Jodi McAlister’s research into soap operas…

Bold and Beautiful research…

Jodi McAlister has been having fun exploring The Bold and the Beautiful…through different media…

I now pronounce you man and…horse? Kissing mannequins, will Taylor stay dead this time, is Sheila Carter the best Supervillain, and favorite Super Couples (seemingly always love triangles?): when I asked Dr. Jodi McAlister to Tell Me About The Bold and the Beautiful, I had no idea how wild the ride would be!

Tell Me About is a series that introduces me and you to new genres and sub genres of romantic stories across media. Novelist, academic, and Soap Superfan Dr. Jodi McAlister share how soap opera’s structure explores romantic love, what audiences expect from the love stories, and how these stories make her feel.  Listen to more here.

In The Bold and The Beautiful last week, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) married Dr John “Finn” Finnegan (Tanner Novlan). It was an unusual wedding for a soap opera. Not because Finn’s villainous, absent birth mother was about to leap from the shadows and reveal herself (that’s par for the course).

Rather, because for almost the entire trajectory of their characters’ romance, Wood and Novlan were not permitted to touch.

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, American television production shut down. …Read more here.