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General Hospital’s Quarantine Cliffhanger: Accidental Genius or Big Bust?

General Hospital aired its final episode before the coronavirus dictated a production shutdown, and, unfortunately, the cliffhanger fell closer to a whimper than a bang.…

By Janet Di Lauro May 31, 2020

Sister Act: General Hospital’s Davis Family Deserves More Air Time

General Hospital gives viewers a healthy dose of real-life drama, sister style, in every scene between Sam, Kristina, and Molly. That’s why the Davis family…

By Janet Di Lauro May 15, 2020

What Ever Happened To The Edge of Night’s Raven and Sky Whitney?

The Edge of Night’s Raven and Sky were daytime’s answer to Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man series – though it was less…

By Garren Waldo May 13, 2020

Soap Supercouples: The Romance of General Hospital’s Sonny and Brenda

Sonny and Brenda – the mobster and the model. Their passion burned red-hot, but this General Hospital coupling was forever stymied by impulsively made decisions…

By Garren Waldo April 25, 2020

Soap Supercouples: The Romance of One Life To Live’s Joe and Viki

Joe and Viki – this One Life to Live coupling proved that not only can an average Joe successfully woo a Princess, but it’s also…

By Garren Waldo April 24, 2020

Soap Supercouples: The Romance of General Hospital’s Frisco and Felicia

Frisco and Felicia – he met the lady of his heart under truly peculiar circumstances and though it didn’t prove to be a love affair…

By Garren Waldo April 24, 2020

Soap Supercouples: The Romance of General Hospital’s Steve and Audrey

Steve and Audrey – theirs was a relationship that honored the vows “till death us do part”… However, it took three trips down the aisle…

By Garren Waldo April 08, 2020

Weeping Willow: The Most Heartbreaking Part Of The General Hospital Baby Reveal

We’d waited for more than a year and a half for Port Charles to finally learn what sociopathic Nelle did the night she gave birth…

By Hope Campbell February 22, 2020

General Hospital’s Baby Switch Reveal Has Everything A Soap Needs

We’ve waited nearly a year and a half for this truly soapy moment and General Hospital is finally delivering on the big baby switch reveal.…

By Hope Campbell February 19, 2020

Best of 2019 Soap Operas: The Best Heroes of The Year

Where would soap operas be without heroes? The good guys who come to the aid of damsels in distress and save the day from the…

By Michael Maloney January 01, 2020

Best of 2019 Soap Operas: Character You Want To Have Coffee With

You watch them every weekday, 52 weeks a year, making characters on your favorite soap operas like family. Whether they love to gossip, have the…

By Diane Brounstein December 31, 2019

Best of 2019 Soap Operas: Best Daytime Criers

Heroines shed tears of sorrow when unhappiness occurs and cry tears of joy when something fantastic happens! So, you can imagine how much crying happens…

By Michael Maloney December 26, 2019

The Best of 2019 Soap Operas: Best Daytime Villains

You can call them “good guys and bad guys” or “saints and sinners” or “heroes and villains,” but everyone knows soap operas would be nowhere…

By Michael Maloney December 24, 2019

Worst of 2019 Soap Operas: Biggest Story Letdown

Soap operas used to move very slow, plotting their way through twists and turns until viewers were treated, finally, to the incredible payoff we’d been…

By Diane Brounstein December 22, 2019

General Hospital Wild Speculation: Where Nelle’s Windfall Comes From

All General Hospital bad girl Nelle can talk about to her lawyer, (Tad) Martin Grey, is all the money that’s waiting for her on the…

By Hope Campbell December 14, 2019

General Hospital Wild Speculation: The Return Of Claudette?

When you hear a name mentioned on a soap you haven’t heard in ages, you know something is probably coming. And, on General Hospital this…

By Hope Campbell December 11, 2019

General Hospital: What A Difference A Writer Makes

General Hospital had been feeling a little stale this past year as storylines seemed to drag on and on and odd things happened with very…

By Hope Campbell December 08, 2019

Why General Hospital Should Have Modeled Triangle After Days of our Lives

It was set to be a blockbuster of a story as Steve Burton returned to the role of Jason Morgan on General Hospital. In the…

By Diane Brounstein November 28, 2019

General Hospital Cassadine Clan: The Lost Relatives

The Cassadines — the only aristocratic Greco-Russian clan in soap opera history — has been a blight on the General Hospital landscape for nigh on…

By Garren Waldo November 23, 2019

Back From The Dead: Why Do Soap Opera Characters Never Believe It?

Ok, in real life, the idea of someone coming back from the dead is absolutely absurd and pretty much impossible, but on a soap opera,…

By Hope Campbell November 03, 2019

Do You Recall… General Hospital Takes Foray Into Primetime

Believe it or not, there was a time in soap opera history when your favorite daytime dramas — like General Hospital — were not constricted…

By Garren Waldo October 02, 2019

General Hospital Confusion: Dranco Baldwin Is Not Our Drew Cain

Yes, it seems fairly obvious that Franco is certainly not Drew on General Hospital. We all saw the weird memory-mapping procedure take place with Franco…

By Hope Campbell October 02, 2019

A Spook-tacular Anniversary: The First Dark Shadows Ghost

Comforting familial specters, fear-inducing wraiths, corporal manifestations of a guilty conscience or, quite plainly, ghosts. They’ve been a staple of the soap opera genre for…

By Garren Waldo September 30, 2019