All My Shadows

I loved me some JB on OLTL, so I'm looking forward to seeing him on this!

This song scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I always interpreted the "Didn't know the price we had to pay" line as someone dying.

Such a lovely version of this theme.

Aw, I loved Kirby! I couldn't take her in the beginning, but as she toughened up a bit after her experiences with Adam and Jeff, I started to appreciate her. They wrote her out at just the right time. I don't know if she would have worked in the long-term because then she would have just become a weepy-eyed heroine, but for the few seasons she was on, she had some forward progression as a character and then she was gone. Perfect, IMO.

I mean, I was citing those programs as good ones that are worthwhile but I think we can both agree that FH understanding its trite [sic] and true formula and embracing it is a very different side of television these days, and IMO a sane counterbalance to everything else that is either very good, very modern or simply trying too hard. And yes, I'm disturbed that Nicky and Alex grew up hot. Oh, I didn't mean to refer to those particular shows you listed. Like you said, there is some very good stuff out there, but there are also things that fail to hit the mark they're aiming for. Technically, the actors playing Nick and Alex are only seven months younger than me, but I can't even bring myself to refer to the one as "Nicky" anymore bc it makes me feel like a creep.

I just skimmed through the premiere, and I really have to agree that they hit all the right notes in making it in the spirit of the original series while making it its own thing. The key to a good sequel series is making sure the new show has the same feel and tone of the old show, and that's where so many sequels have failed (mostly looking at you, Dallas, Melrose, and Charlie's Angels). It's obvious that the people behind this show did not care about trying to make FH fit the current TV comedy zeitgeist, and that's why it'll most likely work. I've never been a Stephanie fan because I thought she was an obnoxious brat, but I am in LOVE with the idea of her as the semi-irresponsible, DGAF live-in aunt. I need to watch the whole season before I go any further, but they could really do some good stuff if they go with a Stephanie-the-f!ckup vs. perfect-DJ narrative. Too bad Nick and Alex's fine asses aren't regulars. I completely agree with this. We've gotten so much overhyped bullsh!t trying so hard to be so seriously dark and brooding. It's nice to see something that is clearly not trying to follow that lead and succeeds in being exactly what it is. I have a lot of respect for shows like that, even if they're poorly done.

Netflix is the one streaming site that I've never had buffering issues with. It automatically adjusts the picture quality based on your connection speeds, but it never just cuts out in the middle of something.

Oh, I'm totally on board with her ATWT defense. It had a style and tone that worked for it, and clearly it was still appealing to the audience in 1976. I just wished she could respect that AMC, too, had a style and ton that work for it and its audience. Was it known at this time that Agnes had been Irna's apprentice?

I am SO NOT HERE for the heaps of AMC shade in that article at all. How is she going to sit there and be mad because other writers bashed ATWT to praise AMC while she's bashing AMC to praise ATWT? I wonder how she felt two years later when AMC dethroned ATWT in the ratings. If anything, this article proves that the Every Soap Must Be Like the Good Soap trope has been alive and well for decades.

I JUST watched that reel yesterday in hopes that the thumbnail might be from ATWT!

Me-TV did a very nice, complimentary feature article on LIAMST today.

What about the rumor that CZ and HBS feuded because of the shady way CZ and Mark Pinter got together? Not that it's any of my business, but I wonder how reflective CZ was about all of that when the Pinter marriage broke up.

Yessss! It's become somewhat of a Mardi Gras standard around these parts. It gets a LOT of play in bars after the night's parades have rolled. That smooth early 90s rap is one of the few varieties of the genre that I can really appreciate.

Nice seeing a feature on our "original" cast up there. I'm pretty sure all of Liz's dreams came true. I need to get back into watching this. I've basically missed two whole years, but it looks like conversation here tapered off big time once they got into late 1969. Since they put the show on the lineup, I've been waiting for Nancy Barrett's debut, which should be coming up soon.

That brief clip of Bill playing guitar and singing for Tess is one of my favorite rarities from soap history, and it's such a great example of how very romantic, and intimately so, the soaps could be with their couples at the time. I could only imagine how real they felt to viewers at home, and it's really no wonder so many soap couples became real-life couples in the late 60s and early 70s. In order to really play that stuff to the hilt, you couldn't avoid getting so personally invested.

When they were all doing interviews for the 50th anniversary (which was, wow, 10 years ago already), I remember her kinda alluding to the fact that the early 80s were her favorite years on the show, so it fits with that. It's interesting because we know how most of the veteran cast (those who were already at vet status by then, at least) felt in that era.

It's odd how because of the way technology is set up nowadays, I can listen to this and say that these ladies were a big part of the soundtrack of my high school years.

RIP to both McBride and Bua. I'm so thankful that we've been able to see at least a little bit of each actress's work, and of course, we're always wanting to see more of it. Both of them were huge leads in their respective eras.

Here's a Patricia Bruder Debrovner interview from last year, mostly on her work in the ethical movement. She talks for a few moments about ATWT beginning at the 9-minute mark. I'm so happy that more and more of her work on the show is being shared online.

Isn't Grant S. a regular on Devious Maids? I worry about Thomas Calabro. I always have this ominous feeling that he was bitter about the failure of 2.0, though I doubt he was that invested in it. And jesus right when I'm used to it being 2016, I see that his birthday has passed and now he's 57 years old. Man!

Nicky and Alex are both hot af but for the life of me, 20 years and 2 college degrees later, I still can not pronounce their real name.

Yes, the look was bizarre as hell!

A TV commercial uses this, and I almost like it more than the standard version of Gonna Fly Now.

What an excellent read. As interesting as his AMC comments were, the ODAAT stuff was even better. The episode where David has the affair and he and Ann argue is one of THE best episodes of the entire series, and how awesome to know that RM wrote much of the dialogue in its climax out of frustration.