As much as I love a happy ending, there’s something about love unfulfilled that I love even more. Heartbreak, thwarted souls torn apart by circumstance or fate… that longing and grief brings a whole different kind of satisfaction to me as a reader or a viewer. Because sometimes it’s not about happiness, it’s about being… Read More When happily ever after fails…
A lot of mainstream critics are weighing in about James Franco‘s first few days on GH, so I guess it’s my turn! First, I think it’s terribly sad that, in GH’s shot to draw in new viewers with Franco’s guest appearance and the surrounding media blitz, the hospital has not been shown once so far. If… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
The new urban fantasy anthology Unbound, featuring short stories from Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Jocelynn Drake, Vicki Petterson and Melissa Marr kind of left me cold. Harrison’s young adult novel Once Dead Twice Shy presupposed that the reader knew the heroine from the anthology Prom Dates From Hell. And that’s the feeling that I got with several of the… Read More An unsatisfying experience with Unbound
Today I was completely enthralled by a highly-anticipated character being introduced via an art show. No, I don’t mean James Franco on GH. I mean Paul Leyden‘s Simon Frasier on ATWT! Franco may have that appealing mop of curls, a darling smile, and the ability to portray a vicious edge with ease, but expert thief… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
As much as I adore B&B with every fiber of my being, it annoyed me a little this week to see Ann (the fabulous Betty White) get dropped off at Paradise Cove by a South Asian cabbie. I know what you’re thinking: “Mala, shouldn’t you be happy there was a brown person on the show? And… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
With the news of a Charlie’s Angels reboot being conceived for next year’s TV season, I can only continue to shake my head at how Hollywood is out of ideas. I mean, this is an industry that is remaking films that came out in the ’80s. I don’t care if it’s a horror movie like… Read More Nothing new under the Hollywood sun
So, GH has James Franco for sweeps, and Y&R, which has been teasing a recast of Malcolm Winters for months, brings in…Darius McCrary?! (Better known to most people as Eddie, the not-so-bright son on the ’90s sitcom FAMILY MATTERS.) I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with the role, but still…huh? This is hardly the first… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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