| Chances are he or she will be settled down in front of the TV for a daily fix of an Indian soap opera. |
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| It was grown-up version of what the high school jocks wore, or one of those kicky show jackets that the Broadway and soap opera people had. |
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| Beber treats the story as a soap opera and throws in everything but the kitchen sink. |
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| For a show that has the labyrinthine, seemingly nonsensical plots of a soap opera, that's a real accomplishment. |
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| In the same way that Twin Peaks was David Lynch riffing on the soap opera genre, so does Kurosawa riff on the family drama in Bright Future. |
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| Not the over-glamorized Hollywood version of the grapple, mind you, with all its muscle-bound 'roid rage and soap opera storylines. |
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| In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel. |
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| This is counter to mainstream cinema viewing but in keeping with soap opera and many televisual texts. |
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| Night after night there was someone baring their soul on national TV creating their own live and unplugged soap opera. |
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| Camille is grand melodrama that rivals the theatrics of the most tawdry soap opera. |
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| It is particularly this simultaneity rather than sequentiality that leads one to conclude that Magnolia is soap opera rather than film melodrama. |
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| Acclaimed for using a popular format to pass on the social message, the film had used the soap opera look to cash in on a large audience. |
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| We will have to wait until after the election for the next saga in the best political soap opera in history. |
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| I love politics, too, with its human dramas worthy of Greek tragedy, or at least soap opera. |
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| Her character is a daytime soap opera star who has just been shockingly killed off. |
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| It's more like a soap opera without a script, blurring the line between what is real and what is manufactured for the cameras. |
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| He has appeared in a soap opera, in TV films, and on the top Saturday evening quiz show. |
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| They will take to the stage for a live rendition of their new radio soap opera. |
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| So began the theme music to the worst soap opera in the history of television. |
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| If I was a character in a soap opera or a bad romantic novel, I would immediately have assumed he was having an affair. |
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| Achieving a great fluidity and economy, the film covers a good deal of ground in a short time without seeming too much like a soap opera. |
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| She found time to produce a weekly radio soap opera with a health promotion twist. |
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| I was watching a soap opera when Ryan came in, still in his apron and sat down on the couch next to me. |
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| Angel hadn't realized that a person could sound so dismal outside of a soap opera. |
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| The story is not original to this production, it is taken from a foreign soap opera. |
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| You can become a star, a luminary of our time, simply by appearing in a soap opera. |
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| Not so long ago I wrote about a fantastically fresh and exciting band that shared their name with an Australian soap opera. |
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| But it is as pointless to complain about this as it would be to complain that one episode of a soap opera is similar to another. |
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| My second question is about whether a soap opera can really affect social mores. |
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| If there's anything more catchy than a soap opera or a movie, it is a cartoon film. |
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| In the soap opera, viewers were left to speculate about who was responsible for the vitriolic letters. |
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| To pass the time, he spies on his neighbours, watching the real-life soap opera in the building across from his. |
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| This case has more twists and turns, and frankly, nutsy stuff, than any daytime soap opera. |
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| One of the best soap opera parodies on television, Soap ran for four seasons and featured a stellar cast of players. |
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| Ultimately, Nurse Betty is about a woman who finds agency by dreaming up a new identity as a stock soap opera character. |
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| Of the four episodes, two deal with the cheeseball soap opera themes of high school hooplah, and two take a heavier turn. |
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| Their intent is to make a kitsch, camp, over the top soap opera, with storylines to make all the other soaps pale into insignificance. |
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| You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas. |
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| Laurel Canyon is trying to make a social comment but as the film fails to be really engaging it is lost underneath all the soap opera. |
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| We gaze obediently like cattle at the television screen perched above, broadcasting the latest installment of a Spanish soap opera. |
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| The Rovers Return, being a soap opera pub, has seen its fair share of fisticuffs and flouncing out. |
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| It may be slow-burning for modern tastes but it still makes soap opera look powder-puff. |
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| Tolo began running the soap opera, dubbed into Afghanistan's Dari language, this year. |
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| The story of what happens next has been told innumerable times, to the point of having become a ghoulish soap opera. |
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| Scotland's newest soap opera has had a shaky start, derided by the critics for its wooden scripts and dull characters. |
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| Ellie was enrapt through my entire explanation, with a glossy look to her eyes as if I was her favorite soap opera. |
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| When he graduated high school, he became an errand boy on a soap opera, then a writer. |
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| Some years ago, I witnessed a glorious soap opera in my balcony, the eternal triangle being the usual cause of it all. |
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| She was in the kitchen when I arrived, simultaneously rabbiting into a mobile phone while watching a soap opera on television. |
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| A recent episode elevated this superior soap opera into deeply affecting drama. |
