![]() ![]() More: Review, The Story of Soaps, celebration of daytime If they aired it, would you watch? Yet thanks to the quarantine and the shutdown of production, several soaps have begun airing classic episodes, which may be fueling this desire to re-visit the storylines of the past. ![]() My family lived across the street from our high school and every single weekday my sister and I would run home frantically to watch All My Children with our mom and grandmother.” These fans aren’t alone – nostalgia and good memories are big contributors to loyalty for soap fans, who rarely get to see reruns of their favorite episodes. much needed nostalgia right now.” Added Beth Moore in a tweet, “Watching a special on ABC called The Story of Soaps, laughing & recalling so many ridiculous things. and it was the ‘Story of Soaps’,” tweeted fan Shannon Wilkinson. But as the show aired, fans kept engaged on social media, and we discovered, there’s a real hunger to watch some of the classic shows they may never get a chance to watch again. ![]() To celebrate that resurgence, ABC cannily aired The Story of Soaps, a documentary that covered the history of the genre, and even brought up how reality shows have supplanted a lot of the space soaps used to occupy. If there’s any good news to come out of the recent quarantine, it’s the rediscovery of soaps by audiences. Fans and stars alike are super excited about the renewed interest in soaps. ![]()
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