ASM, plenty of romantic melodrama.
It got me to thinking how, during this Golden Age of Comic Book TV and its varying types of series, the one genre that hasn t been jumped on by the networks and streaming services is the soap opera. Sure, The CW s
Arrow had the Olicity ship powering the series for eight seasons. And I know
Riverdale has all kinds of drama happening each week. But for the sake of this column, let s focus on superhero comic adaptations. Because, as I noted above, comics have leaned on soaps for storytelling inspiration for years. Comics and soap operas share many traits, like long-running narratives, familiar settings (hospitals, newsrooms, secret lairs), romance, and often nonsensical twists and turns.