The BBC’s daytime soap Doctors will soon vanish from our screens after 24 years. But while the final episodes make for excruciatingly bad television, they are worth watching for a simple reason: they encapsulate everything that is wrong with modern television.
The BBC’s obsession with ramming progressive storylines down viewers’ throats is plain to see in each episode of Doctors. Take the character of Dr Graham Elton (Alex Avery); he’s a rotten bigot and, in case you didn’t realise it, viewers are reminded of just how awful and unsound his views are in almost every scene.
From BBC medical soap opera Doctors. A new doctor, Graham, has joined the surgery. He's ableist and clumsy about homosexuality. And if the viewer hasn't realised he's a bigot, he then reveals he doesn't care about a patient's 'they / them' pronouns, only on treating 'him' pic.twitter.com/TJrdE5v02u
— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 24, 2024
Graham is an equal opportunities ‘bigot’, guilty of every ‘ism’ going.
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