Farewell 2008
It’s been rather difficult approaching 2008’s Best and Worst post.
Mainly because there’s a lot that I haven’t watched this past year. It’s a bit of a challenge categorising things I haven’t actually watched.
So, I’m not doing a Best and Worst, I’m just doing a quick fire summary of the shows, and then moving on to catching up on the last month’s worth of OLTL and starting in on Y&R.
I saw 2008 in soaps as follows:
Days: BORING and completely unwatchable in the second half of the year.
GH: Boring, but scattered with some great, funny, lovely, occasionally sexy moments. Making it even more frustrating than Days, because you can’t completely ignore it.
OLTL: Uneven, but never boring, and at times quite brilliant.
Y&R: Apparently so on the upsurge that I must absolutely make time to watch in the new year.
AMC: 90% appalling, but still capable of delivering a lovely tribute episode to a much loved actress/character in Eileen Herlie/Myrtle, a fantastic reunion of much loved characters in Angie and Jesse and someone who looks hot even with a beard and a crappy storyline in Thorsten Kaye.
B&B: I gather there were bears. Now a prime time show with quite reasonable ratings in my home country.
ATWT: Still have never watched it.
GL: On location and in the ratings basement.
Passions: Gone to soap heaven, or perhaps pergatory.
Night Shift: Some parts were so fabulous that it made the whole show fabulous even though in reality it was a little uneven. True soap winner of the year.
And because I can't completely ignore Bests and Worsts:
- the Annual Jane Eliot Ageing Gracefully Yet Spectacularly Award this year is a tie between Days' Renee Jones and AMC's Debbi Morgan, both of whom look gorgeous and years younger than their actual years; and
- the Worst Wardrobe Award goes to Days' Kate Roberts, this year finally nudging out Carly Corinthos-Multiple-Names.
