SOD Best & Worst 2016

[CBRVA83]

Can someone (if anyone on here has a subscription or the current issue of SOD) please give me the list of what was named the Best & Worst in soaps by SOD in 2016? I don't have a subscription to SOD, and I can't afford to buy an issue at the store! You could also message me too!

[KMan101]

Would like to know as well, but you could always just read the magazine in the store LOL

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[NothinButAttitude]

Wouldn't everything this year on the soaps be considered 'the worst?' 

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#ImJustSayin

[vetsoapfan]

Do we really trust the staff of Soap Opera Digest to know what they are talking about and give credible reviews?

 

Hello...Carolyn Hinsey!

 

ROTF!

[soapfan770]

 

Next time I'm in the store and if I still see it I'll pick it up and check it. All I ever see anymore is just SID with misleading headlines. 

 

SOD use to be the gold standard of soap mags IMHO compared to SOW, SOU, SID, Soap Opera News etc. but after I gave up my subscription in 2005 I never looked back. I think the last SOD issue I actually brought was the surprising Jacqueline Courtney tribute issue in 2010. It was very surreal to see Steve and Alice on the front cover of the magazine and too read Paul Rauch actually had very fond memories of Courtney. 

[cassadine1991]

I'm still peeved they had AMC's sex trafficking storyline and Colby Chandler as the worst of 2013 and GH's insanity was named best

[JONNYSBRO]

Btw whats funny is SOD viewers were polled in a poll and GH won the best soap of 2016 by readers. smarttv is going viral oh hells yes. go smartv go smarttv its your birthday get busy woot woot.

[KMan101]

+1

 

LOL, true but I'm still curious about their list. I used to be such a fan of SOD and SOW back in the day. Sigh.

[vetsoapfan]

 

When it first premiered, SOW was a class-A publication, and SOD was great for many years as well. 

 

Is SOW still even being published? I don't remember the last time I saw it on display anywhere.

[KMan101]

I don't think SOW has been published for quite a while now but I can't remember when they stopped. I always looked forward to getting issues of those magazines.

 

Even People has resorted to sensationalistic and misleading headlines. Shame.

[vetsoapfan]

 

Many years ago, we were very fortunate to have many vibrant and intelligent magazines devoted to daytime TV. Now...zilch.

[YRBB]

 

LMAO!

 

 

I remember a decade plus ago, when I didn't have a car, I would still walk to the store that wasn't near or easy to get to at all, in all kinds of insane weather, to pick up a copy. It gave me such pleasure, even though daytime had regressed majorly by then. Now, I won't even pick up the copy to read in the store. LOL

[cassadine1991]

 

DAYS related
"Daniel Dies" as Best Umbrella Story

Chase raping Ciara as Worst Story 

Hope killing Stefano as Best Secret

Nicole and Deimos as Worst Couple

Belle/Phillip/Shawn as Worst Triangle 

Aiden as Worst Return

Abby on as Best Goodbye 

Summer as Worst New Character 

The Kiriakises as Most Rejuvenated Family

John is a Robicheaux as Most Preposterous Story

honorable mention to Thaao Penghlis (Andre) as best scene stealer 

honorable mention to Jennifer popping pills as best addiction story

 

B&B related

SOD named boldandbeautiful best show

SOD names Brooke/Bill/Katie as Best Triangle

SOD names Quinn kidnaps Liam as Most Shocking Plot Twist

SOD names Douglas' Paternity as Worst Secret

SOD names Eric as Most Rejuvenated Character

SOD gives Katie from boldandbeautiful the worst addiction story

SOD gives an honorable mention to Nicole & Zende as most tortured Couple

SOD gives honorable mention Maya, Rick & Ivy as most wasted characters

 

trying to find the others

[Cheap21]

IA with alot of the Days ones except for Daniel Dies, TP as scene stealer and Jen's addition story. That story was non-existent and so poorly done. It wasnt anything amazing but B&B did better with Katie

 

Zende and Nicole as most tortured couple? All their problems were their own doing and they didnt really go through much. They spent the entire summer on the backburner. Sasha was the main nemesis torturing them....okay. That category seemed to have been written for Steffy and Liam and all the BS the show did.

 

There was nothing shocking about Quinn kidnappin Liam. Thats pretty much typical Quinn. Hope murdering Stefano on Days should have been this winner

[KMan101]

They lost me at "Daniel dies" as best umbrella story.

 

But thank you Cassadine for posting what you did! Appreciate it

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I guess it's hard to really pick the "best" when all the soaps were basically trash. I'm just rolling my eyes at most of their picks already ...

 

Jennifer's addiction was OFF SCREEN and amounted to one episode of flashbacks we never saw to begin with and an intervention. Awful. What we SAW was good but it was hardly a story that played out onscreen.