Why people get sucked into soap operas 30 Articles

by Trippy Tracy

In America, Soap Operas define daytime television. It is virtually impossible to turn on the television in the afternoon and not encounter one of these daytime dramas. From noon until late afternoon, business tycoons li...read more

by Jerri Rivers

It happens all the time. You are flipping through the channels on the television, and you come across a movie. You do not really have the time to sit for two hours and watch a movie, but you decide to watch for a few min...read more

by Holly Golightly

Over here in England we have various soaps and if truth be known, (though I would never admit it to my friends of course), I do from time to time follow the soaps, namely Eastenders and Coronation Street. The others such ...read more

by Sadie Moses

Whether it is going for a walk, reading a book or taking a bubble bath at the end of the day everyone looks for some form of escape. Soap operas with their fantastical plots and incredible settings fulfill that need for ma...read more

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by Gabriella Samms

There is nothing that represents real life in society more then a Soap Opera; that is why we become so enthralled with them. They are shows we can relate to. Quite often, after the very first episode, we're hooked. Wh...read more

by Danielle Friedl

Soap operas suck people in because they never end! With endless romantic fantasies, dangerous adventures and unbelievable plots that keep you glued to your seat soaps just keep going. Not held captive by the same guideli...read more

by Rachael Webster

Escapism is for certain the main reason so many of us allow ourselves to be sucked into the world of soap opera mania! For many people worldwide, life tends to be nothing other than routine at best, dull at worst. Of c...read more

by LUCIA

PART I: WOMEN WANTING DRAMA A soap opera, allows people to forget the drama in their own life, or the lack of it. Take for example, that every older woman in my family, has always had some discussion of how the hero...read more

by C.L. Illsley

I can fondly recall our nightly supper ritual when I was a young kid. While busily preparing our meal my Mom would always have the television on in the background. Night after night she'd get supper ready all the while enj...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Getting sucked into a soap opera can happen to anyone. If you think you'd never get sucked into a soap opera, you may have another think coming. They can pull you in before you even know what's happening. Soap operas a...read more

by Danette M. Scott

Why do people get sucked up into soap operas? It is possible to become sucked into soap operas or addicted to them. This happens when an unsuspecting viewer may, by chance catch a soap opera on TV completely by accident. P...read more

by Victoria Alexandrovich

Why people get sucked into soap operas People watch soap operas for various reasons. Some do it out of boredom, some out of curiosity, but the majority out of loneliness. I have prepared the following explanations of w...read more

by Dawn Hawkins

People get sucked into soap opera's for one main reason. It's a fantasy escape from the trials of our every day lives. It's fun to be able to follow your favorite "people" every day to see what kind of malicious devilry th...read more

by M. D. Huntsberry

So there I wastwenty-one years old, pregnant and alone for most of the day for the first time in my young life. Since I come from a large and very involved Irish family, moving to the Carolinas in the middle of the summer...read more

by Monty Hamilton

People get sucked into soap operas for the same reasons that they become absorbed with most other forms of entertainment, because they are able to live vicariously through others, and see what it is like to say and do thin...read more

by Gemma Wiseman

Soap operas offer movie travelers a free, unlimited pass to other worlds and other lifestyles. Take an armchair ride to your favourite social world, pick your friends, know your enemies and be ready for some unbelievable t...read more

by Pat Merewether

Beware, it only takes an instant to get hooked on a soap. I know you're thinking it could never happen to you, but it just might. You're home sick from work one day and aimlessly flipping through the channels. You feel l...read more

by Laura Fellows

It's simple. Soap operas play at times during the day when nothing better had the opportunity of occupying your interest. You know it's true! You flip through many channels and state that nothing seems to be on. You re...read more

by Morgan Johnson

Soaps draw people in by presenting the dramatic lives of attractive people. People whose lives are so much more interesting than our own. They are enough like us to make them familiar to us. They're just prettier, richer a...read more

by Randal Purdy

I think one of the many reasons people get sucked into soap operas is out of sheer boredom.Some people have nothing else to occupy their time than to watch the soaps.This was probably more prevalent several years ago than ...read more