Soap Operas....Love 'Em or Hate 'Em??

My mom religiously watched one called The Edge of Night. That was the only one she watched, but we knew not to bother her when she was watching, unless the house was on fire or we were bleeding profusely, or both.
 

I have to admit I watched soap opera's years ago. I liked Days of our Lives,and Another world. After my children were born I stopped watching them. I was busy enjoying my time with my kids. I haven't seen one in years,because after my kids grew up and had their children I was lucky enough to watch my grandchildren.
 
Regular soap operas are dreck. I've been forced to watch the Spanish version from time to time...novelas. At least the overacting is entertaining...
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Used to watch them, many moons ago. All My Children and General Hospital. Nighttime spoofs such as Soap and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman were funny at the time. Some of the women where I work used to talk about some of the soaps like they were family, ha-ha.
 
i have a couple of friends that watch them every day--you cant call them because they have the answering machine on ---when they decide to call me i am either eating dinner or have gone to bed
 
Hate them! None could hold my interest. They moved way to slow for me. But I will say I loved the soap opera type shows that aired in the evening. Dallas, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing, these I couldn't get enough of.
 
When I was a kid, all of the women in my family listened to their radio soaps while they cooked and cleaned. Some of them made the transition to TV soaps and some didn't but my mother and I watched soaps together for many years, especially when the writing was better. We each had our favorite shows and characters.

I sit down fairly regularly and get caught up on some of the Brit and Australian soaps. I still enjoy following favorite characters through years of stories. If you get Acorn, a number of the offerings there are soaps. No way to pretend they aren't.

I don't consider it any more of a time-waster than the NFL.
 
Back in the early 70's I used to make lunch everyday for my mother's 2nd husband's* mother Gladys. She was confined to a wheel chair and the home the three lived in was not conducive to her movement. (I lived alone.) Mom, her husband and I all worked; but my job was closer and I worked split shifts having a large portion of the middle of the day free. Being a shut in Gladys watched TV all day. She got me hooked on soaps. She told me all the backstories from when they started. She was NBC faithful so we watched Another World, Days of Our Lives, Somerset others I forget. Eventually I went on days and other arrangements were made for her care so my life as a soap-aholic ended.




**My belief is that just because your parent makes an ill-advised 2nd marriage does not make their new spouse a relative of yours.:)
 
Had an entry level job at a huge electronics firm
Bench work
Couldn’t talk
Could listen to radios with headphones
The gal next to me listened to soaps
At break her and another gal would talk about these people
Like they were their friends
I offered my sympathies
They busted out laughing

I’m a little s-l-o-w

I do recall one called The Secret Storm
back in the '50s
Gramma watched it while ironing
I remember this fetching lady
too young to know why
still...
 
Butterfly said:
My mom religiously watched one called The Edge of Night. That was the only one she watched, but we knew not to bother her when she was watching, unless the house was on fire or we were bleeding profusely, or both.
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I know many soap fans who consider TEON to have been the finest soap ever aired. It's hard for me to argue with that, because my mother and I never missed it. TEON and As The World Turns were our long-time favorites, then she began watching Days of Our Lives; I could never get into that one.

Part of the success of TEON was attributed to it having five writers over the course of the show. One of those writers, Henry Slesar, is considered by many to be the greatest soap opera writer ever. He was certainly a great mystery writer, and the show won a special Edgar (for Edgar Allen Poe) award.
 

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