One Life to Live is a soap opera broadcasted on the ABC channel on the weekdays. I started to watch this show when I was a sophomore in high school, and when I used to come home from school, my mom would be watching it. That is how I got addicted to it. The story takes place in a town called Llanview. One Life to Live appeals to many viewers because the show keeps the viewers hanging onto the episode’s next scene.
The viewers know that if they watch the last scenes of one episode, then, the next day, the story may change or something unexpected might happen. This is how the viewer gets attached to the show. For example, a couple of weeks ago, one of the last scenes was with Jen with a pregnancy test in her hand. If people watched the show the next day, the pregnancy test was not hers. It was her mother’s. Her mother had also taken a pregnancy test the same day and had switched the tests on her. Then, the scene was cut with a commercial. The story was that her mother was pregnant, not Jen. This catches viewers to watch the show the next day because then, they want to know why her mother would do such a thing. The next day, the show is done the same way with the last scenes. There would be a scene that is cut off so that the viewers have to watch it again just to find out what happens the next day.
Another way that keeps the viewers watching One Life to Live is how they never know who is going to be broadcasted the next day. There are so many characters that it is unlikely for all of them to be on each episode. For example, Todd, Blair, and Star are one family. Todd and Blair are the parents of their ten-year old Star. One day, the three of them might be broadcasted together in the same episode. The next day, Todd might be on an excursion throughout the show whereas Blair and Star are not even viewed. This is what occurs with almost all the characters. So viewers get attached to see who will be viewed the next day.
One Life to Live also appeals to the viewers because of how the characters all relate to one another and some of the characters do not even know that they are related to someone else somehow.
Since the beginning of time itself, Television has been one the most influential pieces of media that the world has ever encountered. The beginning days of television depicted stereotypical mothers cooking and cleaning their homes for their husbands and children. Yet, as the decades passed, television took a dramatic turn, leaving the days of drama free entertainment as a vast memory. Now a day, however, when one hits the power on button to Bravo, the screen lights expand to ritzy socialites dealing with their everyday lives as “housewives”. Bravo TV’s hit number one reality television show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, deals with the everyday lives of modern-day housewives. When speaking of these women and their family life, the reality series shows its viewers that family life in modern times is dramatic, full of misrepresentations of how people are perceived, and that fame comes at the cost of family.
That 70’s show is about Eric Forman and his teenage friends and also is family members that live in Point Place Wisconsin through the time period of 1976-1979. The biggest surprise about the series is that despite it being only a three year time frame it managed to run for eight seasons that was seen on Fox from 1998 to 2006 which became the networks second longest running live action sitcom only trailing the show married with children. Despite the fact that the show wasn’t really based in the 70’s the production of the show did a good job to make it seem like they lived in the 70’s with cars, music etc… It’s kind of weird that the show was named “that 70’s show” when it didn’t officially take place during the 70’s.
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... for your life. If a woman wants to be a housewife who focuses on raising her children or a career woman, it is her choice ultimately. If a man wants to be equally involved in his career and family, it should be his choice too. It should not matter what the gender stereotype is and this show helps women and men believe that the individual feeling is often more important than the typical societal belief.
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...la. These are characters that while overly dramatic at times, are relatable because they are not perfect and they don’t struggle with being the perfect wife or machismo husband. Instead they are in constant struggle with their inner demons and desire just to be loved in a way which they deserve without prescribing to society’s norm.
There are two motives for forming a parasocial relationship, simply the viewer likes the show and character or, the viewer has a shortage of interpersonal relationships in their life. Often time’s that shortage of interpersonal relationships will result in insecurely forming relations.
As I continue to watch the show, I find myself identifying myself with some of the characters. Sometimes I even find myself thinking
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A good drama series needs a powerful message, interesting actors, special music, and unique use of cameras. One Tree Hill has become a popular drama over the years for young adults.
...ubles subside when they win the mega lottery of $108 million. But along with their financial stability comes a load of other problems including Dan’s mother’s mental health, Jackie’s boyfriend getting married without telling her, and Dan leaning in the shoulder of another woman. In the last episode of the series, Roseanne reveals that the entire show was actually a story written by Roseanne Conner about her life. It is then that the audience learns that she twisted several parts in her story. They learn that Dan’s heart attack actually killed him, David is actually with Becky, and Mark with Darlene. Bev, who had previously, at a Thanksgiving dinner, made the shocking announcement that she was a lesbian is, is actually straight, while Jackie is a lesbian. The show ends with the theme song playing while Roseanne walks upstairs from her writing room to sit on the couch.
Here is Lily’s example from How I Met Your Mother, Lily and Marshall in a relationship for nine years, and before they plan their wedding. Lily decides to leave Marshall to chase after her dream to San Francisco to learn art for one year, so Lily choose to break up with Marshall. They are both heart-broken, but Lily wants to achieve her dream instead of getting marry and being a mother (Come On). Feminism reflects to women and men should be treated equally, and it means many aspects. For specific expressions that female should be treated with respect are that women need more time for themselves; women know how to say “No”; and they cherish their career and hobbies. People might think that Lily is silly and naive since she gives up her family
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