Daring daytime dramas: Watch the best soap opera series
Use this JustWatch streaming guide to discover a whole variety of soap opera series that are available on Max, Paramount+, Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, and more. Find your old favourites, the most dramatic, and those soaps you somehow still haven’t seen.
You can use the JustWatch filter to help navigate through the list of soap operas available below. Filter by release date to find those vintage Australian soaps like Prisoner: Cell Block H or more contemporary stories like The Secret Life of Us. You can also use the filter to navigate by IMDb rating, age rating, and price.
Discover the best Australian soap operas available to stream
Soap operas are defined as long-running, high drama series that feature ensemble casts. The British soap Coronation Street is regarded as the longest running TV show of the genre. British soaps have long been popular in Australia and vice versa, with EastEnders known as the most popular British soap. Meanwhile, the Australian shows Neighbours and Home and Away have found great success both domestically and abroad and remain firm favourites. Other notable Australian soaps include Return to Eden, A Country Practice, Out of the Blue, and Echo Point. American soap operas that endured in Australia include General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Discover these dramatic soap operas you might have missed
While you were busy watching the classics, you might have missed these new soap operas that have flown under the radar. Devious Maids is a soap opera about Latina women working in Beverly Hills. Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy are both brilliant, long-running dramas created by the queen of modern soaps, Shonda Rimes. The Royals is about a fictitious British royal family, while Empire is a hard-hitting soap opera with a stunning central performance from Taraji P. Henson.
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