Blogcritics Category: Video: Soaps

General Hospital: Maxie and Spinelli Believe... Love Can Be A Wonderful Surprise

Spin's Vixenella — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:24:21 EDT

Maxie's "I love you" to Spinelli surprises fans and propels one of General Hospitals most magnificent love stories in years.
Did you hear it? The thud occurred at 3:53 p.m. EDT, Friday, March 13. It was the sound of swooning General Hospital (GH) fans caught completely by surprise as the fierce, bitchy, self-destructive Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) declared her love for socially inept, Shakespeare-speaking geek Damien Spinelli (Bradford Anderson). Last summer, ABC...

DVD Review: Melrose Place: The Fifth Season, Volume One

Blake Matthews — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:21:21 EDT

Melrose Place: The Fifth Season, Volume One continues the release of the popular '90s series.
Melrose Place was a spin-off of the popular series Beverly Hills, 90210 that ran from 1992 to 1999. In the first season the stories focused on adults in their early 20s who came to Los Angeles following their dreams and living on their own in an apartment complex on Melrose Place. When the series started it was a bit mediocre, but things picked...

General Hospital's Uninspired Formula for Romance: Like Paired With Like

Spin's Vixenella — Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:37:01 EST

With a stunning lack of sensitivity, is GH callously demonstrating geeks cannot be romantically paired with the hot, beautiful people?
For a show with an appalling lack of diversity, where the mob dominates, law enforcement seldom wins, and the good guys always finish last, General Hospital (GH) has added insult to injury with the specter of pairing lovable mob-techie Damien Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) and FBI rookie Winifred Leeds (Senta Moses). With a stunning lack of...

DVD Review: Skins - Volume One

Andy Sayers — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:37:17 EST

Reviewing the newest teen show from Britain, which goes where North American teen shows like "Gossip Girl" wouldn't dare.
Skins, the latest British import to make its way to North America, is being advertised as the teen drama for people who find Gossip Girl too genteel. The show was created for Channel 4 in the UK, then recently brought over to BBC America. The first nine-episode season (or "series" as they're called in England) was released on region one DVD on...

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TV Review: Gossip Girl - "Gone with the Will"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:56:40 EST

Why didn't Blair see this coming?
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Who's the Most Evil of Them All?4. The Mini-Blairs: If you ever needed to know why or how Nazi Germany happened, these girls would be a good group to study. With Blair preoccupied full time Chuck-wise these young storm troopers are completely out of control.Mini-Blair #1: His dad just died.Mini-Blair #2: Yeah, like...

DVD Review: Dynasty - Season Three, Volume Two

Matthew Milam — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:21:12 EST

Soap opera fans who want to see the beautiful and wealthy go Jack Bauer on each other will love Dynasty.
Here's the breakdown.Dynasty is a soap-opera that deals with two families -- The Carringtons and The Colbys. The head of the household is Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), who runs an oil company. Krystle Carrington (Linda Evans) plays the forever-understanding wife who often battles it out with Blake's "cold as ice" ex-wife...

Wild Roses Explores Thorny Saga Of Two Families

Diane Kristine — Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:49:40 EST

Actress Michelle Harrison explains the Shakespearean scope of the night time soap.
Debuting Tuesday on CBC is Wild Roses, a sweeping soap set in Calgary and the surrounding ranch lands and oil fields. While the network is calling the show Shakespearean, it's most obviously J.R. Ewing-ean. "Some of the bigger themes are quite Shakespearean, like loss and love and betrayal," explains star Michelle Harrison, who...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "O Brother, Where Bart Thou"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:28:04 EST

Chuck! Blair! Tears!
The worst thing you've ever done, the worst thought you've ever had, I will stand by you...I was expecting to go on and on about Chuck Bass’s continued rapid descent into Darth Vader territory, but instead I can’t stop crying about the heartbreaking impossibility that is Chuck and Blair. Who would have ever thought after...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "The Magnificent Archibalds"

Brad Laidman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:29:22 EST

Vanessa -- you skank!
Well, for 58 minutes I was pretty bored by this week’s episode of Gossip Girl.One week of zero Chuck/Blair interaction is a felony. Two straight weeks is a capital offense. If I’m supposed to get my weekly sexual sizzle from Serena and Aaron, this show is in serious trouble. If the next Gossip Girl is to have no Chuck and Blair, tell me...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "There Might Be Blood"

Brad Laidman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:15 EST

Jenny is a punk rocker!
Perhaps if I've reached the proper level of outrage in the audition below, the Parents Television Council will see fit to let me lead their future assaults on this outlandish television show. Last week on Gossip Girl: Some seriously messed up stuff happened. Gossip Girl is a show about a judgmental boy named Dan. In this episode, he judges...