I so disagree about GH being the best Show

I would agree with most, except, I would name Days as the worst. While it has one good storyline, the show overall, is incredibly week. Y&R has not yet got moving again at full speed but they have made huge changes behind the scenes to address its weaknesses. The stories are slow at this point but at least the nightmare does appear to be over. The changes at Days have done nothing to improve the overall show.

B&B is the best

Completely agree about Y&R. I had watched the show since the 70’s, but started to not enjoy it as much when it became clear that Adam would never pay for his crimes and they killed Colleen so that idiot Victor could live, and finally stopped altogether with the Sharon/Victor fiasco. I only read the recaps now and am about to quit on that also, they have just destroyed that show. I followed Eileen Davidson over to Days and love it, so at least I still have a soap to follow, but I miss the old Y&R.

I Agree GH has Been AWESOME and has put out very good Soap having to do with Love ,Family and every thing else that makes for a good show
Y&R had been SO BAD FOR SO LONG and it keeps being that way the Stories are so Lame we the fans can tell where the story line will go b4 it even gets there and they use the same people on the show over and over this is Y&R not the NEWMAN HOUR. there are OTHER Families on the show we fans want to see on the show Y&R need Balance and good Story telling they still do not have that
OLTL Gave a Great sent off and it had the fans wanting More I hope one day we will see OLTL back on air

They nailed OLTL’s goodbye. It was poignant and downright perfect. GH has been getting better and better. Way to go RC & FV!

Hi ! Michael
Love your writing !
Im a Big fan too Of YR and yes the show is Boring sorry but true
Like the other people who write here i see a major couple in Phonan they have it their chemistry is Phenominal they deserve a major love story not Navery JB and MS are great together the BEST in longtime love to see more Billy and Victoria YR miss what is the most important for people LOVE go take Back JB and write them something that would blow in our face something beautiful and magic like Never before sure YR Will regain more audience
Thank you !
ManonR

GH best show? PU-LEEZE. ConnieKate? A tired baby switch storyline? Robin’s horribly conceived and executed funeral? Lack of storyline for so many? More useless newbies than I can keep track of? This GH worship is working my last nerve. Haven’t watched in months and you couldn’t pay me to.

I think for the 2 weeks it aired this year, OLTL was probably the Best Soap. Heartfelt, entertaining, engaging, surprising, traditional but still creative, beautiful.

B&B focused way, waaaay, WAAAAAAAY too heavily on 3 obnoxious characters.
YR was a hot mess I stopped following that one too.

And my beloved DAYS had its ups (Alzheimer’s story, Kristen’s return, EJ/Sami, Will’s coming out, Abby’s lie, Lexie’s passing) and downs (Nicole’s obsession with Daniel, Gabi’s pregnancy, Ian’s manipulations, Alamania *shudders*, Rafe/Carrie, Jack “dying” again) so it rightly goes somewhere in between.

I’m really worried about Y & R. Nobody seems to realize what Sony did by putting JFP in charge. I don’t have any personal feelings about her one way or the other, but I know her track record and am starting to see Y & R get even more disappointing under her leadership. The Bells deserve such a better legacy for their work than what her leadership will provide. It’s just sad. From changing a sweet boy Kyle into a skirt-chasing young adult who doesn’t even fit in with the Abbott family (speech patterns and all) is just the beginning of the show’s issues…. having Daisy disappear with her “mother”, Danny apparently moving with Lucy to Chicago (I must have missed that episode), Genevieve’s character becoming totally unredeamable with such a fine actress, all of the nepatism at the two main companies, the unresolved ending of Phyllis’ 20-year-old storyline… this is all just the beginning of what I’m afraid will lead to a severe loss of viewership. I hope I’m wrong. But for some reason, soap leaders only turn to insiders for help with solving issues instead of realizing there are plenty of educated viewers who have invested years in following a show who just may have some good FRESH ideas to breathe new life into them. The game of Exec. Prod. roulette (except for GH) has proven to be the demise of almost every soap. When will someone at Sony see the light? I just don’t get it. I know all I am is a viewer who created and wrote a college soap with more engaging characters than Y & R has now ….with original storylines (not recycled ones) that later turned up on GL and AMC 10 years later.. but it’s sad. The Bell family is who I feel the saddest for… they deserve so much better. Plus the viewers, like myself, who have watched this show since the beginning in 1973. Everyone, especially the actors, deserve so much better. But here we go again — recycled storylines of drug addiction, family business squabbles, Phyllis’ continual self-destructive behavior (apparently soon to be with Kyle, no less), it’s all just old recycled stuff that will lead to boring shows, loss of respect for long-time chacters, and loss of viewership. Like I said at the beginning, nobody seems to worry about JFP’s leadership except me.

well, Dinah, to bad, because Gh was the best show, it delivered all all fronts, and it had buzz all year round, cant say the same for the other shows.

I so agree with GH being the best show & only b/c of them adding the OLTL characters on. I so miss OLTL!!

Yes GH is the best! No soap keeps me as rivited as General Hospital. The intermingling of OLTL actors with GH was superp and only brought more enjoyment to the program.
May the show last another 50 years. The writers deserve an award for showing the powers that be they know what they’re doing! Keep it up guys 🙂

GH is the best show on daytime right now !!!

