You Decide: Worst Soap of the Week



Which soap was the Worst Soap of the Week?


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david46208's picture
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15 January 2009
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I vote for Y&R. And here is why.

Days: Lexie and Abe are debating with EJ and Nichole over if Abe stole the questions for the mayoral election debate. Later EJ promises to hit back and hit hard. Meanwhile, Abe confesses to Jennifer how he hated lying to Lexie and Jennifer reminds Abe that what he is doing is for the sake of all of Salem.

Y&R: Now switch over to Y&R and the first thing I saw was Debbie Morgan in a bad wig and a horrible outfit snapping her fingers to a song that would never hit the charts in America or the world. And then having the nerve to suggest that Devon has a hit on his hands.

Also the fact that these characters should be engaged in the corporate storylines that have made Y&R once a top-notch soap, are now regulated to playing out a "caricature of the black experience" and that is just nauseating and disgusting when in 2012 we have a black man holding the highest CEO office in the nation.

You can't tell me that Y&R (of all soaps) would not capitalize off of it and explore Neil in a more concrete and detailed fashion and delve into the life of the black middle class?

And so you see I don't even need to go any further, because that is just a sampling of what is still wrong with this soap.

If Bill Bell were around and in good heath or Jack Smith was still there, I know either of them would have seen the election of Obama as a sign. Shit even Lynn Marie Lathem understood that much.

And "never did I work more..." were the words from Kristoff Saint John's mouth.

Yet as long as the African Americans characters get 50% of 50% of the storylines that their Caucasian counterparts get. As long as Y&R keeps hiring reality TV stars and scooping up actors from now defunct soaps only to tarnish the actor's legacy in the industry with a stroke of a keyboard. Then Y&R will continue to fail in my eyes.

And ain't no amount of positive thinking gonna change a damn thing until you get rid of Mo, Larryetta and Curly who helm this disastrous daytime drama.

And don't let a couple of good days here and there fool you. Trust me it don't last but hot minute before it turns you off again.

So like my oldest sister once said to a bad man in her life that she removed (when he kept trying to worn his way back in): I DON'T SEE NO CHANGES.

The_Moustache's picture
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17 June 2009
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Y&R is such a freaking mess in everything.

even the actors say so!

soapjunkie88's picture
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3 July 2008
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Haven't heard one actor saying Y&R is a mess... Did I miss something!?

Anyway, my vote goes to GH ... but Y&R comes in second.
GH is just so unbelievable and pointless. It's not watchable. I'm just waiting for Frank and Ron's stuff to air.

Y&R is doing good by Nikki Newman but everything else is a hot mess. So Adam is being redeemed while staying on his mother's farm now!?!? Like a redemption on him worked before. Don't redeem him ... just let Sharon have her brain back. Don't care for this mess Kevin is in now. Seriously, the kid hasn't had a decent storyline in years. Awful! How can Greg put up with this crap?
And then of course there is ever judging Phyllis. This week she has to scream at Emily, even though it's not her business and not her place to be. What does it cost to have this woman shut her mouth? Seriously, I'll take a loan to make that happen.
And Debbi Morgan ... poor Debbi Morgan. Oh, I can't even say I'm surprised but still wished I'd been wrong.

david46208's picture
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@soapjunkie88: (like an old lady) Umph! Umph! Umph! Preach on. Sharon is not even the whore of Babylon. Even she was written with more respect then that. At least they should let share get the baby wipes first. But Sharon when I was a faithful fan was one of my favs. But once Maria decided she would borrow stories from the Maury Povich and Jenny Jones show, I was too through.

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19 May 2011
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Don't forget no Hispanics on the show, except for Ricky -- who, of course, isn't normal -- but is bad, bad, bad. In the day, Bill Bell had Tomas, Diego, Raul, Isabella...

Italians are presented as cartoon characters. Vinnie, Carmine, Angelina, Angelo, Dino -- eech, disgusting, nauseating.

Seriously MAB, you are sick and disgusting.

But then I'm reminded of the somewhat soft-core aspect of Y&R, and I know what MAB is thinking. Red is a long slit dress -- purring in some man's ear. Ashley is a bikini top on her honeymoon. Daniel painting on Eden's body.

Crazy, crazy MAB.

