AS Media Studies Practice Test 2026 - Free TV Drama Representation and Film Industry Analysis Practice Questions

Todorov’s idea tracks how a story world moves from a stable starting point, through an event that disturbs that stability, and then toward an ending where balance is restored or redefined. In TV drama, you usually see the characters in a familiar ordinary world, an inciting disruption hits that world, and the plot follows how they respond to restore order, often ending with a new equilibrium. That makes the sequence equilibrium, disruption, then resolution the best fit, because the disruption only makes sense once there is an established balance, and the resolution completes the arc by re-establishing or reconfiguring balance.