How Teleseryes Affect My Emotions

Hey there, World!

Today, I am going to talk about how watching Filipino teleseryes affect my emotions. I thought of writing about teleseryes and emotions because I just watched the latest episode of Pangako Sa'yo #Pagtuklas. After watching it, I felt annoyed, and excited... if I tell you why it'll be a spoiler. :P

The first teleserye that I watched from start to finish, was Tayong Dalawa, starred by Gerald Anderson, Jake Cuenca, and Kim Chiu. I was a second year high school student, and I watched it with my mother because first of all, you can't change the channel because her favorite show was on and second was that there wasn't anything interesting to watch on TV. Tayong Dalawa was about two military men who are half-brothers that fell in love with one woman. Typical love triangle in Philippine TV shows. Though that was five or six years ago and I could barely remember the scenes, I enjoyed watching it with my mother and the ending was quite unexpected. During watching, I felt excitement, fear, anger, sadness, and maybe some kilig too. After that, I watched more and more up to now.

When I watch teleseryes, it's like I feel for the character, especially the characters who were being ridiculed and bullied. When those characters are being treated cruelly by the kontrabida, I feel SO mad and angry towards the kontrabida because he or she did something bad to make the bida's life like hell.

Commonly, part of the story is that somebody has a long-lost child and they have hopes in finding them and then it turns out that the main character is their long-lost child and if they are close on finding out who is their real child I feel excited and happy because if the person with the missing child is rich I'll go like, "Yes! The main won't be poor and help her foster family!"

Another is the romance part of teleseryes. Romance in Philippine TV shows can spark "love teams" if the chemistry is right, and love teams can make a show popular because of the love team's fan-base. If people see their favorite love team be all sweet and romantic to each other, they will feel a love thrill or most commonly known here in the Philippines as, kilig. Filipinos have this trait of being hopless romantics so they will feel better if they see some on-screen romance.

Those are the three emotions that I mostly feel whenever I watch teleseryes. And I think what makes TV shows popular, is that the audience can feel these various kinds of emotions that they keep watching and see what happens next and get the anticipation of what will be the ending. And not only anger, happiness, and love thrill can be felt by watching. Sometimes you will also feel embarrassed for the main character doing something stupid, feel an adrenaline rush when the bad guy is going to be caught, and if the scene is really sad you will sometimes cry.

I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'll write again soon. :)