lobsterturtle
The correct terms are "scripted" and "juvenile".
There's a lady at work who watches soap operas on her lunch break. She overheard once that I watched wrestling, and had the nerve to say, "How can you watch that crap, it's so phony?" Y'know, because "Days Of Our Lives" is a documentary.
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"He was cursed with a horrorshow of a face, like Guiseppe Archbold doing a study of mollusk tumors."