DramatistDreamer

Ha! Katlock. Seeing Kat living with "The Grands" reminded me that during the first couple of seasons on The Bold & the Beautiful, 3 out of the 4 Forrester kids lived at home. I wish the Duprees had a dining room though. It's inconceivable to me that a wealthy Black family wouldn't ever share even the occasional big family dinner.

Yesterday's episode could be BTG's Emmy submission. Having said that, hopefully the story will start to wind down to a resolution, it's getting harder to watch Anita in constant anguish. Sometimes you have to straddle the line between realistic storytelling and remembering that entertainment is also central to a television series. Now if only the other stories had this much attention to detail in the narrative. This being a soap opera, I expect couples (even exes) to be on the merry-go-round but I am seeing signs that Nicole might take a spin faster than Dani. I see how she interacts with Ted when Shanice is there: Nicole always seems to interject with some anecdote about her and Ted when Shanice and Ted are talking. Nicole did this when she noticed that Ted sent Shanice flowers, she mentioned, in front of Shanice, how Ted used to send her flowers, she did this again yesterday when Ted and Shanice were discussing her getaway...'playfully' chiding Ted over wanting to go camping, suggesting that Ted used to do the same with her. And these are not isolated incidents. It almost seems like Nicole is marking Ted somehow. Very interesting, also how she had Ted in mind to share the news of Anita not signing the DNR (did Ted even know about the DNR) rather than, say, Carlton. In terms of today's episode, it was nice to see Peaches out of the hospital. Leslie shows a softer side but I still find her insufferable. Unless we're going to see the statues of Idris Elba, Shemar Moore and Morris Chesnut (which would be hilarious) I don't need to hear about the details. The next case that Jacob needs to work on and solve, is the Laura Peterson case.

Well, damn, that Andy Chambers news is so sad!!😥Luke was a "Bad Boy" for sure, but I thought the actor was so cute and was relieved that in real life, he seemed nothing like his Degrassi character. May he rest in peace. Where the Degrassi documentary can be viewed, I don't even know whether it got distribution outside of Canada but with its popularity, one would think that it would make it around the globe, eventually. There was such a tussle over whether it would even be screened at TIFF, due to Linda Schuyler's objections to some of the content, it wouldn't surprise me if this has impacted distribution. I forgot all about this documentary, to be honest. I need to check into it.

The problems with daytime soaps today imo, is that we have the same incestuous circle of people, many of whom were at the helm of some soaps when they had enormous ratings drops or met their ratings demise. Why can't we get someone fresh with fresh ideas? Primetime and streaming seems to manage this much better. The old experience excuse never sat right with me. Throughout decades these soaps would have had access to graduates from pre-professional dramatic writing programs at USC, Columbia, Tisch, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, etc. yet they chose the same circle of burn outs. And then wonder why there are only 3-4 soaps on network broadcast television these days. Widen the circle, already.🤷🏾‍♀️

The scenes between Anita & Vernon are a painful watch but it is the one storyline that seems to be written with detail and any care. I think Tamara and Clifton are showing why they are deserving of the matriarch and patriarch of this show. I don't have a problem with Samantha and Tyrell as a concept but it's getting harder and harder to overlook the fact that "Samantha" doesn't look her age, she looks older...noticeably, unavoidably older. At least the actor who portrays Tyrell could pass for 17, 18. How much longer is this plasma ring storyline going to be with us? It is getting more and more ridiculous. And with Smitty trying to call the shots now? Is he a detective now? Are he and Jacob partners? Smitty, go home to your husband...if anything, you are drawing suspicion on Jacob at this point. And Jacob doesn't need any more ways to flop, he already has more than enough of his own accord. Again, I ask, what is the purpose of this entire story? Will Anita need a transfusion or something? Why should I care? Especially seeing that most of the action happens off screen. Speaking of offscreen, some miracle will probably happen at the new clinic, but offscreen. And the clinic needs to get in line behind off screen Banneker University, which has been mentioned since the beginning and has no less than four characters who either work or attend school there, yet we still have yet to see one room inside that campus. Dani asserting to Bill that her man is the man of the house, is a standout line and Karla delivered it deftly. I honestly don't care about Vanessa and Temu Tony Soprano. The more Vanessa whimpers about her downtrodden existence as wife and mother (if she & Doug were really just roommates, there is this thing called a divorce, which would have at least left Doug with more dignity than he had right before his demise or thereafter), the more unseemly light Vanessa puts the whole of her existence in her marriage and life in. Just. Stop. It doesn't make Vanessa look any better in my eyes, so Vanessa, please cut the whining. Hopefully Naomi uses her lawyerly training and doesn't let anything slip out about Jacob in front of the plasma ring street corner captain. But they make everyone on this show except Joey, look absolutely clueless.

