Oh, soap elements now pervade nearly every scripted show on TV, as has been discussed (ie you can get your soap fix of serialized story telling so many ways now...) I guess people point out that this started with shows like Hill Street Blues which mixed a procedural with overarching storylines. I'm a huge fan of the Herskovitz/Zwick TV dramas (thirtysomething, My So-Called Life which they produced but didn't create but Winnie Holzman, who wrote for thirtysomething did and most of the writers were from it, and Once and Again especially) and get a lot of the same pleasures from them as I do from soaps, but they're not really soaps (in fact when Herskovitz/Zwick were brought on as showrunners for the final two seasons of the soapy Nashville they weren't a great fit, though there was some promise)... You mention Friday Night Lights which was adapted for tv and run by Jason Katims who got his start writing on MSCL and had his own shortlived series produced by Herskovitz/Zwick, Relativity (which is all on YT which is nice as I thought I was the only one who remembered it existed,) etc.,
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