With online spoilers, there are no storyline surprises on soaps anymore. That’s not to say that the ways in which storylines are presented can’t come as shockers, especially in the February sweeps that just wrapped up. In these sweeps we expected little to nothing interesting because of the writers’ strike. So here are four soap stories/sweeps events that really shocked moi this month, either because they were so daring or so cowardly.
Elaine Liner
Elaine Liner currently writes arts and media criticism for the Dallas Observer and other publications. A graduate of Trinity University, with a master's from SMU, Liner teaches writing and criticism on the college level. For a decade she wrote for daily news… read more