Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈

Anglophile and opinionated fan of British telly. I take soap operas and murder mysteries seriously. Typos should be expected.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

Just wanted to say hi to all the new followers. I truly enjoy talking to everyone about my favorite (temporarily damaged show). It's the highlight of my day, so thanks. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@SoapsSpoilers The fit, the color, the fabric. Diabolical.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@itsamy_xo You can see a barbells set outside when the door is partially open.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

Shit, we're in a filming-in-dressing-rooms era. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

Today was the most trying to be Hollyoaks the show has felt in this era. Silly is being prioritized over drama. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@EESprite I want him gone. Romance partners have to lift each other up in some special way. He's like a damn anchor.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

What do we call the opposite of soap opera magic? Because that's what Mark and this cars plot is. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

They won't have to demolish the community center after Rusty Pole finishes chewing the scenery. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@PGUK78 Zack and Ross make a little more effort. Sometimes too much.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

One actress being stuck in a triangle with the two arguably least capable actors on the show is diabolical. Who did she piss off? #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@lasagneinmyshoe @willdofficiale Don't put it out there! An American show used a couple of my ideas and they came out terrible.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

We're being punished with these wink wink family sitcom humor plots, right? #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

I'm biased but dropping Sharon into any plot just makes it better (especially when it's all fairly new characters that I still haven't warmed to). Letitia Dean *IS* soap opera magic. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@PGUK78 I think in that case they were thinking he was charming enough to carry a weak and creepy plot. No actor has charm to make an incest-adjacent romance something anyone wants to see.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

"You're embarrassing yourself now," says Ross as he gets shredded by a little teenaged boy. #EastEnders

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@willdofficiale @lasagneinmyshoe No actor's return is going to make the writing on this show any better than we've already seen. Wadey would give them both motherhood plots like Chelsea, Denise, Priya, Lauren...

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@TateFostervs ITA with all of these. We're lucky to even get a line of dialogue from Yolande lately.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

There must be some online course in the manosphere that teaches you how to toggle between looking like a high-value target in the Global War on Terror and a low-value rent boy in South Beach.

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

@OaksSwift Cowards always back down with the slightest push back. Thanks for being predictable!

[Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattFarris]

No way has prison reformed Joel. If anything he'll be worse and looking for revenge. #EastEnders