![]() ![]() Human relations can be complex even if only the boy and girl are involved, but this complexity increases as more people are involved. The basic melodrama is the oft repeated formula: Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy gets Girl Back. In this regard, I have discovered some gems in the South Korean TV mini-series of recent years. I love a mini-series as a melodrama that tells a story in the long movie format, as opposed to those that tell different stories in the same setting (like Grey's Anatomy, Mad Men and to a lesser extent Damages, Breaking Bad, and Revenge that change the story at times while keeping to a general story). The Thornbirds, Roots and other early TV mini-series were long movies broken into consecutive episodes. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) was a long movie - over 15 hours long. ![]()
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