History Series / Passions

* OperaGloves: Many of the female characters often wear gloves when they dress up or are going to a formal event.

* ButNotTooBlack: Whitney, Eve, Chad.

* HappilyMarried[=/=]TheyDo: Sam/Grace and T.C./Eve (until both marriages fell apart). Later on, Ethan/Theresa, Luis/Fancy, and Miguel/Kay are this.

* BadassInCharge: Alistair Crane.
** Also, Sam Bennett, being the Chief of Police in Harmony.

* TheChick: Theresa. She seems to be the female centrepiece of the show. Also Charity and Sheridan could qualify as well.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob

* SerialKiller
* SharpDressedMan: Alistair, Julian, Ethan, Fox.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Theresa.
* ShesGotLegs: Whitney.

''Passions'' is, to date, the last new soap opera to premiere on American daytime television. It replaced the long-running ''Series/AnotherWorld''; when it premiered in 1999, there were eleven soaps on the air. Now there are four.

* CrusadingWidower: Sam, after Grace is tragically killed.

* AngryBlackMan: T.C.

* BabiesEverAfter: Cranked UpToEleven. In the final minutes of the finale, the female half of nearly every couple reveals that she's expecting.

** This actually happened to Gwen ''twice''; the first time occurred after Ethan called off their engagement and Gwen went after Theresa with the baseball bat. Before, Gwen had been a relatively good and kind character, but after losing Ethan she became determined to get him back, ultimately despite whatever consequences her actions had on other people. The move to [=DirecTV=] later turned her villainy UpToEleven and removed virtually every redeeming quality that she possessed.

* GratuitousRape: Cranked UpToEleven. Within one calendar year, so many characters were raped that it was referred to as the "Year of the Rapes", diluting the seriousness of such a crime. Adding insult to injury, only ONE of these stories was handled even remotely seriously, with the victim in question (who was reacting to having been raped a ''second'' time) fearing intimacy and dressing shabbily, etc. All other victims went on with their lives within days as though nothing even remotely traumatic had happened, while their attackers went free, or in at least one case, attacked his victim multiple times during the course of an abusive marriage.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Many aspects of ''Passions'' story arcs are influenced by actual events... taken UpToEleven. In one case, the Tsunami that hit Southeast Asia influenced a fictional Tsunami that hit Harmony... which is in New England.

-->--'''Creator/CharlieBrooker''', Series/{{Screenwipe}}

''Passions'', which aired on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1999–2008, is quite possibly the weirdest-ever daytime SoapOpera outside of ''Series/DarkShadows''.

''Passions'' (1999-2008) is quite possibly the weirdest Daytime SoapOpera since ''Series/DarkShadows''.

The show ostensibly follows the lives of numerous families in the town of Harmony, New England: The ''eeeeevil'' Crane family, who orchestrated most of the non-magical plotlines; the Lopez-Fitzgeralds, many of whom fell in love with Crane family members; the Bennetts, who were connected to the Cranes through Alistair's grandson Ethan; the Russells, who have got to be one of the oddest BrotherSisterIncest stories on record; the Winthrops, who get involved in an impressive romantic three-way plot; the Hotchkiss family (involved with the Winthrops); and at least one member of the Standish family (related to the Bennetts).

* AdultFear: Primarily the parents. There are some very over protective parents on this show, such as T.C., Eve, Ivy, and Sam.

''Passions'' is, to date, the last new soap opera to premiere on American daytime television. It replaced the long-running ''Another World''; when it premiered in 1999, there were eleven soaps on the air. Now there are four.

* {{Fainting}}: Like in ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', if a woman faints, she's pregnant.

* DisproportionateRetribution

* Although much was made of Charity and Miguel's intense connection and soulmate status, it could be argued that Kay and not Charity was Miguel's designated soulmate. Charity repeatedly experiences prophetic dreams in which Miguel ends up with Kay, and after an entire episode in which nearly the entire cast talks nonstop about an superstition that the person they end up holding at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve is the person they will spend the rest of their lives with, Kay is in Miguel's arms at midnight. In the series finale, they are married.

* FlatWhat: Alistair Crane (the shows BigBad) created a borderline Rube Goldberg GambitRoulette involving elaborate and (at times) interconnected forms of cruel revenge upon nearly every resident of Harmony, which the writers milked the mystery as to why he was doing this for all it was worth. Finally the real reason was revealed which was... his wife died there, so he felt that literally the ''entire town'' (including his relatives who only happened to live there and people who only recently moved there who ''he never met before'') should suffer as much as he. ...What

* {{Adorkable}}: Reese.

* HairDecorations: All of the female characters wear some kind of hair accessory.

* WomanInWhite: The majority of the female characters have worn white dresses, especially Sheridan.

''Passions'' is, to date, the last new soap opera to premiere on American daytime television.

** BiggerBad: The Dark Forces, for whom Tabitha is a bumbling employee.

* SpoiledSweet:
** Fancy is characterized during her first year as a somewhat selfish, spoiled young woman who nonetheless cares about other people and is only ever rude or cruel out of ignorance and not malice.
** Sheridan is rich, but she is kind, caring and good-hearted.

* SupernaturalSoapOpera
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Luis of course.
* ThisIsUnforgivable

The show opened as a fairly innocuous daytime soap, albeit with elements of [[LovecraftCountry the paranormal]]. That soon ended with the introduction of Tabitha the witch and her ambulatory doll Timmy. An episode of ''Passions'' makes the average telenovela look like ''Series/TheWire''. The "villains" belonged in a Silver Age comic book. The ruling dynasty was comprised of [[UpperClassTwit inbred idiots]]. A transgender [[TwoFaced Two-Face]] stalked Harmony for victims to rape/blackmail (the joke being that rapists and blackmailers are the two most common villains in soaps). Zombies, the Devil, and dwarves ran amok. Characters popped over to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Magical Land of Oz]] for an afternoon... And, in one memorable arc, a faked death involved [[ComplexityAddiction some serious stealth work]].

The show opened as a fairly innocuous daytime soap, albeit with elements of [[LovecraftCountry the paranormal]]. That soon ended with the introduction of Tabitha the witch and her ambulatory doll Timmy. An episode of ''Passions'' makes the the average telenovela look like ''Series/TheWire''. The "villains" belonged in a Silver Age comic book. The ruling dynasty was comprised of [[UpperClassTwit inbred idiots]]. A transgender [[TwoFaced Two-Face]] stalked Harmony for victims to rape/blackmail (the joke being that rapists and blackmailers are the two most common villains in soaps). Zombies, the Devil, and dwarves ran amok. Characters popped over to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Magical Land of Oz]] for an afternoon... And, in one memorable arc, a faked death involved [[ComplexityAddiction some serious stealth work]].