• Skullgrid
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    9 days ago

    Period dramas and the original novels they are based on are old timey soap operas.

    You can’t change my mind

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      That’s literally right. The “soap” in Soap Opera was about the ads for household cleaning products to hit target demos in the early TV decades.

      It’s that soap operas are period dramas adapted to a new period.