#soap operas

[mysharona1987]

I didn’t realize that Brooke Logan from The Bold and The Beautiful has literally been married 21 times. Even by daytime soap standards, that is mental. (Eight times to the same guy.)

She must really like wedding gifts.

#the bold and the beautiful #Soap operas #weddings #Bridget logan

[alexbrecks]

GENERAL HOSPITAL 01.09.24

#general hospital #gh #ghedit #soapedit #soaps #soap operas #sonny corinthos #carly spencer #carson #sonny x carly #i finally found time to make this gifset #this scene gave me SO many feels #i will always have a soft spot for carson #minestuff #gh 1.9.24

[davidgalearchive]

A little collection of goofy clippings from and about David Gale from my magazines/books. (All the quotes are from him).

#davidgale #re-animator #david gale #soap operas #1970s #search for tomorrow #the secret storm #edge of night #dr. hill #carl hill #dr hill #reanimator #re animator #re animator 1985

[sweaterkittensahoy]

What's a soap opera story line you remember really strongly even years after?

Because mine is Marlena becoming possessed by the devil and Priest John Black (he may have forgotten he was John Black at that moment) had to save her via exorcism.

Stefano was maybe involved? I don't remember.

But I do remember Austin and Carrie were trying to plan their wedding, and there was a drought because of the devil possessing Marlena.

This might have also been the point where Billie (played by Lisa Rinni) solved the puzzle box that only Hope (also played by Lisa Rinni) could ever solve, leading Beau to belive Billie was Hope reincarnated or some shit.

Anyway, Days of Our Lives, am I right?

#soap operas #days of our lives #marlena was NOT possessed the same summer as the OJ trial #but I think it was the year after

[gilithan]

i never actually articulated on here where my love for emmerdale/aaron dingle came from, so i though i’d express my thoughts below (heavy discussion of mental health ahead)

So in 2011-2012 I was struggling to come out. This was when I graduated high school and started uni. I came out to strangers first, new uni friends. The first time I said it I felt an immense shift, a weight lifted.

But I still struggled, majorly, with my mental health, thoughts of suicide. I felt unlovable, hopeless, worthless. This were deep-seated, and not solely from my struggles in the closet.

I sought catharsis, as I always do, in media. However, gay media - specifically, good gay media - was few and far between, especially back then. Shockingly, Kurt from glee didn’t quite cut it. As someone who wasn’t and still isn’t into the more club/hook-up side of things the more risque shows didn’t help either.

So I turn to Soaps. Not really realistic, but based in realism. Overdramatic, but drama was needed to draw out the emotions.

Aaron Livesy (now Dingle) was one of the first I found. He was moody, rude, violent, and so, so self-destructive. His highs gave me hope, his lows gave me catharsis. His relationships with his family (when they were good) showed me how even imperfect relationships are important, if they are genuine.

Through Aaron’s journey, I followed and got through my hardest times. I must have watched his initial run, on a loop, five six times. Then the impossible happened: he returned.

And boy did he return. My initial hatred of Robert aside, Danny, Ryan, and most of the supporting characters, had the best writing and acting I’ve ever seen on the soap. That really solidified Aaron as not just a weird guilty pleasure that I needed once, but something that I say without a doubt will stay with me forever.

Things happened, Ryan left, writing deteriorated, Danny left. I resigned myself to the slow wait. I am in a much better place, not perfect but so much better. And now Aaron has returned again! Writing is still not quite up to what it was (and a certain someone still hasn’t returned) but… yeah. That’s my journey with Aaron.

#aaron dingle #robron #robert sugden #emmerdale #mental health #suicide #soap operas #danny miller

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

As an old fan of Generations, this speaks to me.

#Nesha Chats #announcement #The Gates #Generations #soap operas #black tv shows #black soap opera #instagram

[oldshowbiz]

General Hospital as it looks today on Google Street View

#general hospital #filming location #soap operas #architecture

[dominimoonbeam]

I just want to take a second to send out a special thank you to all the soap opera fans out there on YouTube sifting through thousands of hours of content and putting together just the happenings of one couple.

You beautiful beautiful souls have gotten me through some rough times in life.

I can consume YEARS of a couples story arc in a matter of hours.

I will never not love you for that.

#soap operas #high octane drama #general hospital #dool #<3

[lushthemagicdragon]

Inspired by a conversation had today.... they have something in common.

