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I see Ted and Shanice are back on the chasity couch in his office.

This whole “Smitty is being framed” story is so lackluster. I’m curious as to how Dani and Bill boinking in the elevator is still going to come into play with Bill/Hayley. I fast forwarded anything to do with Ted and Shanice’s engagement. That’s a shame The only thing that held my interest during this episode was Tyrell/Jessica/Belleclaire drama.

The show doesn’t want to pit any of the Duprees against each other for too long, hence why we aren’t getting Kat/Jacob/Naomi which would spin months or even years worth of story.

I guess I’ll tune in for today’s episode. BTG is one of those soaps where I find myself tuning out during those weeks where it’s clearly in a lull but I have no problem tuning back in for the culmination of a storyline. It shouldn’t be that way but it is for most soaps unfortunately.

The show could've had story threads coming from the cotillion but opted not to. Nathan could’ve drunkenly ended up in an accident involving one of the Richardson kids, or more could’ve spun from Nathan and Jessica sleeping together. But nope..we got Tyrell and Jessica getting tattoos … The show plays it too safe.

I wish we had seen the led up to Lia’s demise. Smitty visited her? Ok. Show it. Missed opportunity to not up the stakes and have Lia’s killer also cross paths with Smitty. The interrogation scenes today would’ve greatly benefited from showing and not just telling us what led up to it. Who cares about some death that took place offscreen.

Don’t mind the actor, but the canvas seems full of young males his age range and not enough characters to pair him up with

I think the show rushed through Kat and Martin reconciliation after he said some uncalled for and nasty things to her after the tornado bc she didn’t instantly want to go under there knife for Eva.

More Kat vs Hayley PLEASE! Kat had a bunch of great one liners aimed at the trophy wife. 😆

Love an episode penned by these two, always quite entertaining.

I haven’t been 100% sold on Keith D. Robinson’s version of Ted since he took over, but I was really sold on him having it to here with Leslie’s shenanigans in that scene.

Cautiously optimistic. Jamey at least has passion for the genre and understands Y&R’s history. Dan was the better part of a writing team that had some hits or misses. I think Dan can keep Jamey grounded. I’ll definitely be tuning in which is something I have not been able to say at all during Josh’s run.

I’m just going to say it; I preferred Guza’s influence on the show compared to Thompsons. I still watch day to day, but it could be better, writing/pacing could be miles better. I always thought the show should’ve given Leslie her Alan Spaulding or Eric Forrester so to say. Both Annie and Sheila were given a chance to have their wildest dreams come true with these men, only in the end to mess it up (with their arch nemesis working to undermine them). Missed opportunity yet again to possibly have a rival family or rival for Vernon at least, who falls head over heels for Leslie and she ultimately messes things up with her obsession with Ted or trying to cover up her prior misdeeds.

Well hopefully he can go back to Days… The show should’ve made one of Nicole’s suitors The Impaler or at least connected to the plasma ring.

The only thing Jean P is known for is being a hack. Keep her far away from this soap.

The mysterious phone call with Andre reminded me that the show should give Andre a secret, a reason why he doesn’t want his photo to be taken. Not another infidelity storyline of course but it would spice things up between him and Dani. And no, don’t make him the Impaler either.

Not good enough. He needs to be completely gone from the show.

Thinking about what a missed opportunity it was to not bring back Rita with a son. If they SORASED him to be around Alan-Michael’s age in 1989, he and AM likely would’ve butted heads (Alan’s bio son versus this new son that Rita wants to pass off as Alan’s; they’d both be career driven looking to make a name for themselves at Spaulding Enterprises) Throw in Alan Michael’s close relationship with the Bauers most notably Ed, he would’ve been one to reveal the truth. Throw in Hope, Alan, maybe even Roger, and the story writes itself.

I do like Brady and Tates relationship, one of the best father/son relationships in daytime.

I might be alone in this but I also think the actor that plays Izaiah has improved tremendously since his first day and this was his best episode.

Instead of casting Jon Linstrom as a mobster they should’ve made Joey into a wealthy Alan Spaulding type, probably one that is on the board at Garland or one that funds lobbyists in DC.

Aweee Josh and Oscar are cute 😍 Which means the show is somehow going to find a way to eventually ruin them down the road; but I’m going to be blindly optimistic going into this.

The Bill and Anita scene had so much heart and emotion in it, it’s one of the best scenes I’ve watched from an American soap in awhile.

A perfect time to revisit Blake/AM would’ve been off the heels of the Ex Wives club in 2002 where at one point Blake expressed a desire to return to the corporate world. Joan Collins Alexandria is working with AM (recast) to wrestle the company from Alan/Phillip/Olivia. AM lures Blake in but she isn’t aware of the depths that Alex and AM will go to acquire Spaulding. Eventually I would’ve cowtied to the Bloss fans and have AM a one off (is she going to give into temptation or isn’t she? she doesn’t of course). Eventually she realizes Alex and AM are way too cutthroat and are willing to throw her under the bus to get Spaulding (maybe Alex sets Blake up as someone who is buying Spaulding stock and AM turns a blind eye to Alex wanting to railroad Blake) eventually Blake happily returns to Ross (roll eyes).

Love this!!