Soap opera is its own genre not created by film but created by the radio in the 1930s (by the Americans), unlike other television genres such as TV quiz shows or the news, soap opera was created to be aimed at housewives to listen/ watch on a regular schedule.
Soap opera is a long run of serial of episodes of everyday people with normal average problems; soap opera relates to real life situations and how people may or may not deal with it, these issues involve a group of characters, there are no main characters. Every episode is linked to its own plot from day to day life and the storyline is carried on from one episode to the next to make the plot bigger and it may or may not get more characters involved into that one plotting or into many plotting and eventually the situation gets bigger and it bursts into everyone finding out. Serials of episodes are endless, continuously continuing throughout the plotting and creating more plotting to constantly carry on the story.
Successful soap operas can continue for years, like EastEnders. Characters of the soap do not change or get replaced therefore the audience can see the aging and the changing of the characters as if they are part of the scene.
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