What’s the difference between a good soap opera and a bad soap opera? A good soap opera might have histrionic twists that make your jaw drop, though in some weirdly compelling and quasi-plausible fashion. A bad soap opera might also cause your jaw to drop, but in a “WTF just happened? Give me a break!” kind of way.

“ It Ends with Us ,” the smash 2024 movie based on a Colleen Hoover novel, was ultimately overshadowed by the offscreen World War III that erupted between its star, Blake Lively, and her costar and director, Justin Baldoni. But after all the accusations, the lawsuits, the countersuits, the texts (and Taylor Swift!), the movie remains, in my book , a stellar entry in the genre — one that used soap-opera conventions to lure us inside the emotions and illusions of an abusi

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