Born and Bred

One of the most unrelentingly boring and unrightfully upbeat shows I've ever seen, with music that makes you want to rub gravel into your eyes. Painfully bland and inconsequential, safe and predictable. How could anyone think Chris Chibnall would be a good fit to take over Doctor Who? Every one of his few writing credits are so obscenely dreary and soporific, that I would probably pick Tommy Wiseau over him. It amazes me, the rating of this, because all this is is a family-friendly EastEnders clone, which itself offers nothing but tedium, unrelinquishing pessimism and misery. The only reason this show ever got the ratings it did was because of the countess TVs switched to BBC One all day, every day in hospitals and old people's homes. This is a prime example of a 'nothing show', where each episode is dedicated to one event (for example, 'Mr. Cockhead falls off his ladder' is a one episode arc), with no overarching narrative. Things just happen. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a 'then this happens' shows, but I'm goddamned close. We can see this same pattern emerge in Chibnall's Doctor Who. It's become a 'nothing show', because that's what Chris does, I guess. Each episode just happens, with everything there that needs to be there, but all his episodes are on a spectrum from standard and boring to just plain awful. This is because they lack any vision or discernible talent. This hack should've never been selected to helm Doctor Who!