I’ve been watching soaps and reading romance novels for years-and it’s romances that my mother forbid me to consume as a teen, citing that they were smutty and trashy and without worth, whereas General Hospital was something we would watch together. Both are genres geared towards women, grounded in love and relationships, and that rely on melodramatic storytelling tropes. The piece actually isn’t in the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest but rather just on the Web site, shared by Digest and Soap Opera Weekly and not considered the same thing as the print mag.Īnd I find it really strange that people would consider romances and soaps to have separate audiences.
Are you a soap fan? Which one?Īnd where can I get some of Marlene’s freakass creepy contact lenses? There would be a fireside lovemaking scene with the L-shaped sheet (covers her from clavicle to thigh, but barely covers his manly pelvis, ahem), and a really opulent wedding, then, commence angst, drama and unhappiness! I just couldn’t take it.
I went to college with a large core of viewers who would tape them and watch together at the end of the day, but I couldn’t stomach the fact that anyone who earned a happy ending wouldn’t stay blissful for more than 2 episodes. Which brings me to my next question: how many of you who are romance fans also follow a soap? I never got into them, though I admit to being totally enthralled with possessed Marlena with those freakass creepy contact lenses on Days of Our Lives all those years ago. The article in the Digest is part interview with da Cruz, and part review. Several SBTB readers pointed that out when we discussed the cover awhile back, which I never would have known, as I don’t watch soap operas. In a curious overlap of two audiences which, I am told, don’t often overlap to a large degree, Julia Quinn’s novel The Lost Duke of Wyndham is featured in the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest because the cover features Norwegian actress Ewa da Cruz from As the World Turns.
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