In the middle of med school, he was introduced to the world of soaps when he worked as an extra on The Young and the Restless. In college, Reilly triple majored in psychology, social anthropology and biology.
Which is so like an elderly Catholic man on the cusp of death to string people along into his complex web of lies, look, I don’t want to talk to it. Raised in the Bronx with his staunchly Catholic family, Reilly got his first taste of serialized storytelling when his grandfather would tell James and his sister two hour long stories every night, making sure to always end them on a cliffhanger to keep them hooked. Until one man, fed up with the tried and true conventions of soap opera narratives, had the vision, creativity and (Steven, remember to insert a third quality here, but make it funny), to elevate these narrative from absurd to nut-ass bonkers. But after so long, these tropes became stale.
Originally invented in the late 40’s as a way to discourage children from faking sick, soaps have maintained a foothold in the daytime television landscape, with such popular shows as Guiding Light, Another World, Port Charles, All My Children, Search for Tomorrow, Redemption Cove, Santa Barbara, and only one of those I made up.įor decades, soap operas entertained white people and white people alike with fanciful elements like hunky doctors, wealthy families with a penchant for scheming, children rapidly maturing to adulthood, statistically improbable evil twins popping out of the woodwork, and having conversations with people with their backs turned to them. That’s still a thing? After all these years?” The daytime Soap ’s the racism of the television world.most people like to think it died ages ago, but when exposed to it they’re like “Oh my god.
(Originally presented on the Cracked podcast)
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