I've been a huge advocate of ONE LIFE TO LIVE's commitment to diversity, cheering how they've showcased the Patel family this past year.

"I grew up watching and loving soap operas," THE VAMPIRE DIARIES' executive producer Julie Plec, tweeted on Thursday, April 14. "Today's ABC news makes me sad." That night, after the cancellation of AMC and OLTL, I went home and watched Plec's show, taking some solace in the adventures of Elena, Damon, Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy.

It's no secret that ABC Family's PRETTY LITTLE LIARS is one of my favorite shows, but I also enjoy a show about some pretty grown-up liars: CBS's THE GOOD WIFE! The soapy legal drama has more secrets than you can shake a stick at, to the point where I'm often so incensed that I yell at my TV.

It's no secret that ABC Family's PRETTY LITTLE LIARS is one of my favorite shows, but I also enjoy a show about some pretty grown-up liars: CBS's THE GOOD WIFE! The soapy legal drama has more secrets than you can shake a stick at, to the point where I'm often so incensed that I yell at my TV.

I gave it a few weeks before I came to an official verdict, and, now, I can say without any reservations that I love OLTL's Vimal and Rama! Love. I want to draw little hearts around their names. I want to invite them over to my house for chai and samosas. I basically want to be Rama when I grow up.

I think I'd rather go over my skin with a cheese grater than sit through another gratuitously exploitative rape storyline on daytime. It'd be less painful. This morning, before the DAYS rerun on SOAPnet, I rewatched the tail end of GH. After again experiencing the scenes where Michael initially revealed to Jason that he'd been raped, I was ready to crawl under my desk and cry for an hour rather than attending to my job duties. And my colleague Joe helpfully reminded me that this was just the tip of the rape-y iceberg: We have the Jason/Michael fallout scenes ahead of us today, and Michael still has to repeat the entire story to Carly and Sonny.

I'm not really a huge fan of Freudian or Jungian psychology, but DAYS' Melanie seems to have one serious Electra Complex! Her hero worship of Daniel is so beyond being a "Daddy's girl" that it's almost uncomfortable to watch. That's not to say that I think there's anything sexual going on (Come on people, I'm not analyzing it like that!), I just think her attachment is at this overblown, hyper-emotional level, where Daniel has, basically, become a god figure to her. His approval, his emotional safety, is more important to her than her own. He can do no wrong. He's perfect. Whereas her mother, Carly, is the one who is fallible, flawed, and deserving of constant censure. Chloe, another psychological mother figure, given her status as Melanie's stepmother, is a "tramp," while Daniel's own checkered romantic past is completely ignored.

Riddle me this: Why isn't GH's new pediatrician, Terrell Jackson, Tommy Hardy? If you're going to add someone to an already burgeoning cast, why not at least tie them to the show's history and its founding family?

"Jill tried not to think about Katherine, but it was impossible. The picture of Katherine striding into the hospital and claiming her child pushed aside everything else." Thus begins the back cover blurb of Private Yearnings, a book I picked up at a thrift store. Written in 1986 by Angelica Aimes, it's the fifth in a series of Y&R tie-ins released under a "Soaps & Serials" banner. And, dude, I gotta tell you: It's awesome.

So, thanks to a winter break where I was totally indoctrinated into the Cult of Eddie Matos (you would not believe how many State Farm Insurance commercials air in a given day), I came back to work ready to tune back into AMC. (Strangely, I've also been itching to buy insurance...) And I gotta say, all cult jokes aside, I kinda like Matos' recurring Rev. Ricky. He and Kendall have a nice connection (and not in the Thorn Birds way). Losing Zach has absolutely wrecked the poor woman, and it's great that she has somebody to talk to.