Buffy ,'Chosen'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Remember the whole Ice Princess storyline on GH? I mean, my word, ABC had a whole soap about vampires living in Port Charles (and it was fucking great!) They don't make soaps like that anymore.
So true. But I often wonder if telenovelas and Korean dramas are like this now?
I used to watch a lot of novelas and they were crazy dramatic but not in a supernatural way, or at least not the ones that I watched. Not witches and demons and time travel and stuff like that. Just your typical over the top soap stuff. Kind of like 80s night time soaps but on steroids! I'm not sure about Korean soaps.
Days had a supernatural storyline, with Marlena being possessed.
Yeah, I think that one is the medal winner, it got enough press that even people who never watched soaps were aware of it.
That's about when I gave up on Days.
Me too. Unless it was that Phantom of the Opera ripoff...
Nobody did crazy ass like Passions, though! That soap was born to be over the top. I think Passions and Port Charles were the tipping point for over the top supernatural soap opera drama. After those two went off the air, soaps pulled back from being really out there with the demon possession, vampires and witches, possessed puppets storylines. But I feel like that's always been a strain of American soaps, at least since Dark Shadows. And it's just not really present in the soaps that are left these days. Or at least, I don't think it is. I'm not really up on the latest plots.
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Tim Minear has been named co-showrunner of Ryan Murphy's upcoming anthology drama series, Feud, for FX: [link]
I think I can watch this. More so than AHS. WE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DISCUSS ON HERE!!!!
The first season will center around the backstage battle between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at the production of their 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?