This is a little mix between the website synopsis and my watching the first episode.

In the summer of 1993, six teenagers, Eva, Manos, Nicholas, Daphne, Lucas, and Nora meet at a summer camp and become the Moonstone Gang. Their last night there, everyone makes their own wish for the future as they watch the stars fall. Eva dreams of becoming a famous actress. Manos wants to "conquer" the world. His brother, Nicholas, wants to become a doctor so he can help poor kids. Lucas and Nora both want to become lawyers, so they can defend the weak. Daphne only wants to be a good person, and to have a family! But, that night, is when the countdown starts for all the dreams to become nightmares.

On her way to meet the rest of the Gang, Eva is raped--was it Nicholas, who has the eternal crush on her?

15 years later, the time comes again for the annual meeting of the Moonstone Gang. Manos has turned into a ruthless businessman, his factories suspected of causing lethal poisonings of water. He has married Melita, daughter of big-shot lawyer Peter Roussos, and he has a daughter. Eva is not a famous actress, but Manos' lover. In Paris, where she has lived for years, she has been doing nude photographs and sensual "art" movies. Nicholas has become a doctor, just like he dreamed to, and is about to marry Daphne, who has bought the dining room of their old summer camp and has turned it into a clothing bussines. Lucas and Nora became lawyers, but do not defend the poor and weak. They defend those who can afford the humongous bills of Peter Roussos' law firm, where they work.

The beginning storylines feature Nora's succesful winning of a court case, where she got to free a OBGYN who is responsible for the death of a woman and her unborn child. While Peter congratulates her and makes her partner, the general audience condems her. Nora deals with the moral repercussions of freeing a man whom she knew in her heart was guilty, and then finds out that the doctor, on his way to his summer residence, was killed in a car accident. A mysterious guy breaks into her apartment and bugs it.

Eva returns to Greece, to find her mother unable to deal with her rebelious 15 year old sister and has to deal with the fact that Manos is hesitant to leave his wife.

The whole Gang alludes to a shocking event that changed everything, which they have sweared never to talk about again. There is a general sense of mystery going on as the characters talk about not doing anything when they should have.

I indeed found it very sophisticated. Produced by the same executive producer, and written by the same writers as VERA STO DEXI, it had a brilliant level of writing, acting and directing. The show begins with all the characters fully fledged, about 15 storylines, and a great cliffhanger--Eva going through the woods she was raped in, and being followed again--only to be pined down to the Earth by Nicholas. Hope this has been helpful!

This show sounds fascinating. The summary alone got me hooked. Oh, how I wish American soaps were this good, but this kind of story fits the Telenovela format better probably.

Yeah, I agree.. the premise of this show sounds really interesting.

Do these shows air during the summer?

Do these shows air during the summer?

Primetime and daytime shows usually go on up until late June/early July and daytime soaps usually start again around the 20th of September... so, I would guess we will keep getting episodes until the beginning of July, but it all depends on the writers' projected season.

Oh, the amazingness of what's been going on during the episodes I have been watching.... Just

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Do these shows air during the summer?

In the UK and Germany they do - don't know about the rest.

Yeah, I know about the UK and German soaps, I was wondering about these Greek ones.

So... That means there will be a cliffhanger in July?

So... That means there will be a cliffhanger in July?

If cliffhangers on VSD were any indication, there will be a huge cliffhanger in July, which will probably stem out of a whole season's worth of drama... a huge, show-changing twist (and it so was!). Actually, scratch that, they had a double cliffhanger for Season 1, aaaah, good times....

Ta Mistika Tis Edem (Edem Secrets). This one, created by the producers of Vera sto Dexi too, has so far been even more successful than Vera Sto Dexi. Ta mystika tis Edem has been characterized as the most successful daily show in the history of Greek television and its ratings place it constantly on the top three daily programs.

YRBB & Elsa, which primetime soaps were popular in Greece in the past decade? And which are popular today?

YRBB & Elsa, which primetime soaps were popular in Greece in the past decade? And which are popular today?

KLEISE TA MATIA (Shut Your Eyes) was perhaps the most uber-soap and a huge success (and a personal favorite, despite some shortcomings in the writing department at times). Also, MIN MOU LES ANTIO (Don't Say Goodbye) was a MASSIVE success. But those have been around a few years. Also, LENI was very popular. Most recently, it has been AN M'AGAPAS (If You Love Me) but I've never seen it, TIS AGAPIS MAXAIRIA (Love's Knife?) never seen it either, THA VREIS TON DASKALO SOU (though technically a comedy) and who knows what else!

