Are you #Team Conrad, or #Team Jeremiah? If you don’t know what it is, your teenager probably knows. In the series The summer I became pretty, A real cardboard on the video premium at the end of this summer, Belly A young woman out of adolescence, does not know what childhood friends she prefers: Conrad the dark, or Jeremiah her little extraverted brother. To have the end of the story, more than 25 million spectators find themselves in front of each episode on Wednesday.
The love triangle, the intrigue that works every time
If the series has been fans for 3 seasons, it must be recognized, however, that the recipe for the love triangle is nothing new. Netflix also holds his series on the subject with My life with the Walter Boyswhich has just broadcast its second season. In this case, it is Jacky, an orphan high school student hosted in the best of her mother who again falls under the spell of two brothers. One popular a bit bad boy, the other more discreet and romantic. The scheme does not seem to run out of steam. However, it has been used again. The oldest no doubt remember Dawson (Joey had to choose between Dawson and Pacey), Twilight, or Vampire Diaries. But why do we love tortured choices so much?
An impossible choice? The drama we love
“Always the same mechanics of the love triangle. A heart that hesitates. Two contenders who compete. And an impossible choice … we love it!”recognizes Amélie Boukhobza, psychologist.
According to her, if this formula captivates as much, it is because it reflects a universal inner reality. “”This is exactly what adolescence (but not that) stages: hesitation, trouble, the desire to please and the fear of losing. The love triangle is the drama of this inner tightness: to choose is to give up. And it resonates very strongly at a period of life where each choice seems decisive. And even after, you have to admit. “
The promise of twists and turns in a calm daily life
That’s not all. Question viewing, the attraction is also there. Beyond the identification, there is also the promise of intensity: “These stories offer drama, jealousy, twists and turns, in short, pure emotion. All that everyday life does not always allow. And that does not only appeal to teens. Many adults continue to be sensitive to it, because these intrigues replay the same major universal questions: how to love? How to be chosen? How to bear not to be? “
Simple, but terribly effective mechanics, which affects something fundamental: “These series speak of desire, in what is most exhilarating, and more painful. And I can tell you that some of my patients need this type of dramas to feel alive” concludes the psychologist.