So i just read that General Hospital has over 60 seasons and the longest airing show ever is Guiding Light at 72 seasons.
So like are each season consistent with the last? Do they reference something that happened 10seasons ago? Do they use the same actor/actress for all seasons? Is soap operas just a dramatized version of real life?
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My best attempt at an ELI5 Answer:
A little over 100 years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote *The Great Gatsby*. This became wildly popular as time went on after the author’s death. Folks analyzed how it presented the story of all of these people and started making TV shows set in recent times (really 40yrs ahead of the novel) . And they kept the story “living” with characters coming in and leaving just as people come and go in our real lives.
Some people love this because there’s a human need to consume *gossip*. That’s why tabloids and the paparazzi exist. Soap operas are just a fictional version of gossip creation.
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