Recap time! 🐍 One Life To Live - 1992.
I'm advancing in late February 1992. Alex just got Carlo off the charges - she replaced the real tapes with polka music... Tina pulled a number on Asa by buying some of his land for 1 dollar and then she requested 200 000 to get it back 🤣... Blair wrote an overly positive article about Asa, once again trying to paint herself as his biggest fan. The usual "I'm the most innocent girl in the world" routine. Watch out, Renee, your man has a wandering eye.
Buuuuuut the most interesting storyline for me right now is the Kevin/Leanne situation and how it's affecting Victoria. This is one of the rare moments I'm seeing her be so negative, so critical and so... NOT her usual suffocatingly positive self. And rightfully so - in the past few months she's gone through more drama that people go through their entire lives - her house burned down, she was kidnapped and held hostage, her stepson died, her daughter followed him into the great beyond pretty soon... (I wonder how much of these catastrophes and deaths have to do with actors leaving the show and the new regime establishing itself!)
Anyways... the girl (Victoria) doesn't get a break! And now on top of all that trauma that is enough to put someone in Mountainview... we have an opportunist (Leanne Demerest) trying to install herself in her home and in her naive son's life. No, no, no... Viki has come to a breaking point! And I love seeing this side of her. I was getting really sick hearing her try to be positive and good in every single situation. Dorian had said it in one of the prior episodes - Victoria controls people through her moral superiority and Holier-than-thou persona. I'm not saying I agree on 100 percent with Dorian, but there is some truth to this.
Short clip - Victoria stole the episode for me. Powerful stuff. That's what makes the soap opera genre my favorite. It's like opening a window to a real person's life and her struggles. Every beat hits. Every emotion leads to another. I live for moments like this - pure, raw, REAL. The second layer underneath her surface attitude - the mourning of Megan's passing makes this scene even more human. She is going through the anger stage of grief.
vicky grief.mp4