Liz Carlyle’s 2008 release Never Deceive a Duke, leaves me with the same conundrum as Wicked All Day did: I can’t figure out what the title has to do with anything. Yes, there is a duke, but who’s doing the deceiving? Not that I’m necessarily in favor of titles that tell you exactly what’s going on.… Read More Never Deceive a Duke, by Liz Carlyle
I was watching As the World Turns today, and I kept flipping over to One Life to Live during the commercials to get hits like a crack addict needing a fix. And, well, I missed a lot, so I rewatched the big, gay wedding tonight (I love that absolutely everybody, in Llanview and offscreen, is calling it… Read More Tricks, treats and Dorian’s big, gay wedding
Yes, today was the day that “Elizabeth’s first love” returned on GH, and I’ll get to that, but let me talk about OLTL’s Kyle’s first love, Fish, first! I’m a sucker for two characters really digging deep into the core of their relationship. And, as we all know, I’m a sucker for Kyle and Fish… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
I don’t know if this means I’m perversely ornery or what, but when a canon tells me that a character is root-worthy, to the point of slanting stories to show how sympathetic or wonderful or favored they are, I inevitably run screaming in the opposite direction. And sometimes, I even start rooting for whoever their… Read More Soap characters and taking sides
When you’re talking about some of the most romantic movie sequences of all time, everyone has things that instantly come to mind. All you have to say to a fan of recent Bollywood movies is “the gazebo scene,” and they automatically know what you’re talking about: 1998’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai; Rahul and Anjali share a dance… Read More Setting the scene for romance
Sometimes, when a book or a move are overhyped, I brace for impact, expecting my experience with it to be a letdown. Thankfully, this was not the case with Melina Marchetta’s critically acclaimed Jellicoe Road, which was released in 2006 in Australia and then in 2008 here in the States —interestingly enough, the Australian release is… Read More Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
“Elizabeth’s first love is back,” touts an ABC/SOAPnet promo for Jonathan Jackson‘s Oct. 27 return. (Check it out here) Uh, guys…? Elizabeth’s first love NEVER LEFT. He’s right there. In Port Charles. Wearing Greg Vaughan‘s face. I mean, I can only imagine how hamstrung the ABC/SOAPnet promotional department was, realizing that they couldn’t go “the real Lucky returns!”… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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