Give the characters some brains, I would say, and remove all the flashbacks, fake-outs, and repetitive dialogue used to pad out scenes, and most of his stories would last two weeks, tops. He was also a HW who didn't know how to craft any story without falling back on two-dimensional characterizations or tons of excruciating repetition. Yes, Reilly was the last HW who knew how to pay off his stories.
Having one character - a woman, at that - buried alive, seemingly for weeks, is the epitome of tastelessness - not to mention, sacrilegious, and dangerous on sooooo many levels.
"Bizarre" doesn't even BEGIN to describe many of James E. I imagine someone who went through that could better explain it. I imagine for viewers who watched in the 60s/70s/80s, it was just a big shift. Reilly, while structuring a soap like classic writers, IMO, could often be a little bizarre.
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