American Drama

Initially I thought of restricting to writing about sports,but I will write on other things as well, starting off with this.

* Orange County

Drama based on a rich society in an upmarket California locality. Basically about this one rich family who adopt a tough poor kid and how life revolves around these circumstances.

* One Tree Hill

Series based on two half brothers, set in a town called Tree Hill. One is from the richer side of town, popular basketball player from high school and the other, obviously from the poor soccer mom who is a good basketball player but never gets to play for the school etc. and how these two gel, amongst other things.

* Grey's Anatomy

Soap based on the life of a medical intern, who is the daughter of the best doctor to have worked in the same hospital that she is doing her residency in, and that hospital also employs her one night stand converted to boyfriend to true love etc.

There are many more dramas like this that i have seen.

What is common about them?
*They all have very promising first seasons but fade away drastically then onwards.
*They all work around with a maximum of 8 main characters and a couple of other recurring characters.
*At least one case of adultery in every three episodes.
*Ridiculous things happen to these extra-ordinarily dumb people like getting into Berkley and Harvard Med and what not.

Looking at this we see that these serials are no different from our good own Indian ones except for the long and stretched out ones we have. So what is it that draws people to these kind of serials. My guess : Just the sheer brilliance of these writers to make a story based on the lives of just 6-8 people, its not easy and they do in fact end up making a good, albeit funny job of it.