Red Room Where the Writers Are

As many of you know, I used to love soap operas. Yep, I loved my stories.

In 1981, daytime soaps began a transformation that over the past twenty-five years has profoundly changed the genre.

I don't know why 1981 proved to be such a pivotal year for television.

In her essay, The Siren Call of the Super Couple: Soap Operas’ Destructive Slide Toward Closure, ( published in Contemporary Soap Opera Criticism, ed.