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EastEnders: Doctor Who's Sooz Kempner Offers Epic X'Mas Catch-Up

Comedian/actor Sooz Kempner (Doctor Who) shared one of her (& our) great loves: recapping EastEnders in the lead-up to the Christmas episode.

Sooz Kempner is one of the funniest London standup comedians out there, passionate about Playstation, Doctor Who, and EastEnders, so who better to recap the last twelve months of utter insanity of the nuttiest and highest-rated soap opera on British television? When we say "utter insanity," we mean utter insanity!

Who better to do recaps about EastEnders than a London comedian and uberfan like Sooz Kempner? She played Doom in the "Doom's Day" event that was part of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary events before the specials aired after all. She passionately loves the utter nutrack the series has become in the last twenty years (probably longer). She treats the events on the show with all the reverence and respect it deserves. By that, we mean she snarks endlessly while relishing all of it: the back-from-the-dead plotlines, the toxic villainous men who abuse the heroines of the show who need to fight back, the murder plots, the framings, the wrong, and right guys sent to prison for stuff they did or didn't do (usually a murder), the affairs that fuel the murder plots, and most of all the big Whodunnit cliffhanger from twelve months ago that was a flashforward to this Christmas – which horrible toxic man was killed and by which of the six women who were there? The answer is on Christmas Day! Doctor Who has alien – or goblin – invasions. Eastenders has murder! MURGAH! MURDAAAAAAH! We haven't watched the show in years, so we didn't even realise Colin Salmon is now a cast member – he played a mysterious doctor character in "Silence in the Library" on Doctor Who, the story that introduced River Song (Alex Kingston) whom writer Steven Moffat only revealed recently was a secret future reincarnation of The Doctor! That's two Doctor Who connections to Eastenders right here!

You could argue that British soaps are mundane compared to American soaps. British soap operas don't have secret lab-grown clones who try to take over a major character's life, UFO abductions, menacing secret religious orders, or UFO abductions. Yes, those plotlines really happened on US soaps. We don't watch them, so we don't know if vampires or ninjas ever showed up. Vampires and ninjas popping up on EastEnders would be gold! Who wouldn't want to see Cockney vampires or ninjas or both on Albert Square?

The Christmas Episode of EastEnders will air on BBC One at 945pm and will end up on Britbox overseas after that. How many people stream the latest episodes of EastEnders in the US, we wonder? It used to be on PBS in the US, but no longer before the current years of sheer insanity kicked in. Until then, you can enjoy Kempner's recap on her 22-minute YouTube video, her written summation on Substack, or her epic Twitter thread.

You can accuse us of bigging up Sooz Kempner all you want, but she's summing up a whole year of mildly Doctor Who-tied in EastEnders, so we don't have to! Don't forget there was a Doctor Who–EastEnders crossover in the brain-killingly awful 1993 Children in Need special "Dimensions in Time"! Merry Christmas!

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