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Soap operas died because the new generation of writers did not care about the characters or the fans. They wanted to do their own thing and some of the writers wanted to pretend like they were not writing for a soap opera.
What's ironic is that The Chew gets cancelled because one of the Chefs was accused of sexual misconduct. Then comes GMA3 , where 2 of the married co anchors were having an affair with each other. ABC can try to get rid of drama but the drama won't let go of ABC.
I grew up watching all my children and one life to live guiding light and as the world turns i absolutely loved these shows and was devastated when they got cancelled 😢
God rest her soul....my step-grandma had 3 TV'S ONE in the kitchen, living room and bedroom. ABC- NBC-CBS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME. WATCHING HER SOAPS.
I worked at a college recreation/intramural building during the height of "Luke & Laura". The TV lounge was standing room only during GH, sometimes sounding like a college basketball crowd. Never seen any daytime TV fascination like it before or since.
I grew up watching the soaps. All different ones. I grew up watching Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, Days of My Lives, and my ultimate favorite soaps..Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. But I was very sad and upset when Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children and One Life to Live were canceled. Please bring them back!!
This is very interesting. Soap operas were the talk of the day, everyday. The characters were talked about as if they were known, by most every woman in America. Anywhere women gathered the conversation would invariably include their favorite soap opera star.
I'm a middle aged man and I remember chatting about soaps on the phone. I told those when I watched soaps, they were no cable. No Internet. No Hulu. No Netflix and no Amazon Streaming. Nowadays a cellphone is a soap opera
Definitely men too!!! I was obsessed!! I loved The Secret Storm. It was my absolute favorite soap of all time!!! It has been gone for 50 years now, and I still mourn the loss of it!!! How I miss those wonderful days when soaps were so excellent and so captivating. You just couldn't wait to tune in tomorrow. ❤️
Thank you for acknowledging the the mesmerizing writing and leadership skills of Mr. Douglas Marland. Literally, he was a genius, and is sorely missed.
I never got into daytime soaps myself, but I lived in the UK for a little while and found it interesting how the Australian soap opera Neighbours was comparable to “Netflix and chill” though I didn’t have a TV while I was there. When I returned for a vacation in 2022, word around the pubs and hostels was that Neighbours was finally ending after 37 years and I remembered feeling like I missed out on something special so during the writer’s strike in 2023 I watched the first 100 episodes and despite them being so dated, I was engaged for a little while and found it amusing to know that almost every major actor from Australia came back for the show’s final episodes. From what I’ve heard, the writers and producers gave the show the ultimate send-off though it must have been the almighty dollar or to assuage the show’s legions of long-time fans that they decided to revive it. Long live Ramsey Street!
My mom started watching OLTL with her grandmother, and I started watching with my mom. I still miss OLTL to this day and even have dreams that it comes back to TV lol I wish it didn’t go out the way it did.
I'm writing and posting OLTL fanfiction now. Dorian Lord is my favorite, so I'm writing about her post-Llanview life where she's living in Washington, DC.
Any show, with proper investment, time, commitment, can be transformed into a hit. Y&R, with new writers, could thrive in prime time/streaming on a smaller network like CW or ION
The soap opera has fallen because times have changed, but the soaps are still written largely like it's 1992. No one is taking risks because social media is so swift to condemn anything not vanilla and safe. A true crime soap opera like Edge of Night is begging to be rebooted. Soap opera fantasy is becoming more and more passe. Great history lesson!
I disagree. Soaps changed too much. This led to their downfall. They should have remained for women with emphasis on romance n love stories n less on mob bosses n violence. They should have kept creating supercouples. Supercouples made soaps great put them on the map so to speak. And writers producers went against what worked n made them popular by mostly ending the Supercouple. People lost interest quit watching ratings went down n shows got canceled.
The " Edge Of Night " was my favorite soap opera ( even before I knew my A B C s lol ). I agree it should be re- booted. Sharon Gabet has been away for Far, Far too long. By now " Raven" would or could be the " Grand Dame"; certainly by now.
I felt with the OJ Simpson trial, expansion of cable TV, and with the Internet did the soaps. Also with the 90's many went out to the working world, after graduating college lost viewers and not to tape them
@@barihope gh used to be home of super couples but they killed that off and dont get me started on god awful s/l they do back in the 90s gh was rocking with wendy riche running that show
Great video. I remember Soaps like 'Bold and the Beautiful' and 'Days of Our lives' playing on tv when i was a kid. My grandmother loved watching them every day, when i wanted to watch cartoons instead. lol
I’ve been watching the stories since I was 9. Started with my mom in 1986, she passed in 1991. I am still watching to this day. Been watching GH for 38yrs and Days for 35. Over the years I have watched AMC, OLTL Loving, GH, Days, The City, Port Charles, Sunset Beach, Passions and ATWT. OLTL was my all time favorite of them all! Soaps are THE BEST genre of television. They used to be the networks bread and butter, but then the network started putting all their money into primetime. Then came OJ🤦🏾♂️ and THAT was the beginning of the end for soaps😡
Guiding Light or World Turns could be re-booted. Vets are mostly gone but enough core characters remain to serve as tent poles. ATWT would be low cost programming for Paramount +
When my nana was alive I watched “The Doctors”, “Days of out Lives”, and “Another World “ with her. A very young Alec Baldwin was on “The Doctors “. Then “The Doctors “ ended and “Texas” a spin-off of “Another World “ started and we watched that. As those soaps ended I started watching “General Hospital” with my neighbour and I continued to watch it through university as it was on one of the few channels I could watch on my tv without cable. Now the only one I watch is “General Hospital “.
It seems very interesting to me that the four remaining soaps on air are still going strong today, though Days is currently streaming through Peacock, I think it has to do with staying loyal for the characters and stories and that audiences crave that. I think nowadays, reality has gotten too real for people and they seek escape. More recently, Neighbours, the long-running Australian soap that launched the careers of particularly everyone from Kylie Minogue to Margot Robbie, was revived through Amazon after having been cancelled for more than a year, and this shows that there's still some life left in the genre, and fans are willing to do anything to keep the enduring legacy alive and well for a whole new generation. If anyone wants to write and create a soap opera of their own to keep the audiences hooked 5 days a week, they are welcome. That's all I have to say. Great video, and thanks so much for sharing! 😉😃💖
I remember watching Neighbours when they were showing it late at night in Canada. My mum would tape it for me so I could watch it at a more reasonable time as I was in high school. Days is available on a cable network during the day in Canada.
