#soap-crossovers

#soap-crossovers

Via tentative rebel student Agnes Mackenzie, the drama meticulously illustrates the ways disempowered people hoard what little agency they have in Gilead's oppressive environment.

The bury your gays trope refers to the trend in which LGBTQ+ TV characters suffer tragic fates disproportionately compared to their hetero counterparts.

Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the foundations of successful serial drama.

Each chronicle was the latest installment in a serial that began in 1492 and extended indefinitely into the future. A full-bearded Englishman (or Dutchman, or Scotsman, or Frenchman) landed on shores where everything was unfamiliar. After trial and triumph, the hero returned home to tell the tale.

Outlander, now wrapping up its eighth and final season, has had this kind of massive, fervent fandom from the very beginning, and although it's rarely thought of in the same company as big buzzy shows of the moment - never nominated for any of the major Emmys, rarely the source of "what is TV now" think pieces like Succession - Outlander has been out there for years inspiring screams, sing-alongs, and packed fan pits.

From the minute she enters the world, she has a mother who hates her and strangers trying to kill her. I'm actually still trying to make sense of the episode's prologue: Set in 1997, a random Circuit City employee gets a cryptic message on his Windows 95 PC ordering him to kill Jane, who is less than a day old, before she grows up into a major threat.

The story of Heated Rivalry, the gay hockey romance that went from a small-budget Canadian production to a streaming hit and global phenomenon, feels like a fairy tale in many ways. The show, which is based on Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels, has reportedly drawn an average of 9 million viewers per episode on HBO Max in the United States since it debuted last November, making it one of the streamer's top scripted shows of the year.

Whereas other characters are cold and sharklike, Yas feels her way through the world-and uses her vulnerability to manipulate others. Being born into wealth taught her that none of us is in command of our fate, so we had better cheat for whatever control we can. She's the statuesque girlboss for the new gilded age.

With that in mind, I asked the women of InsideHook to name the sexiest TV scenes of all time. (As you might expect, our picks include a lot of Heated Rivalry. Just let us have this.) To be clear, these aren't all sex scenes - sometimes a passionate kiss or even a situation where there's no actual touching but the sexual tension is too much to bear can be just as impactful, especially when it's something that's been built up and teased over multiple seasons.

"Bound by Honor," billed as a "top series" on ReelShort, opens with a young woman being drugged and coerced into marriage. In "Divorced at the Wedding Day," a "popular" pick on DramaBox, a pregnant widow is whipped and pushed onto broken glass at an engagement party before being locked up in a crate. ReelShort and Disney-backed DramaBox are the market leaders in the rising category of micro dramas, made-for-mobile soaps that feature fast-paced action and wild plots.

Weddings are a major plot point on TV, often taking place in season and series finales. So Business Insider rounded up the best and worst wedding dresses on television. We loved gowns from "Gossip Girl" and "Friends," but the "How I Met Your Mother" dresses didn't impress.

The hit ice hockey romance is based on Rachel Reid's steamy novel, which is widely sold out. Like the book, the show follows the rivals-to-lovers story of Ilya Rozanov ( Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander ( Hudson Williams). On the ice, they're fierce rivals, but their connection is just as passionate - in a different way - in private. Here are just some of the major changes that were made from the book to the screen:

Being Jackie, though, she never raises her mellifluous, Atlantic-accented voice, even while reprimanding her son. "Only one of us knows what it's like to marry into this family," she reminds him. "There isn't enough exposure in the world to prepare a woman to be your wife." A marriage to a Kennedy is not a partnership but a trade-off: Any woman who agrees to marry John will have to orbit him, give her life for his.