"fiction" is not an excuse to show any rubbish and for audience to lap it up with insensitive comments on issues like surrogacy, infertility, adoption, EMA, infidelity, disability. Personally for me when I see a person endorse the rubbish plot shown by makers, then to me it demonstrates a regressive POV. And to me its bothersome and worrying to read certain types of comments because I feel like if the supposedly more educated and working women demographic comprising the online audience can condone and justify the crap shown then it will be even worse with TRP audience and that translates to more pathetic content on ITV with no accountability or hope for improvement ever. And these kind of things have more far reaching impact on peoples POV and psyche than just- oh its fiction, its just TV. We are impacted by the content we consume in many ways so its important that while makers show the complex issues pertaining relationships, marriage, etc etc, it is not done with the lens of condoning or normalizing something problematic.
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