LostinSalem

Just finished binging the rest of the episodes of season 3, I think as per usual I’m in the minority but I enjoyed this season a lot. 

On 5/10/2019 at 8:38 PM, DRW50 said:

 

How do you feel about it? 

I’m still behind because of work but now that it’s on Netflix I’ve been binging and so far I’m liking it. Made it to the 80s episode where the kids are playing the parents and LOVE it! Not sure how far off the rails it will get but the introduction of the supernatural aspects gives me Passions vibes and I’m enjoying it so far.

Stumbled across this montage, this for me is Passions at its best. 

So happy to hear they are doing a 20th Anniversary documentary on Passions. I know the show gets a lot of crap from the daytime community but the fact they had that fan festival 2 years ago in LA and now this proves there’s still an audience. Wishing the cast success and looking forward to this doc, should be interesting considering it was the red headed step child of soaps.

Are you guys still watching Riverdale? How do you feel about the current season?

I think we can all agree most of the PASSIONS recasts got worse and worse but I’m curious where you guys fall with Travis Schuldt and Eric Martsolf. 

Natalie Zea’s version of Gwen was the only time I sympathized for that character .

So unfortunate David Bailey passed. I preferred him as Alistair. John Reilly’s portrayal seemed to cartoonish and at that point I wish they had left the character faceless.

Chrystee Pharris seems like a nice person but boy did her version of Simone grate me. Preferred Lena Cardwell.

On 3/28/2019 at 11:30 PM, amybrickwallace said:

They should definitely write a book together about BTS at Passions. Of course, they'd have to have most of the cast remain nameless. 

Agreed...that interview makes me question even more why Lena Cardwell left the show now.

On 3/24/2019 at 10:23 PM, Bright Eyes said:

 

And he alluded on Chelsea Lately that Lindsay was ... well he smartly said very little at all. At 2:30:

 

 

Interesting this video resurfaces as Lindsay just wrote a new Lifetime movie and Chrishell is starring in it. Wonder how Justin feels about that lol

I posted this in the “actors that were involved in real life” thread but figured it was worth posting here as well.

Last week on The Real Showcast, Jade Harlow and Chrystee Pharris did an interview together where they talked about there time on the show. Jade revealed she was engaged to Bruce Michael Hall during the show and got matching wedding band tattoos. She just started the tattoo removal process.

The two also dropped additional tea and talked a lot about there time on Passions, check it out...

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdwkc-aa3531

Last week on The Real Showcast interview Jade Harlow and Chrystee Pharris did together, Jade revealed she and Bruce Michael Hall were engaged at one point when they were both on Passions and got matching tattoo wedding bands. She just started the tattoo removal process recently.

She also mentioned that many of the Passions cast were hooking up and that most of the Miguel’s were with all of the Kay’s at one point specifically mentioning Jesse Metcalfe and Deanna Wright. It also well known that Jesse and Taylor Anne Mountz dated before she left as well. 

They dropped other tea about the show as well regarding why they left with contract issues and more... 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdwkc-aa3531

I think it’s so odd that no one, including Tracey Ross who was romantically involved with him for a period of time in real life, has no idea where Ben Masters is. It was mentioned during the recent Passions Fan Festival and Galen mentioned it with his most recent interview with Soap Opera Digest. He apparently lives on a boat somewhere, hopefully he’s safe wherever he is.

On Passions, aside from Lindsay and Justin Hartley, both Ben Masters and Tracey Ross were romantically involved for a period of time.

Jesse Metcalfe and Taylor Anne Mountz dated in real life prior to her leaving the show.

Travis Schuldt and Natalie Zea met during the show and are now married.

Like other soaps, Passions had its fare share of celebrity fans from Julia Roberts who got Emma Roberts hooked on it, to Lin-Manuel Miranda and so many others.

Well Angie Thomas, the author of ‘The Hate U Give’ and ‘On the Come Up’ is also a huge fan and got a surprise visit from some of the cast members today at her LA book signing at Barnes & Noble...

And here’s VIDEO of the tearful moment she sees them...

https://mobile.twitter.com/angiecthomas/status/1096975356349665280

Haha, yes @pdm1974, PSNS often made the classic lines section of SOD

Had the show got a 10th year I can’t imagine anyone headwriting the show except perhaps Ron Carlivati.

However, I would imagine Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas would have been promoted instead of moving to DAYS.

