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'All My Children' - give me a break

October 21, 10:10 PMSoap Opera ExaminerMary Montanari
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Courtesy - ABC

While All My Children has honestly been a fun ride for me for years, I am now totally lost on where this show is going.  The extended dragged out "Stu-Murder" mystery is driving me up a wall.  On top of all of this, the totally irritating promo ABC continues to run about the real murderer being revealed has been way over done and frankly, it's turning my hair gray. 

Emma's infamous "shoot him" line followed by her piercing scream is getting on my nerves in that promo these days. To say the least. it's bad enough to have to watch the show for a living but when that tired promo shows up on while I am watching my other ABC soaps, it's just too much.

Emma has managed to deliver some of the best acting talent I have seen on this show for a very long time.  This little blond starlet is too amazing for words.  She has a the unique gift of interpreting an honest reaction to a mother and a father who clearly possess marginalized parenting skills.  Those very parenting skills have been fueled by their separate agendas to get what they want.  It is driving me straight up the wall and back down again.

I am honestly hoping Emma will never become a victim of SORAS because I would love to this gifted little actress grow up on this show. I am putting her on my holiday gift list.  I don't doubt for one second that both Annie and Ryan love Emma, but that love has placed the little one between a rock and a hard place.  In short, this kid will never get out of therapy.

Getting back to the topic at hand, I am just frankly tired of Kendall looking so perfect on the run, Zach abandoning his casino to trap Annie in order to save Kendall, Jesse being this over the top cop who routinely ignores all law enforcement procedures, Erica attempting to become a Pine Valley Cougar, and, you don't even want me to get started on Krystal, Ryan or Angie.

Everyone seems lost in the Valley these days.  This show was up there in terms of ratings for many years, but lately it has been painful to watch.  I am sure the producers and writers have something amazing in their minds as they plan to wrap up this murder mystery, but it better represent a good ending because it's been a tiring journey lately.

Give me a break All My Children. I want my old AMC back and I simply wish there was a vineyard in the valley so I could simply stomp on the grapes I Love Lucy style to take the edge off.  I so need a Myrtle Merlot about now and I was wondering if anyone else out there gets where I am coming from.

 

 

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