Thanks… for the Couple of the Year

Never mind that General Hospital has never actually let “Sprina” be together. They remain 2022’s most swoon-worthy near-pairing.
Never mind that General Hospital has never actually let “Sprina” be together. They remain 2022’s most swoon-worthy near-pairing.
Days of Our Lives struck gold in Tripp/Wendy/Joey… then left it behind, all shiny and [bleep] when it wrote off Tanner Stine.
Bold & Beautiful thrilled fans, us along with them, when it resurrected Tanner Novlan’s Finn. But then, we also had to say…
As quickly as Bold & Beautiful put Finn back in Steffy’s arms, she took off for Aspen to play matchmaker for Mom and Pop.
Yellowstone wasn’t just renewed, its fifth season was so massive that it had to be broken in two parts.
General Hospital may want to mix some of its mismatched doubles (Carly/Drew, Austin/Maxie, Britt/Cody).
Some Days of Our Lives fans will always be ticked that the show moved to Peacock. Us? We’re just grateful that the sands are still flowing.
Enough already — more than enough! — with Young & Restless‘ bonkers habit of having characters change jobs every two days.
Rather than kill our beloved Mad Max, Stranger Things left the door open for her to revive and turn our world “upside down” again.
The last thing General Hospital — or we — needed was Holly slapping on Anna’s face to frame her for Lucy’s shooting. Or for any other reason!
If Victoria Grace isn’t all of daytime’s rookie of the year, Wendy’s portrayer is most definitely Days of Our Lives‘ rookie of the year.
On what planet would Young & Restless’ Victor be cool with Victoria plotting to steal Katherine’s company from her grandson?
General Hospital has kept us guessing for months with the killer storyline that has set loose a fishhook-wielding murderer.
The Bold & Beautiful story in which Ridge raced down the aisle with Taylor without ever telling Brooke why he dumped her is ludicrous.
Meredith who? Grey’s Anatomy introduced a new class of interns that jabbed a shot of adrenaline into the primetime drama.
We don’t even know what to make of the convoluted story that General Hospital trotted out for Liz. She deserves better. We all do!
It took a while. A long while. But Young & Restless finally capitalized on the sparks that flew between Nick and Sally from the start.
Rare are the exits odder than the one Bold & Beautiful gave Quinn. Eric dumped her, she reunited with Carter, and then poof… she was gone.
Days of Our Lives has been clever enough to keep scene-stealing Leo on the canvas, and we are living for it.
After what Days of Our Lives’ Leo did to Sonny, the show shouldn’t even think about going there.
Evan Hofer has gone on the record with his delight at how often General Hospital strips him down as Dex.
Stranger Things made us adore Joseph Quinn’s Eddie, only to then… sniffle. Sorry. We’re still not ready to talk about what happened “then.”
Maybe it did make no sense. Nonetheless, we loved the jolt that was delivered by Young & Restless‘ outta-nowhere Devon/Abby hookup.
We know, we know. We should be over it by now. It wasn’t even this year. But 2022 — and Austin — only made us miss Roger Howarth’s former General Hospital character more.
We’d have done it a lot sooner. But at least before Young & Restless killed him off, it finally showed us why Ashland was supposedly such a fearsome character.
We propose that Bold & Beautiful return Darin Brooks and Wyatt to the frontburner. Their absence has only made our hearts grow fonder.
Anytime Grey’s Anatomy brings back Kate Walsh as Addison — and now she’s recurring — it’s good for our vitals.
What’s nuttier, we’re not sure: Days of Our Lives playing fast and loose with a resurrected Stefan’s affections or Kristen imagining she can force Brady to love her.
Bummed as we were to be losing Kelly Thiebaud as Britt on General Hospital, at least we got her back as Eva on Station 19.
By resurrecting Li right after Finn, Bold & Beautiful robbed her comeback of the shock value that it should have had.
Days of Our Lives has yet to hit upon a slam dunk of a storyline for Johnny. Nonetheless, Carson Boatman strikes up chemistry with everyone with whom he’s paired.
Not only did Beyond Salem reunite Hope and Bo, but their portrayers both announced their returns to the mothership.
Bold & Beautiful dropped the idea of a Katie/Carter pairing for so long that their sudden renewed interest seemed outta nowhere.
Netflix’s Heartstopper wasn’t just one of the year’s most inclusive series, its story of young love was also one of the year’s sweetest.
As much as it hurt to lose Chicago P.D.’s Halstead, at least there remains the chance that As the World Turns vet Jesse Lee Soffer could return someday.
For too long there, Bold & Beautiful gave the Logan sisters nothing to do but look down on Quinn and butt into her marriage to Eric.
Yes, she’s despicable — that’s the point. Avery Kristen Pohl was too great a pot stirrer on General Hospital to let the vixen stay dead.
If General Hospital could just, ya know, never again mention Esme’s hookup with Nikolas, that would be fine with us.
Once Young & Restless unleashed Nate’s cutthroat side, we took a whole new interest in him. Genoa City, beware!
Sorry, Cameron. General Hospital has sold us hook, line and sinker on an inevitable Josslyn/Dex coupling. Even in a freakin’ dumpster, sparks galore!
The clothes, or lack thereof, wasn’t the issue with Days or Our Lives’ Alex, it was how obnoxiously Robert Scott Wilson’s new character was written.
Bold & Beautiful put its best foot forward with Sheila’s severed toe and all of the jokes that it subsequently inspired.
And red tape may be the only thing that keeps General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn from reviving Santa Barbara, the beloved soap on which she played Julia.
Young & Restless returned the Abbotts to the place they truly belong: the frontburner. Now let’s keep ’em there!