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I was curious if Jon Hamm had any daytime credits (as a jobbing actor who had been kicking around the industry before his Don Draper break, it wouldn’t have surprised me). But I can’t find any. I thought he might have been there to bolster the idea that even a “prestige” drama series like Mad Men was basically a soap, but they didn’t make anything of it. Maybe he was friends with one of the producers? He seems up for anything. Who knows.
I chalked a lot of the Agnes Nixon focus and Bill Bell erasure to the fact that she was ABC. Plus, thematically, she followed the “shows for women, by women” theme.
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1 hour ago, EricMontreal22 said:
At least with the longer clips, why not say where the clip is from?
I was comparing this to the CNN decade documentaries, but those were so much more professionally done, with appropriate budgets. They labeled most of their longer clips. Yet they didn’t have these elaborate sets and graphics mimicking slides from a carousel projector, which, again, were eye-catching (and maybe more accessible to a network primetime audience not used to a stark documentary style), but I’d gladly have sacrificed those for better clips.
And you are SO right about the hypocrisy of these networks going after unauthorized uploaders of clips yet using said clips to cut costs in their programming, claiming “fair use.“
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11 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:
I know people have problems with her, but she has a point..
Sad that soaps forgot this too. The “heroes” on soaps are mobsters, rapists, and serial killers.
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Maura Mandt, the late producer who got the remembrance at the end, was better known for her sports documentaries, I see.
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Susan Sullivan?
I mean, they aren’t wrong in the ultimate fate of soaps and how they’ve mutated into new forms (any astute observer of pop culture knows that), but it’s telling that they are writing this epitaph when a daytime soap is still airing on their network. GH runs out of original episodes in two days.
I want a proper documentary now. One that delves into the roots. Gotta do it soon before we start losing even more of our early veterans.0 -
6 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:
I mean, she’s been on nearly every day for weeks now lol
Touché.
6 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:I had the laugh at the irony of seeing Shelly “a woman’s touch” Altman express sadness for the soaps cancellations when I feel she’s contribute to some of of those with her writing.
And she basically said that young writers would take her job from her cold dead hands when she spoke on a soap writer’s panel years ago. She was like “F**k you, noobs. There aren’t enough jobs to go around!”
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LOL at them using the very deceased Jeanne Cooper to represent Y&R in 2020.
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2 minutes ago, Vee said:
I remember being floored watching live as a kid when Robin was given her results; she was only a few years older than me.
Absolutely. And she was a little pipsqueak just a few years earlier. I just can’t believe they were even allowed to tell that story. And bravo to Michael Sutton, who I‘d never thought much of before.
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LOL they are sort of writing GH’s death certificate here. “How can you keep up with General Hospital when you’re binge-watching Orange Is the New Black?”
I mean.... true?
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Still boggles my mind how brave it was to give that HIV story to Robin.
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3 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
Shut up, Andy Cohen!!
Was about to post the same fücking thing lol.
I admit I was almost as obsessed with The Real World growing as I was with the soaps. Same DNA with Mary Ellis-Bunim.
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5 minutes ago, GLATWT88 said:
Wow, nice to see the actress who played Kristen Shepard on Dallas. I was binging the show a while ago and am still watching although at a much slower rate. She's looking great.
She looks amazing, Mary Crosby!
1 minute ago, ironlion said:There's been a lot of renewed energy around classic soaps in the past few years. Hopefully this generatessome sort of reboot of any of the recently cancelled dramas or some kind of screaming episode release or streaming reboot.
This special is trending No. 3 on Twitter, so maybe *some* notice will be taken?
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1 minute ago, GLATWT88 said:
Did anyone catch the couple that Andy mentioned as his favorite?
Jenny and Greg.
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1 minute ago, All My Shadows said:
I really can’t wait to see the closing credits for this to see who they credit for these ridiculous clips. Dynasty exists in crystal clear quality on Amazon Prime yet here we go with clearly a VHS copy of an episode. Embarrassing.
They blew their budget on all of these elaborate graphics. Which are great, but...
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4 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:
For people wondering, the P&G soaps are going mostly unmentioned.
Yep. Barely acknowledged. Aside from Julianne Moore, a few Reva clips, and the aforementioned Stephen Schnetzer.
Y&R and DAYS are getting a lot of love, but they are still on the air. Not much B&B love, though.Edit: right when I posted that, Brad Bell appears as if on cue.
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4 minutes ago, GLATWT88 said:
I'm appreciating the effort so far. I enjoy seeing some faces I haven't seen in some time, but those clips - wow some of these are so awful.
I remember back in the late 90s there was a special on soaps, I was young so I dont remember what channel it was on but it was similar in nature to this. I was hoping that this special would take a different perspective, but nonetheless it's nice to have something on soaps.
Yes, I also felt that way. It feels like there's no real direction and they're jumping around all over the place.
Really, this could have been a five or 10-part series. They can’t help but skirt over things. They basically name-checked Generations with Vivica, which is more than I expected but still. No Angie and Jesse?
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1 minute ago, All My Shadows said:
Super super glad they’re exposing L&L for the vile grossness that it was.
Too bad soaps *still* haven’t learned that lesson. That’s what is being glossed over here.
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It’s a lot more restrained than I expected. I thought they’d go over the top with the catfights and bedroom scenes, but it’s very in the vein of the Tom Hanks CNN documentaries about pop culture through the decades.
And they aren’t shying away from the vile nature of the Luke/Laura rape.
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Stephen Schnetzer. *fans self*
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Maurice Benard: “Even when the show’s not good, they think it’s great!” (loud cackle)
You would know, Mo! Your show hasn’t been good in 25 years.
Chris Van Etten looks 12.
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Aside from the appalling quality of the video clips, this is well-produced. Getting our Irna section now...
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2 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:
I KNOW!! If they were clips from the 50s-70s, okay, but these are clips for which the masters absolutely exist and could have been pulled.
And how heartbreaking that they processed the hell out of those Loving clips.
It’s like they pulled them off YouTube. Hell there are soap clips from the ‘70s on YouTube that are clearer, even watched on my full flatscreen. Even that Annie/Erica bitchslap clip was a mess and that was less than 15 years ago.
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Oof. I guess you couldn’t expect much better, but the quality of the video clips...
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A mixed bag of a year with O.J. raging on. Loved AMC in 1995, though, with Alec/Hayley/Arlene, Liza’s return, and Erica’s pill-popping story that led up to her infamous Woman of the Year speech in early ‘96. For me, that was my favorite year for AMC of the entire ‘90s.
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I hope this means they are planning a full Sheila week.
Josh Morrow had a rough patch with hairstyle/facial hair combos in the 2000s.