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and i never will!

here’s the reference: escapism vs any semblance of reality

you can file this one under ‘escapism vs some semblance of reality.’

i feel the same way. to say ‘i agree with you,’ now involves quoting, then writing something and submitting. hitting a like button would both engage the responder and provide feedback for the poster — a win, win!.

new bbc show from hulu. the creators likely had no idea when they named the characters. the show looks good alice and steve review

have it on my library hold list. only 1 person ahead of me, so it shouldn’t be too long.

this episode’s not getting off to a good start: vernon blowing smoke up victor’s a**; smitty has a five part series, but still no proper workspace. and while i. know processing grief takes. time, these scenes with ashley and jacob lamenting derek’s death are becoming tiresome. i know it’s still fresh, but this is television, not real life.

i do hope that the daily synopses will continue and not get lost in the shuffle of a much longer thread.

can’t say this comes as a surprise: cbs fires scott pelley

back in 2009, we love soaps published some thoughts from irna phillips. the entire piece is worth reading. but, for this thread, this paragraph resonates: 2. Identification. It is a perilous practice among dramatic writers to allow their situations or characters to become too remote from the average listener. On AS THE WORLD TURNS, for example, I have tried to keep my characters on a life-size scale. They are well off, but not wealthy. They are average in intelligence. My villains (though I reject the concept of the totally irretrievable character) are never so villainous that the listener turns away in disgust. There must be that element of universality in everything - that something that causes the listener to say, "Yes, I have felt that way," or "I have known someone very much like that."

was decompressing with a 1980 episode of ‘hart-to-hart.’ the actor playing the bad guy looked familiar, while i was checking imdb, i was beyond surprised to see rosemary prinz listed. had no idea she was in los angeles; in addition to ‘hart-to-hart,’ she did ‘archie bunker’s place’ and a few episodes of ‘knot’s landing.’

so, i’m decompressing with a 1980 episode of ‘hart-to-hart; and the actor playing the bad guy looks vaguely familiar. so i check imdb and find tom mcgreevy (tom desmond). then i see rosemary prinz’s name (sister mary joel). who knew?!

yes to all of this! though it does seem that the show is committed to the clunky format and we may just have to live with it.

so what, exactly, was the emergency that caused nicole to leave the cotillion in such a rush that she missed seeing samantha crowned?

this! given the budget for these two episodes, you’d think they could have set aside a few $$ to hire a day player to play miss imogen.

well, irna certainly showed them, didn’t she! two years in, atwt was at the top of the ratings, where it remained for 20 years — and forever changed the face of daytime soaps. there are a handful of those early episodes floating around youtube and in the paley center’s collection. but, they’re random — absolutely no context. what i really wish is that they would have saved 10-20 consecutive episodes, which would allow people to get some sense of how a story was unfolding.

nothing amazing about it. soaps have always had to plan carefully to set aside the budget for big events like the cotillion.

don’t know if this has been noted previously a 1978 episode of love boat was on in the background and noticed donna mills and david birney — laura donnelly elliott and mark elliott from liamst. a very soapy plot: there’s a possibility they were half-siblings, and birney’s character was a former soap actor. also found up that they had both been in a 1976 episode of hawaii-50.

as i said, i don’t know the backstory and i’ve never watched days… but, what gotten old is mentioning it every.single.time. we get it!

it’s getting old… don’t know their backstory, don’t care.

one truly effective use of a location shoot was atwt frannie/sabrina reveal in london and venice.

good for abc — free link: ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment

both herskovitz and zwick got their start writing for family (abc 1976), a show with deep roots in soaps — as the world turns, in particular. beyond serality

elements of soap opera have found their way into a lot of shows not necessarily thought of as a primetime soaps: friday night lights, for example (prime video and paramount+). also: men of a certain age (hbo max).

anita’s outfit wasn’t much better. and when vernon let martin in, his jacket was buttoned. do men really walk around their home with a buttoned jacket? of course, as i watch sitcoms from to 50s, 60s, and 70s, men never unbuttoned their jackets much less took them off and loosened their tie. crazy!