By Silas Kain A CALL TO RALLY THE SOAP TROOPS IN A NEW MISSION… Hi there. It’s been along, strange week hasn’t it? So, let’s get down to business and have a serious, adult discussion. I’ve got a few ideas. Let me clarify, WE have a lot of ideas. Some are good. Others are subject [...]

By Michele Dargan So do you think Carly destroyed Brenda’s wedding dress? Or is Carly just a red herring? As always, the GH writers lure us down the path they want us to take in order to throw us off the track of the real perpetrator. And, I have to admit, I’m at a loss [...]

By Silas Kain As a soap opera aficionado for the better part of my life I’ve seen many tales told over the years which I could take or leave. You know the drill. Stories get remade, retold, repeated or as I like to call them regurgitated. In the last decade it seems there’s been a [...]

By Michele Dargan You’ve all gotten to know Silas Kain through his always astute assessments of our favorite soap operas and the entire genre in general. What you may not know is that Silas is the host of “Lathered Up” a BlogTalkRadio Show dedicated to topical interviews and issues related to all things soap opera. [...]

By Silas Kain Happy New Year, SoapBox1 fans! I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve submitted an article and for that I apologize. Anyway, there are three pieces I have in various stages of development. One of the pieces is about James Franco and his return to General Hospital. The events of this week [...]

By Michele Dargan WHAT has been going on with all of the actor exits on our favorite soap operas recently????? It seems we need a scorecard these days just to keep up with who’s leaving which soap. Earlier this month, Mark Hapka, Nathan on Days of Our Lives, got the axe after being involved in [...]

By Michele Dargan The KISS!! Yessireee! The best thing that’s happened on General Hospital in just about forever was Tuesday’s grand finale…. The IN-credibly IN-tense closing scene between Michael and Abby culminated in THAT KISS! It made me look so forward to Wednesday’s eppy…..only to be totally disappointed when there was no Michael and Abby [...]

By Michele Dargan When last we saw Aidan Devane on All My Children, he had been sent to jail for kidnapping charges after holding Kendall against her will. The whole obsessive love for Kendall gone awry had fans going – huh??? Many fans complained that the writers made Aidan do things that were totally out [...]

By Michele Dargan I don’t know about you, but I did a whole lot of fast forwarding during last week’s One Life To Live and General Hospital. Quite frankly, I’m not even going to get into GH too much, because, really, what’s there to say? It’s the Sonny and Brenda show! The eppys go like [...]

By Michele Dargan I don’t know how anyone could have kept from crying their eyes out during the farewell scenes last week between Starr and Cole. I was so moved at the raw and real emotions emanating from Kristen Alderson (Starr) and Brandon Buddy (Cole) as they said goodbye to each other and Cole to [...]