I still watch GH, but it more out of loyalty to the show than because I can't get enough of the storylines. I haven't been emotionally invested in any couple since they broke up Robin and Jason and relegated them forever to the friend zone. I realize that times change and actors have to move on, whether by choice or external circumstances, but as the classic characters fade off the scene, the new generation of characters that now have to carry the show seem to be lacking the gravitas and intrigue that pulled me in when I was younger. Soaps have gone from "can't miss television" to "meh, I'll catch up when I don't have something better to do" My growing up is a part of the change, too. I miss the fun and thrill the Soaps used to bring me. Nice vid!
I agree about Jason and Robin. I loved them so much. I liked Brenda too. But the writing and quality went downhill. The peak (for General Hospital) was the 90s imo. After that the quality and heart and great writing just slowly faded.
This video popped up on RUclips and although I no longer watch soap operas, I decided to read the comments. I agree with you. The Bold and the Beautiful, is one of the WORST shows ever and my question; as many men as Brooke has slept with, in real life, she'd had have been dead from HIV, or some other disease. One of the reasons that I stopped watching, was the glamorizing of adultery and fornication, as well as multiple divorces and re-marriages. I am now a minister to young women and I have a hard time convincing some of them, that giving yourself to a man who has not shown any intent to marry and be a responsible adult, is not advisable. And I'm not just harping on soap operas. Many Walt Disney movies give the impression that if you are the victim, some handsome, rich guy is going to rescue you, marry you and carry you off into the sunset and there will be no more problems. My pastor has been married for over 40 years and he would tell people that even the best of marriages, have differences of opinion, and other " road bumps". What is important is that you deal with troubles in a mature manner. Soap operas and other romance media, don't tell women that. 😮
@@jocelynharris-fx8hoI loved B&B growing up but Brooke getting Ridge killed the show. Every man was in love with Brooke and Ridge saw her as a doormat which is why he chose Caroline and Taylor.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s on the soap operas of those times, thanks to my mom being really big into them, so every day after school I would come home in time to watch As The World Turns, One Life To Live and General Hospital, though I also saw The Young And the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful during the summer, since they all came on earlier in the day when I was at school. And then later I also started watching All My Children and Another World, like in the late 80s like 88, 89 into the 90s, and was so pissed when Another World was canceled, since it had become my favorite of them all at the time. I know people love to make fun of the soap operas, but they all a lot better then any of these so called reality or competition shows that have come out since the 90s, I've never been into any of them myself, but to find out that they may have played a part in soaps being canceled, makes me hate them even more. I mean they have also caused the cancelation of a lot of good night time shows as well over the years, and it's all because its cheaper for the networks to make them, then to make FULLY scripted and acted shows. But of course I have to also blame the people who actually like watching those shows too, because if it wasn't for those people, they wouldn't have become so profitable for the networks, so they wouldn't have kept making them. But it's really what wrong with the world, especially here in the US, people are obsessed with watching people with big mouths and disgusting behavior, which is why our government is so full of so many disgusting people too, especially on the one side of it, you know what I mean, the Right side, as they call it! But though I haven't watched any of the British soaps, I do know their other scripted shows tend to be a lot more realistic too, then what is mostly done here in the US. They're not as obsessed with the rich glamourous types, like here, they tend to focus more on more working class families and are much more grittier then the US shows are! And about Luke and Laura, even back when they were a thing, and I was a young teen, I thought it disturbing that they decided to make Luke some kind of hero, after he sexually assaulted Laura. But a lot of the problem was a lot of young women who became fond of Luke a bit too much, and so they decided to keep him around for them. And I have seen that happen in a lot of shows, including other soap operas, making a truly bad guy into a heart throb type and eventually into some misunderstood character, and even a hero in the end. They have done the same in night time soaps too, a lot of it is that whole bad boy thing, which attracts some women, for some weird reason. I do wish they would have a place online where we could watch different set timeline in those shows to watch, like somewhere I saw where they had the soap Another Worlds episodes from the actually timeline I had watched it in, back in the 88 up until they were canceled, so I wish they would do that with other popular soaps. I enjoyed it when they did it with Another World, so I bet a lot of people would enjoy rewatching the time period of General Hospital when the whole Luke and Laura story was so popular, also since Sonny is still on the show, maybe show the time period of when he first arrived on the show too. I don't watch any of them now, not for a decade now, but I wouldn't mind rewatching some of those again, since I was a teen when I last watched them. But of course it's hard with soaps, to be shown in reruns, since they didn't have actual seasons, and there were on 5 days a week for years, that's a lot of reruns to show, lol!
Some observations: Luke raping Laura was somewhat controversial at the time the story was told - at mall personal events in the early 80's where Tony Geary (Luke) appeared, fans would disturbing scream things like, "Rape me, Luke!". I got hooked the way you described - watching the CBS soaps in the early 70s with my mom. I stopped watching for a few years, then started again when a friend in junior high got me back into The Guiding Light. I fondly remembered the matriarch, Bert Bauer (my favorite all-time soap character - 2:37 and 3:39), and her two sons, Mike and Ed, watching with my mom and ended up watching for another 20 years. I think most soap viewers got hooked this way. Never heard anyone getting hooked by seeing a promo. Money is what has really done soaps in - it simply costs too much to produce a soap compared to vastly inferior but cheaper reality shoes. When CBS killed As the World Turns (another favorite), I knew the genre was dying. But I was really surprised when ABC cancelled All My Children - imo, for most of its run, it successfully blended a traditional soap opera while keeping up with social trends and issues and reflecting changes from the real world. Good, well-written video with lots of nice footage. If I may make a suggestion, try to tighten up on the video editing and it'll make your content even better than it is (hope this is not offensive - it is not meant as a slam at all).
It's a trip...my brothers late grandmother in the middle 90's when basically there was only the Big 3 ABC NBC and CBS.....had three TV's in her 🏠 she had each network going on in three different rooms of her 🏠.
The Ollie North summer trial hurt the soaps, then the oj Simpson trial really damaged the viewership and finally the soaps and games shows were taken over by talk shows.
Sir very well done and I loved the part on British soaps. I fell in love with holly oaks. Found it at start of Covid. Wish I had found it sooner. Again great video
I live in the UK. There was one head writer from EastEnders that was hired on the Young and the Restless I think. American soaps havent been popular here, except for Sunset Beach and that was extremely popular here, Santa Barbara was also somewhat popular.
