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Many years ago, I went through a period during which I watched the Young and the Restless because one of my friends liked it (Victor is still my hero).
It excited my admiration for the cleverness of soap opera writers: they normally keep six or seven stories going, figuring that at least one will catch a viewer’s interest; as summer approaches, they wind down the adult characters and wind up the teenaged (read, “actors old enough to get a work permit and younger than 25”) characters and the reverse as fall nears; a day of action on the show takes a month in real time, yet Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s still all manage to come on time.
Nevertheless, in terms of duplicity, intrigue, hypocrisy, marital infidelity, and underhanded retribution, it had nothing on the Republican Party.
July 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm
The writers for the soaps watched, listened & took notes. How do you figure they got their plot ideas?