kitchen-sink drama
kitchen sink drama BrE
social drama

That is why it was an inspired move by Sue Townsend to set her kitchen-sink drama during the great upheaval.

But all of this is played out as an absurdist twist on the British kitchen-sink dramas.

It was a great struggle to get people to accept anything but kitchen-sink drama.

His songs are these kitchen-sink dramas about day-to-day life events.

The resulting work belongs squarely to the school of what were once called kitchen-sink dramas.

But in opera, the music lifts everything above the level of kitchen-sink drama.

"The Room" is a kitchen-sink drama crossbred with a Gothic horror tale.

This 10-story anthology shifts from young romance to supernatural mystery to kitchen-sink drama, so there will probably be a touchstone tale for everyone.

And it never lets this sturdy kitchen-sink drama involve you even as a soap opera.

Still, didn't send-ups of 1950's kitchen-sink dramas go out in the 1970's?