame in comparison. I only came to the show in the 90’s and at that, I was an intermittent viewer as it wasn’t one of the soaps that my mother would watch regularly. From what I’ve gleaned on here, (one of) the main issues was that a show that had been so unique in its writing and grit during the 80’s, became just like the rest of the soaps with its merry go round of affairs and entanglements with everyone being involved in everyone else’s lives. I’ve also seen criticism levelled at the show for focusing too much on Jimmy Corkhill & family. While I liked them, I believe there were times when the show focused too much on just them, to the detriment of other characters. But in terms of the outlandish elements that the show got slated for, we’re currently seeing the umpteenth redo of their body under the patio plot on EE, there have been multiple catastrophes involving transport including trams, trains & helicopters on other soaps since they dropped a helicopter on Diane Murray’s head. So, you could nearly argue that Brookside was ahead and of its time when it came to flashy stunts.</blockquote>

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