Reception
"The young slut/bitch. Annie is 25 years old and sleeps with everyone on the show who has something she wants. She is rich, manipulative and amoral. Deep down, Annie is only looking for true friendship and love, neither of which favor her. Without Annie's shenanigans there would be very little to see or do in Sunset Beach."
—The Journal of Sex Research on Annie. (1999)For her portrayal of Annie, Buxton was nominated in the category of "Outstanding villainess" at the 1998 Soap Opera Digest Awards. Justine Elias of The New York Times said Buxton and Anne Down showed signs of "becoming a classic matchup of battling soap opera vixens" in the respective roles of Annie and Olivia. Henry Mietkiewicz of the Toronto Star said that Annie "crowed gracelessly" during her scenes and opined that Buxton had a tendency to "shrilly overplay" Annie. A writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram opined that Annie often "stirs up a lot of trouble" in the serial. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly said Annie was as every bit "hootable" as Olivia, but more "bratty and greedy".
Julia Shih of The Michigan Daily criticised Sunset Beach for its slow paced episodes, opining that Annie's arrest should have been over in a few minutes rather than taking up an entire episode. She added it made the episode halt to a "sleep-inducing state". The Boston Herald included Annie's various fights with Meg in their feature on the most memorable soap opera moments during 1997. Their writer Mark A. Perigard said the fights represented a growing trend of "female violence" during the previous year. On Annie's game show fantasy, Liz Smith of the Toledo Blade said "Fans know that only Sarah Buxton a.k.a Sunset sexpot Annie Douglas, could have such a dream!" Seli Groves of The Dispatch opined that Sunset Beach were using Annie's fantasies of Jerry Springer solely in a bid to gain ratings. While Merle Brown of the Daily Record, said "Annie is having one of those brilliant fantasy sequences and it's a corker. She's a contestant on a bizarre game show Brilliant, just brilliant." In the 2008 book "Stinkin Thinkin", M.J. Gunn said that Annie's dream sequences were some of the best scenes to watch on Sunset Beach. In South African magazine Drum, Annie was described as having "evil designs of her own" and becoming one of the serial's most popular characters. Simon Hughes of The Age said that Meg faced "stiff competition" in the form of Annie, for Ben's affections. He also opined that she was "the very sort of liberated femme to spice her small talk with salty entendres".
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