On 11/21/2025 at 4:44 AM, LostinHarmony said:

Just finished reading the book, honestly this book told me a lot about James E. Reilly. @Toups would likely find this a good read. Alot of good details about Passions including how Reilly almost called it quits and Marlene McPherson and Darrel Ray Thomas almost took over, how no one realized Ben Masters had dementia until he suddenly disappeared and everyone was asking where he is. Tracey Ross loved herself some Ben Masters, the way she talks about him makes his passing hurt even more. The lack of respect the soap industry showed the show, even evident by the soap blogs not even covering this books release says a lot. Honestly, as a Passions fan i have a new found respect for the show even more reading how they pulled this off. I think the book is a good read not just for fans of the show but soap fans in general. NBC gave Jim hella power after that Days stint, overall its a good read.

Lack of respect? No disrespect here but they brought this on themselves if we are being honest. I loved that Show and the cast did the best they could with the material given to them.

But let’s be for real. The dialogue was corny as hell, the writting was hit or miss and Stories dragged on where u thought: didn’t i watched that Episode already? This show felt like a parody compared to other soaps and this is why some other people are Not Rating it or don’t Care at all. Others were just Not into the supernatural stuff.

It kinda worked for Days cause days had always been out there and was something Never really done before.

54 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

Lack of respect? No disrespect here but they brought this on themselves if we are being honest. I loved that Show and the cast did the best they could with the material given to them.

But let’s be for real. The dialogue was corny as hell, the writting was hit or miss and Stories dragged on where u thought: didn’t i watched that Episode already? This show felt like a parody compared to other soaps and this is why some other people are Not Rating it or don’t Care at all. Others were just Not into the supernatural stuff.

It kinda worked for Days cause days had always been out there and was something Never really done before.

No disrespect taken at all. I stand by what I said, there's a “lack of respect.”