Thinking Fans Comment Update August 2: Emelzmom thinks Epiphany deserves better ... Karen thinks NS2 is hard to watch ... Soap misses the old Leo ... and more. See Comments below. ______________By Marlena De LacroixI thought the second episode of General Hospital: Night Shift 2, which aired this week, was an improvement over the first. … [Read more...]
Second Thoughts on the Second Episode of General Hospital: Night Shift 2
August 1, 2008 by 9 Comments
Do You Love or Hate it When Soaps Repeat Their Histories?
July 30, 2008 by 13 Comments
Thinking Fans Comment Update July 31: How to repeat soap histories? Melanie counts the ways ... James cheers the Reva/Josh movie wedding ... while esther is generally unimpressed by retreads ... and more. See Comments below. ____________By Patrick Erwin Each of the eight daytime soaps on American network TV these days has a … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Will Night Shift 2 Be Nightmare 2?
July 25, 2008 by 20 Comments
Thinking Fans Comment Update July 26: horselover thinks NS2 has potential ... Thirty misses Cody and Lainey ... pjs opines NS2 is up slightly from NS1's nadir ... and more. See Comments below._______________ By Marlena De LacroixI can't stand watching General Hospital because of the din of Crazy Carly's constant yelling about Jax's … [Read more...]
Say What? The 2008 Emmys Had No Class
June 23, 2008 by 19 Comments
By Marlena De LacroixThe star of the 2008 Emmys was a body part your mother blushingly called your "backside." Stars couldn't stop talking about derrieres, and wound up acting a lot like them."Oh, oh, I love your butt, what a cute little butt, I'd take that cute little butt," All My Children's Rebecca Budig (Greenlee) squealed as she … [Read more...]
Marlena’s Emmy Picks in 2008’s Humpty Dumpty Soap World
June 18, 2008 by 11 Comments
By Marlena De LacroixI'm not overly excited about this week's Daytime Emmys. I could be fluffy and say it's because they moved the ceremony to L.A. several years ago and I don't get to go and to buy a dress, and to me (I attended here in New York 23 years in a row) the Daytime Emmys was always about The Dress. But the truth is, daytime drama, … [Read more...]
Introducing Our New Column: Soap Shrink by Damon L. Jacobs
June 13, 2008 by 1 Comment
How many times have you seen a soap villainess or villain -- or even a soap hero or heroine -- do something that is so wrong and so bizarre that you've jumped up from your armchair and screamed: "WHAT IS WRONG with her/him?"In the vast, messy world of today's soap opera -- where cheap thrills usually trump character development, history is all … [Read more...]
On the Soap Shrink’s Couch: General Hospital’s Carly Corinthos Jacks
June 12, 2008 by 11 Comments
By Damon L. JacobsHello and welcome to my cyber office. These sessions will be an opportunity for us to examine the psychological profiles of some of our favorite soap characters, explore their symptoms, and get a better grasp of why they do the things they do. My hope is that we will have a dialogue about each person, and this will lead to a … [Read more...]
General Hospital’s Monstrous Lies, All My Children’s Truthful Memories
May 22, 2008 by 47 Comments
By Marlena De LacroixYesterday, I was trying to write my long promised column against the most perversely inhuman, possibly most disturbing soap storyline of all time, but the words just would not come out. I'm talking about the General Hospital storyline written by Bob Guza that began with 12-year-old Michael getting shot in the head and … [Read more...]
10 Merry Mid-Month of May Questions
May 14, 2008 by 13 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix and Patrick Erwin1. When you saw John-Paul Lavoisier as Rex in his recent pre-wedding scenes on One Life to Live, wandering around a bar drunk, shirtless, and disheveled with a wild head of hair, didn't he remind you just a little of Bamm-Bamm from The Flintstones?2. Have you been lost in the maze of brunettes on As … [Read more...]
Daytime Emmy Noms 2008: The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
May 1, 2008 by 20 Comments
By Marlena De LacroixI first attended and wrote about the Daytime Emmys in 1980 and I should be over them by now. But I continue, year after year, to be exasperated by the fact that two things never change. 1) No matter how many times they have been revised or have been updated over the years, the nomination and award processes are still … [Read more...]
