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Missed the last 15 minutes and will watch again tonight but I'm not smelling what these people have cooked.  It was dull and a huge reveal that should have taken a few eppies to build happened in the middle of the show like it was a comedy skit.  It didn't move me and that's a shame because the lead, a beautiful dark skinned woman, is a good actress and fits the role.  We don't get that often with these shows.  I was also happy that a little person was in a lead role with a gorgeous English wife who supports him no matter what.  I will keep my expectations to a reasonable level until I drop this show.  

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To my surprise Queens was actually decent, much better than Our Kind of People. It just can't find an audience though.

One thing I believe daytime used to better at than prime time is slowly building up a continuous plot. Primetime serial dramas like Riverdale seam to eat through plot way too rapidly. Primetime soaps seem to be limited to romance, business and occasionally crime storylines where as daytime gives you a variety of melodramatic plots.

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If you look at 80s primetime soaps like Dallas and Knots Landing...they had various plotlines at different places and there were slow builds.

I think for a primetime soap to work, you need a soap writer in the writing room that understands pacing and payoffs. 

Queens had potential, but burned through soap plots too quickly 

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