Reilly says the early '80s marked a change in the genre, introducing hip music, more location filming and more bizarre story lines. "People used to think soap operas had to be with the heavy organ music and people sitting across a table." "We've changed the soap form to fit the 21st century," he says. So it's little surprise that besides giving his Generation Y viewers something they can identify with, he's also thrown in a dash of the supernatural. He is a soap veteran who has written for nearly every daytime drama during his career, and was responsible for a wildly popular demonic possession story line on "Days of Our Lives." Reilly says the writing staff includes only two people in their 20s or early 30s. "I hope some of the younger people will pick up some acting skills along the way." "They have all these buff young guys who are always taking their shirts off," says viewer John Williams, a 24-year-old writer from Fort Worth, Texas, who posts on the "Passions" Web site. Which is good, because that's all some of its characters have to offer. On "Passions," usually it's because they're both really cute.
It doesn't take years of emotional investment to find out why two people fell in love." "It takes a lot of time to build, and with teen-agers, they don't have time to build," Leahey says. Like its pop soundtrack, "Passions" is all about the quick hook. A theme song that could have played Lilith Fair and background tracks from Ricky Martin to Luscious Jackson give it a good beat and make it easy to dance to. Indeed, Theresa sports such fashionable brands as BCBG and Express, and wears butterfly hair clips, beaded necklaces, Capri pants and other garments sure to make any teen-age girl swoon.Ĭomely cast members in current styles make "Passions" easy on the eyes.
"Theresa wears very trendy clothes, which is strange, because she's supposed to be poor," Herod points out. Theresa's clumsy attempts to get Ethan's attention aren't all that Herod likes. She just wants what she wants, and that's how you are at 17," says Korman, mature and worldly at 21. Lindsay Korman, who plays Theresa on the show, explains her character this way: "She's just neurotic. "It was almost sacrilegious to bring her into that story line."Įven though she took offense, Drummond says she is still hooked on the "Passions." She started watching because she liked the idea of following a soap from the beginning.įan Kelli Herod is wild about the characters, particularly deluded Latina teen Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, whose obsessed character all but stalks the suave young heir to the Crane dynasty, Ethan (Travis Schuldt). "I think they thought people could connect with it," says Erin Drummond, a 17-year-old from Mahoning County, Ohio, who also posts messages on the "Passions" Web site.
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"Passions" was slammed early on by viewers and critics for an introductory story line in which resident poor little rich girl Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore), a close personal friend of Princess Diana, had a dream sequence in which she went through the same series of events Di experienced on the day of her death.
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