Alan Sarapa

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Alan’s Soap Box: How Y&R Can Fix Billy Abbott

Alan Sarapa - April 28, 2022

How does a character go from beloved legacy character to asshole who gives navel gazing monologues on a podcast? That's what fans of The...

Alan’s Soap Box: Top 10 Things Soaps Need To Stop Doing Immediately

Alan Sarapa - March 29, 2022

Soap fans complain all the time. We are a notoriously whiny bunch. I'm sure there are whole group chats of soap writers and producers...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Worst Romances on Daytime Soaps

Alan Sarapa - February 28, 2022

Romance is the foundation of soap operas. Unfortunately for us, a lot of the pairings currently on soaps are shitty. I'm not trying to...

Alan’s Soap Box: Alan’s Wish List for 2022

Alan Sarapa - January 31, 2022

It is a new year and that means a new year of bitching about soaps with some praise thrown in when deserved. I've made...

Alan’s Soap Box: General Hospital Doesn’t Care About Elizabeth Webber

Alan Sarapa - December 16, 2021

General Hospital does not care about Elizabeth Webber at all. No one audibly gasped reading that sentence. There were no glasses of red wine...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Problems with Ben & Ciara

Alan Sarapa - November 30, 2021

On paper, Ben and Ciara should have never happened. A serial killer being paired with the ingenue who is on the family tree of...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Best Decisions Soaps Have Made in 2021

Alan Sarapa - October 27, 2021

If you follow me on Twitter, you know I have my annual Best and Worst thread that I start around mid-November with categories like...

Alan’s Soap Box: General Hospital Makes A Bold Choice To Be Terrible

Alan Sarapa - September 28, 2021

There's a popular expression that writers tend to hate: "It writes itself." They hate it because it conjures up a vision of an unseen...

Alan’s Soap Box: Soap’s Use of History & How It Could Be Improved

Alan Sarapa - August 31, 2021

Soaps have one big advantage over primetime: History. They have decades of it. Some fans can say they have been watching since childhood. That's...

Alan’s Soap Box: The State of the Under 40 Crowd On Soaps

Alan Sarapa - July 27, 2021

Young people are the lifeblood of a soap. They are the ones who keep things fresh when things are stagnant. They can be a...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Mid-Year Report Card For Soaps

Alan Sarapa - June 29, 2021

2021 is halfway done, so it is time to take a deep dive look at how the past six months have been for each...

Alan’s Soap Box: Top 10 Worst Current Soap Characters

Alan Sarapa - June 7, 2021

Written by Alan Sarapa Complaining about which characters are terrible is the pastime of soap fans. We all have our particular characters that we think...

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