“Minx” Watch: ABC Holds Key to Handcuffs

As promised, I continue to keep my eye on the progress of All My Children’s same-sex character couple, Marissa and Bianca.  I have written in the past about other “my girl-heart wants your girl-heart” pairings that were intimately handcuffed by the television network, so it’s only natural that I have my finely-honed senses at the [...]

The 2009 Daytime Emmy Awards

I would call last night’s Daytime Emmys a joke…except it wasn’t funny.  There was so much soliciting of my affection and my money that I felt I needed a shower half-way through the broadcast.  I can’t really blame the CW Network as they swooped down in their pimp-mobile and rescued the broadcast in the eleventh [...]

Same-sex Soap Wars: My Acronym is Better Than Your *Acronym

I have noticed since daytime television began to commit more and more to same-sex storylines, there has been a strange undercurrent of competition between fan groups. Just as some melodramatic version of Yankees/Red Sox, devotees are showing a blind loyalty more often reserved for hometown sporting teams. Since I began writing the weekly OTALIA recaps [...]