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Sherry is so great in that bad girl formula- she is ambitious, sexy, smart, and also vulnerable, angry, desperate and longing for love. Sherry also adds a fantastic sarcasm and biting humor to a lot of her scenes. She really stands out, has specific relationships with many characters and holds her own with characters like Alex, Roger, and Holly. I loved her character on ER. Susan Lewis was my favorite back then. Now that I have seen so much of her Blake, I really am impressed by her talent. Blake and Lewis are so different, and I love them both. I remember reading the rumor that she was in the running for Phylis on Y&R, and they chose Gina. I think that was a real missed opportunity.

It’s funny, as someone that did not watch the show back then, you would think the loss of Reva would be the situation that derails the show. I had never watched GL back then but I knew who Reva and Josh were from soap mags. But my YouTube viewing started in 1990, and the show gets better after she leaves. For me, the insurmountable losses are Mindy, Blake, Alexandra, Maureen and Harley one right on top of another, some with lackluster recasts. As someone that watched OLTL and GH, the JFPisms really start with Maureen’s death and the Buzz invasion. But even with those issues, it seems to me that the show isn’t truly gutted until after JFP is gone. I’ve seen a lot of Marj now as Alexandra when the show was still well written. I really believe her as a businesswoman, but she doesn’t have that special something that Beverlee brought to the table. I loved her on AMC.

I watched a bunch of 1994 episodes. What a difference two years make. Too much Buzz, too much Lucy, Marj as Alexandra, VI is much harder to digest as Nick without Beverlee and Simms. And even though I enjoy Alan-Michael there was too much of him too. Also there are several scenes with awful background music. For everything good (Jenna) there were like three annoying things.

Thank you for sharing @mikelyons

Imagine how she feels. She’s been treated unfairly by CBS, SONY, and Y&R for a long time. And she’s not just advocating for herself. Even something as simple as makeup artists and hairstylists that understand how to work with Black and Brown people- they often have to bring their own people or do it themselves because those are union jobs on productions like these. Changes are needed at every level. Think about this- SAVED BY THE BELL was a more diverse tv show than any of these soaps now- Slater and Lisa were at least in almost every episode, and had varying degrees of being the lead. But at least we saw them all the time. And that show should not be better than a 2020 network daytime drama when it comes to this!

I remember HBS commenting on how stupid Nora had to become to sell those plots. She said it all the time back then, as it was happening! And again later during other stories. I used to love that about her, I felt if she was interviewed by a soap mag it was always a good one to read. Once the dust settled, Sam was the only Rappaport I never grew to enjoy at all. A lot of that was Kale Brown, a lot was his dominance and these two incredible women fighting over him. JFP loves him.

I wonder if Hearst had stayed if they would have gotten to Hope in person eventually? I’m not sure they would have ever really used her beyond stuff with AM, but we might have seen her if he had stayed an important character. I think the loss of CB as Alan Spaulding also hurt her chances of returning later. While I enjoy the first AM, Hearst really makes Alan-Michael take off.

How awful. If anyone deserved the right to burn that house down in character it was Luke. Especially if he did it after Laura was catatonic. Not that I wanted to see it. I really wish Guza’s style on this show wasn’t always designed to break all the toys all the time. We got some absolute good drama out of a lot of it, but at what cost to the foundation of the show.

Thanks @Dion I loved that set. I loved when Laura first saw it, and the history that introduced the Ward family. I miss that set, the brownstone, Robert’s first house with the floating staircase. I think a lot of the current home sets are pretty great, they just don’t have a community connection or feel. Although I am glad everyone doesn’t live above Kelly’s anymore. For a period of time there everyone was in one of those two rooms!

Does anyone know what happened to Laura’s house? The one from the 90’s to mid 2000’s? I dropped out from the show quite a bit during the later Guza years. I remember it got a facelift with brighter colors before Genie quit in 2002, was still around when Laura woke up from her catatonic state, and then I have no memory of it.

The real giant spike came from the Kristen era, and the culmination of Sami/Austin/Carrie though. I wonder what the demos were like though. I bet a whole bunch of young, advertiser coveted eyes were glued to the show then.

At the time, I got the impression he was kind of ashamed of what the show had become. Now I wonder if he was pissed at Reilly for getting his own show and leaving DAYS. He certainly appreciated the ratings Reilly got him, but he spent years and many interviews where he kind of acted like all that was silly. Until Reilly returned. Now I think he even says the possession is his favorite story, when for years it clearly was not.

What a flashback that article was. Remember when it seemed like DAYS would leave NBC and ABC seemed like the place it would end up, possibly causing PC to be cancelled and OLTL or AMC to be cut to half hour or cancelled? Now it’s online or nothing once NBC is done.

Thank you for posting that article @Vizion How interesting that they spent the holidays together and then a year later she has driven both of them off the show. She was right in her overall vision- then show needed to be more grounded and contemporary. It needed to move away from the Dynasty excess. She just did not have the writing or the expertise to make it work. Riche and Levinson, then Labine got it grounded and emotional again.

Evangeline was such a good character, that I loved to watch, played by a fantastic actress. She made me invest in terrible storylines. The show was lucky to have her, not the other way around, and how sad to see OLTL had once again benefitted from a strong black performer and treated them like they did not matter. I would have loved to see that.

She should absolutely be a matriarch and have lead story for this whole time. This was incredible. I cannot imagine how exciting this was to watch when it aired originally. I did not always enjoy JLB as Laura on DAYS. But she is great as Lorie.

You know, I am one of those people that enjoyed Y&R in the Bill Bell days, but found it boring compared to the the ABC shows and DAYS, which held my attention more as a kid and teen. However, there is no denying that he and his teams create shows that resonate with a daytime audience for long stretches of time. Its kind of incredible.

All these crazy Beth Ehlers rants are making me not like Beth Ehlers. Which is totally not her fault.

Thanks!

Which episode are we talking about? Asking for a...me. I’m asking for me. I will watch it on CBS.com!

Thanks! Not much else though, correct? Thanks! Not much else though, correct?

I loved Rex and was shocked when he was killed off. Does anyone know why? Also- if I remember correctly, after Rex died we didn’t really see much of Katherine and she didn’t have a story of her own really until the house fight with Jill and Mac arrived. Is that correct?

It’s awful. This wasn’t a special episode because they wanted to do something outside the box or celebrate an anniversary. It was because an important person passed away. Submitting these episodes for an award was already crass. It’s also exploitative. They didn’t honor their Black characters enough when he was alive, and they haven’t since this funeral.

I didn’t realize he fired her, I thought she left of her own accord. Wasn’t her period there considered a good time for the show? The early part of the Steffi/Liam/Hope stuff? I know the show was getting a lot of positive attention then and wasn’t as Brad Bell like as it had been. I do not watch B&B, just see clips here and there and read what people say online. I know the ratings were better for all the soaps then.

Did MTS and Alex not get along? Ed Scott and Alden also worked together at B&B, although I have no idea how closely.