All worked up about nothing

In the murky realm of television commentary, overwrought headlines are par for the course. But few raise as many eyebrows as last week's media lather over the sudden smuttiness of the nation's most popular drama, Packed to the Rafters. The offending episode featured, among other things, a scene in which one of the characters is interrupted during a spell of self-pleasure. It has subsequently been the catalyst for much debate, some of it heated and €“ unsurprisingly €“ much of it by by people who have clearly never watched the show.