Mal Young. I heard of him. I really only watch General Hospital, so when I heard that he wrote for the young and the restless and didn't really do a good job, I was disappointed (I expected so much more from him😂)
I'm glad that EastEnders is still pretty popular in the UK. I do watch EastEnders and even Coronation Street. Eastenders seems to be going in the right direction and I hope it stays this interesting all the way through the 40th anniversary and beyond
I quit AMC about 2002. Swear words (h*ll, d*mn, b*tch, cr*p) were being said so much that it just made it hard to follow any storyline. I know they were being used to display anger.
Listen, I'm still mourning One Life to Live. I literally started binging from the 80s a couple weeks ago because that's all I got. I can't even take it. They weren't fooling me about the ratings. I had Direct tv the last couple seasons and they would always show the top 5 shows being watched within the hour and OLTL and AMC were ALWAYS in the 1 and 2 slots. It's so sad man. Also, I think oltl continued to grow in that way because they had strong young stories as well to usher in new viewers and for instance, young ppl got to grow with Star as they watched with their mom or grandmas. As I'm watching YR now, that's very clearly missing for them.
Covid, like OJ, broke the daily routine of soap watching. Y&R and B&B, the final two higher rated soaps, never recovered. The loyalty was broken after months of reruns.
I never liked B&B. I would try to watch Y&R throughout the years, but I don't like anyone. There aren't even characters who love to hate. I totally quit when Michelle Stafford came back.
In my opinion, with few exceptions, soap operas had their heyday in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Women were housewives and were able to watch to have something to talk about. To me they are a relic of the past. I do agree that constant news and talk shows also helped to kill them off.
I'm not sure if you've been able to check out my soap opera, but I do work hard on creating couples that viewers root for and work on putting those couples in interesting storylines
1982, new immigrant in Australia. I broke my ankle and could not walk. My husband put the bed in the living room when I was introduced to Another World, did not speak English, but the storyline was so long that sooner or later I understood what was going on. Later I added Y&R. In 1986 I miscarried, but I knew from the moment it started as well all the terminologies as I just went through it with Patty. I learned English from soaps as well American culture and accents. 1992 we migrated to Canada and watched Another world for 18 years, never missed an episode. It was my family as I left mine behind. When they canceled Another World, I went through horrible grief for a very long time. My whole family was killed, I was devastated. But Jake and Vicky, Cass moved to As the world turns, so I followed them, but that emotional bond was lost. When they cancelled that, it did not hurt. I still watch DOOL. But my real tv family died 1999. Since that, I don’t invest in any entertainment.
I miss One Life to Live. I was shocked that one got canceled. It was very good. I wasn't surprised All My Children was canceled. OLTL was doing well so I don't understand why. I like that they moved the characters to GH but then they removed them. I stopped watching GH. It was dragging the storylines too long and they made the characters hypocrite.
Good or bad, soaps were a part of peoples lives. Something consistant. Like family that many wished they had. Lets not forget that many big name actors started in soaps and their fans followed them when they moved on. Nearly all those stars credit their talent to the fast pace of soaps. Executives have never lived the kind of life where they could identify with soap characters going through struggles and current social situations. GH STILL brings up the issue of HIV/AIDS. Not as strongly as before, but its still mentioned. Mental illness issues. Legal issues. All relevant and told in ways ordinary people can understand.
I feel like reality tv has replaced soaps. great job here btw but consider getting a better mic or use a program to bring out intelligibility frequencies of your voice. It's a bit muffled
I discovered UK soaps as well. A shame we have to outsource our soaps. UK soaps are a refreshing change. US didn’t appreciate their soaps. Hopefully they stay.
Partial of OJ! Cable expands more and more with channels and in the 90's, many people entered the work force, vs. taping the soaps. Nowadays Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Streaming and other platforms really makes it impossible to get newer viewers
If you didn't grow up with Guiding Light and As the World Turns then you missed out on a hell of a great couple of shows. Just like the TV show Cold Case which was canceled the same year as Guiding Light. I am so pissed at all these youngsters taking away our shows. You didn't have to take away your parents and grandparents shows. Guess what. Your parents and grandparents won't live forever. After we passed away you could've gotten rid of soaps. I also LOVED Jersey Shore and Love & Hip Hop. Cardi B is freaking awesome.
Love & Hip Hop has seen better days and now it only exists in spinoffs as the main series ended during Covid because of the high costs and constant controversy. Last year, they started airing reruns of the first season on MTV probably to drum up cash for it.
American soaps have been a dying genre for the last fifteen years and there are a multitude of reasons behind this: 1) Storylines - Whilst always melodramatic in nature, soaps did remain grounded in reality throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s. However, when the majority of soaps expanded their running time to 60 mins per day, the production teams on these programs began to incorporate storylines straight out B grade sci-fi movies. Such as the whole Ice Princess saga that dominated "General Hospital" in the early 80s. Clones replacing actual people ("Guiding Light"), characters time travelling ("One Life To Life") the Devil possessing folks ("Days of Our Lives") and vampires roaming around ("Port Charles") Whilst these plots were popular with viewers at the time, any resemblances soaps had to reality was now shattered. 2) The Expansion to 60 mins - When American networks wanted to capitalize on the popularity of soaps by increasing their running time from 30 mins to a full hour, the dividends paid off - in the beginning. Many soaps which increased to 60 mins saw their ratings hold strong. However, the producers were now faced with the task of being responsible for a show that went from two and half hours of programing a week to five full hours. All year round with no break in transmission. The end result saw writers having to drag out storylines for months on end which slow things down considerably. In short, what was a blessing in the beginning would turn out to be a curse in the long run as viewers began getting frustrated with the pace of these shows and ratings began to decline. 3) Constant re-adjustment of show's history - Soaps are notorious for ignoring their own established canon with current writers frequently changing established facts and events to suit whatever current plot they are working out. This extends to SORAS (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) where characters are dramatically aged in a short period of time because writers find it easier to write for adult characters who should actually still be children! 4) Lack of Diversity - Soaps also fell into the comfortable trap of highlighting a particular set of people in society. Namely - financially affluent white people. Working class people effectively have disappeared from the soap opera landscape. People of color (Black, Asian and Latino folks) have been marginally represented as have LGBT characters and those with disabilities. We live in a society that is filled with different people, but the soap world is still primarily populated with middle/upper class white characters. By contrast, Australian and British soaps have survived because they stayed true to their roots and not made many of the fundamental mistakes that US shows fell victim too.
