By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman For ages we’ve complained about the absence of romance -- real love -- in the afternoon. Someone must have been listening because this week The Bold and the Beautiful gave us a mega dose of love scenes concluding in a real beauty: the carefully orchestrated “first time’ for Wyatt Fuller … [Read more...]
Is Bold and Beautiful Best Soap?
January 12, 2014 by 7 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman With only four daytime soaps left, it seems fruitless to name a Best Soap. It’s all a matter of personal preference anyway. If you like your soaps slow and full of character, you like The Young and the Restless. If you like your plots fast and full of surprises, General Hospital is … [Read more...]
Happy New Year: Looking Ahead to 2014
December 29, 2013 by 7 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The new year starts Wednesday, and I have many questions about what’s going to happen on our favorite shows next year. See if you might speculate on the answers, or pose some questions of your own: 1. How is The Young and the Restless going to fill the terrible holes left by the … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas, Thinking Fans!
December 22, 2013 by 10 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman There I was this week watching The Bold and the Beautiful and scratching my head. How many interrupted weddings can Hope and Liam have? After all, Steffy broke up the first wedding with news she was pregnant, and here she was back with the news for Liam that after her miscarriage, she … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Surprise! A Soap Full of Great Surprises!
December 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman One of the great strengths of the soap opera form is the element of surprise. Since we have long lived in a world of spoilers, surprises are few and far between today’s soaps. Thus we rejoice that General Hospital of late has managed to steer around the obligatory spoilers and give us … [Read more...]
General Hospital Reaches a Storyline and Ratings High
December 8, 2013 by 13 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Last week General Hospital reached a very admirable ratings high, scoring 3.3 million viewers, its highest numbers since 2007. The timing for this benchmark is something the show had long been leading up to: the revelation to Dr. Patrick Drake that his wife Dr. Robin is still … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Jam-Packed November Sweeps
November 24, 2013 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman It’s traditional for a soap presents its strongest stories during sweeps, and this November hasn’t been a disappointment on General Hospital. Au contraire, the month isn’t over yet. To paraphrase Bette Davis in All About Eve: “Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy 30 days.” The … [Read more...]
Four More Who Make My Day
October 27, 2013 by 8 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Even when the plots of our soap operas drag or are otherwise unsatisfying, there are always actors who make our day. I named some of my favorites here a while back. Now, here are some more, all on General Hospital: Anders Hove plays Faison, a classic villain who has been in and out … [Read more...]
General Hospital: The Ugly Denouement of the Baby Connie True Parentage Plot
October 5, 2013 by 19 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Wasn’t it ugly? Incredibly, the denouement of General Hospital‘s Maxie admitting she is the biological mother of Connie plot was even worse than could have been predicted. The fact that Maxie – who supposedly mothered the baby as a surrogate for Lulu and Dante -- is the baby’s biological … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson
September 29, 2013 by 11 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Last week we condemned an Eric and Quinn romance on The Bold and the Beautiful because of the thirty- plus-years age difference. But this week I’m going to be a tremendous hypocrite and give a compliment to the fact that forty-something Ava slept with 19 year old Morgan on General Hospital … [Read more...]