5 hours ago, Khan said:

No.  It didn't work as a parody, or as anything else.  The writing wasn't good enough, and the acting wasn't good enough either.  PASSIONS was just a bad, bad show.

For a show so bad, what do you think kept it around for 8 years on NBC and then a pickup for its 9th season on DirecTV? Why didn’t they can this bad show sooner, especially for the way people dragged PSNS, people had it made up in their minds after day 1 and the first few weeks it was “trash,” how’d it survive? Surely being owned by NBC can only get you so far. PSNS had a loyal fan base and cult following, but the overall audience wasn’t big so I’m just curious how a show deemed so bad by the soap audience could last nearly a decade?

On 1/10/2019 at 12:17 PM, Vee said:

Y'all are a mess. I gave up like 4 weeks in. It was unbearable from Day 1.

Those first 4 weeks were slow and still establishing stories and characters. I had never seen the beginning until the reruns on Sci-Fi channel. To me, Passions was at its best between 2000-2003 hands down.

On 1/10/2019 at 12:11 PM, Darn said:

I think I found the start of the second day in Harmony. 26 episodes in.

 

 

The PSNS nerd in me had to let you guys know surprisingly the second day came fast in episode 5 (that Friday during premiere week) half way through the episode. It's sad how many times I've rewatched this show to know that lol, but it stands out to me because it was the first time I had seen the day change midway through an episode on a soap and the words "the next morning in Harmony" appear. Granted we all know how slow the days will go in the future lol

4 hours ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Sounds more recent, being that Colton Shires played Little Ethan. 

Yes, this was recent at the Passions Fan Event they had 2017 in LA.

4 hours ago, te. said:

 

Was this around the time the Salem High spin-off (Belle, Shawn and so on crew) was talked about? IIRC it was proposed to air on weekend mornings.

No but I recall that spinoff as well which was Harmony High (I suspect same concept as Salem High.) Reilly was on a roll back then because NBC also approached him about adapting the book “Hidden Passions,” prequel based on the soap set 20 years earlier, for primetime. So unfortunate none of these came to pass.

9 hours ago, psychofan said:

I have started re-watching Passions from the beginning on Youtube.  Do we know if literally every episode of the run is posted there?  So far, I've only watched the first five!  Oh, the nostalgia.  I can say with 10000% certainty that this is my most missed soap opera.

9 hours ago, John said:

what Youtube channel???

As a heads up guys, this YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1CFAFE0931459B4D , has the same episodes in ‘full’ without you having to watch the episodes in ‘parts’ and having to click to another video to finish the episodes (with the exception of the 1st episode!) There’s a lot of fan discussion in the comments as well but beware of spoilers if it’s your first time viewing.

Here’s an old TV Guide clipping I found from early in the shows run. I was also reading how Passions was consistently the #1 soap with girls 12-17, unfortunately that demo means nothing to advertisers or its chances of not being canceled, but I fell into that category at the time and my friends and I were hooked.

Is it safe to include Castleton here now? The cast of Passions mentioned during their fan festival two summers ago that a spin off was in the works to have Colton Shires return and focus on the younger set in Castleton where Charity and Faith lived but no more info has been revealed since and I imagine they dropped the idea?

Passions may not have been a huge ratings success but it had its cult following and apparently New Yorkers loved it...

On 12/12/2018 at 7:41 PM, j swift said:

I remember a character who was heavily promoted by NBC daytime with photos of his long hair and string necklaces; only to disappear from Harmony, like so many of its townspeople (BTW my most vivid memories of Passions were those annual summer hunk photo sessions).

I would love to see that and any other early promotional materials.

In the first in-depth article that Soap Opera Weekly did ahead of Passions premiere, Jason Olive was featured as if his role of Frank was going to be a much more prominent character than he ended up becoming. The show teased a possible Frank and Whitney pairing. I wonder if that was scrapped or ever meant to go anywhere.

19 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

I wonder what might have happened had Jim Reilly done an Irna Phillips and deserted his creation.

 

Maybe with other writers Passions could have achieved  its potential.

I often times think about that but from a different perspective. Jim died only 2 months after Passions had its series finale. Had Passions been renewed for a 10th season on DirecTV, I wonder if

Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas who were both serving as associate head writers during the entire shows run would have been promoted to head writers. Of course a few years later they would both head write DAYS.