MORNING SERIALS
Sir-I must make an attempt to convey, through you, the disgust and dismay that most women feel when they listen to morning serials from the commercial stations, These serials often portray a lying, cheating and treacherous woman "putting it across" a particularly blind and gullible husband. The writers present as ordinary and normal a way of life that is incredible. The only "love" we ever hear about is for someone utterly worthless or quite unattainable. With a considerable amount of dexterity the producers manage to recapitulate a large part of the story every morning and give out as little as possible that is new. One day a week or so ago we had the pleasure of hearing about the collapse of a faulty building in a storm. Next episode carried the same incident as heard by another character over the radio-and so on until that one episode lasted a week. Incidentally, in the unhappy country where these events take place there appear to be ho laws to protect workers from being "framed" by bosses in building jobs, no solidarity or unions among the workers, and no police to protect the public. What police there are, arrest all the wrong people and are terribly deferential to the real criminals. This particular serial (which bears a singularly unfortunate name) has now reached such an impasse, with all the principals married to the wrong persons and divorce unthinkable because we must not finish listening with the idea that there is any easy way out of marriage, that it will probably share the fate ‘of a similar serial which packed up in one extremely unsatisfactory episode some months ago. For a final example we have the serial that deals just with courting and marrying. In that one an extremely strange and in some countries illegal situation is presented to us as nice and homey and normal, There is a millionaire (divorced) who is now married to a wholly good and pure young woman, but she is in love with her husband’s son, and we have the ineredible experience of hearing all the persons concerned, the husband, his ex-wife and his son, talk of the beautiful love between the son and his stepmother, and plan the rosy future when (after another divorce) these true lovers may be united!
ONE FED-UP WOMAN
(Hawera).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 5
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389MORNING SERIALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 5
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