#soap operas #horror #genre fiction #the horror girlies and the soap opera girlies know what they're about #and it's wanting to watch the villain fuck

[jhsharman]

memory lane is a one way street

Mixed anachronism change-over. The girl feels so poor over not having cable tv, which is all fine and dandy except now your tv set program model is referred to as "linear tv" and there is nothing even interesting on not having cable. You are streaming now. As too the vcr to DVD change Archie enacted in the oughts seems a tad quaint as we move into the 10s -- more up to date but not all the way. And such would not even be interesting, if left un-updated the story as a whole could be figured as set in its time. But this story is about Betty's dad feeling old because of... ?

The date of the original does not track. Color tv was experimental in the fifties. 1965 was the year over half of new tv programming was in color, and 1966 was when all of it was in color. It would have been better and more plausible for 1990 had Hal Cooper identified color tv as being a luxury item. But maybe I am nit-picking and not accounting for a layman's inaccurate recollection and half-knowledge. On the other, by the time of the reprint in this century, this whole doting by Mr. Cooper is insane, whether it is "an" or "a" historical event the moon landing of 1969.

Soap operas go back to radio, and as a programming model was transferred to tv at its very start. Arguably the girls would not really know from soap operas in the years of the reprint (the second one in particular) as there was a mass cancellation of long time programming ... about 2010? Apparently we are down to four now. (Though there is probably some sub-culture of youtubers who do it themselves.) On the Beatles -- I guess Hal Cooper is old enough in reprints to remember John Lennon being shot. Maybe.

These added back spasm lines make no sense to me. And what happened to his socks?

#Archie Comics #Betty Cooper #Hal Cooper #Woodland Scouts #Vcr #DVD #Moon landing #What a drag it is getting old #Abraham Lincoln #Color tv #Soap operas #Anachronisms #Doug Crane #1990 #Socks

[chaoticdesertdweller]

#its true #accurate #80s #80s kid #nostalgia #childhood memories #the price is right #soap operas #12 o'clock news #grandparents

[alexbrecks]

#the bold and the beautiful #b&b #bold and the beautiful #thope #hope logan #thomas forrester #thomas x hope #soapedit #soap operas #minestuff #b&b 6.22.23

[narcobarbies]

on this day in 2006, nikolas cassadine made a scene at courtney matthews' funeral

General Hospital (3/2/06)

#general hospital #generalhospitaledit #gh #ghedit #nikolas cassadine #tyler christopher #my gifs #tvedit #dailytvedit #abc daytime #soap operas #soapoperalbr #filmtvcentral #dailytvfilmgifs #dailytv #televisiongifs #filmtvedit #tvactorsdaily #usertvfilm #userstream #nikolas ate them up

[davidgalearchive]

Susan Monts-Bologna (Prof. Aja Doyan) and David Gale (Rusty Sentell) on the set of Search for Tomorrow. [Photo from Daytimers magazine, May 1983]

#david gale #soap opera #soap operas #rusty sentell #susan monts #susan monts-bologna #search for tomorrow #1980s #1980s soap operas #aja doyan #davidgale

[flawedlovabletaylor]

I've been watching a lot of random episodes and clips from the soap opera Passions on YouTube in the past month or two, and it's definitely reminded me of why Passions has always been my favorite soap opera out of all the soap operas that I've ever watched with all of its insanity. Passions is definitely the craziest, most unique, and most memorable soap opera that I've ever watched in my entire life haha.

#passions #passions nbc #nbc passions #passions soap opera #soap opera #soap operas #tv shows #tv series #random thoughts #random thought #favorite things #favorite tv shows #favorite memories #youtube

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Wanna know about my history with soap operas? Well... I know that I’ve shared my love for Dominique Deveraux - TV’s First Black Bitch on the original Dynasty, but that wasn’t the only soap that I watched as a kid and while she was my first, here are a few more Black women in soap operas who I paid attention to (and mostly saw first on soaps).

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Senait Ashenafi ♡ Keesha Ward, General Hospital: This is one of my favorite soap girls of all times. She was sweet and pretty, and she was in one of my first ships as a preteen? I don't recall how old I was when I was watching this, but I was obsessed. I would rewatch her scenes with Jason all the time on VHS tapes. I stopped watching some time after they broke up.

Felecia Bell ♡ Simone Hardy, General Hospital: I did not watch General Hospital during the days of earlier Simone casting. But in my soaps heyday, and I mean I set the VCR for my soaps when I wasn't home and watched them when I got home, and Felecia Bell was Simone at that time period. I thought it was interesting to see a character that I was told had a historical landmark for daytime tv.

