DramatistDreamer

I really appreciate that we get to hear the use of popular music by the singers/songwriters like Al Jarreau, Barry Manilow and Janet Jackson. I doubt this would be possible if these episodes were being sold.

Even though I don't eat meat, this bothers me. But hey, life goes on, I guess.🥴 People here seem to take exception to even opening a window. And an unacceptable amount of schools and municipal builds, and public buildings were designed with windows that don't even open, or few windows at all. Not smart.

Another thing that's admirable about how Japan is handling the pandemic response now is that for the past year, they have been redesigning and retrofitting homes to be more anti-viral. Putting a discreetly located hand washing station near the front door, making natural air filtration a more prominent feature. Companies like the Japanese sportswear maker have made improvements to the fit and feel of face masks. This are even examining their metro and other public spaces to see what improvements can be made to mitigate virus spread. That, is learning how to live with something. The U.S. is not taking any genuine measures to live with a virus. EDT. Uniqlo is the name of the sportswear company. I forgot to mention their name.

I think most of the Black male characters on Y&R in the past 15 years had potential, no? Including the character played by Lamon Archey, who they refused to write for. But let's take Nate, a character born on screen and compare him to Nicholas Newman, another character born on screen. Compare the first year each adult character was on the canvas. Lord knows JM was no Olivier (neither Laurence nor Martinez) when he first arrived but they gave him story, surrounded him with highly competent and talented actors (Heather Tom and all the experienced adult actors) and oh, Nick was involved in plenty of story (his own and others). What did grown Nate get? Even compare Devon's transition from teen to adult to Nick's. Nick had a heavy duty relationship, an affair with Grace Turner. Entree into the business world, working for the family business. What did Devon get? A barely visible girlfriend? Languishing until they pair him in a triangle with his adopted father...and his de facto Aunt? One character was written into viability...the others...not so much.

Exactly what I was saying! And it's not only that, it's anyone who has to go into a filled hospital for any reason, COVID or not. Accident victims, heart attacks, gunshot or knife wounds, domestic and sexual violence victims, etc. How do those people get seen in a timely way in a hospital that is damn near filled to capacity? A nurse mentioned finding a woman crying in a corner because she needed medical attention, had been waiting for over 8 hours, yet hadn't been seen. What would someone say to her? Oh, it's "f*CK you because folks gotta party on NYE?" If folks had shown some goddamn discipline in the early going, we wouldn't still be living this bullsh*t. You know what they do in Japan? They wear masks, they wash their hands, they keep proper social distance. And whining folks, let's not pretend this is China, where they throw your as$ in jail if you leave your apartment without permission. Or Russia, where a positive test means a stay in a hospital or locked into a kind of "Hotel California". Get a grip, folks.

Has Y&R had a Black male character that has had any dynamism in the past decade? Fifteen years?

The filled hospitals and exhausted hospital workers would like to have a word.

There's learning to live with the virus, and then there's "learning to live with the virus".

Senator Reid was a fighter, through and through, to the last. R.I.P.

Agreed. It wasn't as if the character was fully formed or given much to do, besides be an appendage- a sister, then a girlfriend. Also, Pilar had the misfortune to be saddled with Mike Kasnoff, a character that was only as good as the romantic triangle that he was in. I thought Roslyn Sanchez did fine with the material she was given. Perhaps she did not yet have the skills or artistic tools to rise above the material, like some actors but at least she left an impression and I always remembered her in the role, which is more than I can say of the actress who came after her in the role of Pilar. Remember that Sanchez went from Miss Puerto Rico straight into the fast moving machine of daytime soaps, which, even experienced actors can sometimes struggled with. I don't have any negative memories of her in the role, only that it was a thin role to begin with.

At least I can say that I stopped watching The Dr. Oz show about a year after it debuted, so I didn't have to be a witness to the rise of this charlatan. It's really a shame though, that someone who could exude such charisma and could have done so much to foster greater trust and connection between people and the medical community seems to have done the opposite. There are a cavalcade of kooks running on the GOP side for the Senate in PA, including a former soap opera actress, who was an ambassador under Trump.

I'm currently reading an article about doctor and celebrity charlatan Dr. Oz, now running for the Senate in Pennsylvania and the article mentions the cavalcade of kooks who have repeated the 'Big Lie', who have joined the race, including Carla Sands, one of Trump's form ambassadors. We had recently been discussing her in this thread.

I have to be honest and admit, I have never been to a Kroger supermarket.

When I did a brief freelance stint in television production, I was taken aback by the expressions of open contempt that some of the production people who I worked with had towards many of the viewers, they would even mock many viewers, not making the connection that ratings = job. I had to guard against falling into that mindset myself. I think sometimes people are treated badly at the job, and end up taking on those same characteristics themselves and begin to treat others badly, in turn. It becomes a vicious cycle imo. And it wasn't just the slap that was missing. In this episode, the video skipped that and another section, then went completely blank at minute 15 or 16 until the end of the video. Just incredible.