Don't tell us that Anita will need some sort of blood transfusion?

I was thinking that, if you look at pics of Jasmine Guy as a child, she would have a resemblance to Deanna. Although, nobody is going to look more like Jasmine than her actual daughter Imani I do like how Anita has (re)built a rapport with her former sons-in-law. Yes, the circumstances can seem somewhat contrived but the actors are playing their onscreen chemistry well. Put me in the category of people who just don't understand this deference for Joey Armstrong. No offense to Jon Linstrom who is a highly capable actor but Joey Armstrong is nothing more than a thug in a leatherette vest or a velour track suit. I just don't get it.🤷🏾‍♀️ I'm glad to see Iona Morris and Tamara Tunie will have scenes that are not if the "blink and you miss them" variety because they were really good on As The World Turns. All of the actors cast for Jessica Griffin's family were top notch, especially the late great Carl Gordon who played Jessie's dad. Maybe sometime when the show decides to address the trauma from Leslie's r@pe of Ted and Ted gets a therapist, BTG can bring on Napiera Groves as Ted's therapist for a brief story arc.🙏🏾

Aí yaí yaí! Thanks @janea4old

Too many things are taking place offscreen and it's giving downgraded stories. They need to hire one of those folks from YouTube who are gifted in the use of AI or something. Use a stock image for the exterior and shift some things around with the Garland Memorial set or something...get creative, like it's their job.

Thanks @Soapsuds ! Last night, I was like "...it's too late for this $hit.😩

Thanks @Soapsuds 🙌🏾 I realize I haven't done an embed, maybe since the new look board. What option do you choose? I don't see a Source Code option. Am I missing it?

I just saw the screenshot. It looked like a "blink & you miss it moment". Maybe there's some BTS moments between them somewhere on SM. I was going to add a classic ATWT scene between them but can't seem to find the embed option. Oh well.

Am I just unable to embed? I cannot find the embed option.

Hopefully Dr. Monica and Anita will cross paths soon as the actresses played sisters on As The World Turns.

Personally, I would like Carlton to stick around long enough to be revealed as Eva's actual biological father. I still go back to that night of Ted and Nicole's anniversary celebration where that scene of Carlton asking a frantic Eva if she was alright stuck out to me as Carlton taking an oddly paternal tone with Eva. It seemed as though he knew her somehow. Perhaps Ted isn't the only doctor at Garland who had a secret dalliance with Leslie when she waited tables and waited on customers?🤔 As for Kial, the way lusty Vanessa was eyeing him, it made me feel like one fallout with Nicole and one small fallout with Joey and I could see Vanessa and Kial having a 'roll in the hay'. Also, Carlton made sure to refer to Kial as a "visiting" doctor so Kial may only be on the canvas for a few months. Hopefully. Other than being Nicole's occasional bedfellow, Kial adds nothing to the canvas.

She's no better, I agree. At one point, she's bragging about the two men, competing for her attention but Kial asking for his watch in front of Carlton, obviously made Nicole feel uncomfortable because she still seems to want to be viewed as if on her pedestal. This triangle strikes me as kind of pathetic tbh.

