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Should daytime soap operas incorporate covid-19 storylines?

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I think the writers for Days of our lives were adamant they wouldn't add covid-19 stories as they wanted soaps to be escapism. Do you disagree??

Should they have incorporated it, even if slightly??
 

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I actually agree with the Days of Our Lives writers. Some shows have incorporated covid, which is fine. But I feel there should be a mix of shows/movies that dont showcase covid as well as shows that do.

We are already living in this pandemic, it's nice to have a bit of a reprieve.
 

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A lot of soap opera viewers are white women from middle America who probably don't believe covid is real. I was on soap board last summer where a bunch of the commenters said they wouldn't watch if covid was shown because then the soaps would be too political.
 

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no. i hate how the shows are now with the weird filming and talking about it. its hella annoying. i don't watch the news for a reason, i don't need that being shoved in my face watching a regular show.
 

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A lot of soap opera viewers are white women from middle America who probably don't believe covid is real. I was on soap board last summer where a bunch of the commenters said they wouldn't watch if covid was shown because then the soaps would be too political.

I don't even need to look this up to know that you're telling the truth.
 

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People still watch soaps?

Now, Novelas .... I can get jiggy with lol

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Yes, since that would explain why they are so awkwardly so far apart in every scene, even intimate ones. lol
 

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General Hospital should have because you know, it's is a show about a hospital. However, they are too preoccupied with their 60. year old mobsters. They could have gotten rid of a lot of characters too
 

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I’m sorry I don’t understand this soaps are a form escapism. All television is a form of escapism but they doesn’t stop them from using real life situations. I wouldn’t mind seeing it done seriously on at least one of shows.
 

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If this pandemic had happened during, say, early '90s General Hospital, then I wouldn't mind. Given how well they handled AIDS in a sensitive, character-driven, organic way, it could've worked. But with the hacks that write and produce the remaining soaps these days, hell to the no.
 

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I’m sorry I don’t understand this soaps are a form escapism. All television is a form of escapism but they doesn’t stop them from using real life situations. I wouldn’t mind seeing it done seriously on at least one of shows.
Soaps are more silly and fantastical. But I would like to see general hospital do covid since it is still technically about a hospital.
 

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