Interesting, as I have it on good authority that AMC's Erica Kane's pill addiction story WAS instigated by McTavish (at least the setup/concept) even though her name was off the end credits literally a few episodes before Erica had her fall.
What you say about the tone of the show (and how much the Marian storyline dominated and despite its offensiveness, probably offered most of the compelling material) jives with the episodes from this era that I've seen. Thanks for more details! Was Amish Reva McTavish or right before her?
It's interesting that while McTavish's three runs at AMC all ended up being unrelentingly dark (especially her later runs,) at her best she did seem to have the facility to provide AMC with lighter moments and some heart (Agnes Nixon's involvement as "exec head writer" or whatever the first go around notwithstanding.) and yet, she never seemed to have any of this at her other stints, at least from what I remember of her 18 months at OLTL and what I've read at her similarly brief GH run (of course in both instances she was probably essentially doing what JFP wanted.)
I also find it interesting that, despite a brief break with other writers, pretty soon after GL hired Brown/Esensten hot off The City (which I still think in its final months was a pretty strong soap, so it made some sort of sense to use them,) another ABC writing team known for some outlandish stories (although it wasn't until GL that they started to go sci fi/supernatural as they would on PC...)
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