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Genre families · Specialist

Soap opera

Also called: soap

ELI5

Highly serialised drama built around continuing relationships, secrets and reversals across many episodes.

Used in conversation

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Pitch context

You may encounter “Soap opera” in character, world, genre & tone conversations or materials.

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Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.