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Is it weird for guys to watch Soaps?

posted 12 years ago by matt197981
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I got hooked on Dark Shadows when I was a young teen in the 90s when it aired on Sci fi channel. I had a low immune system and I got really really sick and I got pulled out of school had to be home schooled and in the afternoon I would watch Dark Shadows on sci fi channel and got really hooked on it. I never really watched any other soaps for a long time but I find myself getting hooked on the new internet version of All My Children. I've seen a few episodes of General hospital just watched it for the Mafia stuff but I always found it dull but this show seems to move right along and it seems easy to catch up on stuff

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[–] Suprdict 12 years ago

You might want to check out clips from the 1984-93 soap opera Santa Barbara on YouTube. I don't know if the clips should be on YouTube (depends on the copyright holder's discretion, apparently), but they are on there now. Santa Barbara had some fine actresses who also were very good-looking. In fact, I currently have a big crush on one of them! (Hint: The lady previously had a prominent role on the original AMC as a teenage villainess.)

[–] PrincessAuroraInBlue 12 years ago

Of course it's not weird. You like what you like. I never got into Dark Shadows myself but I can see the draw there for guys. I am also glad you are getting involved with AMC. I think it is at a very good place where it doesn't seem too chick-fested right now. There is a lot going on that guys can get into.

Welcome aboard.

[–] stephenguti 12 years ago

Not weird at all bro. I watch it. I've had a crush on Paula Garces since I saw Clockstoppers so I'm pretty happy she's on the new AMC. Plus I get to see the badass Zach Slater live out my dream on Paula Garces.haha Plus you got Cara, Celia, and Miranda to look at.

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[–] moonprincess1788 12 years ago

Why would it be weird? It's a form of entertainment/storytelling. I didn't know that was gender specific.

[–] ameilius 11 years ago

I don't think it's weird at all. I know lots of guys who enjoy soaps. And AMC seems to have a universal appeal since it's fast-paced, sophisticated and edgy. Many of our nighttime shows are really soaps in disguise with tortured relationships, angst, long-kept family secrets, etc. Sex in the City was a great soap and so are long-running serials like Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. Game of Thrones is a magnificent soap with a fantasy backdrop. True Blood is a soap about vampires, a sort of big budget Southern-Gothic version of Dark Shadows. Even sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory have soapy elements---"Will Sheldon ever have sex with Amy? Will Penny ever marry Leonard?"----and these are the kind of questions that fuel audience interest.

Dark Shadows, IMO, is one of the best daytime soaps ever produced. Barnabas Collins was the ultimate soap hero who had A Terrible Dark Secret and a complicated love life. Angelique was the perfect soap vixen and diva. And Quentin was the handsome villain that we all loved to hate.

[–] jefgg 9 years ago

You must be a young guy. I think as men grow older we care less and less what people think. And a lot of guys watch soaps. Hall Of Fame football player Harry Carson loves soaps and appeared once on "One Life To Live".

[–] abajasds 9 years ago

I'm a guy and I've been watching soaps since I was probably 3, and the reason being that my grandmother would watch the CBS soaps and during the summers when I was at her house I would watch them right along with her, not because I had to because they were fascinating and had some real jaw dropping moments back in the day (1990's). My mom was also a huge CBS soap fan but if CBS wasn't giving her no act right she would flip to ABC and watch "All My Children." I got hooked on AMC in 2002 after I was watching "Port Charles." That was a great soap.

But the 2000's saw a huge decline in the quality of soaps and thank God for YouTube because I started watching classic soaps from the 1960's, 1970's and early 80's and let me just say the 1970's had some of the greatest storylines EVER. Check out "Another World" and Edge of Night for starters. I wish I could have watched those soaps in their originality.

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[–] jefgg 9 years ago

That is interesting that you switched from CBS to ABC soaps. Most fans watch both daytime and nighttime soaps exclusively on one network and rarely change.

[–] abajasds 9 years ago

Well, my grandmother used to watch soaps on all three networks in between time. She watched All My Children in the 70's even Another World on NBC but was a huge As the World Turns fan. It must have been difficult keeping up with all those soaps. But when networks started changing up time slots she stuck with CBS. And thank God for VCRS with timers. You can watch one soap and tape another and never miss out. This is the 1980's.

I was pretty much the same, minus Passions on NBC, I was CBS and ABC soaps. But the classics on YouTube...Honestly I don't know how anyone could get work done back in the days. The soaps were on fire!

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[–] cdjunkee-1 9 years ago

Nah man. I'm 32. I remember watching "AMC" during the Tornado disaster episode. Used to watch "Passions". I also watched "Dark Shadows" on Syfy as a teen. Since then I've watched "Hollywood Heights" and "Talia in the Kitchen"and "Every witch way" (they are based on telenovelas) I watch "Eastenders" tho we are in the series from 2007. Have been watching "The Haves and Have nots" too. If a show is entertaining enjoy it.