By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The Daytime Emmy nominations for 2014 have been announced. Do you care? After all these years, Marlena still does. So let’s discuss: Best Actor: Aside from Jason Thompson (Patrick, General Hospital) the other four nominees all come from The Young and the Restless: Peter Bergman … [Read more...]
Disgraceful, Delightful and Disgusting: This Week’s Soap Events
April 26, 2014 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman From The Young and the Restless: This week Nick found out that a doppelganger for his dead daughter Cassie has been in town for months disgracefully spooking Sharon into getting shock treatments. The look-alike (who doesn’t even have a name) admitted the sham and said that Victor had … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Who is the Real Luke Spencer?
April 19, 2014 by 29 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman On soap operas, situations and characters change very slowly. So it’s been somewhat of a shock that Luke Spencer, for most of his 35 years on General Hospital a lovable rogue, has turned into a major criminal. It was revealed in the last few months that he’s the one who is bankrolling … [Read more...]
General Hospital at 51: A Nifty Anniversary Episode
April 6, 2014 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Soaps rarely celebrate anniversaries on camera. But General Hospital had such a boffo 50th year, the 51st anniversary show just begged to be done. The resulting episode, which aired on April 1st, was a winner from start to finish. As it should, it was introduced by pictures of Steve … [Read more...]
General Hospital: The Wyndemere Curse
March 30, 2014 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Wyndemere has always been a center of plot action -- and frequent plot tragedy -- on General Hospital. Although owned by others, most of that plot action has centered on the Cassadines, the evil family that has manipulated so many of Port Charles residents. They have thrown events -- … [Read more...]
Are You Buying These Fanciful Plot Twists?
March 23, 2014 by 5 Comments
Bt Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman In their drive to create more and more entertaining soap opera, writers sometimes devise situations that are fanciful and, to put it bluntly, hard to believe. After all, soap viewers will buy anything, right? Wrong. Recently, three soaps have come up with situations which Marlena … [Read more...]
General Hospital’s Amazing 50th Anniversary Celebration Ends With a Few Troubling Story Choices
March 15, 2014 by 7 Comments
By Ed Martin As a long-time viewer of General Hospital I have been thrilled with much of what I have seen on the show during the last two years. I can’t say that it’s been all good – the return of Caleb the Vampire and Lucy Coe’s obsession with destroying him was one of the most tedious storylines I have ever seen on any soap opera, and it … [Read more...]
The Ho-Hum, Overly Violent Carly Kidnapping Denouement
February 15, 2014 by 4 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman We’ve already said that General Hospital’s Heather-kidnapping-Carly plot was a big ho-hum. Heather tried to blame it on Franco, her son, who had previously tried to kill Heather, his mother. No surprise, the accusation went nowhere and the outcome was predictable: Carly, a central GH … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Robin’s Reason to Leave Is Unbelievable
February 9, 2014 by 13 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman One of the bad things about General Hospital is that it grows so unbelievable at times. For example, how many would-be killer psychos can one town have at a time? Right now, we have four: Heather, Dr. Obrecht, Franco and Ava. But unbelievably, the unbelievability gets worse: there … [Read more...]
All Hail Friday Cliffhangers!
February 1, 2014 by 5 Comments
By Marlena Delacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman One of the most important and unique of all daytime soap opera conventions is the Friday cliffhanger. On Friday, at the end of a week’s worth of episodes, either a secret is exposed or something significant happens which creates big suspense, compelling the audience to want to tune in to … [Read more...]
