The Perils of Pauline

A damsel in distress who always ends up in a seemingly irresolvable situation at the end of each episode, just to be miraculously saved at the beginning of the next (oops, spoiler). And this happens over and over, again and again... And again. Simply a nerve-racking series. Of course this relies on the fact that you watch it through the eyes of the viewer of that time; and unlike perhaps other things of this age, this has no chance of capturing the contemporary viewer’s attention. Also a series that brought cliff-hanger methods from literature to the movies. And in a way that remains unbeaten and so it is still used by everybody, everywhere; from Latin American telenovelas to HBO quality productions. (02.12.2012)