Married to the Media: Will Angie and Jesse Make "All My Children" No. 1?

They were daytimeamp8217s first AfricanAmerican super couple and now All My Children has reunited one of soapsamp8217 most popular pairs after 20 years apart As a longtime fan Iamp8217m thrilled to see these wonderful and talented actors back on AMC But wait didnamp8217t Jesse Darnell Williams die with Angie Debbi Morgan at his bedside having taken a bullet meant for John Remington a slick hottie that Angie later dated Jesse took his last breaths while Angie cried her heart out beside him I was watching that episode in a St Louis ad agency conference room as I ate lunch with my coworkers 20plus years agoamp160I sobbed like I had during no other TV scene before or since Since that day Jesse has returned to AMC several times but as a ghost Iamp8217m happy heamp8217s backamp8230but how We soap fans know that we often have to suspend our disbelief sometimes to outrageous extremes This is definitely one of those cases but I really donamp8217t hear anyone complaining Every fan Iamp8217ve talked to as well as countless blogs Iamp8217ve read all echo one sentiment amp8220Itamp8217s great to have Jesse and Angie back and back TOGETHERamp8221 All My Children definitely gave us a reunion to remember First Angie returned to Pine Valley called in by the venerable Dr Joe Martin to diagnose and cure two patients Greenlee and Quentin who both had a mysterious respiratory illness Angieamp8217s always been a doctor but I found it interesting that suddenly sheamp8217s a renowned infectious diseases specialist on par with Dr Greg House who can resolve medical mysteries that no one else can Of course she succeeded in curing them both and on the way we learned that amp8220Quentinamp8221 is actually Frankie Angieamp8217s son with Jesse While Frankie was ailing in Pine Valley Hospital he swore several times he had seen his father appear before him At first everyone dismissed these visions as the dreams of a very sick young man who might be about to pass over to the other sideamp160But before too long Angie saw Jesse too when she went to visit his grave in Pine Valley cemetery She passed out from the shock and when she came to in the hospital Jesse called 911 then split she was convinced she had to have been dreaming Jesse and Angie were high school sweethearts the classic story of the welltodo good girl falling for the hood from the wrong side of the tracks They married early had Frankie soon after and were parted by amp8220deathamp8221 way too soon Their love story was one for the soap opera ages and helped to firmly place and keep AMC near the top in the ratings during most of the years they were first featured on the show 1981amp82111988 AMCamp8217s ratings began to tumble soon after Jesse and Angie left and currently the show is No 7 among eight daytime soaps with just under 2700000 viewers less than half that of the No 1 soap The Young and the Restless Can the return of Jesse and Angie help AMC climb back to the top Viewing habits have changed dramatically since they left There are fewer of us watching amp8220our showsamp8221 live and many more of us timeshifting to the evening or on the weekends via TiVo or SoapNet One thing is for certain I was glued to each episode that led up to and culminated in their reunion When would they actually see each other for the first time How touching will that first meeting be And where has Jesse BEEN ALL THIS TIME Now that we know sort of Iamp8217m interested in seeing how this whole mess gets sorted out Tad Krystal Frankie and Angie are determined to stick together and get Jesse out of danger and to bring back to the Hubbard family the kind of happy togetherness we had always wanted them to have I plan to hang out with them and watch it all unfold I fear just as Iamp8217m sure that AMC hopes that while doing that Iamp8217ll get attached enough to their other storylines that I become a daily viewer again Me and a couple million other viewers that isamp8230Weamp8217ll see

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