In honor of Guiding Light's cancellation

Chris Spags Founder and Editor

Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (which, really, you should be reading every day at this point) comes this take on soap operas.

20090402 In honor of Guiding Light's cancellation

When I wanted to become an actor, I remember being told that soap opera acting was pretty much the dregs of the community. But I don’t totally get why. Who wouldn’t want to have to pretend to be a normal human being in absurd situations, like finding out your mom was actually a velociraptor or opening your bedroom door to find your girlfriend has amnesia and thinks she’s married to a zombie? That’s pretty much Shakespearean, if Shakespeare were a room full of drunk monkeys with typewriters missing the “E” key.

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