Soap Opera Nation

06/10/2023

Here are a few things that are actually working for me on these days. Spoiler alert: it’s actually watchable now that "Abby’s Restless" and the writer’s weird obsession with podcasts have gone to the storyline graveyard.

What are you guys loving or hating about the show right now? Pour your petty in the comments.

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06/08/2023

What the hell was this conversation between Scott, Kim, and Khloe? 🙄Turn the cameras off?! I chuckled at the dramatic pause after Scott’s question to make it appear they were considering it. How will Kimmy fuel her $95M private jet without this show? What if Kris wants to buy another $12M house in Palm Springs? This show will never end as long as there is more money to be made.

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04/28/2023

Starting in May, I'll be moving to streaming and reality soap operas. In the meantime let me know what type of daytime soap opera content you want to see more of when I make the transition. Polls are on my Instagram highlights.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crl5dgjL8H4/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

04/25/2023

Why is writing for black characters on ‘The Bold and Beautiful’ and other daytime soaps challenging for storytellers? Ex-Bold writer Patrick Mulcahey offers great insight into the subject and how it affects the genre’s lack of diversity.

Now Available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/cUxLo8AL_VE

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04/24/2023

There’s levels to Rena Sofer’s heartfelt exit interview on SOD’s Dishing with Digest Podcast. Grab your Petty Cups, and let me explain.

Don’t miss Part 2 tomorrow, Tue, Apr 25th, 2023

Now Available on YouTube. 🔗 Link in bio

https://youtu.be/3UFoRxvWxls

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There’s levels to Rena Sofer’s heartfelt exit interview on SOD’s Dishing with Digest Podcast. Grab your Petty Cups, and let me explain. Don’t miss Part 2 tom...

09/26/2022

My | S1E05 review ‘Another INSANE Westeros Wedding!’ is now available on YouTube. Go have some laughs and share it with your peeps.

In ‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 5, another chaotic wedding in Westeros goes down in the history books. It’s another hilarious recap w/ Keisha Chantal, so f...

09/24/2022

In ‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 4, Prince Daemon gets a crown of his own, Rhaenyra’s night out nearly leads to scandal and ruin and Otto gets the pink slip. It’s another hilarious recap w/ Keisha Chantal, so fill your petty cups to the brim and let’s sip tea over the latest shenanigans.

In ‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 4, Prince Daemon gets a crown of his own, Rhaenyra’s night out nearly leads to scandal and ruin and Otto gets the pink slip....

08/11/2022

As many of you have heard, Soap Opera Nation is moving out of and transitioning to recapping other soap operas.

Make sure you follow https://www.youtube.com/c/soapoperanation on YouTube and keep it locked here for more updates on what’s coming next. You don’t want to miss a thing!😉

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08/03/2022

Talk Soap w/ Keisha Chantal recaps the already iconic August 1, 2022 episode. Relive the magic on YouTube…

https://buff.ly/3JqQHV3

07/14/2022

😺Curious Cat is hella curious: Is Brenda right? Is getting good again?

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a) Oh yeah! Finn’s garbage bag death really set things back on track.

b) Kinda. I see improvement, but they still have more to do.

c) No. I need more crazy on the canvas before I’m convinced.

d) What do I know? The ratings tell the real story**

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07/13/2022

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Comrades! Allow me to pour 🫖 some afternoon speculation tea for the inevitable reunion on the horizon.

Last week we heard Hope’s waffle iron pontificate on the sad state of Steffy’s time in Europe in the aftermath of Finn’s death. The Waffle man claimed that Steffy and Finn had always planned to go to Monaco. O Rly?🤔

Well, allow me to put my 🕵🏾 detective hat on and speculate on how this will go down.

clue #1
cast and crew attend the 61st annual Monte-Carlo TV Festival, while there, as my gran-gran used to say, Mr. Bell decided to “kill two birds with one stone” and 🎥shoot on-location either in Monte-Carlo or some other principality of Monaco.

clue #2
Someone, Tanner? Casey? Camera grip with time to play on social media posted this shot of the 🎬 slate. Please note the date: Jun-21-22. The next day, both Jacqui and Tanner posted some candids on their socials from what APPEARS to be a day of filming an epic reunion scene.

clue #3
This week's spoilers say Steffy will be moving into a mental health facility to deal with the loss of her man. My guess is that this facility will be in Monaco where Finn will find her after he escapes from the wild-eyed lunatic holding him hostage.

On that fateful day, Finn will likely find Steffy looking wistfully out on the Mediterranean Sea when she hears her name being called in the distance. Steffy will s**t bricks when her dead husband approaches and recounts the tale of how he died, was cremated, and on the third week, he rose again. They will share a tearful kiss as 🕊white doves are released into the sky.

