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Q&A With Alina Adams, Author of Super Soap Scenes

Q&A With Alina Adams, Author of “Super Soap Scenes: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama’s Greatest Moments” Why soaps? Why now? Because soaps are back, baby! After “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” went off the air in 2011 and 2012 – this was after losing “Guiding Light” in 2009 and “As the World Turns” in 2010 – it seemed like the genre was slowly (or, actually, pretty quickly) fading away. But then we got a renaissance. “Days of our Lives” moved from NBC to streaming on Peacock in 2022, where it’s doing really well, and, then, of...