A Place in the Sun and the same problem as all soaps

If you have seen the latest episodes of A Place in the Sun and you felt like banging your head against the wall, don’t worry: you weren’t the only ones. The problem is always the same and, if we think about it, it is common not only to soap operas like A Place in the Sun but also to certain classic novels from the mid-nineteenth century that we read and studied at school: why do the protagonists choose not to speak to each other and not to be clear with themselves, choosing instead to draw baseless conclusions? In the specific case of A Place in the Sun we turn, of course, to what is happening between Scarlett (Giorgia Gianetiempo) e Nuncio ((Vladimir Randazzo). Summary of previous episodes: Rossella is happily engaged to Riccardo (Mauro Racanati) and is about to get married when she discovers that Nunzio has feelings for her. Being A Place in the Sun a soap, Rossella’s real doubts arrive when she is already wearing her wedding dress and she is about to enter the church to get married to Riccardo: it is there that she decides to stop because she is no longer certain of the feelings she has for him. She then runs to Nunzio, but not to declare herself, just to tell him that she is confused, that he has something to do with it and that she needs time.

Leaving aside the fact that we all knew that behind that hesitation there was actually an attraction for Nunzio, we pretended to trust Rossella who, in the meantime, has returned to her life, continuing her friendship with the boy and being surprised, alas, to discover that Riccardo didn’t take very well the fact that he was dumped at the altar out of the blue, without any warning to him. predict what would happen. Weeks pass, Nunzio gets closer to Diana (Sara Zanier), the older woman with whom he had started a relationship, and Rossella finally understands that Nunzio is the boy she wants. She runs to tell him but, as we have already told on another occasion, she catches Nunzio wildly making out with Diana, certain that there is nothing left to do now.

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The thing that makes us nervous is that, obviously, Nunzio is still in love with Rossella, he just doesn’t know that she feels the same way about him. If the two spoke to each other they would finally be able to free themselves of their respective burdens and live their love, except that the screenwriters of A Place in the Sun they decide to make us suffer, forcing us to watch numerous episodes during which the two boys experience their relationship with the world badly because they don’t know that happiness is just a snap of the fingers between them. For goodness sake, we know that suspense is the foundation of soaps and that the issues need at least fifty episodes to come to a head, but how simple and liberating it would be to play with your cards exposed for once. It applies to A Place in the Sunbut also for Pride and PrejudiceFor Little WomenFor Candy Candy and all the products we have read and seen since we were children.