#Soap opera updates in 1990s how to#

I just remembered how much I hated Susan Mayer. McCluskey) couldn't appear in their own story bubbles, they always had one of the 4 core Housewives involved in their stories – and usually Susan, Bree, Lynette and Gabrielle emerged as the 'good guys' in the end, no matter what s*it they had pulled. Even the additional Housewives (Edie, Betty, Katherine, Angie, Renee, Mrs. The show had such a huge ensemble cast, but everyone was somehow tied to one of the 4 Housewives. The problem was that the 4 Housewives needed to be in every episode and that they alone drove the show's storyline. Suddenly it felt like a slow daytime soap.

Seasons 6 and 7 were so-so, and in season 8 you could tell the show was on its last legs. That season felt endless and had no highlights. Season 5 was when the show began to fall apart. Season 1 was gold seasons 2 to 4 were also entertaining, yet had several filler episodes. A new season is starting in a week or so, and I'm actually excited to see what insanity they come up with.Ĭlick to expand.My thoughts exactly. The writing format, however, has a closer resemblance to daytime soaps than the style of primetime soap we are more accustomed to.

It's outrageous, over the top, and hilarious, but they play it all straight. The only primetime soap I've enjoyed is The Haves and the Have Nots, which has run on Oprah's Network for several years now. We were all so spoiled by the 1980s supersoaps. I watched all but the last few episodes of Nu Dallas and liked it well enough.but I wasn't upset when it got cancelled, so I guess I wasn't attached. I watched season one of Desperate Housewives but fell out of the habit it seemed more like a serialized comedy than a drama.

#Soap opera updates in 1990s how to#

Not knowing how to 'pull back,' they burned through plot too quickly.īH90210 is.well, just not my kind of show at all, and I never had any inclination to watch either version. Melrose Place burned itself out by trying too hard to top themselves. Savannah drove me away because it was painfully obvious they were NOT filming in Savannah. I tried to watch Sisters, but the serious and the fanciful (and the downright bizarre) were too close together, taking me out of the moment. I could not come up with a single suggestion from the immediate past on my own. Confession: I've been reading through this thread trying to jog my memory, since so few of the post-KL nighttime soaps were memorable enough to merit mention in a 'Best Of.' list.