stackyFACTSSoap operas rely on an endlessly repeating formula of hidden amnesia, fake deaths, and shockingly wealthy local families. Characters regularly fall down short steps into extended comas, only to wake up fully heavily made-up and deeply eager to steal a corporate empire.
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