I will echo a little bit what @YRBB said, I definitely start with Dallas as well!!
Even though I agree Knots is the best out of all the 80’s primetime soaps, Dallas is still the gold standard. There’s something remarkably fantastic about Dallas 1978-1982, and it still makes for some very compelling drama to this day. Once the overall episodic 78-79 season comes to Julie Grey’s return and murder, the show is on fire.
Knots of course as others the best and most consistent soap overall, particularly Season 4-12.
Dynasty has a slow build, but then Seasons 2-4 and parts of 5 are fun and on fire. A mix of compelling drama and sheer entertainment for the most part. There’s an amazing final season, however it also takes three very bad, utterly pointless and bloated seasons to get to that point.
Then there is FC. Out of the big 4 80’s soaps, it to me is the funniest and most charming out of the four. Yet it is also the most wildly inconsistent. The first three and a half seasons and the 6th season are good to great. While IMO there are worse parts to FC (parts of Season 5, the entirety of a very boring and miserable Season 8), the final season is definitely a completely different season and feels like a different season of another TV show. At the least the show concludes on a high note.
90’s soaps? Definitely recommend Sisters, specifically the first 4 seasons make an almost perfect series. Sadly like FC the last two seasons the show becomes unhinged but the series concludes on a high note.
Melrose Place is like Dynasty, slow build in Season, wild ride for S2-S4, crash and burn for S5 and S6, and then a more or less solid final season.
90210, Party of Five, and Providence, and Once and Again have their ups and downs but definitely still worth checking out.
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