Teleseryes
Telebisyon (Television) | Seryes (Series)
"Teleseryes" is an encompassing term for Filipino TV soap operas. Teleseryes often include a contemporary setting, domestic concerns, open-ended storylines, didacticism, product placements, and Filipino narrative and dramatic traditions.
At their baseline, teleseryes are rooted in realism, though steeped in romance and melodrama. This intimacy to daily life allows the genre to project Filipino history and current affairs. Over the genre's history, from the 1960s to the present day, teleseryes have reflected and commented on the evolution of Filipino history and culture.
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How does Makati Summer reflect what's unfolding in Lillian's life? How does Blood of My Mother's reflect the history and culture of second-generation Filipino immigrants?
Why do we so deeply enjoy the melodrama that teleseryes and soap operas have to offer?
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​Long-running soap operas and teleseryes provide viewers with a sense of familiarity and emotional connection. Cliffhangers keep viewers coming back, but there's also something about watching people struggle with problems much bigger than your own. If you're stressed about work, it might ease your anxiety to watch a fictional character deal with the death of their beloved son. Suddenly your problems don't seem quite so big, and there's comfort in the idea that these characters' problems are so big and ridiculous they couldn't possibly happen to you.
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How does Lillian use Makati Summer to distract from her problems? Will our audience use Lillian to distract from theirs?
