Hi Bob



 KR> the storyline is always hard, but thats how real life is,

 KR> sometimes they win, sometimes they dont, but it isn't the

 KR> sugary sentimental effort that most medical soaps are. the

 KR> people in it just want to get through the day without too many

 KR> disasters and get a root at the end of it - strangely like most

 KR> of us.



 BL>   It's just a soap, reversed, and just as unreal.



good way of looking at it. Soapy for masochists.





 BL> At first glance, you can mistake this for hard-edge reality,

 BL> but in fact it's just as silly as Vince Edwards playing Dr

 BL> Casey in 1963. If nobody wins, nobody plays. It's just

 BL> second-rate authors unable to face reality, or even get close

 BL> enough to recognise it.



 KR> at that rate there isn't a play, movie or tv show worth

 KR> watching, theatre is always exaggeration.



 BL>   I agree in part... but with good authors and real drama it is not so

 BL> much exaggeration as encapsulation, because real life is as boring as

 BL> Berowra.



More information? The only "real life" tv show I've heard of was

the one I never saw about the Sydney family with buckets of money

and no class (i try to remember the loud mother's name, and all my

memory can come up with is Pauline...) How did that rate? And how

would a sequel rate?



Cheers



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