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1 January 2009
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B&B was a total snooze fest in my opinion! I only started watching it after AMC was cancelled and I don't intend to continue watching it. It's not interesting at all to me and all the women, both young and old, have had so much plastic surgery that watching them is painful. Nothing on their faces move. That coupled with the dreadful stories and bad acting has left me cold.

Y&R is ok but I'm still not finding anything to get invested in or anyone to root for.

GH is still the best soap on the air in my opinion and I look forward to watching it each and every day!!!!!

harlee490's picture
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6 December 2009
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This is joke, there are nothing but B&B haters on DC because B&B as the worse soap of week is completely false. This is only site that bashes B&B in such a revolting way, the other sites don't as bad. I can understand those who voted GH & even Y&R (had its moment, with Angelina bs)the proof is in the ratings. Main press & soap press is railing how awful GH is right now tells you a lot. GH is most certainly not the best soap, the good news is they can't get an lower in the quality they could only go up. DOOL is not even near being the worse but they got to be careful the next few months that they don't go all psycho. Y&R still might have the strongest ratings but not the strongest in stories, that is evident but there are some good stories happening at the same time with Jack. At least Y&R has made some improvements. Some are the small scenes that is more like Y&R that Y&R was missing the last year. Example last week scene with Ashley and Traci tag teaming on Gen's ass was old Y&R. Ashley had security waiting for Gen at office had her shit packed up throwing her ass out of Jabot's building and then Traci came and told Gen she had packed up all her belongings at the Abbott mansion and Traci shipped them off. ED was just bitchy & strong, BM was Traci nice but snarky, those Abbotts have always banned together around family which was lost for a time...it was pure fun! The scenes with Jack & Phyllis was golden, Phyllis not being psycho manic, nice soft scene as Phyllis throwing out reporters and all the scenes between Jack & Nikki was on the mark reminds me that Y&R could be Y&R again. Get rid of dead weight stories and keep the feel of those simple scenes but driving the story to next level is Y&R. I'm SOOO excited there is going to a redux of Jack & Nikki, long time coming because that hits Victor's ass in a totally different way and not in business. The scenes with Paul & Nina were beautiful. Jill has been on more lately and not floating in and out. As repulsive as this Chelsea & mama story is the best part was Jill being Jill inserting herself on Chelsea and then when Jeffery kissed Jill was hilarious and Jill took Jeffery to Gloria and Jill in background just smiling loving it when Gloria waylaid Jeffery across the face. Let us now have a moment of silence and pray Y&R continues the trend. Innocent

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13 December 2009
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The soap press fawns over who they like not whats best. Trust me it wont matter if GH is better under RC because like Guza and Sheffer did for years, the soap press will fawn all over and pimp RC's GH no matter how destrutive and awful it might be because somehow RC is the next Bill Bell.Days is and has been a total bore, a show afraid of taking risks(Will/EJ) but somehow bringing back played out couples and washed up daytime actors liked IB is supposed to be enticing why.Every couple and character on Days is so vanilla and washed out its boring. Never did I think a day would come when I found EJ, Victor, and Stephano dull but its arrived.B&B can be tedious but I like the triangle and there looks to be some potental with Rick, Amber, and this next return.And Heather Tom is still amazing. Y&R, Nikkis return awesome, the Viily story and that mob stuff crap, and another attempt at redeeming Adam gag me.

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Y&R was an absolute nightmare this week. This Kevin marriage storyline is awful.

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Y&R is a 'snoozefest". Y&R is boring.

Well, MAB has listened to us, and gotten Patty off the screen, and is trying to redeem Adam. So now the show is boring. Even Tucker is boring.

SoapArmageddon's picture
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22 January 2011
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It’s fun to speculate about EJ and Will having a “thing” but for anyone to criticize the show for not actually going there is just plain insane. He was married to the boy’s mother, whom he recently had couch sex with, and saw him grow up through the years for Christ’s sake!

Straight or gay, that’s just plain nasty.

harlee490's picture
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6 December 2009
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~SoapArmageddon~

SoapArmageddon wrote:
It’s fun to speculate about EJ and Will having a “thing” but for anyone to criticize the show for not actually going there is just plain insane. He was married to the boy’s mother, whom he recently had couch sex with, and saw him grow up through the years for Christ’s sake!

Straight or gay, that’s just plain nasty.

I agree it's a nice fantasy to think of Will\EJ, but reality it will never happen. It stemming from the chemistry as actors both share on screen. But with history with Sami even Days wouldn't go there I wouldn't think. Sick

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