5 Soaps You Have to Check Out If You're Done With General Hospital

Seriously, how do people wait for weeks and months for a new episode of their favorite show to air? Lucky us, daytime soap fans: we have just enough content to go on practically forever.

Take General Hospital. It has 14,000 episodes, and each day, the number grows. Did the soap ever give up on drama? Absolutely not; but just in case you wanted a break from the not-so-medical turmoil, here us five other soaps you may want to check out and fall in love with.

Dark Shadows

Compared to General Hospital's 14,000 episodes, this iconic American soap only has five seasons with 1,225 episodes. If you love all things soap and Tim Burton, you're gonna love this one: this gothic show just doesn't let you go until you resolve every single supernatural drama that revolves around the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine.

Passions

Not that into the gothic setting, but still want something supernatural in your life? Check out Passions — a show that is a bombshell mix of drama, love triangles, and nocturnal occurrences. This is the Modern Family in the world of soap operas, as the show focuses on four diverse families and their tumultuous lives in a small New England town.

Guiding Light

Enough with the supernatural! If you just want soap in its pure form, then go check out Guiding Light — the show that initially revolved around Reverend John Ruthledge and his lamp that literally guided people who needed help, but then focused on the Bauers, a German immigrant family that was first introduced in 1948.

The soap has a cameo by Matt Bomer, by the way. Care to binge the 15,000 episodes to find out where exactly?

One Life to Live

Yet another American long-liver, One Life to Live lasted for over 43 years. What's interesting about this particular one is the fact that it was the first soap to address social issues and feature diverse characters. Today, this is rather a requirement; but back in the 60s, it was a huge milestone.

The soap focuses on the members and drama of the Lord family, set in the fictional city of Llanview, a suburb of Philadelphia, which exists in the same universe as General Hospital's Port Charles.

All My Children

Alright, we figured you already miss General Hospital enough to take up something that is related to it. We present you All My Children — a soap that lasted from 1970 to 2011. It is also connected to General Hospital, and set in a fictional Philadelphia suburb called Pine Valley, Pennsylvania.

Just another nice connection — the series was developed by then-head writer for The Guiding Light, Agnes Nixon, who wanted All My Children to be light-hearted and focused on social issues as well as young love.