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Here's a great Michael Logan interview with Erika Slezak: Erika Slezak Goes to Heaven One Last Time on One Life to Live
And how is it possible there's only week left of One Life To Live? Gah. This week's episodes have been so much fun, with an epic prison break releasing a whole bunch of OLTL's criminals to wreak mayhem. Among said criminals: Roscoe Born as creepy preacher (and purveyor of the iced tea of evil) Mitch Laurence! And today it was revealed that ( spoiler! )
As Sara Bibel said in her Deep Soap column today: "This is the first time in soap history that a show is ending on such a creative highpoint. The final weeks of AMC were great, but they were all about fixing the damage that had been done to the show. OLTL has been, on the whole, good for the past few years and great in 2011. When I watched the New Year’s Day marathon on SOAPnet, I was struck that the current OLTL is as good as the episodes of the 1990s. I can’t say that about any other soap. If I did not know that the show was going to be ending in a week, it would seem like it was launching a lot of major storylines. Granted, at the time the finale was filmed, everyone involved believed the show would continue, but this feels so different than all of the times I have watched the lowest rated soaps on the air essentially raise the white flag, give everyone a thrown together happy ending, and fade to black. The circumstances surrounding the cancellation of OLTL are unprecedented and it’s a shame that nobody outside of the soap fandom is paying any attention."
To which I can only add: Damn, I will miss this show. And if ABC thinks I am ever going to watch The Revolution (despite Tim Gunn's presence), they are sadly mistaken.
And how is it possible there's only week left of One Life To Live? Gah. This week's episodes have been so much fun, with an epic prison break releasing a whole bunch of OLTL's criminals to wreak mayhem. Among said criminals: Roscoe Born as creepy preacher (and purveyor of the iced tea of evil) Mitch Laurence! And today it was revealed that ( spoiler! )
As Sara Bibel said in her Deep Soap column today: "This is the first time in soap history that a show is ending on such a creative highpoint. The final weeks of AMC were great, but they were all about fixing the damage that had been done to the show. OLTL has been, on the whole, good for the past few years and great in 2011. When I watched the New Year’s Day marathon on SOAPnet, I was struck that the current OLTL is as good as the episodes of the 1990s. I can’t say that about any other soap. If I did not know that the show was going to be ending in a week, it would seem like it was launching a lot of major storylines. Granted, at the time the finale was filmed, everyone involved believed the show would continue, but this feels so different than all of the times I have watched the lowest rated soaps on the air essentially raise the white flag, give everyone a thrown together happy ending, and fade to black. The circumstances surrounding the cancellation of OLTL are unprecedented and it’s a shame that nobody outside of the soap fandom is paying any attention."
To which I can only add: Damn, I will miss this show. And if ABC thinks I am ever going to watch The Revolution (despite Tim Gunn's presence), they are sadly mistaken.
