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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 22, 2019 20:29:15 GMT
I know that a lot of people are hooked on soap operas. They were designed originally to suck in housewives, but plenty of men watch them although they won't admit it.
The last time I visited my brother and sister-in-law, I discovered that they recorded every episode of General Hospital so that they could watch it at night. They were really worried when I was there (since I was disrupting their schedule a bit) because they were about 6 episodes behind.
I will admit that I had one soap opera summer. I'm not sure if I was still in high school or if I had started college, but I was home for the holidays and my mother and I started watching All My Children in the afternoon. We knew it was a load of crap even though it was the beginning of Susan Sarandon's career. We amused ourselves by having contests for saying the lines before the actors did, since everything was so predictable. But it still pulled us in every day. After that summer, I totally abandoned such amusements because I didn't have a television for the next 6 or 7 years -- neither my university years or my first years in Paris.
Anyway, I avoid such things because I know that they are addictive even when they are bad. However, this year France 2 started a short soap opera right after the evening news (about 12 minutes long) to serve as a buffer before the start of the evening programming. I confess that I watch it, although it doesn't bother me whenever I miss it. I guess I am getting old, though, because I find myself talking to the screen sometimes. "No, you idiot! Don't let the bitch trick you into letting her stay again!" Damn it, he threw her out and then he found her in the street and brought her back. Shit. Nevertheless, now I know that I don't have to pay attention to this particular subplot, because she will wrap the guy around her finger each time. So now I will pay attention to whether the chubby boy will ever dare to kiss the girl he loves, since he loses his nerve every time.
I know that some of you are watching these sorts of ridiculous things. Admit it. |
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 22, 2019 21:03:58 GMT
I grew up watching Coronation Street and it was always time for bed afterwards when I was small. Even now, whenever I hear the music, I think it'll be bedtime soon. Not watched any regularly for about forty years.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 22, 2019 21:20:12 GMT
Jeff watches Neighbours an Australian soap. It's pretty terrible but is full of pert young things in shorts and hunks who take their shirts off a lot...all lurching from crisis to crisis. The amount of building fires, explosions, memory loss after head injuries, tragic accidents...temporary loss of sight/hearing, kidnapping and sudden loss of everything is hilarious...but he loves it. Theres ALWAYS an individual up to no good who is found out after a few weeks of I'll gotten gains. I absorb it involuntarily. Also Jeff tells me what's happening...as if actually care...
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 22, 2019 22:13:49 GMT
On the radio we had Mrs Dale’s Diary. Her husband (Jim?) was a doctor I think. My mother wouldn’t miss it. No doubt Patrick recalls it. I particularly remember the signature music. Harp?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 22, 2019 22:16:01 GMT
Jeff watches Neighbours an Australian soap. It's pretty terrible but is full of pert young things in shorts and hunks who take their shirts off a lot...all lurching from crisis to crisis. The amount of building fires, explosions, memory loss after head injuries, tragic accidents...temporary loss of sight/hearing, kidnapping and sudden loss of everything is hilarious...but he loves it. Theres ALWAYS an individual up to no good who is found out after a few weeks of I'll gotten gains. I absorb it involuntarily. Also Jeff tells me what's happening...as if actually care... Mrs Cactus watches this and Home and Away every day. Not as good as The Sullivans.. |
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Post by amboseli on Mar 22, 2019 23:14:49 GMT
My husband and I both watch a Flemish soap opera on Belgian TV. We don't record it when we are on holiday (or not at home) because, even when you miss twenty episodes, you still know what it's all about. But when we're home, we do watch.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 23, 2019 3:32:17 GMT
My father and father-in-law are big fans of The Young and The Restless. My father-in-law has it programmed to record every day just in case someone were to call or stop by in the middle of an episode.
My parents also watch Coronation Street daily. I used to watch it almost everyday but I have difficulty understanding it now. I feel good when I hear the music though and will watch it occasionally.
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