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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...

Alan’s Soap Box: 8 Ways to Solve The Liam Spencer Problem

Alan Sarapa - April 27, 2021

Written by Alan Sarapa Liam Spencer is a cancer to The Bold and the Beautiful. Brad Bell has a propensity for hiring and discarding actors...

Alan’s Soap Box: The 10 Best Current Soap Characters

Alan Sarapa - March 29, 2021

Written by Alan Sarapa What makes a character good? It varies. They could be entertaining. They could be an antagonist who is just a wrecking...

Alan’s Soap Box: The State of Romance on Soaps

Alan Sarapa - February 22, 2021

Written by Alan Sarapa Romance is the bread and butter of soaps. It is likely one of the reasons many of you got hooked on...

Alan’s Soap Box: 5 Things I Want From Each Soap in 2021

Alan Sarapa - January 25, 2021

With the nightmare year that was 2020 over, let's make this month's column about five things I want from each soap in 2021. I...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Case Against Ron Carlivati

Alan Sarapa - December 30, 2020

Written by Alan Sarapa Head writer Ron Carlivati has always been divisive among soap fans. From his days at One Life to Live to General...

Alan’s Soap Box: Doll Romance, Cougars, GH Explodes and Adam, Adam, Adam!

Alan Sarapa - November 30, 2020

Written by Alan Sarapa After doing lists for September and October, I think it is time for a column where I just talk about how...

Alan’s Soap Box: Top 12 Characters That Need To Leave

Alan Sarapa - October 27, 2020

Soaps often don't know when it is time to get rid of or rest a character. It is more understandable when it is a...

Alan’s Soap Box: 10 Rules For Head Writers

Alan Sarapa - September 28, 2020

Written by Alan Sarapa Douglas Marland, deceased head writer of General Hospital, Guiding Light and As The World Turns, famously once gave out his rules...