#but such an institution can also crank out some fantastic actors like bryan cranston was also a soap opera guy | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

britneyshakespeare · 7 days ago

Text

also general hospital is "my mom's soap opera" and she does have ownership over it. to me. it's not independent of my mom; it does not have its own identity. my mom has been watching general hospital longer than she's been w my father. general hospital is like an auntie to me

the guy who plays lyle menendez in the horrible ryan murphy thing is from my mom's soap opera. i never realized he was my age

#i dont even like general hospital but as a daytime tv institution i find it fascinating #cont #is he ever gonna come back and play spencer again or has he moved on to greener pastures???#WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO THAT GIRL HE WAS DATING WHOSE NAME I DONT REMEMBER #she seems to be dating some other college aged character these days idk #the tangled web of general hospital's cast of characters is also just so interesting to me #i never knew how old spencer the character was supposed to be like was he in college? did he have a job?#i dont know what he did other than be a rich boy and. get into arguments and have serious conversataions #every scene in that show is a serious conversation or occasionally sex or violence #but mostly just interspersed scenes of two or three people talking in a room #WHAT A MODE OF STORYTELLING i know it's really lame but i do like. think about it #especially as soap opera writers and actors are always in crunch time bc they have to pump out a new episode every day #a feature which inherently defines the stereotypically garbage writing (and they're not wrong)#but such an institution can also crank out some fantastic actors like bryan cranston was also a soap opera guy #it's no coincidence

7 notes · View notes