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Sorry if this was already posted, but I was looking around on Archive and saw a channel that posted some Loving and The City episodes earlier this year. Most of them look familiar, but this one (June 28th, 1995) was new to me. Aside from some beautiful understated acting from Debbi Morgan, the episode doesn't have any real standout moments, but it's an important building block to Stacey's death. I will say that Gwyn being so eager to get Stacey to confide her problems in her feels like a big red flag, but I guess it's a moment easy to overlook if you were just watching at the time without being online or perusing magazine recaps. I also got a good laugh out of Tess leaving big-ass font sized snippets of her threatening notes to Steffi on her monitor, in the middle of the workday. https://archive.org/details/dvd-video-recor-title-01-01

Laura had been one of the central heroines on the show for nearly a decade by that point and she was getting offers elsewhere, so I can see why she felt she was worth the effort and money. With that said, I do feel like Cassie had run her course as a character.

Not much of a surprise, but still, it's hard not to feel completely crestfallen and frightened over what is to come. Not to mention that, as a few other people have said, how long will the groups who are asked to "out-organize" even want to keep going?

I'm not sure if we'll ever really know, but Gloria Monty went back to the '50s for Secret Storm, I believe.

Given their hiring of loathsome Elizabeth Bruenig, I can't exactly recommend an Atlantic article, but this is an interesting piece on media darling Nancy Mace, not for what it is, but what it was intended to be. The Atlantic tries very hard to be Creditable and Reasonable in showing multiple points of view, many of them unworthy of the spotlight and clearly just there for the sake of backbreaking 'moderation.' This is the end result of putting your eggs in the basket of a Republican who is billed as the umpteenth "future of the GOP" but who turns out to be a dime a dozen and also clearly uninterested in even doing the bare minimum of going along with a profile. Sections that in other moments would have gotten hundreds and hundreds of words devoted to them, like the alleged vandalizing of her home, are sprinted through, because there's nothing to say (that this was laughed off Twitter and still did not get Mace a higher profile than someone like Lauren Boebert, who barely seems to know how to wipe her own ass, speaks volumes). The profile barely even seems to end as much as just stop. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/how-trump-critic-fell-back-line/619534/

Yes - she also went psycho and was involved in the sperm storyline with Adam, I think.

She sure dodged a bullet there.

No offense, but I think I'll pass on that one. https://www.nme.com/news/music/backstreet-boys-kevin-richardson-posts-cryptic-tweet-about-losing-a-friend-to-qanon-after-bandmate-brian-joins-parler-2857844

Laura also left the show when they were really starting to lowball actors, which Kim Zimmer complained about in the press. I guess she knew they weren't going to give her what she felt she deserved.

I suppose it's just so dispiriting to me knowing how quickly and successfully the GOP and the media closed ranks even over such a dangerous event. And the only other story getting news is yet more dragging out of the infrastructure (this time the GOP slashing more money for transit). Here is a Trump White House alum who is advocating for a civil war, and yet I still know the press and nearly half the country would back him up all the way.

The first time I saw Tess was when I got into Loving's last months. I did not really know anything about the show and just enjoyed seeing Catherine Hickland give such a whirlwind performance. I didn't realize how much she and other characters like Richard were a finger in the eye to most of what came before in terms of the atmosphere of the show. I do think B&E did a better job with her on Loving than they did in the early months of The City, where from the little I watched/read about, they seemed to make her go too far before having the cancer scare and the pairing with Buck.

I don't think the narrative will change about the commission - I think a lot of the narratives are baked in because the media knows that the GOP are favored to win one or both houses of Congress due to cheating and gerrymandering - but seeing godawful Will Saletan (who has been writing "contrarian" and hacky takes at Slate for decades) rush in to treat Rachael Bade as a noble princess was my last straw. I won't be reading Politico again.

Thanks as always for your memories.

So Darren was around a while then? Did they mention him much after he left? I agree he was cute. I think GH in those years managed to cast good looking men who could still seem approachable (although you don't see a lot of 1978-era Kin Shriners in real life, admittedly).

I didn't see this on here - just found it on Youtube. It's the last scenes of a character named Darren Blythe, who was tied with the Bobbie/Scotty/Laura group (I didn't read up a lot on that period beyond the basics so you all probably know more about him than I do). The date is June 5th, 1978. William Schriener, who played him, uploaded the scenes - I asked a brief question about whether he got the scenes as a goodbye gift...I didn't want to ask about a full episode as some people get angry when you try to talk to them. All I can say is Bobbie was such a huge bitch and she didn't even try to hide it. You have to laugh. @Vee @vetsoapfan @Paul Raven @jam6242 @slick jones @victoria foxton @j swift

I wish we could see her onscreen with Margie Impert.

I feel like much of the media, from the Beltway to Faux News to the grifter "left" like Krystal Ball, have brainwashed much of the public into thinking the insurrection was no big deal and spinning the narrative into Democrats being seen as desperate or lying. With the hand they've been dealt, choosing to bounce all the extremists and hatemongers from the committee is probably the best move, but it will be difficult to push back against the easy talking points of inflation and gas prices and the party only cares about what their base wants to hear, and so on. The Beltway (like the previously mentioned Josh Kraushaar) is already setting the talking points, and the narrative is what carries the day. (never mind that Tim Ryan, barring a miracle, is likely to lose badly no matter what he talks about, as so many of the candidates in red states have in recent years)

Now that you mention it, Clay and Gwyn really did have a fantastic amount of chemistry, under multiple actors. I often don't include them as a couple because they rarely were in the show's lifespan, but I probably should. Clay and Steffi is another pairing where the actors click tremendously well, even if the relationship is obviously not one we should root for. I think a lot of your points about Ava and Alex are why I don't enjoy quite as much as I did at one time - Ava's exit and the idea that she was scared (and also stifling of Alex), etc. But Lisa and Randolph were great together.

I wonder at times if they brought in Buck to play a Trucker-type story with Stacey once they focused more on Trucker and Dinah Lee. I think Trucker and Dinah Lee have a lot of chemistry, but trashing Curtis casts a pall for me. Apparently there was some speculation the show might pair Angie and Trucker when she first arrived in Corinth. I doubt they would have, but it could have worked. I guess Trucker was leaving revamp or no revamp as Robert Tyler wanted out, but I do wonder what might have been. Him leaving town with the wan Dinah Lee recast is a whimper of an exit. I don't feel like I've seen enough of the building blocks of Trucker and Trisha to have a strong opinion on them. The early days, like his sleeping with Gwyneth, don't really match up to what I later see with them. The more I watch of Loving the more I realize I don't really care a great deal about any of the couples, maybe aside from Louis and Kate or Casey and Ally. Even with Alex and Ava, I sometimes feel she was a bit stifled. (actually I realize when I watch more of the show that I don't actually love a lot of Ava's stories, I just enjoy watching Lisa Peluso and Ava's core relationships)

Did they also make Rick a headcase or was that always the plan? I remember how overwrought Taggart's GL run was.

@I Am A Swede A few of us asked this uploader to put the full episode they had, and, instead of being a prick about it, they actually did! Initially I thought the upload was 1986 because of a Crossroads date in the junction that mentioned it, but this seems to be, at a guess, 17th February 1987?

I can see why Lemay got on with her in that these were some of the same criticisms he had (about nothing happening in a conversation). I am glad to hear that Pressman at least listened to her, rather than what we'd get in later years - her being fired and soap flacks on blogs or SOD writing about what a diva she is.