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
Watching GH today, I was struck by how beautiful and together and amazing Maxie is. The luminous Kirsten Storms really embodies this character now; she’s taken Maxie from impulsive teenager to sardonic young woman. I think it’s high time she played more of a role on the show, and not just as a talk-to or as Spinelli’s… Read More GH: Have you met Miss Jones?
I have this habit of making up characters’ back story or motivation in my head, and then watching their shows with that filter in place. I can’t help it. It sticks. A great example of viewers who have done this in the past would be X-Files Mulder/Scully ‘shippers who speculated that the duo canoodled in… Read More Canon fodder: back story and missing scenes
General Hospital recently experienced a shift in writing regimes, wherein longtime head writer Robert Guza, Jr. was replaced by former breakdown writer and ex-associate head writer Garin Wolf. This led to my friend Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (you can read her thoughts here) and I spending a few hours brainstorming what we’d like to see in… Read More Mala’s Port Charles Perfect 10
Seven years at Soap Opera Weekly and a lifetime of soap opera worship have afforded me so many wonderful experiences. I don’t even know where to begin a little stroll down memory lane. Do I talk about how my first official phone interview was with Chris Beetem (ex-Jordan, ATWT) in 2004 and my first in-person… Read More Lathering up for a look back…
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