I disagree. I think soaps thrive at the hour format. All 8 of the top 10 longest running soaps were mostly one hour long. It made more stories characters n couples possible which meant there was some couple on all these hour long shows that each individual could like n root for. I love the hour long format n we wouldn't have had many great couples had all soaps stayed at 30 min. I prefer the hour format for sure. N facts prove that it can n did work for a long long time. And I do agree the uk n Australian soaps have a more diverse cast but I feel they have made some of the same mistakes as the American soaps. I do like the uk n Austrailian soaps but all of them have gone downhill imo.
@@barihope - We'll have to agree to disagree on that. If daytime soaps thrived in the hour long format, there would be more of them around today. Expanding soaps to 60 mins has resulted in the slowed down pace of storylines plus the incorporation of ridiculous plots as well. By keeping soaps at a 30 minute running time means more efficient storytelling plus keeping your show within the bounds of believability. This is why British soaps have lasted in terms of longevity as well as ratings.
Daytime soaps did thrive for many decades. Unfortunately they made many mistakes in the 2000s which led to their downfall. Anyway at this point in 2020 decade I do agree shows should be 30 min as soaps arent pulling in the ratings like they used to. The uk n Australian soaps may be more successful as they stayed more true to their roots than American soaps have.
My take on soaps as I am a middle aged man, is that the downfall became in the mid 90's, as partial to the OJ Simpson trial. The erosion of cable TV and many channels. Also in the 90's many people entered into the work force and stopped taping them. Nowadays we have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Streaming and many other platforms that the younger audience is going to watch over, and if they hear about a soap that lasted many decades and on the air, they certainly won't have an interest to watch
Reboot the soaps but don't give any woman under 30 infertility issues. This plagued the soaps in the 2000's. The worst was on ATWT Gwen went from being an unwed teenage mother who didn't want the baby to surrogacy at 19 years old.
Soaps are talked about more than the Bible enjoyed what you had to say wish writers would listen to what you had to say they don't seem to care about viewers opinions keep writing the same boring stories that drag on forever
Soap Operas fell off the radar because they became too lame and insulting to a person's intelligence. One of the first soap operas was 'The Guiding Light' and it was originally the saga about a Minister's family. Throughout the years, many of these shows started deviating into subjects that many found socially, politically and spiritually unsettling. When I became a Christian, I could not justify my beliefs and continue to watch programming that glorified behaviors that are at odds with my faith; adultery and fornication, profanity, lying, stealing, revenge , materialism etc., and also they just got flat out stupid with their storylines ; evil twins ? Having an actor portray a role and then when another actor steps in, they explain the change in appearance, to plastic surgery, People coming back from the dead,; remember on Dallas when Bobby Ewing supposedly died , only to have Pam wake up next season and discover that it was a bad dream ?🤔 finding out that your mother is your sister, or daughter, SORAS, (soap opera rapid aging syndrome) where you can have a newborn baby and then 1 year later, that child is a fully grown adult, or a character that never had children before, suddenly has a stranger show up on their doorstep announcing that they are a long lost kid. Sorry, but I don't need to waste my time, or brain space with that nonsense. The only TRUE soap opera that I enjoyed was 'Ryan's Hope' and to some extent, 'Capitol' but I gave them up over 40 years ago and glad that I did.
To keep the genre alive, I have created an animated soap opera of my own, In Times Like These. It has enough romance, mystery, and DRAMA to keep you hooked EVERY Monday-Friday! PLEASE like, comment, share, AND subscribe!
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Soap operas died because the new generation of writers did not care about the characters or the fans. They wanted to do their own thing and some of the writers wanted to pretend like they were not writing for a soap opera.
OLTL was my favorite show ever.
What's ironic is that The Chew gets cancelled because one of the Chefs was accused of sexual misconduct. Then comes GMA3 , where 2 of the married co anchors were having an affair with each other. ABC can try to get rid of drama but the drama won't let go of ABC.
I grew up watching all my children and one life to live guiding light and as the world turns i absolutely loved these shows and was devastated when they got cancelled 😢
Whenever I watch an old episode of AMC it takes me right back there to happier times enjoying the characters and the show ❤
God rest her soul....my step-grandma had 3 TV'S ONE in the kitchen, living room and bedroom. ABC- NBC-CBS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME. WATCHING HER SOAPS.
God bless her! I love it!
😂😂😂😂😂
Oh wow! My nana wasn’t that dedicated she only watched one channel
I worked at a college recreation/intramural building during the height of "Luke & Laura". The TV lounge was standing room only during GH, sometimes sounding like a college basketball crowd. Never seen any daytime TV fascination like it before or since.
Luke and Laura were the best.
Talk shows killed the soaps. And now, local news broadcasts in the midday to afternoon killed the talk shows.
I grew up watching the soaps. All different ones. I grew up watching Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, Days of My Lives, and my ultimate favorite soaps..Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. But I was very sad and upset when Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children and One Life to Live were canceled. Please bring them back!!
Classic Guiding Light was fantastic. Ed/Rita/Roger/Holly
This is very interesting. Soap operas were the talk of the day, everyday. The characters were talked about as if they were known, by most every woman in America. Anywhere women gathered the conversation would invariably include their favorite soap opera star.
The more you know! Hearing and learning about how huge soaps were back in the day really seems like another world to me (no pun intended 😂)
and some men too, not just women. Even the most macho men are soap fans
I'm a middle aged man and I remember chatting about soaps on the phone. I told those when I watched soaps, they were no cable. No Internet. No Hulu. No Netflix and no Amazon Streaming. Nowadays a cellphone is a soap opera
Definitely men too!!! I was obsessed!! I loved The Secret Storm. It was my absolute favorite soap of all time!!! It has been gone for 50 years now, and I still mourn the loss of it!!! How I miss those wonderful days when soaps were so excellent and so captivating. You just couldn't wait to tune in tomorrow. ❤️
AND men!
My college fraternity's television room was always packed at noon for AMC.
Thank you for acknowledging the the mesmerizing writing and leadership skills of Mr. Douglas Marland. Literally, he was a genius, and is sorely missed.
I never got into daytime soaps myself, but I lived in the UK for a little while and found it interesting how the Australian soap opera Neighbours was comparable to “Netflix and chill” though I didn’t have a TV while I was there. When I returned for a vacation in 2022, word around the pubs and hostels was that Neighbours was finally ending after 37 years and I remembered feeling like I missed out on something special so during the writer’s strike in 2023 I watched the first 100 episodes and despite them being so dated, I was engaged for a little while and found it amusing to know that almost every major actor from Australia came back for the show’s final episodes. From what I’ve heard, the writers and producers gave the show the ultimate send-off though it must have been the almighty dollar or to assuage the show’s legions of long-time fans that they decided to revive it. Long live Ramsey Street!
