A Soap Opera Thanksgiving 2008

It’s Turkey time again!  Well, for you.  For me it’s the beginning of Christmas party schmooze and aching feet season.

For those of you who are new(ish) to the site, although I’m not American and there is no Thanksgiving here where I live, there is Thanksgiving here on this blog.  You can go back and read my Thanksgiving lists from 2006 and 2007, and feel free to get knocked over by the irony of last year’s list in particular (both in its positivity and negativity).

So, what I am thankful for over the past soap year?

 -         Night Shift.  The whole of season two, but especially, especially, the Scorpios

-         That Days has been renewed, even with all the restrictions that come with that

-         That Y&R has improved so much that I’m trying to find room for it in my viewing schedule again

-         That I found OLTL.  Although it hasn’t been delivering as consistently as it was, and has had one particular story that could most flatteringly be described as massively problematic, it’s still more compelling to me than either GH or Days at the moment

-         That AMC killed off Babe.  Just because

-         Daytime Confidential’s podcasts, which always have me laughing while I’m trying to get some serious exercise done

-         GH having found – mainly through accident, rather than design, I suspect – a sense of humour again.  Sure, the show is still mainly dark black and frustrating, but the comedic (but not stupid) duos of Maxie & Spinelli and Alexis & Diane have provided some much needed and sustained levity

-         Kirsten Storms and Maxie Jones. Last year it was just about the transformation of Maxie, but now it’s just about how great she’s (been allowed to) become

What are you thankful for this soapy Thanksgiving?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Comments

[Soap fan in Ohio]

I'm about a month behind and am just catching up to Robin and Patrick's first wedding attempt and the baby's birth, and it hit me in the middle of an episode with Robin recovering and Anna hovering, and Luke and Laura together that, umm, this is actually GH and I recognized (and didn't hate) the show for about the first time in years.

Can't last, but something's better than nothing.

Oh, and I'm also down with the Babe thing.