By Dan Hagen
Of all the genres of popular fiction, soap opera seems truest
to our experience.
We act in multiple intertwined dramas that feature birth,
betrayal, joy, sorrow, seduction, love, illness, intimacy, enmity,
imprisonment, riches, reversals, redemption, death, despair, deceit, determination,
depression, decency and — given courage and compassion — even deliverance from
defeat, if we’re lucky.
The serial "As The World Turns" aired on CBS from April 2, 1956, to Sept. 17, 2010. |
Some of us leave the stage, others appear, but the drama
goes on and on.
The daytime dramas are largely dead on American television,
vanished like the housewives to whom they pitched products for 80 years. But
why mourn them? We only need to pay attention, and look around.
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