My mom started watching OLTL with her grandmother, and I started watching with my mom. I still miss OLTL to this day and even have dreams that it comes back to TV lol I wish it didn’t go out the way it did.
I grew up with CBS soaps. ATWT and GL went downhill, but they could be turned it around. I don't watch any anymore. Tried Y&R but just can't
I'm writing and posting OLTL fanfiction now.
Dorian Lord is my favorite, so I'm writing about her post-Llanview life where she's living in Washington, DC.
I understand OLTL became my favorite soap around 2002 I also loved AMC and dreamed they brought it back to tv once
Any show, with proper investment, time, commitment, can be transformed into a hit.
Y&R, with new writers, could thrive in prime time/streaming on a smaller network like CW or ION
I’m 31 and still watch them the bold and the beautiful and young and the restless
The soap opera has fallen because times have changed, but the soaps are still written largely like it's 1992. No one is taking risks because social media is so swift to condemn anything not vanilla and safe. A true crime soap opera like Edge of Night is begging to be rebooted. Soap opera fantasy is becoming more and more passe. Great history lesson!
I disagree. Soaps changed too much. This led to their downfall. They should have remained for women with emphasis on romance n love stories n less on mob bosses n violence. They should have kept creating supercouples. Supercouples made soaps great put them on the map so to speak. And writers producers went against what worked n made them popular by mostly ending the Supercouple. People lost interest quit watching ratings went down n shows got canceled.
The " Edge Of Night " was my
favorite soap opera ( even before I knew my A B C s lol ). I agree it should be re- booted. Sharon Gabet has been away for Far, Far too long. By now " Raven" would or could be the " Grand Dame"; certainly by now.
They declined in 1994 on oj simpsons.
I felt with the OJ Simpson trial, expansion of cable TV, and with the Internet did the soaps. Also with the 90's many went out to the working world, after graduating college lost viewers and not to tape them
@@barihope gh used to be home of super couples but they killed that off and dont get me started on god awful s/l they do back in the 90s gh was rocking with wendy riche running that show
Great video. I remember Soaps like 'Bold and the Beautiful' and 'Days of Our lives' playing on tv when i was a kid. My grandmother loved watching them every day, when i wanted to watch cartoons instead. lol
My mom and grandma loved days in fact when u was In college my grandma sent me the soap news with a letter every week
I loved Passions! And Sunset Beach! I was sad when they got canceled!
I miss Guiding Light (my fave) and As the World Turns (very close second fave.)
Me 2!
I’ve been watching the stories since I was 9. Started with my mom in 1986, she passed in 1991. I am still watching to this day. Been watching GH for 38yrs and Days for 35. Over the years I have watched AMC, OLTL Loving, GH, Days, The City, Port Charles, Sunset Beach, Passions and ATWT. OLTL was my all time favorite of them all! Soaps are THE BEST genre of television. They used to be the networks bread and butter, but then the network started putting all their money into primetime. Then came OJ🤦🏾♂️ and THAT was the beginning of the end for soaps😡
I used to watch soaps with my nana from the time I was 9 until her death when I was 12.
The Edge Of Night was my all time favourite, Loved Raven and Skye my favourite supercouple
Guiding Light or World Turns could be re-booted. Vets are mostly gone but enough core characters remain to serve as tent poles. ATWT would be low cost programming for Paramount +
That would be great
When my nana was alive I watched “The Doctors”, “Days of out Lives”, and “Another World “ with her. A very young Alec Baldwin was on “The Doctors “. Then “The Doctors “ ended and “Texas” a spin-off of “Another World “ started and we watched that. As those soaps ended I started watching “General Hospital” with my neighbour and I continued to watch it through university as it was on one of the few channels I could watch on my tv without cable. Now the only one I watch is “General Hospital “.
It seems very interesting to me that the four remaining soaps on air are still going strong today, though Days is currently streaming through Peacock, I think it has to do with staying loyal for the characters and stories and that audiences crave that. I think nowadays, reality has gotten too real for people and they seek escape. More recently, Neighbours, the long-running Australian soap that launched the careers of particularly everyone from Kylie Minogue to Margot Robbie, was revived through Amazon after having been cancelled for more than a year, and this shows that there's still some life left in the genre, and fans are willing to do anything to keep the enduring legacy alive and well for a whole new generation. If anyone wants to write and create a soap opera of their own to keep the audiences hooked 5 days a week, they are welcome. That's all I have to say. Great video, and thanks so much for sharing! 😉😃💖
I remember watching Neighbours when they were showing it late at night in Canada. My mum would tape it for me so I could watch it at a more reasonable time as I was in high school. Days is available on a cable network during the day in Canada.
I still watch GH, but it more out of loyalty to the show than because I can't get enough of the storylines. I haven't been emotionally invested in any couple since they broke up Robin and Jason and relegated them forever to the friend zone. I realize that times change and actors have to move on, whether by choice or external circumstances, but as the classic characters fade off the scene, the new generation of characters that now have to carry the show seem to be lacking the gravitas and intrigue that pulled me in when I was younger.
Soaps have gone from "can't miss television" to "meh, I'll catch up when I don't have something better to do"
My growing up is a part of the change, too. I miss the fun and thrill the Soaps used to bring me. Nice vid!
I really hope that you give my soap opera a chance. I really wanted to bring back the fun and thrill that soaps used to offer back in the day
i miss sonny and brenda
@@rhondathompson6942 They are also awesome! I keep hoping she'll come back before Maurice retires...I think he's planning to in the near future...
@@JustMegan they need to bring her back no they got lois there the rating would go threw the roof with lois and brenda and sonny on the show
I agree about Jason and Robin. I loved them so much. I liked Brenda too. But the writing and quality went downhill. The peak (for General Hospital) was the 90s imo. After that the quality and heart and great writing just slowly faded.
I was a soap opera junky! Now I only watch General Hospital!
You're more than welcome to watch my animated soap opera In Times Like These ☺
gh was so good in the 90s
The black dude from all my children, came and SPOKE at my high school, REDFORD HIGH......DETROIT,Mi 1990.
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I watched only Santa Barbara,and few episodes of Bold and Beautiful and Passion...
