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The seriousness of EE
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I've just been watching EE on catch-up and it reminded me of something that I've argued for a long time. I don't want EE to be a pantomime. I like the humour that they put in it. I've cracked up in laughter at times and I feelthat the tone of it is perfect. The drama and grittiness are what I tune in for, yet you do need some humour to punctuate it, as I feel does happen. For me, that's enough cos this is a soap and not a comedy drama. I cringe a little when people moan about either the lack of humour, or the misguided/so-called badly-written comedy. I think it has just enough, and I wouldn't want it to deliver any different kinds of comedy. Believe me, I have plenty of criticisms of this soap, but this is a thread specific to discussion of the humour and drama and whether it gets it right. As evidenced above, I believe it does. I'm interested to know what others feel. (PS Steve McFadden was brilliant tonight.)
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Phil Drunk is unintentionally funny.
Max & Darren's scenes have been brilliant.
As opposed to.
Fatboy's character feels like forced humour.
Janine's pantomime character.
Why does the comedy these days have to be so blatant and cartoonish why cant it just be in the form of phil falling off the wagon (which ios serious but) tripping and landing face first into a cake too
Heather asthma attack.
Billy being haunted by Frank Butcher's spirit.
Any Scene with Billy tbh.
The list of poor comedy could go on.
I'm just grateful they haven't got Ricky Gervais writing the comedy.
EE really does the drama brilliantly though, as demonstrated in last night's episode.
Agreed like when Max is giving a humorous line it comes so natural and he is so straight faced when he delivers it.
As opposed to Janine who seems to have 50 Billion Facial expressions.
Jodie is a bit cringeworthy but Max & Darren are brilliant together.