By Marlena Delacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman For any soap opera, a “love to hate” character is money in the bank. Fascinated by their endless power to manipulate other characters and instigate interesting plots, these diabolical characters are adored by audiences who avidly follow all that they do. “Love to hate” characters … [Read more...]
B&B: Does One Show-Eating Storyline Work?
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Bradley Bell has been trying a bold soap experiment the last three quarters of a year on The Bold and Beautiful, featuring one storyline, the Hope-Liam-Steffy triangle, almost to the exclusion of most others. And he's been succeeding -- the ratings are still comparatively healthy. So I ask … [Read more...]
Who Created All My Children’s Erica and Sugar on the Run?
By Marlena De Lacroix You ever think you're going to hate something and you wind up liking it? I certainly chortled when I heard jail-bound Erica Kane on All My Children was going to escape from the cops during a police van crash and go on the run handcuffed to a bank robber named ... Sugar. Some AMC writer has to be an old movie fan, I … [Read more...]
The Young and the Restless: Katherine Chancellor, Always!
By Patrick Erwin The Young and the Restless has a long history of being a solid hour of soap, mostly unmoved by trends or the fleeting fancies that other shows have lived (or died) by. But in the last few years, Y&R has undergone some substantial changes -- changes in writers, in producers, and in the pace the story unfolds on screen. Fans … [Read more...]