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The plot is always the same. In the first three minutes of the first episode the viewer already knows the novela will end with that same couple kissing each other. A telenovela is all about a couple who wants to kiss and a scriptwriter who stands in their way for 150 episodes.
Patricio Willis, head of development at Telemundo, on telenovelas.

Hoshi: It's amazing how many of these [soap operas] run for years, I wonder how they keep the plot going?
Shoji: I'm pretty sure they just pull random, nonsensical stuff out of a hat.


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