We Love Soaps is now on Substack, where you'll find in-depth analysis and opinion of today's soaps as well as the classics. We are excited to welcome Mike Poirier as our first guest writer. In his new story about Fallon Carrington and the famous UFO cliffhanger on The Colbys' season 2 finale, Emma Samms reflects on the iconic ending.
Like everyone else involved, Samms knew the season finale would feature a major cliffhanger. But when she finally read the script, she was taken aback.few quiet inquiries, and they told me, ‘No, this is it. We wanted to do something really different.’ And I thought, ‘Well… it’s certainly that.’”
“My first thought was, ‘This is completely mad!’ It felt like we were jumping the shark,” she said. “I actually assumed it was a fake script, something they’d given us so the real story wouldn’t leak to the press.”
It wasn’t.
“I made a
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