As usual, Vee is spot on. Knots Landing. I admit I haven't seen the final four seasons (yet! I guess they're on... Plex? I should get back into it as it's been a long while for me.) But for most of the time I think it's the Gold Standard of American primetime soaps (and has more elements that we associated with daytime soaps than most of them do, if that makes sense.)
I will say I found the first two seasons kinda fun but they are much more self contained writing--almost like Family from a few years earlier but with less nuanced writing (I think Family is the best written US primetime show of the 70s so that's my bias.) Also, though I was born in 1980, I think I just get some nostalgia from TV that shows houses, etc, of that era. But it doesn't go full soap till season 3, really (though it's not such a big leap in tone from the first seasons by any means--this isn't like Dynasty's first short season.)
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