Because I can filter to accept the series as it would have been received in the 70s back then by that backward culture.
You do this too.
Every time you rewatch Star Wars.
Besides, it's supposed to be bad.
The producers are playing chicken with good taste to make fun of the real daytime soaps that do the same shit but serious as cancer drama oblivious to the notion that they're making crap for idiots.
Have you seen the state of Days of our Lives recently???!
The worse it is, the funnier it is.
Although when the husband came back from an affair with VD?
I was amazed with the casual and precise language they were permitted to use which was so matter of fact compared to how something like Threes Company would have handled Jack and Chrissy needing some penicillin and maybe a special comb.
And there's what seems like the constant conversations about orgasms.
But the first episode was just Mary Hartman staring at her floors trying to figure out where the waxy yellow build up is coming from while everyone else is panicking about a serial killer on the loose who killed a man, a woman, 2 chickens and seven goats, and then they would argue about whether it was 7 chickens and 2 goats or 7 goats and 2 chickens but maybe she should change the brand of her floor cleaning product to get rid of the waxy build up...
Soap was a sitcom, this is just fucked up.