Renee Elise Goldsberry ♡ Evangeline Williamson, One Life to Live: I had many run ins with OLTL, but the last time I watched it, I had been lured back by one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life! I CRIED when she left the show. I tried to stick around to see what they'd do with her sister, but I quickly lost interest and have not seen the show since.

Rhonda Ross ♡ Toni Burrell, Another World: I wasn't extremely fond of this character, but she had the first Black rape survivor story arc that I can recall seeing and I still remember images of the court trail in my mind today. AND! She was the first Diana Ross child that I knew of. Diana Ross was so important to me in my childhood, her daughter was important by proximity.

Tracey Ross, Brook Kerr, Lena Cardwell ♡ The Russells, Passions: Sometimes... You see a show that is like a decade long fever dream. That show is Passions. Some might have called it a guilty pleasure, but I don't be guilty about my pleasures and Passions was my pleasure. NONSENSE! But very entertaining. I was not around for all them Simones, but Idk the two lightskint ones apart, so idk which one was on by the time I simply fell off this show.

Lynn Hamilton ♡ Cissie Johnson, Dangerous Women: I definitely didn't see her first in Dangerous Women, but her role in that, as Cissie Johnson was a pretty significant part of a short lived serious that I thought was amazing. It was about women who had been in prison, one fakes her death, escapes, Sqand gets plastic surgery, and there's a lot of stuff that revolves around the ex cons. Cissie was kind of a mammy character, in hindsight, but as a kid, she was a nice Black lady on a show full of snakes and liars.

She was also on Generations, a soap opera that I called, "The Black Soap Opera," because there were SO MANY Black people in the cast, and other soaps just did not do that back then.

Sidenote: Generations was the first time that I saw Vivica A. Fox, but I didn't learn her name until Patti Labelle's sitcom Out All Night. Y'all have NO IDEA how much I loved and watched any and every Black show they gave us, even though they never really lasted long. I missed Generations SO MUCH, despite it only being on for a couple of years.

Sharon Leal ♡ Dahlia Crede, Guiding Light: I thought she was the most beautiful woman ever to be on a soap opera. That was basically it. I was only sort of watching Guiding Light, so I barely remember anything about her character, but I collected every photo of her that they put into my mama's soap magazines.

Mari Morrow ♡ Rachel Gannon, One Life to Live: This character also has been recast several times, but during my consumption, it was Mari Morrow, when Rachel was in her addiction storyline.

Enuka Okuma ♡ Kelly, Fifteen: It took me a ridiculous amount of time to remember that Enuka had been Kelly on Fifteen!! I was excited to realize that, even though still to this day, nobody I speak with ever remembers this show. A Nickolodeon teen drama? Excellent, I loved it. Nick was so good in my day.

I included Arseman, even though I have not seen her since. But, she was rep too, so. There she is.

Sherri Saum ♡ Vanessa Hart, Sunset Beach: Now... this one is a little different, because I don't remember actually LIKING this character, but she's pretty and whenever I'd see people reblog that Fosters show, I'd always envision my older sister imitating her soap character's boyfriend saying her name (Because my sister hated his acting and imitated him funnily to me) First time I saw this lady and that man, but he later wound up in Shondaland.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Garcelle Beauvais ♡ Cynthia Nicols, Models Inc.: This show was a primetime soap. A spin off of Melrose Place. (Melrose Place being a spin off of Beverly Hills 90210), and Garcelle Beauvais gabe me EVERYTHING an angsty child needed inher soaps. This character went through SO MUCH and was SO important to me! She was bulimic. She had an obsessive ex who stalked her. Who KIDNAPPED her and assaulted her in front of her tied up new boyfriend. He had been sending her Black Barbie dolls bound and blindfolded, and when she got down with her new man, he yoinked her. She wound up having to kill him and I supported every moment of her in that one season of a show it feels like only me, my mama and my older sister watched.

#Black Women in Soaps #Selftember Submissions #soap operas #black female characters #black actresses #compilation #Nesha Photosets #Keesha Ward #Simone Hardy #Evangeline Williamson #Dahlia Crede #Rachel Gannon #Toni Burrell #Cissie Johnson #Vanessa Hart #Cynthia Nichols #Kelly Fifteen #Eve Russell #long post