Ordinarily, I avoid both (in the beginning, it was just Walmart, which I rarely even ventured into, since there were almost no stores in my area anyway. But over the past few years, I added Amazon to the "no buy" list even though, once upon a time, I used to place orders with Amazon dating back to the late 1990s!) Last year during the pandemic, they were literally just only two places that had certain necessities in stock that weren't charging exorbitant fees and had timely delivery. It pained me but I had to bite the bullet and order. Thankfully it was only about six or seven times for the entire 2020.

Thanks anyway for responding. Maybe someone will come across it. Wow, so bookmarking it won't guarantee that you'll be able to locate it? Oh no.😳 They do have brief ads but they are rarely placed at the proper scene breaks anyway. It's not often, but there have been a few episodes that are poorly presented- either something wrong with the audio/visual or in this case, an episode that looks as though someone recorded it on a VCR and left it on "pause" too long, forgot, then realized they should have hit "record" and hastily did so. I mean come in, these episodes are what, 22 minutes, how are you going to have minutes missing? Why are soap production companies so bad at archives and preservation?! And Bell productions are one of the better companies where daytime soaps are concerned. I'm convinced that the people in of the business of daytime soaps, really don't like soaps. Otherwise, what are they doing??

Indeed.

Other than Susan Flannery, Johnson was the second best actor on that show in those early seasons. Okay, I'm getting frustrated with the B&B YouTube channel posting chopped up episodes. They actually missed the scene that featured the first slap Stephanie ever gave Brooke?! That's simply unacceptable! Okay, don't be mad y'all and I know this has been asked a hundred times now but which way to the Vault? I promise to bookmark it this time, but I need to see that episode properly, not the jumble of chopped up scenes presented on the B&B YouTube channel, which must by run by unpaid interns and volunteers.

Another audiobook. I just listened to the chapter where he narrates his experience of his parents becoming estranged and he got lost in television shows as a form of escape. There is a passage on how the soap Dallas blew his mind, in particular, a scene where Sue Ellen arrives to breakfast by horseback! The estate of Southfork became aspirational for Smith as a child.

May Archbishop Tutu rest in peace. He was a consistent freedom fighter and religious shepherd to his people.

This seems like an opportune time to implement this, in fact, it's overdue. I cannot tell you what a bad taste it left on my palate to have to order from Amazon and Walmart so often last year, simply because I couldn't find certain basic items anywhere else.

Love Eileen Davidson but don't think I can stomach another Locher Room episode. Glad that others are seeing what I see. Once upon a time, there used to be some trolls in the As The World Turns thread who would pounce if critical posts and they were especially exasperating on how they'd fawn over Locher and his livestream show. How I wish someone could contact and convince Roger Newcomb of the We Love Soaps blog to start doing livestream podcast interviews with daytime soap stars, who deserve so much better. Some of us had asking for this for a solid year now, to no avail.

That review is certainly interesting. Thanks for posting, @Faulkner Not having seen Being The Ricardos but being very familiar with Sorkin's hyper masculine type of storytelling (hey, at least it's not Mamet), I could easily see those issues undermining the narrative. The issue of not allowing Kidman to be funny, seems like a real problem, given how flat out funny Ball was. If what the reviews are saying are true- that the movie fails to show how Lucy was able to become so beloved while being so exacting, then that might be the most unfortunate part of all. Perhaps no one can explain this dichotomy better than Ball herself, who, in an interview, once described how she berated crew on their seeming inability to capture the right lighting on set, while also describing how she cried any time she had to fire someone, not to mention, a biographer also mentioned that in business meetings with network executives, Lucy functioned as both boss and traditional homemaker, often cleaning the tables before or after business meetings at Desilu Productions. It seemed as if Sorkin had the perfect opportunity to dramatize this dichotomy with the condensed story structure he opted for, with all these inciting incidents occurring in the space of a week. It also sounded like the reviewers bent over backwards to stress that Kidman and Bardém are excellent actors and have chemistry, while stating that both were miscast to play these roles. I'm not sure about the reviewer's choice of Katherine Hahn, who would, without doubt, be able to pull off the comedic elements (had there been any), but I am unsure about how Hahn would inhabit the glamour of Ball, who, outside of the show, was very glamorous (as well as gorgeous) when you see archival footage of Ball in print and on film. If you're going to go with a non-Cuban actor, Jaime Camil seems like he would have been a very good choice though. Having seen Verdon/Fosse, Being The Ricardos should have followed the template- choose character actors, over movie stars.