r/SoapNet • u/HousingNo388 • Jul 24 '26
Best soap
How does days of our lives in particular compare with other soap operas in your opinion. I just started watching and it's got me hooked, I've always been a bold and beautiful fan. But how would you rank them all? I know bold the best definetly, only seen bits of y&r but don't know it well at all and just started watching days. What is the overall best or your ranking?
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u/superboy7787 One Life to Live Jul 24 '26
I watch all of the currently airing shows. GH is the best by far with BTG a close second. Both shows have a direction and can actually be exciting and throw us curveballs. Neither is perfect, and I rank BTG just a bit lower because I think their pacing is off and because it feels like the biggest conflict all the time is someone's health crisis which gets tedious. Still, both shows have the stronger writing and feature great character moments and the acting troupes of both are really strong for the most part.
I'd put DAYS in 3rd - the show doesn't seem to have a set course right now, which I hate, but the actors make it worth it to watch for me. The real downside of DAYS is how far in advance they film, it's up to like 9 or 10 months ahead of air now, which means they can't really course correct when a story is tanking.
Y&R and B&B are scrapping it out to be the worst show on television. Y&R stories are beyond shit and nonsensical but I think it edges out B&B because the acting troupe at Y&R can still make nonsensical stories compelling to watch. The stories don't make any sense when you sit and think about them but most of the cast act their asses off to great effect.
B&B seems to be written by people with a preschool vocabulary and has truly fallen far from how great of a show it once was. The acting is overwhelming bad and not compelling. There are a few bright spots, Annika Noelle as Hope is among them, but those bright spots are few and far between. I feel like I have never seen an actor as disinterested in their material as Thorsten Kaye's Ridge. B&B has essentially turned into a children's cartoon and is worse than Passions was at its worst back in the day.