Gilding The Cage Of Suburbia: Farewelling ‘Neighbours’ – OpEd

The statistics of Australia’s longest running drama series about sickeningly idyllic suburbia will interest soap show boffins.  It lasted 5,955 episodes over 37 seasons, starting in 1985.  Its anaemically thin plotlines, subpar acting, and emphasis on ideals bound to cause indigestion, did not prevent Neighbours from being...