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| The cultural context of the Indian soap opera was also very easy for Afghans to relate to, she said. |
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| People sit and watch that documentary, which is real-life stuff, not a soap opera. |
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| Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital. |
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| She is genuinely gorgeous, with that thick, cascading soap opera hair, generous mouth, and beauty pageant legs. |
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| A cherished soap opera star and her British ex-husband were slain in a carjacking that spared their five-year-old daughter. |
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| His own transition came via the quicksand of television soap opera. |
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| No soap opera elements, no deep character studies, just an hour where you put the puzzle pieces together, the characters catch the bad guy, and they go home. |
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| The cliffhanger nature of serial fiction, exploited by everything from 1940's B-features to modern soap opera, is an easy target for the satirist. |
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| Combine the two and you get a non-stop soap opera with few station breaks. |
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| Election features include BBC Southern Counties Radio following the opinions of a panel of floating voters and an election soap opera at BBC Radio Leicester. |
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| It certainly gives me hope that there is a little romance to be found in the world for us normal people, without all the glitz and glamour of a soap opera. |
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| Have you ever seen a soap opera and been able to see the people acting? |
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| It turns the focus to the inner lives of three young women caught in the dynastic soap opera. |
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| It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer. |
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| Brookside showed societal ugliness in a way no soap opera had done before. |
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| As a side note, James and gilbert being forced to hug it out might be the most shocking twist in this entire soap opera. |
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| They were like bad actors from a tacky soap opera, and they irritated me. |
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| Like, you know, when someone on a soap opera goes undercover, they wear a hat and yet they're the only one wearing a hat so they stick out a mile. |
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| Zen Predator often reads like a soap opera, complete with lurid emails, shady financial dealings, and betrayals. |
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| When parents on the soap opera held a birthday party for their daughter it created a small revolution. |
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| It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in southern gothic. |
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| What better way to articulate the fraught complexities of our national identity in the brave new world of home rule than through two nights a week of soap opera? |
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| Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality. |
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| The 150-year family dynasty that controlled Anheuser-Busch lived in a soap opera as sudsy as the product they sold. |
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| He takes a protective but also frankly spectatorial interest in the lives of his tenants, following their dramas with the fascination of a soap opera addict. |
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| I seem to live permanently in some kind of godawful soap opera. |
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| Going played Arlene, the star of the soap opera that Mel writes for, who mentors Megan. |
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| The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress. |
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| In November 2009, several scenes were shot on Windermere for the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. |
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| It also featured a crossover with the soap opera EastEnders, the action taking place in the latter's Albert Square location and around Greenwich. |
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| Much RPF is about celebrities' private relationships, just as most soap opera narratives concern characters' private relationships. |
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| Friedman is acutely aware of the thin line between soap opera and sarcasm. |
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| Quayside was an ill-advised attempt for Newcastle to muscle in on the soap opera action that brings so much attention to other major cities. |
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| In 1985, she starred as villainess Sable in glossy soap opera Dynasty and spin-off, The Colbys. |
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| One can easily say that the situation has turned into a soap opera where mayor of Gazi Baba, Toni Trajkovski, is playing the leading role. |
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| Royal soap opera SO Joyce Exley of Aigburth thinks our Royal family have become a soap opera to many people. |
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| At first glance it's the design of a soap opera, but Wright, director Carri Sullens and this fearless cast electrify this domestic drama. |
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| In contrast, metrication is a numerical soap opera that has been running for far longer than Pobl y Cwm. |
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| In 2000, Salmond had a small role in a Pakistani soap opera, The Castle, as a ghostly spirit. |
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| Kuwaiti popular culture, in the form of theatre, radio, music, and television soap opera, flourishes and is even exported to neighboring states. |
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| In 1989, Alan Bradley, a character in the soap opera Coronation Street, was killed when he was hit by Bispham bound tram 710 outside the Strand Hotel on North Promenade. |
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| On 6 December 2010, the popular soap opera Coronation Street featured a storyline with an explosion which caused a crash on the Metrolink system at Weatherfield. |
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| Manchester's most famous soap opera Coronation Street has, despite being based in the city, less pronounced Mancunian accents than other TV shows set in the area. |
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| The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera. |
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| Almost every soap opera also promotes a love of American culture. |
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| Some fans considered this disingenuous, since the programme was scheduled against the soap opera Coronation Street, the most popular show at the time. |
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| I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce. |
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| The soap opera, a popular culture dramatic form, originated in the United States first on radio in the 1930s, then a couple of decades later on television. |
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| For example, the popularity of the BBC One soap opera, Eastenders. |
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