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Hayley has been enjoyable again the last couple episodes. She's digging herself in deeper and deeper and I love it. Can't wait until it all blows up in her bruised face. I hope the new hospital CEO gets in the middle of everything. Letting employees fraternize together is one thing, but not only is Nicole involved with 3 doctors in a way, Ted is dating the head nurse, and don't forget about Ashley/Grayson. Others have mentioned how all this personal business is being played out at the nurse's station. Maybe it'll be address. Maybe Nicole should be fired and Bill could represent her in a lawsuit against the hospital. lol This is the best show for mixing up the more minor characters: Randy, Mona, Caroline, Jan. Slipping them in and out of other stories is the proper way to use them instead of isolating them completely with only one or two other characters. It makes it feel more like a "community" when the same people are continually around. Question: Where is Laura? why isn't she helping Anita right now? Or with the Cotillion?

This week has been great so far. I loved the mixing of Derek/Leslie. The Leslie/Shanice interaction was great too, though I do wish they'd tone down Leslie a little bit. Oh Hayley, what are you getting into now? lol I was expecting her and Lynette to be telling different stories to the cops at the same time, but clearly they rehearsed what to say on the way there. I still don't buy into Jacob being able to be undercover in the same area he works and his family has a history of being cops. There's no way the "bad guys" wouldn't recognize the chief of police's son. I also can't picture Jacob being intimidating or threatening while he whispers his words. I do like how this Impaler story seems to be pulling in so many different characters. Smitty would have been better off if he teamed up with June. lol

I know this is an outlier since it is probably due to people being stuck inside, so I won't get too excited. It does, though, show that there is still an audience for soaps out there. Something the networks need to remember.

Cameron. Ian/Jordan. Matt. Ian (again). Now Patty. I wonder how long this stint will last. I suppose at least Sharon may be spared this time?

I'm behind and need to get caught up, but I'm super excited for what will hopefully be a great sweeps month. I'm not sure who the people are for BTG in my ChatGPT caricature, but it still made me laugh.

AW: Jesse Lawrence (Dondre Whitfield). what a waste of talent as the younger brother in the Lawrence family. Reuben and Ronnie both pushed story in a lot of ways, but Jesse seemed to be in-and-out quickly. Rose Livingston (Anne Flood, the 2nd actress): Another waste of talent as Rose was brought in for Mac with an estranged daughter (see below) that may or may not have been Mac's. The story was never fully developed and both were dropped fairly quickly. Sara Montaigne (Missy Hughes). I liked Missy in the role and found her interesting to watch, but the show didn't seem to know what to do with her. She should have been Mac's daughter and could have played the jealous rivalry of (grown up) Amanda. Of course, would they then have brought back Iris or brought on Paulina? Probably not. Greg Houston: (Christopher Cousins). Briefly dated Nancy and then was killed off. I liked Greg and clearly Chris Cousins later proved what a talent he is. AW always had a habit of wasting some of the best talent in daytime. Taylor Miller. Sharon Gabet. Denise Alexander. All around this same time. The previously mentioned Melissa Archer run on DAYS was a big disappointed. As a big MA fan from OLTL, I tried to tune in to watch Serena but just couldn't get into that story at all. The "elephant in the room" that showed how much the story stunk was hard to look past.

so happy for BTG! I hope this gives the show a little air and they sustain it.

Yes, it's #1 lately, but it could be so much better. The Forrester vs Logan and Taylor/Deacon/Sheila would be a much better focus. IMO

Today's opening scenes...Elektra/Steffy, Dylan/Will, Brooke/RJ, Carter/Smell-o-vision....turns station. Not only did it make me sad for the show, but for BTG as this is their lead-in.

Although I don't watch GH, I'm happy for any show in the genre to get more viewers. I'm still pulling for a big daytime comeback. BTG's arrival helped to start it. Now we need something else to pull viewers in.

No interest in Victor or Devon. The idea of Jack and Diane mixing it up with the Fairmont Crest folks intrigues me though. If this in any way helps get some more eyeballs to check out the show, then I'm okay with it. Sounds like they're kicking off a big story at the same time, so maybe it'll carry over a bit. I'm not a fan of crossovers either because they usually serve no purpose for storyline, but I'll wait and see.

During Vanessa and Kial's scene the other day, I thought for sure she was going to give him a business card for the escort service and not her realty business. I picture Nicole and Kial separately getting matched up through the escort service only to find out it is with each other under different "screen names". I would love to see Kat and Shanice team up against Leslie. That could be fun. I still don't want Dani anywhere near Bill. I'm team Andre. I just hope Andre doesn't do something stupid during this photoshoot trip that comes back to bite him. I'm over Naomi. I've gone from really liking her character in the beginning to now finding her more annoying than Ashley.

Those are sad numbers for BTG but I do remember being a bit bored early December. Seemed the show was sputtering for a couple weeks until they hit us with Anita's cancer storyline.

Okay, those fake-outs need to stop. I'm hoping Tomas gets himself in trouble so badly that he's fired. Smitty and Jacob need more scenes together. I do think this Impaler story will be a large umbrella story and I hope it brings in a large number of the cast. Looks like more tension between Naomi and Jacob. I want to see Naomi get reckless and stray only to end up pregnant. Izaiah? (Reminiscent of Y&R's Dru with Malcolm/Neil). I'm still confused by the focus on Carlton with Nicole if GV's Kial was supposedly brought on for Nicole. Otherwise, who would Kial mix it up with?

Those BTG numbers make me nervous. I thought the well done eps over the holidays would help gain some traction, unless it's all in the streaming numbers.