Even ‘The Simpsons’ has had this rôle in the past. Viewers of those two programmes sometimes need to have their lives thrown into contrast with other people’s fictional or manipulated lives which are even worse. Pursuing this thread, it’s also possible that Jeremy Kyle served a similar function. Of these, melodrama seems to be largely out of fashion, although it’s possible that EastEnders constitutes this. It’s been said that there are three genres of excess in literature: pornography, melodrama and horror. Funnily enough, one way of looking at James Herbert’s ‘The Fog’ is that it’s about what would happen to society if we all just followed our immediate impulses and intrusive thoughts, largely motivated by anger.īE WARNED, THEREFORE: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN WHAT FOLLOWS. I was once sitting in the cinema with my brother waiting for a film to start, and just as the lights went down, I blurted out the ending and ruined the whole experience for him. This review is here rather than on Goodreads because I am rubbish at not revealing spoilers.
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