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...]
The Bold and the Beautiful: Bill’s Balderdash
November 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman It may be the strangest game changer in soap history. While The Bold and the Beautiful’s Bill Spencer was climbing to a mountain top in Aspen, he slipped and fell. Not that far, thanks to his safety line. But far enough, he said, to frighten him into an epiphany. According to Bill, … [Read more...]
Barely on the Fringe of Believability
September 21, 2013 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman On soaps, romance comes in many permutations, some exhilarating and some, shall we say, less so. Far out on the latter end of the spectrum is the romance that seems to be on the horizon on The Bold and Beautiful. I’d place it solidly in the category of “Ew!” We got our first clue this … [Read more...]
General Hospital: This Storyline Should End
September 8, 2013 by 7 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalaqua Hayman When has a storyline go on too long? This is a question normally leftonly to headwriters who must figure out if an audience is still interested in the outcome of a story. Right now on General Hospital, one storyline that has gone on too long is the secret biological parentage of Maxie’s baby … [Read more...]
They Make My Day
August 24, 2013 by 3 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Who are your current favorite soap characters – the ones who make your day as soon as you see they will be in an episode of your favorite daytime drama? Here are my current faves: * Avery Clark (played by Jessica Collins), The Young and the Restless. She’s the only soap character I … [Read more...]
The Bold and the Beautiful: Is There Still Right and Wrong?
August 17, 2013 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman There she was in an evening dress with her beautiful blonde hair put up in a sophisticated bun, running through the streets of Monte Carlo. All of a sudden she was caught up into the arms of a strong, dark handsome man, and the two embraced in hard kiss. Was it Grace Kelly and Cary … [Read more...]
Appreciating Three Wise Decisions – In Soap Land, No Less
June 29, 2013 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Soap critics never miss a chance to bash all they dislike. But credit should always be given where credit is due. So this week, Marlena would like to give kudos to three significant decisions: 1. OWN, the Oprah network, picked up the first 40 episodes of All My Children and One Life to … [Read more...]
