Why Soap Operas Are The Genre That Will Never Die
Soap opera fans sometimes feel disheartened when they look at the TV landscape.
The golden age, when every network had at least three soaps, is long gone. When NBC moved Days of Our Lives to Peacock in 2022, that left only three on broadcast TV.
But as bad as it looks, it’s nowhere near over for our favorite genre, and it never will be.
(Peacock/Screenshot) Soap Operas Are The Building Blocks of Drama
People like to make fun of soaps, but the truth is that they aren’t the low-quality dramas they are accused of being.
Most of the time, anyway.
Some storylines are real clunkers, and soap operas sometimes engage in the same tired tropes over and over, like bringing dead people back to life or ridiculous, contrived love triangles.
Some Viewers are Struggling with Matlock’s Far-Fetched Premiseby Thomas Godwin FBI: Most Wanted’s Latest Crime Was...
The golden age, when every network had at least three soaps, is long gone. When NBC moved Days of Our Lives to Peacock in 2022, that left only three on broadcast TV.
But as bad as it looks, it’s nowhere near over for our favorite genre, and it never will be.
(Peacock/Screenshot) Soap Operas Are The Building Blocks of Drama
People like to make fun of soaps, but the truth is that they aren’t the low-quality dramas they are accused of being.
Most of the time, anyway.
Some storylines are real clunkers, and soap operas sometimes engage in the same tired tropes over and over, like bringing dead people back to life or ridiculous, contrived love triangles.
Some Viewers are Struggling with Matlock’s Far-Fetched Premiseby Thomas Godwin FBI: Most Wanted’s Latest Crime Was...
- 10/31/2024
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
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