Garren Waldo is a Contributing Writer at Soap Hub. Based in Tennessee, this Southern Fried Spitfire, and authority on all things soapy, whiles away his time critiquing, recapping, and spoiling. He’s sure that within him exists the next Great American Novel, a sensational stage play, and a noteworthy serial or two.
Title: Contributing Writer, Daytime TV Columnist Location: Spring City, Tennessee
Expertise
Topics of Expertise: Critical Analysis, Critical Reading, Soap History, Turning A Phrase Years in This Expertise: 25+ Shows You Write About: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. Bygone soap operas (Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Ryan’s Hope, et al.), Foreign serials.
Education & Certifications
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Tennessee Wesleyan College Years of Writing:Professionally: 3+, For Pleasure: 25+
A Word from Garren Waldo
Why Author Chose This Career: I’ve been enamored of the soap opera genre for as long as I can remember, and my most fervent desire is to one day have my name mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Irna Phillips, Henry Slesar, Pat Falken Smith, and Douglas Marland, or, barring what may be the impossible, at the very least alongside soap journalist greats such as John Kelly Genovese, P.K. Waddle, Mimi Torchin, and Marlena De Lacroix. How Author Began Career: An editor with a masochistic streak and the patience of a saint saw fit to take pity on me, an untried but promising scribe with extensive knowledge of soap operas and storylines past and the ability to entertain via the written word. Personal Interests: Dissecting film and television; plugging the myriad of gaps in my knowledge; reading; penning the next Great American Novel, a play that would make Tennessee Williams weep, and an original TV serial worthy of note. Small goals, really.
The General Hospital recaps for November 1 – November 5, 2021, feature quid-pro-quo agreements, stealth manipulation, grievous bodily harm, and so much more. General Hospital…
The Young and the Restless recaps for November 1 – November 5, 2021, feature crosses, and double-crosses, a monumental loss, a painful breakup, and so…
The Bold and the Beautiful recaps for November 1 – November 5, 2021, feature threats, resignations, entreaties, relationships on the rocks, and so much more.…
The Y&R spoilers for November 8 – November 12, 2021, tease parents acting worse than their children, parents demanding the best for their offspring, offspring…
The General Hospital recap for Thursday, November 4, 2021, features Spencer Cassadine finally getting a clue that his girlfriend isn’t all that she’s cracked up…
The General Hospital recap for Wednesday, November 3, 2021, features Sonny Corinthos making promises that he might not be able to keep, Elizabeth Webber Baldwin…
The DAYS spoilers for Thursday, November 4, 2021, tease a modern-day Nick and Nora Charles getting their sleuth on, extreme disappointment, and a not-so-white wedding.…
For years, Laura Spencer Horton (played at various times by Floy Dean, Susan Flannery, and Susan Oliver) had embodied the sophisticated shrink archetype on Days…
The General Hospital recap for Tuesday, November 2, 2021, features terror on Cassadine Island, some home truths being hurled, a potential windfall, and so much…
