Category — *Soaps

In the season one episode of All Saints, The Hard Yards, nurse Jarad’s football hero Gazza is admitted, having been stabbed by his girlfriend. Gazza is claiming an unprovoked attack by a jealous, insecure girlfriend; the girlfriend is …

Last year, I griped a lot about just how bad All Saints had gotten in its portrayal of women and women’s issues compared to how it used to be. For Christmas, I got the first and second seasons …

The main reason I stopped watching daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful was a love triangle involving Ridge, his wife Brooke and his late-wife-who-wasn’t-actually-dead Taylor. Taylor died, Ridge started seeing Brooke and married her, Taylor reappeared. Who is …

Note: I wrote this mid-s2. I haven’t seen much of s3, but I understand the dynamic changed somewhat in s3.
The biggest thing I love about Grey’s Anatomy is the relationship between Christina Yang and Preston Burke. He’s her boss, but …

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There was a character on Mile High, Janice Steele, who was the show’s ‘Bitch’ character (you know, the mean …

Season nine of All Saints has got Scarlett seriously depressed, so she’s making herself feel better by watching earlier seasons. And she came across something she can’t believe she missed, even in the days before she become a Hathor-subscribing feminist, …

“¦ And about bloody time, too. I found Marissa Cooper (Mishca Barton) from The OC to be one of the most vomit-worthy female characters invented. She has a reverse-Oedipus complex (I think it’s called a Cassandra complex) , harbouring an …

Earlier this week on As the World Turns, a scene between Meg Snyder and Paul Ryan made me smile. Meg and Paul went out on a picnic date out on a lake. Paul surprised her with a fishing …

I’ve been following Desperate Housewives, and it occurred to me; there is a completely different set of standards for women cheating than men.
What, you ask, it took me two seasons to realise this? Not exactly. …

Spoilers for The OC
I stopped watching The OC some time ago, but unfortunately I live in a house where two others are rabid fans. It wasn’t that I didn’t love Julie; I did. Nothing slowed that woman for very long. …