Jason and Robin and General Hospital were my obsession as a teenager.
Renew Guiding Light and As the World Turns then I will give it a try. The Bold and the Beautiful sucks and so does The Young and the Restless.
💯 agree
This video popped up on RUclips and although I no longer watch soap operas, I decided to read the comments. I agree with you. The Bold and the Beautiful, is one of the WORST shows ever and my question; as many men as Brooke has slept with, in real life, she'd had have been dead from HIV, or some other disease. One of the reasons that I stopped watching, was the glamorizing of adultery and fornication, as well as multiple divorces and re-marriages. I am now a minister to young women and I have a hard time convincing some of them, that giving yourself to a man who has not shown any intent to marry and be a responsible adult, is not advisable. And I'm not just harping on soap operas. Many Walt Disney movies give the impression that if you are the victim, some handsome, rich guy is going to rescue you, marry you and carry you off into the sunset and there will be no more problems. My pastor has been married for over 40 years and he would tell people that even the best of marriages, have differences of opinion, and other " road bumps". What is important is that you deal with troubles in a mature manner. Soap operas and other romance media, don't tell women that. 😮
@@jocelynharris-fx8hoI loved B&B growing up but Brooke getting Ridge killed the show. Every man was in love with Brooke and Ridge saw her as a doormat which is why he chose Caroline and Taylor.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s on the soap operas of those times, thanks to my mom being really big into them, so every day after school I would come home in time to watch As The World Turns, One Life To Live and General Hospital, though I also saw The Young And the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful during the summer, since they all came on earlier in the day when I was at school. And then later I also started watching All My Children and Another World, like in the late 80s like 88, 89 into the 90s, and was so pissed when Another World was canceled, since it had become my favorite of them all at the time.
I know people love to make fun of the soap operas, but they all a lot better then any of these so called reality or competition shows that have come out since the 90s, I've never been into any of them myself, but to find out that they may have played a part in soaps being canceled, makes me hate them even more. I mean they have also caused the cancelation of a lot of good night time shows as well over the years, and it's all because its cheaper for the networks to make them, then to make FULLY scripted and acted shows.
But of course I have to also blame the people who actually like watching those shows too, because if it wasn't for those people, they wouldn't have become so profitable for the networks, so they wouldn't have kept making them. But it's really what wrong with the world, especially here in the US, people are obsessed with watching people with big mouths and disgusting behavior, which is why our government is so full of so many disgusting people too, especially on the one side of it, you know what I mean, the Right side, as they call it!
But though I haven't watched any of the British soaps, I do know their other scripted shows tend to be a lot more realistic too, then what is mostly done here in the US. They're not as obsessed with the rich glamourous types, like here, they tend to focus more on more working class families and are much more grittier then the US shows are!
And about Luke and Laura, even back when they were a thing, and I was a young teen, I thought it disturbing that they decided to make Luke some kind of hero, after he sexually assaulted Laura. But a lot of the problem was a lot of young women who became fond of Luke a bit too much, and so they decided to keep him around for them. And I have seen that happen in a lot of shows, including other soap operas, making a truly bad guy into a heart throb type and eventually into some misunderstood character, and even a hero in the end. They have done the same in night time soaps too, a lot of it is that whole bad boy thing, which attracts some women, for some weird reason.
I do wish they would have a place online where we could watch different set timeline in those shows to watch, like somewhere I saw where they had the soap Another Worlds episodes from the actually timeline I had watched it in, back in the 88 up until they were canceled, so I wish they would do that with other popular soaps. I enjoyed it when they did it with Another World, so I bet a lot of people would enjoy rewatching the time period of General Hospital when the whole Luke and Laura story was so popular, also since Sonny is still on the show, maybe show the time period of when he first arrived on the show too.
I don't watch any of them now, not for a decade now, but I wouldn't mind rewatching some of those again, since I was a teen when I last watched them. But of course it's hard with soaps, to be shown in reruns, since they didn't have actual seasons, and there were on 5 days a week for years, that's a lot of reruns to show, lol!
I loved Another World and I would watch it with my nana in the 70’s. Then I watched its spinoff called Texas.
Some observations: Luke raping Laura was somewhat controversial at the time the story was told - at mall personal events in the early 80's where Tony Geary (Luke) appeared, fans would disturbing scream things like, "Rape me, Luke!".
I got hooked the way you described - watching the CBS soaps in the early 70s with my mom. I stopped watching for a few years, then started again when a friend in junior high got me back into The Guiding Light. I fondly remembered the matriarch, Bert Bauer (my favorite all-time soap character - 2:37 and 3:39), and her two sons, Mike and Ed, watching with my mom and ended up watching for another 20 years. I think most soap viewers got hooked this way. Never heard anyone getting hooked by seeing a promo.
Money is what has really done soaps in - it simply costs too much to produce a soap compared to vastly inferior but cheaper reality shoes. When CBS killed As the World Turns (another favorite), I knew the genre was dying. But I was really surprised when ABC cancelled All My Children - imo, for most of its run, it successfully blended a traditional soap opera while keeping up with social trends and issues and reflecting changes from the real world.
Good, well-written video with lots of nice footage. If I may make a suggestion, try to tighten up on the video editing and it'll make your content even better than it is (hope this is not offensive - it is not meant as a slam at all).
Thank you! Not offended at all! I'm always open to constructive criticism 😊👍🏾
Funny thing is the actor Tony Geary is gay but no one knew until recently
It's a trip...my brothers late grandmother in the middle 90's when basically there was only the Big 3 ABC NBC and CBS.....had three TV's in her 🏠 she had each network going on in three different rooms of her 🏠.
The Ollie North summer trial hurt the soaps, then the oj Simpson trial really damaged the viewership and finally the soaps and games shows were taken over by talk shows.
Lets go back to these days,it had it down,byt we had a lot of ups.
Sir very well done and I loved the part on British soaps. I fell in love with holly oaks. Found it at start of Covid. Wish I had found it sooner. Again great video
Thank you!
I live in the UK. There was one head writer from EastEnders that was hired on the Young and the Restless I think. American soaps havent been popular here, except for Sunset Beach and that was extremely popular here, Santa Barbara was also somewhat popular.
Mal Young. I heard of him. I really only watch General Hospital, so when I heard that he wrote for the young and the restless and didn't really do a good job, I was disappointed (I expected so much more from him😂)
I loved SB and SUNSET! The first few years of Passions was good too.
