Alan's Soap Box: Grading How Each Soap Treats Their Young Characters - The Pop Break Alan's Soap Box grades how General Hospital, Beyond the Gates, Bold and Beautiful, Young & the Restless + Days of Our Lives Treats Their Young Characters.

New column: Grading How Each Soap Treats Their Young Characters #BTG #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2026/03/30/a...

Alan's Soap Box: The Different Categories of Retcons on Soap Operas Alan's Soap Box looks the three different categories of retcons on soap operas like General Hospital, One Life to Live and others.

New column: The Different Categories of Retcons on Soap Operas #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2026/02/23/a...

#GH fans now that Michael has a pretty face and a bubble butt: "He is a sweet angel who has never done anything wrong. He's been so kind to Chase and always had his best interests at heart. He never says anything hypocritical. Anyone who says differently is in league with Satan."

Alan's Soap Box: Best & Worst of Soaps 2025 Part 2 Alan's Soap Box concludes 2025 with the second part of its Best & Worst of Soaps 2025 column.

New column: Best & Worst of Soaps 2025 Part 2 #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/12/01/a...

Alan's Soap Box: Best & Worst of Soaps 2025 Alan's Soap Box returns to discuss the Best & Worst of Soaps 2025.

New column: Best & Worst of Soaps 2025 Part 1 #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/11/24/a...

Alan's Soap Box: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With Alan's Soap Box breaks down the op 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With for all those new to the world of daytime soaps.

New column: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/10/27/a...

Randomly thinking about when the last time Nikki Newman ate at McDonald's was. My first instinct was probably when Reagan was president when she was stripping, but then I remembered she's a drunk, so she probably had an Egg McMuffin and hashbrowns delivered to her last year. #YR

I'm listening to The Devil Wears Prada musical cast recording and I'm not liking it so far. Elton should have called up Tim Rice to do the lyrics because they worked so well together on Aida. Hopefully this will be like Mean Girls where I can say a few songs are legit good.

Alan's Soap Box: Has General Hospital Fixed Michael With The Hiring of Rory Gibson Alan's Soap Box for September ponders if General Hospital has fixed Michael Corinthos with the hiring of actor Rory Gibson.

New column: Has General Hospital Fixed Michael With The Hiring of Rory Gibson? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/09/29/a...

Alan's Soap Box: The Case Against Josh Griffith (Again) - Top 10 Reasons Y&R Needs a New Regime The case, once again, why Young & the Restless needs to move on from writer Josh Griffith.

New column: The Case (Once Again) Against Josh Griffith- The Top 10 Reasons Why #YR Needs a New Regime thepopbreak.com/2025/08/29/a...

Stunt casting doesn't really work if the HW and EP isn't good at his job. #YR

Alan's Soap Box: Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Last Decade Alan's Soap Box looks at The Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Last Decade in the world of Daytime Soaps.

New column: The Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Past Decade #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/07/29/a...

We are on the "Sonny brings death and destruction" writing right now, but I know in a month tops we'll be back to people kissing that man's ass for being nice to a guy with AIDS in 1995. #GH

Alan's Soap Box: Mid-Year Report Card 2025 Alan's Soap Box drops its Mid-Year Report Card 2025 for Beyond the Gates, General Hospital, Days, Bold & the Beautiful and Y&R.

New column: Mid-Year Report Card #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/06/30/a...

Season 8, Episode 30 (#225): "The World Will Never Know" The Chat · Episode

Topics in order:
*Tyler Perry sued for sexual harassment
*Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart hosting a soap podcast for CBS
*Billy Flynn is the new Cane on #YR
*Conner Floyd is the new Chad on #Days
*A bit of #BeyondTheGates chat open.spotify.com/episode/7DN9...

Yeah, I'm only on here like once or twice a week. It is just too boring for me.

Sasha: "I want to be a single mother and make chicken pot pies for my baby daddy's family while living with them and have no influence from him or them. That makes so much sense even he though he's probably to inherit this house. I'm smart!" #GH

They really go around cosplaying like they are in The Crucible. "I saw Goody Carpenter getting her hair pulled by The Devil!"

I really hate how prudish Gen Z is. From wanting sex scenes to be abolished to think pieces about Sabrina Carpenter's tongue-in-cheek sexuality, y'all are annoying.

Season 8, Episode 29 (#224): "A Lovely Lover" The Chat · Episode

Topics in order:
*Sex appeal mattering in relation to #GH 's Rory Gibson and #BeyondTheGates Keith D. Robinson
* BTG's Anita's secret and Hayley being a flop
* #YR sucking ass
*Luna going off the rails on #BoldandBeautiful
*John dies and Bo wakes up on #Days
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuN...

Kelly Thiebaud.

Soap actor leaving a soap: "So long, suckers! I'm going to be a star!" *anywhere from 6 months to 2 years later* "Can I have my job back? The rent is due." #GH

Having Rory Gibson playing Michael makes Willow look less crazy for cheating on Chase with him. The judge doesn't know that Michael used to look like a software engineer who only dates Asian women and uses 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner and body wash. #GH

Alan's Soap Box: Does General Hospital Still Need Sonny? - The Pop Break Alan's Soap Box examines if General Hospital still needs one of its longest running characters -- Sonny Corinthos.

New column: Does General Hospital Still Need Sonny? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/05/30/a...

Yeah, they just gave him nothing to do so he had nothing to play.

Rory Gibson is doing a great job as Michael and he also has a nice butt which is equally important. #GH

Sasha is a dummy for this whole scheme, so I don't feel sorry for her if she gets exposed on the stand. "I can't have my baby around the mob or raised in the Quartermaine family, but I'll go along with Jason being the fake daddy. That's the ticket!" #GH

She hasn't appeared in a while so hopefully.

Cody and Gio are proof that characters can come back from a botched introduction. Though soaps can do too much damage to fix. They shit the bed so hard with Natalia that there would be no forgiveness from the audience. #GH

I really hope #GH uses this recast as an opportunity to really make Michael a leading man. The only time he really felt like a lead was 2015.