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Introducing Our New Column: Soap Shrink by Damon L. Jacobs

How many times have you seen a soap villainess or villain — or even a soap hero or heroine — do something that is so wrong and so bizarre that you’ve jumped up from your armchair and screamed: “WHAT IS WRONG with her/him?”

In the vast, messy world of today’s soap opera — where cheap thrills usually trump character development, history is all but forgotten and illogic reigns — how does the Thinking Fan cope with daily assaults on credibility? Perhaps it’s time to do what every New Yorker does in times of stress: call our Shrink!

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