@@InTimesLikeTheseAWebDramayeah. Because EastEnders is still very popular here. Even airs in primetime on the BBC several times each week.
I'm glad that EastEnders is still pretty popular in the UK. I do watch EastEnders and even Coronation Street. Eastenders seems to be going in the right direction and I hope it stays this interesting all the way through the 40th anniversary and beyond
@@InTimesLikeTheseAWebDrama i miss Danny Dyer
I quit AMC about 2002. Swear words (h*ll, d*mn, b*tch, cr*p) were being said so much that it just made it hard to follow any storyline. I know they were being used to display anger.
Loved this deep dive. I’ll def be subscribing & will be on the lookout for it.
Thank you so much!
Listen, I'm still mourning One Life to Live. I literally started binging from the 80s a couple weeks ago because that's all I got. I can't even take it. They weren't fooling me about the ratings. I had Direct tv the last couple seasons and they would always show the top 5 shows being watched within the hour and OLTL and AMC were ALWAYS in the 1 and 2 slots. It's so sad man.
Also, I think oltl continued to grow in that way because they had strong young stories as well to usher in new viewers and for instance, young ppl got to grow with Star as they watched with their mom or grandmas. As I'm watching YR now, that's very clearly missing for them.
No more what y'all say soap operas are still alive and here to stay
Let’s be honest. They’re definitely on life support. And I’m a soap fan. Or was.
The BEST soap opera was Santa Barbara, gotta love Judith McConnell as Sophia/Dominic.
Facts!!!
The UK soaps are 🔥
EastEnders all the way!!!
I love watching u.k soaps emmerdale and eastenders are my favorites 😊
Seeing as you enjoyed our (British) soaps. I’d love to see you cover one the big 4: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, EastEnders or Hollyoaks.
Covid, like OJ, broke the daily routine of soap watching. Y&R and B&B, the final two higher rated soaps, never recovered. The loyalty was broken after months of reruns.
Yet they have better ratings than GH 🤣🤣🤣
GH still in 3rd place in the ratings lol. Thanks to the producer and writing team. How they won for best drama is pathetic 😂
I never liked B&B. I would try to watch Y&R throughout the years, but I don't like anyone. There aren't even characters who love to hate. I totally quit when Michelle Stafford came back.
And the president having daytime speeches. Or congress. No one wants to watch that and they should be on one station not all of them.
@@laurabailey1054 no one's watching soaps anymore. People watch reality (fake) TV instead
Another World was my favorite Rachel and Vikki and Marley
I also loved Guiding Light Annie Dutton Reva Dinah Alen
Days was always soapy.
My dad was friends with Mrs. Phillips son. My mom talked to her at a party
I still watch Days of our lives it's even better now that's is streaming on Peacock
They should bring back ATWT. Luke and Noah forever!
Talk about recycling execs and writers...it wrecked ATWT.
Luke and Noah were awesome!!!! They were definitely a super couple!!!!
Ive been away from watching soaps for a while, so I am shocked that OLTL was cancelled. 😢
In my opinion, with few exceptions, soap operas had their heyday in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Women were housewives and were able to watch to have something to talk about. To me they are a relic of the past. I do agree that constant news and talk shows also helped to kill them off.
They’ve been around LONGER than tv’s been around.
They don't have good writers no more and great couples no more.
I'm not sure if you've been able to check out my soap opera, but I do work hard on creating couples that viewers root for and work on putting those couples in interesting storylines
1982, new immigrant in Australia. I broke my ankle and could not walk. My husband put the bed in the living room when I was introduced to Another World, did not speak English, but the storyline was so long that sooner or later I understood what was going on. Later I added Y&R. In 1986 I miscarried, but I knew from the moment it started as well all the terminologies as I just went through it with Patty. I learned English from soaps as well American culture and accents. 1992 we migrated to Canada and watched Another world for 18 years, never missed an episode. It was my family as I left mine behind. When they canceled Another World, I went through horrible grief for a very long time. My whole family was killed, I was devastated. But Jake and Vicky, Cass moved to As the world turns, so I followed them, but that emotional bond was lost. When they cancelled that, it did not hurt. I still watch DOOL. But my real tv family died 1999. Since that, I don’t invest in any entertainment.
They had and have us men just.as captivated ad the women
All My Children was the most see.show in the 70's and early 80's
I miss One Life to Live. I was shocked that one got canceled. It was very good. I wasn't surprised All My Children was canceled. OLTL was doing well so I don't understand why. I like that they moved the characters to GH but then they removed them. I stopped watching GH. It was dragging the storylines too long and they made the characters hypocrite.
This is how they pull some Oscar-Winning performers. Sometimes the performer came to the genre backward.
GH did have a 60th Anniversary special, and a new soap is coming to CBS.
That's right! This deep dive was made before the anniversary special and the announcement of The Gates.
The fact that Laura married her rapist is still disturbing to me.
Networks made mistakes got of soaps like Guding Light All My Childern and One Life to Live
Good or bad, soaps were a part of peoples lives. Something consistant.
Like family that many wished they had. Lets not forget that many big name actors started in soaps and their fans followed them when they moved on. Nearly all those stars credit their talent to the fast pace of soaps.
Executives have never lived the kind of life where they could identify with soap characters going through struggles and current social situations.
GH STILL brings up the issue of HIV/AIDS. Not as strongly as before, but its still mentioned. Mental illness issues. Legal issues. All relevant and told in ways ordinary people can understand.
I feel like reality tv has replaced soaps. great job here btw but consider getting a better mic or use a program to bring out intelligibility frequencies of your voice. It's a bit muffled
Thank you! Already got the new mic 😊👍🏾
I discovered UK soaps as well. A shame we have to outsource our soaps. UK soaps are a refreshing change. US didn’t appreciate their soaps. Hopefully they stay.
It's obvious you put in alot of work on this.
Thank you! I also put a lot of work into the animated soap opera that I produce. Would love for you to check it out if you have the chance to! ☺️👍🏾
Wow That Was A Great & Informative Video. I Learned A Lot👍🏾
I Miss AMC
I used to watch All My Children, One life to live and GH. I no longer watch GH.
Still going strong. It's disloyal fans who walked AWAY. BUH BYE
OJ Simpson's trial helped kill the soap opera
And any government news event or trial
Partial of OJ! Cable expands more and more with channels and in the 90's, many people entered the work force, vs. taping the soaps. Nowadays Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Streaming and other platforms really makes it impossible to get newer viewers
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You never discuss the most popular heroine ever on soaps: Marlena on Days
Actually Dark Shadows was the first soap opera.
aBC has garbage all day long except for GH.. Bring back onto and amc! You'll get better ratings disney!
