The 8 most memorable soap serial killers

[dragonflies]

[YRBB]

I was gonna make a thread about this but was too lazy  

 

This paragraph is perfection: Days of Our Lives will be celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary this fall, with a serial-killer story set to knock off several contract players and perhaps even a few returning fan favorites. (Which sounds like the opposite of a historical celebration to me. Then again, General Hospital commemorated its 52nd anniversary this past April by totally rewriting several characters’ histories, so maybe spitting in long-term fans’ eyes is the new hip thing.)

[dragonflies]

LOL to the 1st part

 

The 2nd I agree with

[cassadine1991]

Interesting list, but some of those choices I don't agree with

so true

 

what are everyone's choices as their top 8 soap serial killers, I'd include the foreign soaps too

[NothinButAttitude]

What a crappy list. With the exception of the Carnation Killer, Sin Stalker, & Loving Murders, that list was abysmal. What about all the great serial killer stories that DAYS had in the 80s? And what about EON, which excelled at murders? 

[DRW50]

It's EW. They don't give a damn about soaps or anything but sneering and feigning hipness.

[marceline]

I doubt that most of the people working at EW were even alive when EON was on the air. 

[soapfan770]

The moment this list included Conboy and Weston's insipid nightmare that was the Garden of Eden murders was the moment you have to discredit the entire list.  

[cassadine1991]

Don't forget how inaccurate some of the paragraphs are. 

And about the list, really the Satin Slayer and the Raven Lake/Oakdale Slasher??

[BetterForgotten]

These types of stories are the worst and not what I watch soaps for. 

[NothinButAttitude]

True. 

But I wasn't alive when EON originally aired and I still know about the show. Plus, the article was written by Alina Adams, who knows a lot about P&G soaps as she did that horrible Guiding Light blog reboot. 

[~bl~]

The only reason they mentioned GL's Garden of Eden murders is because of Matt Bomer. Omitting non-US soaps in such a column though I understand as EW is primarily a site for North American readers. If you only think about soaps that US fans can watch legally, most have only been available for under 5 years except for short term experiments (like BBCA's airing of Hollyoaks and Oxygen showing Neighbours, both lasted less than a year). Eastenders was shown on some local PBS stations prior to 2000 for a longer period of time. 

Most people who post with EW Community don't get paid for their articles. If I was writing a serial killer list, I wouldn't include anything from EON as even though they were known for murder mysteries the show has been gone for over 30 years and I never saw it.  (I didn't have a fast enough connection when it was on AOL, so to see it I would have to be watching it the gray way.) You could always tweet Alina Adams and ask her why she did't include EON. With ATWT, if I had to chose a murderer I'd go for Doug as people who watch prime time may be familiar with John Wesley Shipp and Julianne Moore was also a part of the story.