Move over Kurt and Santana, Sonny Kiriakis is in town! The rest of the TV viewing universe may think Ryan Murphy Glee-fully cornered the market on visible gay youth, but soap fans know that our genre has been trailblazing in this department for years. Another Ryan, Ryan Phillippe, played Billy Douglas on OLTL from 1992-93.… Read More Enjoying the Sonny Weather in DAYS’ Salem
These past few months, my grieving process for the venerable 41-year-old soap All My Children, which ends its televised run today, has been slow. My fury, my sadness, my sense of loss, has been simmering. Not to sound dismissive, or minimize the impact of this travesty, but after the cancellation of Guiding Light and As… Read More The Stew: Bringing AMC Fans’ Anger To a Boil
ABC Family’s smash hit Pretty Little Liars is heading towards its August 30th summer finale at breakneck speed, and if you (yes, you) haven’t jumped aboard for the ride, here’s ten reasons why you should. 1. PLL passes the Bechdel Test and then some. Young women in Rosewood talk to each other about more than… Read More If You’re Not Watching Pretty Little Liars, You Should Be!
Given my fairly public “I hate them with a fiery passion” stance on rapists and rape stories in daytime, you’d think I wouldn’t be compelled by the tale of a serial rapist trying to reclaim “his” life from a sociopath. But OLTL’s “Tale of Two Todds” has been riveting. The truth is, I don’t have… Read More Toddpocalypse Now (I love the smell of retcons in the morning)
Teen emotion has always been big, dramatic and very rightnowrighthere. On TV these days, it’s also very immediate. Watching ABC Family’s crop of delightfully soapy teen shows… it’s like watching the relationship version of the Indy 500! I tuned in to the fourth episode of Switched at Birth to see Daphne (Katie LeClerc, right) tearfully breaking… Read More Had we but world enough and timeslots…
As I rode the subway to work this morning, Mark Lawson‘s cover of the OLTL theme song came up on my iPod Shuffle. While I hummed along, I was suddenly struck by the thought that I adore Brody Lovett. He’s just a darned good character! It must be my week to wax poetic about guys… Read More OLTL: Brody of Proof
I had a confab with my Soap Opera Digest colleagues Lee and Naomi this morning about how Ethan and Kristina are the most riveting story on GH right now. We must’ve blissfully rambled for at least ten minutes about why the pair’s tale works for us. A few of our assertions were that they’re “classic… Read More The wisdom of GH’s Ethina
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