Saga of the summer

One calls saga summer a Feuilleton televised, French or foreigner, diffused for the summer period, with some exceptions, of few episodes (4 to 10 in general), having a particular screen, turning around the secrecy of family, the clash of interests or the police enigma.

Definition

Historically, the first example is the Wind of the harvests , carried out by Jean Sagols and diffused during the summer 1988. But of other serials, like the Earth and the mill or the birds hide to die , can be included in this category since diffused them also a summer of the the Eighties and having all the screen of this kind.

However, the Wind of the harvests , from its success of audience, rare for a serial the summer, and completely innovator, allowed the successive summers the diffusion of short serials resounding successes. The saga of the summer was born.

Despite everything, it is not fixed in August or July. the Eyes of Helene can be included in this category, although diffused in autumn. The summer of its diffusion (1994), the public was entitled to the repeat broadcast of the serial the Hearts flarings , the first part.

It does not remain about it less than these serials have a characteristic which make that they fall under this style with share. The screen is always the same one: the fight of one or more families vis-a-vis a secrecy, the malicious ones tied up well. Secrecies, enigmas, particular intrigues which hold in breath until the last episode and of the heroes (often of the women) voluntary, charismatic which fight for a cause, a value in which they believe firmly. After, TF1 in 1988, France 2 lance it his in 1993: the Castle of the olive-trees . Then, M6 in 2006 with Laura. Same successes, same passions.

Recurring sets of themes

the House

If it is a field not to be neglected in a saga summer and who is really clean for him, it is that among the heroes, is of them one without which the scenario would be nothing. We speak here about the house or family property. It has its importance: it is more than one simple decoration. It has its own secrecies, its own history. Rare are the sagas summer without their field.

As of the beginning, the Wind of the harvests posts the color with its Compass card , ancestral field of the Leclerc family and place cherished by some, scorned by others.

The attachment with this property is such as all the history ends up turning around it and its representative, the main of the places. The house generates the cheappest hatreds and passions more the devastators.

Commanderie of Orages of summer will be the theater of the worst meannesses in paradox with heroin, Emma Lambert, than attached more but integral at this house.

Eden of Revenge with the two faces , the reserve of the serial the Eyes of Helene or Jalna , in the series éponyme, are as many legendary places which do only one with the hero of the History or rather heroin….

Heroin

On about thirty sagas of the summer to date diffused in France, a score has as a hero… a heroin.

Why? Undoubtedly because the languorous feelings and larmoyants of the sagas make that a heroin is ready to convey its feelings. These heroins have a strong temperament in general, have with it a true family which they forged. They inherited all that their father, curiously: as well Stéphanie Harper Revenge with the two faces as Emma Lambert Orages on summer as Colombe on the Key on the fields or as Léna Knight in the Spring tides .

It is beating, of true women of today, hyper active, armed against the storms and the faults with the life, solids like the stones of their inheritance. They carry in it all the mysteries, the past of the history. In that, the saga of the summer is a kind with share.

the Secrecy

Basic with most terrible, able to kill Net a man as in Zodiac , the secrecy is the federator of the saga . Without him, not of history, not of outcome. The inceste as in the Hearts flarings or a summer of heat wave , the son or the girl hidden in the Blue of the ocean or the Mirror of water or conversely the lost mother of Storms of summer, opinion of storm , the assassin of the red Summer : the secrecies are varied and often hold in breath until the last episode.

Is each one reflects and invents its own continuation thanks to him, generating “Which-it? ”, “Why? ”, “How? ” To follow to the length of the episodes of the saga …

malicious S

Not either of saga without these malicious traditional, worthy of a good old man Disney: with each saga, its malicious memorable. They are as idealized as the hero himself. First the malicious worthy one of this name appears in France in Orages of summer : Marthe Thibaut, interpreted hand of Master by talented the Patachou; a pitiful woman, in wheel chair, corroded by the hatred, whose only objective is to destroy Emma Lambert, “tsarina” with Commanderie .

Why? Because 25 years behind, “if there had not been Emma, she would have been Mrs. Roussel”.

Another malicious and, which more is, heroin: Helene Cart-track in the Hearts flarings . Its hatred towards Isa, the second woman of her husband is such as in an excess of rage, it will finish blind man and to insert the nail definitively, in the Eyes of Helene , the continuation, it will learn, it which was always caught for the high bourgeoisie, that it is in fact only one girl of prostitute of the name of Gilberte, adopted by the grace of apitoyés parents.

You will have included/understood it: as in a good old man Disney , the heroes always end up triumphing and the malicious ones by perishing. It should be noted that in the last sagas in date, the malicious one is left sometimes as in the ambiguous end the Maître the Zodiac , or then perishes from there after having put at died of many people, sowing panic as in Zodiaque .

Chronological list of sagas of the summer diffused in France

the three sagas following are separately: although having all the screen of true a saga, they comprise certain elements (lasted, programming…) who do not correspond to the definition previously made. However, from their content, they are to some extent a " prémice" with this phenomenon

Official list

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • SerieTele.com: Guide series, sitcoms and serials TV of the planête
  • Cinédestin: French serials
  • the city of the artists: Sagas - Serials

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