Are you excited? Vote 👍 yes or 👎 no in the comments

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07/12/2022

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😖Oh my god, to be in Lily Ashby’s shoes right now, the poor wretch. I can’t imagine anything more effective to dry a woman up from the inside out than having to live AND work with Billy goat Abbott. How does she stand it? Constantly having to yield to his whims and obsessive-compulsive fixations on Victoria, Adam, and now Ashland. I would be💀 dead inside.

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07/08/2022

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🤔 So which came first, Adam's hatred for the Newmans or the Newman’s hatred for Adam, a.k.a. the kid from another marriage? The way I see it is Adam has always been chopped liver for the Newmans. I’m not saying all his acts of revenge are okay, but I understand the pain of wanting to belong and never feeling like you’re good enough. What do you think?

Maybe it’s time for Adam to stop trying? You know that they say--if you can't beat ‘em you might as well join Ashland and take ‘em down. 😈They deserve it, especially Victor, who fought tooth and nail to woo Adam back from Vegas only to turn around and diss him time and time again. Exhausting.

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07/05/2022

No one: (absolutely no one)

Y&R:

07/04/2022

🎉

This my jam!

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07/02/2022

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I’m convinced that Zende lost his balls to Nicole in their divorce settlement. How else can you explain this dead inside demeanor after the way Paris 🤡 clowned him… in his own family’s fashion house no less! I wish my ex would invite me to his wedding after breaking up with me to date one of my best friends! And we all work together too! Shiiiiid! Kill everything with 🔥fire.

Oh, and don’t tell me Zende is a classy guy. Class ain’t got nothing to do with being taken for a fool and playing it cool. But, if you told me Zende was only using Paris as a beard, then, ok, now you’re making sense.😉

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06/25/2022

Winners (Daytime Soap 🧼 Operas only):

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🏆Outstanding Daytime Drama Series: General Hospital 

🏆Outstanding Writing Team For a Daytime Drama: Days of Our Lives

🏆 Outstanding Directing Team for a Drama Series: General Hospital

🏆Outstanding Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama,
Actress: Mishael Morgan, The Young and the Restless

🏆Outstanding Lead Performance In A Daytime Drama, Actor: John McCook, The Bold and the Beautiful

🏆Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series: Nicholas Chavez, General Hospital 

🏆 Outstanding Supporting Performance, Actor, in a Daytime
Drama: Jeff Kober, General Hospital

🏆 Outstanding Supporting Performance, Actress, in a Daytime Drama: Kelly Thiebaud, General Hospital

🏆Outstanding Original Song - “Grateful For It All,” The Young and the Restless


🏆Outstading Casting - The Young and the Restless

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06/22/2022

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As sure as death and taxes, you can always place your bet on the open door plot device to be used so a character on can overhear a damning secret. I’ve asked this question before, and I don’t mind repeating myself: IS THERE NO OTHER WAY for someone to find out something on this show? Ugh!

Let’s play a game, soapmates, jump in the comment section and suggest some other ways that secrets can be found out on this show. Please, the writers need your help.

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06/21/2022

There’s gold in them there hills. and you’re going to need a lot of it to buy this snazzy prairie 🐴cowgirl fashion fug (outfit of the day).

🩳 Andie Shorts by Zimmermann - $425
👒 Hat by Madewell - $79
👜 saddle bag by Chloe - $1,150

🤔Are you wearing this to the farmers market, Soapmates?

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06/19/2022

Daytime Emmy szn officially kicked off yesterday at the Pasadena Convention Center where the Creative Arts and Lifestyle Emmy Awards ceremony aired via live stream.

Ted King nabbed the first🏆 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performance in a Drama Series. Aside from the Emmy gworls butchering the pronunciation of his character’s surname 😅and panning the camera to his tv wife 🫣 instead of his real wife during his acceptance speech, King’s moment of triumph played on my 💔heartstrings like a violin. So heartfelt!

King has been in the soap game since his 1993 appearance as Ron Nettles on . In between numerous tv series and movie projects he’s appeared on and before guest starring on . As a refresher King won his FIRST Emmy based on his powerful work on only 25 episodes (airing from July 30 2021 to Aug 23, 2021).

And to think, he may have missed out on this moment had it not been for Eva Bassler, VP of Communications at insisting that he submit his reel for consideration.

I love his 💬 quote: “It’s the failures that make us better creatives.” So true.

Congrats 👏🏾Ted King, I sincerely hope this means you will get more screentime going forward.

Stay tuned as more winners will be announced at the award ceremony scheduled to be held live 📺 on Friday, June 24th, 2022, 9 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings for CBS/Paramount+

Watch his heartfelt acceptance speech 👉 https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfABnOmlGkz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

06/05/2022

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You think I feel sorry for Chelsea and her mud rainbow psychedelic print turtleneck ensemble??

Nope.

