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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 100042" data-attributes="member: 27">Confession: I&#039;ve been reading through this thread trying to jog my memory, since so few of the post-KL nighttime soaps were memorable enough to merit mention in a &quot;Best Of...&quot; list.&nbsp; I could not come up with a single suggestion from the immediate past on my own. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I tried to watch Sisters,&nbsp; but the serious and the fanciful (and the downright bizarre) were too close together, taking me out of the moment.Savannah drove me away because it was painfully obvious they were NOT filming in Savannah. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Melrose Place burned itself out by trying too hard to top themselves.&nbsp; Not knowing how to &quot;pull back,&quot; they burned through plot too quickly.BH90210 is...well, just not my kind of show at all, and I never had any inclination to watch either version.I watched season one of Desperate Housewives but fell out of the habit; it seemed more like a serialized comedy than a drama.I watched all but the last few episodes of NuDallas and liked it well enough...but I wasn&#039;t upset when it got cancelled, so I guess I wasn&#039;t attached.I never saw Central Park West.We were all so spoiled by the 1980s supersoaps....<img src="http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/think/m1703.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":think:" title="Think&nbsp; &nbsp; :think:" data-shortname=":think:" />The only primetime soap I&#039;ve enjoyed is The Haves and the Have Nots, which has run on Oprah&#039;s Network for several years now.&nbsp; It&#039;s outrageous, over the top, and hilarious, but they play it all straight.&nbsp; The writing format, however, has a closer resemblance to daytime soaps than the style of primetime soap we are more accustomed to.&nbsp;&nbsp; A new season is starting in a week or so, and I&#039;m actually excited to see what insanity they come up with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 100042, member: 27"] Confession: I've been reading through this thread trying to jog my memory, since so few of the post-KL nighttime soaps were memorable enough to merit mention in a "Best Of..." list. I could not come up with a single suggestion from the immediate past on my own. :( I tried to watch [I]Sisters[/I], but the serious and the fanciful (and the downright bizarre) were too close together, taking me out of the moment. [I]Savannah [/I]drove me away because it was painfully obvious they were NOT filming in Savannah. :) [I]Melrose Place[/I] burned itself out by trying too hard to top themselves. Not knowing how to "pull back," they burned through plot too quickly. BH90210 is...well, just not my kind of show at all, and I never had any inclination to watch either version. I watched season one of [I]Desperate Housewives[/I] but fell out of the habit; it seemed more like a serialized comedy than a drama. I watched all but the last few episodes of Nu[I]Dallas [/I]and liked it well enough...but I wasn't upset when it got cancelled, so I guess I wasn't attached. I never saw [I]Central Park West. [/I] We were all so spoiled by the 1980s supersoaps....:think: The only primetime soap I've enjoyed is [I]The Haves and the Have Nots, [/I]which has run on Oprah's Network for several years now. It's outrageous, over the top, and hilarious, but they play it all straight. The writing format, however, has a closer resemblance to daytime soaps than the style of primetime soap we are more accustomed to. A new season is starting in a week or so, and I'm actually excited to see what insanity they come up with. [/QUOTE]

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