It's like everything else in life "They Have Ran There Course" I mean its January 5th 2024 The world has changed 🎉
Elocution.
If you didn't grow up with Guiding Light and As the World Turns then you missed out on a hell of a great couple of shows. Just like the TV show Cold Case which was canceled the same year as Guiding Light. I am so pissed at all these youngsters taking away our shows. You didn't have to take away your parents and grandparents shows. Guess what. Your parents and grandparents won't live forever. After we passed away you could've gotten rid of soaps. I also LOVED Jersey Shore and Love & Hip Hop. Cardi B is freaking awesome.
Love & Hip Hop has seen better days and now it only exists in spinoffs as the main series ended during Covid because of the high costs and constant controversy. Last year, they started airing reruns of the first season on MTV probably to drum up cash for it.
American soaps have been a dying genre for the last fifteen years and there are a multitude of reasons behind this:
1) Storylines - Whilst always melodramatic in nature, soaps did remain grounded in reality throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s. However, when the majority of soaps expanded their running time to 60 mins per day, the production teams on these programs began to incorporate storylines straight out B grade sci-fi movies.
Such as the whole Ice Princess saga that dominated "General Hospital" in the early 80s. Clones replacing actual people ("Guiding Light"), characters time travelling ("One Life To Life") the Devil possessing folks ("Days of Our Lives") and vampires roaming around ("Port Charles")
Whilst these plots were popular with viewers at the time, any resemblances soaps had to reality was now shattered.
2) The Expansion to 60 mins - When American networks wanted to capitalize on the popularity of soaps by increasing their running time from 30 mins to a full hour, the dividends paid off - in the beginning. Many soaps which increased to 60 mins saw their ratings hold strong.
However, the producers were now faced with the task of being responsible for a show that went from two and half hours of programing a week to five full hours. All year round with no break in transmission. The end result saw writers having to drag out storylines for months on end which slow things down considerably.
In short, what was a blessing in the beginning would turn out to be a curse in the long run as viewers began getting frustrated with the pace of these shows and ratings began to decline.
3) Constant re-adjustment of show's history - Soaps are notorious for ignoring their own established canon with current writers frequently changing established facts and events to suit whatever current plot they are working out.
This extends to SORAS (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) where characters are dramatically aged in a short period of time because writers find it easier to write for adult characters who should actually still be children!
4) Lack of Diversity - Soaps also fell into the comfortable trap of highlighting a particular set of people in society. Namely - financially affluent white people.
Working class people effectively have disappeared from the soap opera landscape. People of color (Black, Asian and Latino folks) have been marginally represented as have LGBT characters and those with disabilities.
We live in a society that is filled with different people, but the soap world is still primarily populated with middle/upper class white characters.
By contrast, Australian and British soaps have survived because they stayed true to their roots and not made many of the fundamental mistakes that US shows fell victim too.
I disagree. I think soaps thrive at the hour format. All 8 of the top 10 longest running soaps were mostly one hour long. It made more stories characters n couples possible which meant there was some couple on all these hour long shows that each individual could like n root for. I love the hour long format n we wouldn't have had many great couples had all soaps stayed at 30 min. I prefer the hour format for sure. N facts prove that it can n did work for a long long time. And I do agree the uk n Australian soaps have a more diverse cast but I feel they have made some of the same mistakes as the American soaps. I do like the uk n Austrailian soaps but all of them have gone downhill imo.
@@barihope - We'll have to agree to disagree on that.
If daytime soaps thrived in the hour long format, there would be more of them around today.
Expanding soaps to 60 mins has resulted in the slowed down pace of storylines plus the incorporation of ridiculous plots as well.
By keeping soaps at a 30 minute running time means more efficient storytelling plus keeping your show within the bounds of believability.
This is why British soaps have lasted in terms of longevity as well as ratings.
Daytime soaps did thrive for many decades. Unfortunately they made many mistakes in the 2000s which led to their downfall. Anyway at this point in 2020 decade I do agree shows should be 30 min as soaps arent pulling in the ratings like they used to. The uk n Australian soaps may be more successful as they stayed more true to their roots than American soaps have.
My take on soaps as I am a middle aged man, is that the downfall became in the mid 90's, as partial to the OJ Simpson trial. The erosion of cable TV and many channels. Also in the 90's many people entered into the work force and stopped taping them. Nowadays we have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Streaming and many other platforms that the younger audience is going to watch over, and if they hear about a soap that lasted many decades and on the air, they certainly won't have an interest to watch
they are dying cause of bad writing
You never watched Brazilian or mexican, Argentina's soap operas? Actually European and Latin America thinks they are really good...🤔🧐
I haven't gotten the chance to watch them
Reboot the soaps but don't give any woman under 30 infertility issues. This plagued the soaps in the 2000's. The worst was on ATWT Gwen went from being an unwed teenage mother who didn't want the baby to surrogacy at 19 years old.
Soaps are talked about more than the Bible enjoyed what you had to say wish writers would listen to what you had to say they don't seem to care about viewers opinions keep writing the same boring stories that drag on forever
Soap Operas fell off the radar because they became too lame and insulting to a person's intelligence. One of the first soap operas was 'The Guiding Light' and it was originally the saga about a Minister's family. Throughout the years, many of these shows started deviating into subjects that many found socially, politically and spiritually unsettling. When I became a Christian, I could not justify my beliefs and continue to watch programming that glorified behaviors that are at odds with my faith; adultery and fornication, profanity, lying, stealing, revenge , materialism etc., and also they just got flat out stupid with their storylines ; evil twins ? Having an actor portray a role and then when another actor steps in, they explain the change in appearance, to plastic surgery, People coming back from the dead,; remember on Dallas when Bobby Ewing supposedly died , only to have Pam wake up next season and discover that it was a bad dream ?🤔 finding out that your mother is your sister, or daughter, SORAS, (soap opera rapid aging syndrome) where you can have a newborn baby and then 1 year later, that child is a fully grown adult, or a character that never had children before, suddenly has a stranger show up on their doorstep announcing that they are a long lost kid. Sorry, but I don't need to waste my time, or brain space with that nonsense. The only TRUE soap opera that I enjoyed was 'Ryan's Hope' and to some extent, 'Capitol' but I gave them up over 40 years ago and glad that I did.