Sometimes it wasn’t even inspired by an actual story/book/play, but it was a feeling that they took inspiration from. Gloria Monty said her ideal was a mix of Hitchcock and Capra, and that showed up on the show. Y&R was clearly inspired by old Hollywood glamour and staging, and it created a style that Bell filtered the stories through. AMC, at least up to the breakdown of the ABC soaps started, maintained that small town feel.
I read an interview once with Claire Labine and she said her inspirations were Greek tragedies and psychology, and that shows in her work and in the way the characters were explored.
Now they are inspired by their own stories. They retell stories already told better on their own shows, or borrow those winks and nods that can be fun, but shouldn’t be the whole depth of the story. They want another baby switch, another posession, another back from the dead person, another big bad villain umbrella storyline that lasts one to two years and then wraps up as the next big bad hits town.
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