No soap opera fan can complain that the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that usurped the network tales of sex and power could not deliver their daily emotional fix. It was an astounding day for television viewers, right up there with Watergate.
说明肥皂剧的内容,为肥皂剧为什么能够控制人口生长做一个铺垫。
Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
肥皂剧里人们在处理生活,我作为哲学家的工作,就是理解这些问题,肥皂剧让我觉得无聊,所以我不看。
This is people dealing with life and my job as a philosopher is trying to want to understand it I got bored by soap operas, so I never watch them.
The "soap" in "soap opera" alluded to their sponsorship by manufacturers of household cleaning products, such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers.
Our TV controllers know there is an enormous appetite for soaps so they invest a lot of money in them which means they are inevitably better productions.