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It's great - I've lived all over London in the last 10 years and the East End is by far my favourite of all my addresses. There's always something jokes going on outside our flat - usually connected to the bunch of kids that hang outside. (they're harmless, but often get into arguments with our downstairs neighbours for being too loud/sweary which are COMEDY to listen to)

"Albert Square" from Eastenders doesn't actually exist - it was set in a sort of fantasy East End market square, but it's almost definitely supposed to be in my neighbourhood. Three streets down from me is a square of terraced houses with a communal garden in the middle called Albert Place which HAS to be at least part of the inspiration. Some kids have scratched "Arthur Fowler. He loved this place" into the bench in the garden. :lolbron:

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I wouldn't necessarily say "tight knit" like it used to be. London gets a rep like NYC for being antisocial and lacking in community and it's true of some neighbourhoods I've lived (we've NEVER known our neighbours until now), but it's definitely not as much the case round here. We've got a regular breakfast place we hit up on a Sunday and they knew us by name after 2 visits - that's never happened to me in central London. There's a lot of imports like me (and from further afield obviously... my lady's from Greensboro, NC), but lots of families and businesses have been around for generations. It gives the community a feeling of permanence that a lot of London misses out on.

I think the few decades after the Blitz and before the Docks closed was probably the real golden age of the tight knit community that Eastenders tries to show, but I love it today nonetheless.

Oh, and Donald Trump says my neighbourhood is "no go" because of all the Muslims. The only effect I've noticed is that I get offered cheap hash pretty much every time I walk down Commercial Road.:obama:
:wow:Sounds awesome!!! I want to go to London soooo bad....
 

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Started watching this again recently.

Lacey Turner is a really, really good actress :ehh:. They need to put her in some proper films, she's wasted on a soap IMO.
She's only good at one thing though, she can't play happy or comedy all she does is angry, depressed and manic
 

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She's only good at one thing though, she can't play happy or comedy all she does is angry, depressed and manic
Well, to be fair we don't know if she can't because she's never been given a role specifically for that, other than that witches show she had on ITV2 (surprisingly not that bad :ehh:)

She was in some other stuff aswell but I didn't see all of it - I do remember she had a really good menacing cameo in Being Human. I thought after that she would get some really good roles, but I think people over here see her now and just see Stacey Slater now.
 

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Been watching Eastenders on our Local PBS station for over about 18 years now.

Love it, i remember BBC America back in the late 90's were airing it daily. But i still didnt watch cause i was so far behind.

Let me see, right now, Grant and Phil just came back. Johnny is in prison. Sonya fully gay now, Grant bout to snatch Ian's girl Jane. And Ben is in yhe square, but Courtney is bytchhing him.
 

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fukking classic - they need to release this on DVD or Blu Ray or some shyt





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The Real McCoy was the absolute GOAT show. Remember watching it as a kid.



Can't rock with Eastenders at all. For years the way they wrote Black characters was fukking insulting.
 

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How the mighty have fallen. This was the guy they put in everything and he washed out :childplease:
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I laughed initially because I swear he said he'd never be on the show, but while it's funny to me, partly I actually feel sorry for him to be honest. I watch Eastenders for the last couple months and he's probably the best actor on the show. He's actually a really good actor, but he gets the same bullshyt roles every time he does a movie, does his "pwopa fackin nawty" gimmick and everyone just goes :beli:

I'll never forget the time he was on Jonathon Ross' show, and they were quipping about him doing Shakespearian plays, and he did a really good reading - and the other guests sitting next to him were all like ":krs: WELL DONE!" and clapping and shyt. And he just looked like :francis: the whole time thinking "Wot da fukk did you expect me to do, I'm a fackin trained actor you c*nts" :dead:
 

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The Real McCoy was the absolute GOAT show. Remember watching it as a kid.



Can't rock with Eastenders at all. For years the way they wrote Black characters was fukking insulting.

The only Black people I've seen were Anthony, his mother, father and brother and his father's new girlfriend Yolande. I couldn't believe they wrote Anthony to be with Kat Slater...

My favorite UK depiction of Black people was Chef with Lenny Henry.
 

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The only Black people I've seen were Anthony, his mother, father and brother and his father's new girlfriend Yolande. I couldn't believe they wrote Anthony to be with Kat Slater...

My favorite UK depiction of Black people was Chef with Lenny Henry.


That might have been the worst depiction they pulled off. Anthony ends up being written as a hypersexual stereotype. His brother sells drugs and their dad is a work shy gambler, who is preoccupied with getting ' A nice shot ah rum'.
 

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That might have been the worst depiction they pulled off. Anthony ends up being written as a hypersexual stereotype. His brother sells drugs and their dad is a work shy gambler, who is preoccupied with getting ' A nice shot ah rum'.
Don't forget the overbearing mother. And his brother, Paul, was NOT believable as a criminal at all. He seemed like a regular guy.
 

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Easterners is alright, it's recently started getting interesting again but it doesn't really depict the east end accurately enough- there's still too many white people in it.
 
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