Soap operas offer what ... Randall has to be one of the most memorable surprise sons in the genre. One doesn’t need a full case of amnesia for memory melodrama, and this can apply to bad guys ...

Parody of television soap-operas--the show's humor relies on exaggerating soap-operas' characteristic plot implausibility and melodrama to ridiculous extremes, then adds a fair bit of the truly ...

The soap opera is a genre older than the invention ... "Gates" may have enough melodrama in its fictional community of Fairmont Crest to go the distance. More: How 'Beyond the Gates,' network ...