‘Milking’ for melodrama–to the max!
“DYESEBEL.” Increasingly hectic flurry of melodramatic developments
Teleseryes profess to aspire to exceptionally daunting dramatic heights—but, when push comes to shove, the fact that they’re telecast on a daily basis means that, at the very least and most, they have to make sure they will efficiently be able to meet producers and viewers’ basic expectations and requirements for daily melodrama.
Each installment has to end melodramatically “high” to “hook” viewers into watching the show the following day, and each and every day after that, so the creators of “rechargeable” melodrama simply can’t afford to relax!
Take the currently popular “Dyesebel”: It’s the evening series to beat, but it still has to keep on heaping its melodramatic tricks and shticks, one on top of each other—the more, the merrier!
Recently, for instance, in just a single telecast, one melodramatic effect followed another in relentless succession, and viewers got dizzy with all of the ensuing empathetic emotionalizing, worry and excitement:
This particular installment dramatized the much-hoped-for reunion (finally!) of Dyesebel with her childhood soulmate and now young-adult “intended” or “fated” beloved, Fredo. Unfortunately, they couldn’t enjoy their romantic bliss for long, because Dyesebel needed Fredo to help her contend with a great flurry of small and huge crises:
She fell into the water and her fishtail consequently grew back—but she had lost the magical Golden Kabibe that could make her grow human legs again—so, Fredo had to carry her in his arms, attracting everyone’s attention.
Animated sidekicks, helpmeets
Meanwhile, Dyesebel’s animated sidekicks and helpmeets, a pert squid and a gallant seahorse, had to escape from a plastic bag—and crawl across a road dangerously busy with speeding cars that could crush them and the prized Golden Kabibe anytime—! They were able to cross over, but by then Dyesebel had been placed by Fredo in his room’s bathtub.
—Unknown to him, however, his entire family “happened” to converge on his house at precisely that moment—the sidekicks had a hard time getting the Golden Kabibe close enough to where Dyesebel was—the container they were in crashed to the floor—the relatives and Fredo’s jealous “ex” heard the noise—they then rushed up the stairs to find out what was happening—the “ex” opened the bathroom door—and!?!
At the end of this increasingly hectic flurry of melodramatic developments, the viewer was left quite drained and spent! The following night, of course, he would be sure to watch the whole melodramatic shebang freshly unreel again—to find out what Fredo’s nasty “ex” discovered behind that tantalizingly open bathroom door—!
