‘English soaps are a lot more real, whereas American soaps are quite far removed from 

daily life ... they’re topical, they pick up on things that have happened and bring it into 

the storyline. They pick up on normal things that happen to normal people and portray 

them. Whereas American soaps, they’re all about rich people who live in all these rich 

mansions and have absolutely no lives except for running around plotting against each 

other. So English soaps are a lot better.’ 

(Mixed Surbiton group, aged 20-35, Ironic)