If Y&R is so disapointing, why are they number 1??
GH has breathed life back into the show. I LOVE what the writers have done I congragulate them, and imo anyone who doesn’t enjoy GH shouldn’t be watching it.

I have not read the issue, but sadly, I agree with their choice of Y&R as disappointing show. IT seems everyone but Maria Bell was on the same page about this once stellar drama. She was the most in denial about how bad it gotten. Never was it more evident than when she took to Facebook after her firing to defend her poor choices. As far as the new regime goes, six weeks into their run, I’m 50/50 with them. I think the acting is much better with JFP there. Actors formerly sleep walking through their scenes have come alive again. Show looks more polished at least visually. I’m not a fan of how she has all but abandoned the old Y&R music and replaced it with what sounds like low end production music that adds little if nothing to scenes. I feel a little like I’m watching LML’s Y&R all over again…at least from a producing standpoint. Also I really wish the show would go back to the style of directing we saw in last Friday’s 2002 encore episode. I miss the tighter shots on the actors faces Y&R was know for. Everything is so wide. No intimacy what-so-ever. Even the best prime-time dramas still get the camera in tight on the actors faces. The constant wide shots make the soap viewing experience feel less intimate. Also please put the furniture back the way it was in Katherine’s house!! There was a scene yesterday with Jill, Chole and Lauren that merely highlighted the flaws in this layout. You could only see the back of Lauren’s head and her profile while she sat on the sofa with Chloe. What advantage is there in only seeing the back of your actors heads when they speak? It was poorly done and not an on par with a show that has been decorated with as many directing Emmy’s as Y&R has. From a writing stand-point I do like the Phyllis storyline. I think having everyone turn on her, especially Nick, is compelling drama. The romance between Nick and Avery has also been pleasant to watch and made this former pointless character interesting. Avery in the kitchen is more interesting than Avery in the courtroom. Maybe I’m just tired of court related stories on this show as we over-dosed on them during the MAB years. The early indications that Kevin could be returning to his older self is also exciting. Greg Rikkart’s character had become so bland I could barely muster the interest to watch him on screen anymore. Unhinged Kevin is way more interesting that well to do Kevin. Let’s not forget this guy lit himself on fire to avoid going to jail. A do-gooder he is not. What I’m not digging is the speed at which some of these tales are being told. I think its such a mistake for soaps, who are on 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, to speed through stories the way prime-time does. Soaps have… Read more »

AMC will always be my favorite but glad to see ABC soaps are the best.You’d think ABC would get the hint and Neilsen.

General Hospital is by far the best soap!!!

I would say GH and BB for best. Y&R is trying to reestablish ittself and Days for Chandler Massey and Eileen Davidson.

I have been watching soaps for about 40 years so I seen the good bad and ugly of most daytime serials. The one thing I know is there is no way to please everyone. If they write for one character someone will complain that they are not writing for a different character. If they change the sets, someone will complain the old sets were better. If they don’t change anything, someone will complain nothing changes. But complaining about them is part of the fun of watching of them.

I don’t know any other genre in television that can hold the attention of its audience even at its worse more than a daytime drama. Y&R had a weak year but most of us who love the show watched it, and suffered along with it. B&B got stuck in the Bermuda triangle of love triangles this year, but those who love the show watched it. Days was all over the map, like living under of cloud of darkness, but with the occasional sunny break to remind you why you watch the show in the first place. As for GH, their fans endured through many a lean year to finally be rewarded with some good old fashion story telling.

We all love these shows or we wouldn’t be watching them. We want them to continue so we get mad when we know they can do better. We complain because we care. In the end this genre is rare in television and getting rarer and I’m just glad these four soaps are still on the air, because when they go that is it. The daytime drama as we have known it will be gone. Maybe a newer a approach of the continuing drama will emerge out of the ashes, maybe it will never be seen again. But until it happens I will watch, the boring, the dull, the great and the super spectacular because even at worst most daytime dramas are still more entertaining than some nighttime stuff-

I agree that Y&R has gone down even with the new writers. Every where you look, television is talking against and trying to stop cyberbulling, but Y&R entertains cyberbulling.

Kyle is the worst actor the Y&R has. His acting is so fake.
Why is Chelsea still in Y&R and with Adam. It is not a strong story plot. Im tired of looking at them in that dark dull living room.

I have gotten to the point that I tape Y&R because it is not interesting anymore, but there are some people I still like to see. Since I tape it, I skip the scenes that i do not want to see like: Lily, Neil, Devon, Ester, Chelsea’s mother and father, and Cane roles are very boring. They have no interesting plot. Their role always be a sentence or two and go to the next take. I always skip them.

Now Victoria is getting ready to leave Billy because Nick left Phyllis. What a weak storyline.

Kevins mother Gloria, she looks scary.

I really thought the new writer(s) was going to makeY&R a more interesting show, but it has gotten duller. I skip more of the show than what I look at.

Y&R NEEDS HELP!!!!!! SOMEBODY HELP THEM!!!!!