![]() Aside from the color of their skin, the Marshall clan was indistinguishable from any other characters thanks to creator Sally Sussman Morina, who knew that first and foremost, the people populating her show had to be compelling… no matter their race. More: Exec rubs salt in wound of cancelled soap’s fansĪs advertised, Generations focused on “two families, Black and white, together.” Hard as it is to believe, this was the first time a soap had debuted with an African-American family prominently featured. Moments later, however, viewers would realize that what they were watching was a soap within a soap, a clever ruse which served as our entry to a show which would take the tropes long familiar to daytime fans and tweak them in ways both large and small. ![]() The opening scenes featured three rich white people discussing infidelity and amnesia, seeming more like a parody of the genre than the promised reinvention. NBC’s Generations was so far ahead of its time, it would still be considered groundbreaking if it aired today.ĭespite having been promoted as a soap unlike any other, when Generations debuted on March 27, 1989, it looked pretty similar to every other serial on the air… at first.
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