See, this is what happens when a woman makes her life all about a trash 🚮man. She should have heeded Chloe’s multiple warnings and shifted her focus back to fashion when she had the chance. But nooooo, Chelsea loves her some garbage. Loved it so much that her life and wardrobe went down the crapper. Litterally.

As for Chloe’s hypothesis to Adam, I don’t believe that Chelsea is mad over Rey dying—what's more believable is that Chelsea is BIG mad… at herself. She’s adrift while Adam is anchored for the first time in years and moved on with Sally. Meanwhile, Chelsea’s out here on her best day looking like a life-sized cowpie. Ugh.

Anyway, it’s what she deserves. 😒

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05/09/2022

Quote of the Day

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On this past Friday’s weekly Bold Live a fan asked Mr. McCook what he thought about Eric ghosting Seffy and, long story short, he agrees with y’all that Eric should have been in the mix during his grandaughter’s latest crisis. He called the writing “lazy” and said he was disappointed. *petty cackle*😆

“[…] I disagreed very much with [the writers] leading Eric away from that. I thought he should’ve been there. I don’t think that they kept Eric away from the hospital because he’s having fun with Donna, I think they just omitted it. I think they just… I frankly think it was a lazy decision not to write Eric in there with his family.”

Speaking of ✍️lazy writing, as many of you know the 49th Annual Daytime Emmy 🏆Awards announced the nominees last Thursday and you know what was NOT nominated for?

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

*gasps*
*Pretends to be shocked*

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05/07/2022

Let the record show, we said, “NAH!” 🙅🏾‍♀️

PSA: All Fridays henceforth will be known as . We don’t want tofu. We want wagyu🥩 steak

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05/06/2022

Eric ain’t shiiiit for choosing honey s*x over his grandaughter. When Quinn finds out, I know she will make them PAY😈

🍿See you in the comments💬

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05/02/2022

If you joined today’s True ☕️ Tea Sunday live (or watched the full video posted earlier) you’ll know what this post is about.😉

Which pair of swim 🩳trunks compliment Finn’s V cut abs the best?

You can pick ONLY ☝🏾one!

P.s. Finn’s s*xiest 🥵scenes video will post tomorrow.

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04/29/2022

Hilary is all of us.

Watching is emotional🥴 damage. Please make sure to prioritize your mental health whenever possible.

Here are some tips to help you through these repetitive times:

⏩Use your FFW button as often as you need
🪡Take up needlepoint
🚶‍♀️Go on a long walk (preferably until the episode is over)
🧘‍♀️Meditate
🙏Pray for deliverance

Got any coping tips to share? Drop them in the comments👇🏾

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04/29/2022

Presents: CBS Daytime Exhibit at Paley Center for Media

Looked at what I found in my archives! This was back in 2016 when I attended the CBS Daytime exhibit at the Paley Center. Scroll through for unreleased pics of my coverage for the event.

P.s. I’m DWL🤣 that Mr. 🔕 signed my parody comic of his show. He’s such a good sport.

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04/28/2022

📣Join me this Sunday, MAY 1st, 2022 for an IG Live
⏰ 1 pm ET (10 am PT)

Soapmates! We are long overdue for ☕️ tea. I’m boarding the Hot Mess Express for both and to give you my take on ALL the foolery going down on-screen and behind-the-scenes.

Topics include:

🍇Rumors
🔮Spoilers
🤢Unseasoned storylines
📈Ratings

Plus I have a special 🤩 announcement that I can’t wait to share with y’all. Come be petty with me.

Got an idea for a topic? Drop it in the comments so I can add it to my list.

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04/27/2022

| Ms. MacInnes Wood said killing Finn was a “fantastic twist”.

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“Things that make you go hmmmm…”😏

In the meantime, please meet me in the👇🏾 comment section for a lively discussion around what your Soap queen thinks about Bell & Co. suddenly drop kicking Finn off canvas. “Fantastic” is not exactly the word I would use. What about you?

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💬 : Soap Opera Digest

04/17/2022

Well, it looks like your, “unexpected, very original, very fresh and new”, storyline for Hope/Liam/Steffy has arrived.

Judging by the comment section under the official IG account, the fans seem to be taking it well--if well means that they absolutely 🤬HATE it.

😒Anyway, I’ve come to accept that it doesn’t matter what comment sections/fans are saying, most of you enjoy these rinse/repeat plots and readily give up your precious time each week to watch it unfold.

The week Finn literally died on a pile of trash, had an 8% increase in viewership (2.96M) and a 16% and 18% jump in the Women 18-49 and 25-54 demo, respectively. So you see, we can’t ever have nice things because millions of viewers LOVE watching Brooke repeatedly wonder what caused her to drink on New Year's Eve and they also adore it when Sheila returns from the dead or jail every few years to wreak havoc.

How about you, soapmate? Are you on the 🤩edge of your seat to see this fresh and new take on Liam’s clown bride loaning her husband to Steffy?