So many insufferable characters on this show. Leslie is really getting on my nerves, I hope this season marks her arrest and some jail time for attempted murder. Both Kial and Carlton get on my nerves. Nicole already raised her children, does she want to have to raise two more? I laughed when I saw Jacob open the door and facing the door, we saw yet another Brick Wall!

Is it true that BET+ is no more? If true, this makes me wonder what other changes will happen next?👀❓🤔

How many times are they going to dust off Matt Clarke and Patty Williams??

Thank you. Wow, I don't think I have ever heard of this show!

Thanks @janea4old that's adorable. The casting on Bel Air was first rate.

Finally, I am getting around to watching that final season of Bel Air and noticed that the beautiful Loren Lott (Anna Hamilton,Y&R) appears as a young Vivian (aka "Aunt Viv) in the "What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?" episode.

There are only a few characters that we really ever see work consistently: June, Shanice, Laura when we see her none of whom are played by contract characters (Ashley is on contract). Have we seen any of these lawyers in court? We see a client once a season. Nicole spends more time in bed than she does with patients lol. Is something going to pop off between Leslie and Izaiah? I wasn't really seeing it when folks have suggested it but then I thought about how common a trope it's been on network soaps in the daytime and MVJ used to work on B&B where Brooke pretty much slept with at least one of each of her daughter's boyfriends. One too many drinks and Izaiah could end up making pillow talk with Leslie because we know getting drunk and debilitated men into bed with her is pretty much Leslie's M.O. It is presumptuous of Carlton to bring alcohol and candy to Vernon's. Suppose Vernon was abstaining during this time? It's the season of Lent and we know that Anita and Vernon had a hurrah with King Cake before the Lenten season began. Suppose Anita doesn't want candy? When one of my siblings was undergoing chemo they didn't want those ginger chews, they preferred ginger tea. It's presumptuous of Carlton to bring those things without finding out what they'd like. Both he and Kial are f*ckbois and both make it their jobs to lie in wait for Nicole to look their way. Hayley and Randy are making moves that are not very bright but everyone else in town are not bright either. If we're waiting for DoDo Chelsea and Blank expression Tomás to solve this mystery, we're in trouble. Seeing that BTG is getting a limited run on BET reminds me of when PP produced AMC 2.0 got a limited run on OWN.

Thank you.

On other corners of the Internet streets, a lot people are getting tired of Leslie eating the show. (I've also heard other grumblings but I won't get into that 👀) The show needs to start over with the Dana/Leslie character and the first step is to arrest, and convict Leslie for Laura Peterson's attempted murder and have her spend some time in prison. It worked for Michael Baldwin on the Young & the Restless. Have a good ole fashion daytime soap opera criminal trial with witnesses on the stand, a judge and jury and audible gasps from the gallery (with Duprees sitting in the gallery) when revelations are revealed. In the meantime, have it be revealed that Ted (who has been in therapy with a therapist (Napiera Groves) and comes to the conclusion that he has been sexually assaulted by Leslie and having been called by Leslie's defense attorney as a hostile witness, Ted is badgered by the prosecution and holding back tears and shame, has to admit to the sexual assault, to which Leslie, in a panic, admits that she lied because Ted was passed out and couldn't respond to her advances, stunning Eva, Nicole, Martin, Kat and the entire Dupree clan. If Leslie is ever going to be viable, the stigma of her sexual assault against Ted has to be undone, better a liar and a schemer than a r@pist. There is so much more that I could write. In fact, I could write this script, sitting in Lotus pose but I don't give away my writing for free. I could write some fantastic jailhouse scenes between Leslie and Allison (remember her?) and Leslie trying to plot an appeal and trying to beg, beseech and guilt a repulsed Eva on board to help her in appealing her case. But, in the meantime, rest the character and allow the wonder Tricia Mann-Grant to audition for and perform other work in other venues. A word on yesterday's basketball idea. It would have worked more had it been One on One, Ted vs Izaiah, we didn't need the others imo. And not showing the action on court rendered the idea meaningless.