marooncat said:
Obviously I have no way of knowing how true that is but I strongly suspect the programme makers will be editing it to make it seem as bad as they can.
I think they made it clear enough, though they didn't dwell on it. There's a thread which has touched on this in P+L and it's difficult to get a balance, as ever!
I thought the show actually started out in a way which made you really warm to the main characters. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows the situation in such estate is far from easy, and the people featured in this show do face much adversity.
But then you are left feeling let down by some of the people as you see them make entirely avoidable errors
And lastly, and I'm a smoker, but I was amazed at the amount of smoking that goes on. Many are smoking almost constantly, in the house, in front of kids. And fags don't come cheap!!!!