🗣Holla at your girl in the comments.

ratings source: Soap Opera Network

04/15/2022

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Oh, Lord Anthony Bridgerton. You really are a Rake with a capital “R”.

I must say, I HATED Anthony’s overbearing ass in season 1, not to mention those dreadful sideburns. Season 2 Anthony, however, can get it. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. 🤪

I will just have to ignore Sir Douchebag’s offensive, s*xist remarks when he compares women to cattle and instead delight in Kate’s scathing insults whenever the two of them butt heads. Ha!

Let the 🐝 recpas begin!

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04/14/2022

Who ordered this unseasoned storyline?! Send it back to the kitchen.

🗣🗣🗣 We said Drucilla!! Not Diane “Dead” Jenkins.

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I don't about ya'll but I’m already bored STIFF by Diane and her bulls**t backfilled story about the time Nikki bashed her skull in with a rock, but by some miracle, she was able to resurrect after the third day with the help of Deacon Sharpe.

Do you know what would’ve been a better plot?

Drucilla returns to Genoa City not aged a day in all the years she’s been gone. She’s sporting blonde braids and decked out in head-to-toe leather when she arrives unannounced at Devon’s sad penthouse in the sky.

Guess what? After that bitch Phyllis caused her to fall over the cliff in 2007, she was rescued by reclusive mountain folk who, as it turns out, was from Wakanda. Dru has been training🥷🏽 with the Dorja Milaje, Wakanda’s special force comprised of female warriors so she can be ready for Phyllis' trifling ass the next time she sees her. Anyway, once Devon tells her he’s almost run out of backbone (agreeing to be Abby’s s***m donor caused severe erosion), Dru quickly pulls some 💠vibranium out of her pocketbook and infuses it into Devon’s spine. Whew! Just in the nick of time.

Later, when Lily tells Dru her dumb idea to bring the only black-owned company in Genoa City under the Chancellor's umbrella, Drucilla, tells them, “Shiiiiiiid, the hell you are!” and undoes the merger lickety-split.

Next, Dru restores Hamilton-Winters to its former splendor; she reopens Neil’s Indigo🎷 jazz club, AND she turns the lights back on at GC Buzz where she becomes the show's new 🎤host.

To be continued...

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04/09/2022

Finn’s death is the ULTIMATE disrespect to ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ fans

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The time has come to get MESSY! Finn is dead, dead; is big mad, and Mr. Bell says he’s been in the comment section this whole time!

Talk Soap w/ Keisha Chantal recaps SOD’s interview with Tanner Novlan (ex-Finn, B&B) and everyone’s favorite head writer, Bradly Bell. Points were made.

https://youtu.be/fsT_6WKJeII

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04/04/2022

QUESTION OF THE DAY

WTF??????????????

As Finn’s life flashed before his eyes, I know he was thinking, “I should’ve never gotten involved with this bitch—nothing but heartache and garbage.”

If you ask me, the wrong man ended up in trash. This should’ve been Liam. It’s too bad he’s preoccupied with Hope saying the same s**t on repeat or else he would be his usual meddling self, hovering over Steffy and her every waking moment. Then, blam!😵

😺Curious Cat is hella curious: Do you think Mr. Bell is crazy enough to kill Finn off?

1. Chile, yes.
2. Hell no.
3. What’s this? I haven’t been watching.😅
4. Write your own answer

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Question of the Day:

😺Curious Cat is hella curious: What’s the Problem With Paris?

multiple choice answers here 👉 ‪http://bit.ly/SoNinsta‬

or write your own.

03/20/2022

Y&R’s “Victor Newman” Will NEVER Retire. Here’s Why.

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Keisha covers Eric Braeden’s (Victor Newman, Y&R) interview with Soap Opera Digest where he says he won’t retire, and why he almost got “fired” by Mal Young.

Music in this video
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Faceoff by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100403

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

03/15/2022

Carter's Couch Fashion Awards Faceoff: Which Buckingham sister wore His "after-s*x" shirt best?

03/09/2022

The Young and the Restless 3.7.22 Recap | Bored to Death

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On the March 7th, 2022 episode of x Talk Soap, Keisha 🤔 wonders why Phyllis didn’t make good on her plan to move to Italy; Why Auntie Jack is on yet ANOTHER quest into his past? And why the writers are obsessed with Peru.

03/04/2022

Hey Soapmates,

I’m back (kinda). Make a cup of tea ☕️and watch the recap to the end to hear what’s next for Soap Opera Nation. Thanks 🙏🏽for your patience. I needed this time off and it has served me well.

Talk Soap w/ Keisha Chantal for Mar-02-22 hilariously recaps Brooke’s audacity with Taylor; Poor Finn’s dry spell with Steffy, and Deacon offering Brooke his love… and his mop.

🎵Intro audio credit to creator