One Life to Live: Don’t Anoint It Best Yet! (Part 1)

By Marlena De Lacroix  I have to admit I was very suspicious.  Not more than two weeks after its new head writer Ron Carlivati's debut, a soap reporter from the northern climes  proclaimed One Life to Live the best soap of the year.  As a veteran soap critic, I've always felt you had to watch a soap a couple of months at least before you declare … [Read more...]

One Life to Live Loses Marston Again

By Marlena De Lacroix One Life to Live has been showered with a lot of good critical notice lately since the more literate and lighthearted scripts of its new headwriter Ron Carlivati started to air last month. There's much hope that show's momentum won't be ruined with the onset of scab scripts to air in a few weeks. These scripts are the mark … [Read more...]

One Life To Live: Viki Is Back Where She Belongs

By Marlena De Lacroix  As I write this, it is only the third day of sweeps and automatically I can give my approval to one storyline, a new one on One Life to Live. Widow and career newspaper publisher Viki Davidson is newly depicted working as a waitress in a diner in Paris, Texas. Hooray! Doesn't Viki, the very portrait of a lady, deserve a … [Read more...]