the good, the bad and the ugly (Christmas TV)

Member Name: west_jenn

Product:	Christmas TV
Date:	29/12/03 (54 review reads)
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Advantages: always something good to watch

Disadvantages: Eastenders let me down this year

Christmas is the time of year for presents, lots of food, time of work, tv and oh yes the birthday of Jesus! This year my other half and I haven?t spent a lot of time at home during the festive period, but luckily the various family members we visited wanted to watch the major two things I was looking forward to watching this Christmas, Eastenders and the last ever episodes of the Office.

Eastenders always promises exciting Christmas drama and this year was no exception. Weeks before hand people starting promising each other that they would have the best Christmas ever, this is never a good sign in Eastenders as it means that the person is going to find out their husband has slept with their sister/their long lost husband turns up/ they will have a huge slanging match in the vic. Kat has been going around telling people about the new start her wedding to Alfie Moon will be, whilst he was secretly not quite divorced. Also a big cliffhanger was prepared with the Watts/Mitchell feud promising to reach new heights when Phil escapes from prison and ruins the Watts ?best ever? family Christmas. Also other promising storylines were Little Mo?s secret rape and Gary planning to leave Laura and Bobby (who isn?t really his baby) to get back together with his pregnant, estranges wife (although only periodically estranged!).

So we settled down to watch the extra long double dose of Eastenders on Christmas day and watched a complete anti climax. Where was the shouting in the vic? shouting at anyone, crying on Arthur?s bench in the middle of the square. After punching dirty den Phil was paid of and disappeared. After a close shave and the briefest of shouting Kat and Alfie were married and there was a scene outside the Vic with the square?s inhabitants being happy under the snow provided by a fake show machine. Most disappointing this is not what I expect from Eastenders.

Luckily the Office was everything I was hoping for. The first of the two episodes o
n Boxing Day was slightly weaker as they were setting the scene and going over what had happened in the three years since the office documentary finished. The funniest bit was the Brent master in a tacky, minor celebrity blind date affair with the black man from the Halifax ad, Bubbles from big brother. The funniest bit was David coming in strutting his stuff in a naff Austin Powers suit.

The piece de resistance was the episode yesterday with the Christmas party. Look away if you have it taped! Some of it was quite cringey, but hilariously funny, such as when David is banned from his constant trips to the office to keep his ex colleague?s morale up and asks them who will go out for a drink with him and is met by a deathly silence. It was a brilliant finale for the programme. The Dawn/Tim saga was sorted out, I won?t say how some of you may not have seen it.

So that?s my humble opinion on the little TV I watched hurray for the office try a bit harder next year Eastenders.

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