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"Bat and Cat" = bleh.

Thanks. What a great find. I don't think the loss is even something most people will truly feel for a long time to come.

I know the wedding material had been around, in lower quality, but I hadn't seen the apartment scenes before. That's a period I've read a great deal about but always wanted to see more of - Lee, isolated in the city, meeting new people. Agnes Nixon testing the formula she would make a success on OLTL and AMC. Lahoma was such a revolutionary character for soaps. I'm really glad to get to see more of her early days with Sam, another character who was not the usual type for soaps at this time. Lee is such a tragic character. I can see the seeds of Janice Hughes in her.

Lemay essentially said he felt Harney lacked the spark Courtney had, so I wonder if that's why he didn't really try for a romance.

The editing is first-rate, but the song is grating - the choice of an emo woe cover of a song that is already very depressing feels like overkill.

There is no summer hiatus for UK soaps.

Thanks @victoria foxton

That's such a lovely story. The little speeches Mac gives to us never fail to be touching. Who is the woman with Brittany?

He's a very rich man who is going to be in his mid '70s by that point. I think he's fine with losing, if he even runs again. He can say - with lots of gushing from the Beltway to back him up - that he put "the right thing" over "special interests groups."

I saw that Politico was also contacting proven failure and frequently rejected grifter Nina Turner to primary Biden. The edgelord/contrarian and terminally media in a nutshell. Jesse Waters pretty clearly calls for Fauci's murder while leaving enough plausible deniability to get the "well, actually" crowd going.

Sasse and even Murkowski have party loyalty - Manchin and Sinema don't. They are corporate whores, and yes, Manchin obviously hates most of his people:

And we'll probably be in that same boat with more home shows. Everything changes but as the year winds down it feels like nothing changes...

For me it was much less awkward than most of her Update run (which was often very bitter, sexist, and homophobic). The whole thing was helped by having Kenan, Paul and Tom as the "audience," but it was all very free and easy for me. Overall the night could have done much more with the talent they had, but that's SNL for you. Beyond the truly beautiful goodnights (helped by not having 500 people on the stage and letting Lenny Pickett close out with a beautiful sax solo), my favorite part of the night was the Pete Davidson film - the closest the modern show can get to the melancholy genius of Tom Schiller:

Billie Eilish was talking earlier in the week (to Howard Stern) about how Lorne had been coughing and wheezing while she was there. One of the new cast members (James Austin Johnson) said at the start of the week he was sick, and his wife is about to give birth, so they may have been better off just doing two at home shows in December. Various people at the show (and Lorne himself, probably) did not like doing those, so here we are... I think things must have seemed under control until today, and that's why Lorne is pushing through, but it shows how he has had too much power for too long and the consequences. I hope NBC will step in and mandate at home episodes if need be, unless Lorne wants to stay off the air for months (the Olympics will be shutting everything out in February).

They are off until mid-January. It would depend on how bad things are at that point.

Tonight's SNL - if it airs at all - will not have an audience, will not have a musical guest, will likely be a clip show most of the time, and will not have one half of its Weekend Update team. Should be interesting, if it gets on.

Miranda and Steve were one of my favorite parts of SATC. I am not surprised that Michael Patrick King is lying as I never felt that he had much use for the pairing, and much of the material for Miranda in his time as the main showrunner was shaky - the best was her relationship with Steve. Just another relationship ruined by hackery and what seems to be another case of having a character become gay just because the actor who plays them went the same path. I am a glutton for punishment for following a show led by people I dislike and characters long ruined.