KLEISE TA MATIA (Shut Your Eyes) was perhaps the most uber-soap and a huge success (and a personal favorite, despite some shortcomings in the writing department at times).

Didn't that had a sh!tty ending? It was all just a dream and the guy knocks on her door?

Didn't that had a sh!tty ending? It was all just a dream and the guy knocks on her door?

That it did. He turned out to be the photographer and she remembered him from her dream. However, the main implication of the idea was to show that they were indeed to embark on an affair. In other words, no matter what happened, they would have found each other in th end. But, yeah, it was sh!tty.

YRBB & Elsa, which primetime soaps were popular in Greece in the past decade? And which are popular today?

KLEISE TA MATIA (Shut Your Eyes) was perhaps the most uber-soap and a huge success (and a personal favorite, despite some shortcomings in the writing department at times). Also, MIN MOU LES ANTIO (Don't Say Goodbye) was a MASSIVE success. But those have been around a few years. Also, LENI was very popular. Most recently, it has been AN M'AGAPAS (If You Love Me) but I've never seen it, TIS AGAPIS MAXAIRIA (Love's Knife?) never seen it either, THA VREIS TON DASKALO SOU (though technically a comedy) and who knows what else!

90 percent of this decade's dramatic series were based on love triangles, or two tortured lovers trying to get together, which makes them more or less soap operas or actually telenovelas, because they were never meant to last more than a year.

Psitiri Kardias: A young playboy falls for a beautiful gypsy girl; Aggigma Psyxis: A beautiful woman falls for a hunky priest, I agapi irthe apo makria: the wife of a rich landlord falls for the Albanian stable boy, etc.

Kleise ta matia: A huge success indeed, a modern soap opera, Christoforos Papakaliatis should be writing a daily soap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ILB8Kw6QE

This is the first part of the very first episode. The show lasted three seasons and had kind of a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" finale. CP wrote a number of other one-season prime time series, all of them had a soap structure and were successful. Na Me Proseheis and I Zoi Mas Mia Volta had great ratings, while Dyo Meres Mono DMM was not considered a hit and the series turned darker mid-season. CP's new series Tessera will premiere this fall.

An m'agapas, a hospital series, was shown three times within a week and was based on the format of a daily italian soap. It also lasted three seasons and it was nothing special. I watched the first season because it starred iconic sex symbol Vana Barba as a rich meddling mother and I really had to see that, since I adore her.

Tha vreis to daskalo sou lasted three seasons and was based on the love story of a vey hunky teacher and a student. It was meant to be a comedy (horrible comedy IMO), but the stories were very soapy (bad soap).

In Greece tv writers hate the word soap opera and in their interviews they try to make it very clear that their show is not a soap. Papakaliatis, Akrita, even Foskolos (with his awful daily soaps in the nineties) among others. So, we don't have soap operas, but dramatic serials

Dyo Meres Mono DMM was not considered a hit and the series turned darker mid-season. CP's new series Tessera will premiere this fall.

I really tried to like Dyo Meres Mono, poor CP tried so hard.... but it just wasn' working. I hear he eventually ended the series, but I've never seen those final episodes. However, I did love it when they turned dark, having that raining while cutting your wrists episode thing.

I had no idea he was starting a new series. I read all about it, seems like it could be wonderful and I will be, of course, checking it out! Too bad it'll only be 28 episodes.

In Greece tv writers hate the word soap opera and in their interviews they try to make it very clear that their show is not a soap. Papakaliatis, Akrita, even Foskolos (with his awful daily soaps in the nineties) among others. So, we don't have soap operas, but dramatic serials

Yes, how ridiculous. All of these people have written uber UBER soaps (one uber just does not make it) and yet they hate the word? Like the interviewer asking Akrita what made TA MYSTIKA TIS EDEM NOT a soap Nevertheless, I'll take their "dramatic series" even Foskolos'

I really tried to like Dyo Meres Mono, poor CP tried so hard.... but it just wasn' working. I hear he eventually ended the series, but I've never seen those final episodes. However, I did love it when they turned dark, having that raining while cutting your wrists episode thing.

I had no idea he was starting a new series. I read all about it, seems like it could be wonderful and I will be, of course, checking it out! Too bad it'll only be 28 episodes.

And of course, a question: what is Tessera about? I can't really consider something with 28 episodes a soap... No matter how melodramatic/soapy/filled with cliffhangers it is... It's like a mini-series. US primetime shows have between 22 and 24 episodes per season. Cable even less, you know that.