It happened in an episode of EastEnders – a funny, bleak and very British soap opera that is also bizarrely violent.
EastEnders has always normalised a specific strain of extreme violence, broadcast up to four times a week since 1985 in pre-watershed timeslots.
EastEnders has often been pleasurable, its fluctuating relationship with the real world part of its inherent charm.
I remember an Irish character I fancied being assaulted and left for dead in muddy woods.
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