For example: Julian must take time from investigating the UFO case to interview his ex-girlfriend, who was lost and had amnesia for many years, so he married someone else.
Soap opera cliches rush in one after another, reminding me of sketches on the old Carol Burnett show. She fires everyone under 35, axes storylines, harasses the writers, and so on.Įach of the ten 12-minute episodes begins with a scene from the soap, usually involving aging main star Julian (Paul Witten, right). After countless years of airing over-the-top storylines, Colliding Lives is tanking in the ratings, so the network suits are thinking of 'dropping the soap.' Instead they send in Olivia Vandersteen (gay fave Jane Lynch) to shake things up. Turns out that it's about an actual soap opera. But it originally streamed on the gay network Dekkoo, so WTF? I was turned off immediately by the title Dropping the Soap, which alludes to the homophobic myth that prison is undesirable solely because gay men will rape you there.
