Eastenders' star Pat St Clement has criticised the soap for being too violent and having too much adultery.
The actress, who will bow out of the soap during the New Year's Day episode, said that she thinks producers rely too heavily on crime.
She told The Mirror: "It is not real life - drama is distilled life. We don't have any of the boring bits, like going to the loo and doing the ironing.
"But it is meant to reflect society. Sometimes it reflects only one bit of society and some of the more positive sides aren't reflected enough, which saddens me. I am not too sure that one little area of London has quite so much violence and adultery."
St Clement continued: "Maybe in the search to be ever more interesting we are always pinning stories on things that are ever more 'out there', rather than remembering that good stories are about what happens in people's hearts and in their relationships.
"There are positive elements in society that aren't always emphasised – and bad deeds are made to seem perhaps sometimes too easy and too commonplace."
