Soapnet 101

My favorite cable channel in the entire world is SoapNet. Contrary to popular belief, they don't just play daytime soap operas (while they do play my favorite daytime soaps--all my children and one life to live at 8pm and 9pm...and during the weekend they play the whole past week's worth of episodes!). They also play reruns of One Tree Hill, the OC, and most importantly, Beverly Hills 90210. The best part is that they play all the seasons 1-10, 2 episodes a day, 5 days a week, IN ORDER! Which I watch everyday from 11-1pm depsite the fact that I have many of the seasons on DVD. And today is VERY EXCITING because season 2 has officially begun!!!!

Season 2 of 90210 starts off during the summer...with half the characters at the Beverly Hills Beach Club and the other half in summer school...which makes me sad because it's no longer summer, yet I am still living in a summer frame of mind. Everyday I wake up late, and pretty much sit on the couch for the rest of the day. Yesterday I thought it was Wednesday. I don't know why time is moving faster in my mind when everyday is pretty much indistinguishable from the last.

My favorite part of watching 90210 is seeing now famous people when they weren't famous, and previously famous people that are no longer famous. For example, on today's episode of 90210, we see Ted from Hey Dude... if you recall is a Nick show from our childhood, that may of us had huge crushes on. I have to admit, his presence on the show made me very excited but I couldn't quite remember why I loved him so much. I guess that's what imdb is for, reuniting me with old friends that only really exist in my imagination.

In other news, I never really watched One Tree Hill when it started during high school, but I became kind of interested recently for two reasons. One, my friend Jacki made me watch the past couple episodes on my computer because she doesn't know how to use surfthechannel or fancast. Two, they play One Tree Hill at 3pm on Soapnet when I don't have anything to watch after One Life to Live (General Hospital has yet to sufficiently get me hooked). So for two days now i have attempted to watch, but they played the same episode yesterday as they did today! What's up with that! If it happens again tomorrow, I'm giving up. but maybe not because hulu has some of the episodes online: http://www.hulu.com/one-tree-hill. Watch with me!

All in all, I give Soapnet two and a half thumbs up! It would get three, but in light of the One Tree Hill mistake, in addition to the fact that the morning's episodes of 90210 are the same as the evening's, I cut half of a thumb off. It also has kind of weird original programming. But I seriously appreciate how they play my favorite daytime shows at all hours of the day, use my favorite characters from AMC and OLTL in their promos as real people, how I can watch old primetime soaps, and lastly, it gives me things to look up on IMDB! you can only check perez for updates so often ya know....