The way you're emphasizing the half-hour v. full-hour formats + genre nuances here helps me understand a lot better where you were coming from in your original response too. And I think I did misinterpret your use of 'major' a bit, so that's on me.

But ya. Comparing to SATC is helpful for many reasons, like I was just saying to legs. All these shows have had their weak points.

I think I just wanted to defend viewers' right to be a bit more critical/demanding the more they can identify with a show's characters/stories.


>Hahaha ! What service do you watch the Nigerian shows on ?

^Lol! Aw man, a nollywood primer could prob be its own post lol. I'm not even that deep in it, and there's levels to the quality. The shows I was referencing are mostly cheesy webseries I find on youtube tho lol (I think some might start off broadcast on tv networks back home however, and I know Netflix carries a selection).

I would have to rank Lekki Wives as the craziest soap I've seen (in the most camp way possible lol; episodes seem to have been taken down but here's one season's trailer lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-F94DVyjU), with an Angolan soap named Windeck a close second (eg. a villain threw herself in front of a moving car just to garner sympathy and affection from her sister's love interest lol). But there's also more normal ones like Men's Club, Skinny Girl in Transit etc, and and they'll sometimes use the same actors and actresses.

I'll watch sped up 1.5x-2x to get sleepy before bed kinda thing; total guilty pleasure shit lol