via Daytime Confidential

 

Finally!

 

I hope this becomes something major for her.  

 

 

I agree. But I separate the incompetent PP management from the actual shows, and the production teams and ensembles who made and delivered those shows, which I thought were the best soaps of the decade thus far. I think if they'd had actual decent funding and management and not grifters, they'd still be on today and going strong.

 

If people want to talk about the future of American daytime soaps, my answer is we already saw it and it's gone, but if anyone wants to do it again they'll be doing it the same way - 30 minutes or 45, on streaming. And I think they will do it again with something. But I think those shows were excellent. And I think DC didn't get behind them because for all their talk of updating the genre they were very into starfucking and finally getting attention and recognition via their relationships with people in the industry, i.e. the then-current regime at GH. They were blinded by that, and it didn't help that many of them had little relationship with, let's say, OLTL prior to Cartini. They've soured on those relationships now, but they were in too deep and couldn't see anything beyond a sort of clannishness. They were and are glorified fans who befriended a head wr0iter and got used by that team as a press wurlitzer.

 

I Couldn't Agree More. about the PP soaps. The resting of Jessica and the Ford's was needed. The sets were better, and I found myself caring about the stories. Some were clunkers, but overall, I was a fan.  Howarth was even on point.