DramatistDreamer

Every now and then I stream some classic TV shows on IMDB TV and happened to see an episode of 21Jump Street that is oddly and sadly prescient to today's politics (which I guess never really changed from yesterday's politics). Brian Bloom guest starred in this particular episode titled "Next Victim". Seems as if quite a few future and ex-soap stars made appearances on this show.

If the writing never made that crystal clear, one way or the other, then that's just poor writing.

Democrats and the Biden campaign had better be focused and know that they cannot rely on the media to point out what should be glaringly obvious. Case in point.

So, I guess this had become common with soap writers to write older and adult children as having been neglected off-screen by their parents, who the audience knew more about from previous storylines? What a terrible plot device. Alan Locher had expressed interest in getting Anne Sward on his livestream show. I don't suppose he'd ask her how she felt about the character being written as a stage mother to her youngest child but I'm curious to know her thoughts about this.

Didn't Sheffer also do this with Katie's character, making Lyla a neglectful parent? Boy, talk about redundant themes!

It's sad that people will still tune into this show when new episodes start back up again, knowing full well the show marginalized KSJ in his final years on the show, then proceeded to squelch their talented black actors and has (successfully) exploited all of them to score an Emmy, without a second thought to how badly this makes Y&R look. At least there should be no doubt where their intentions are. Viewers can no longer claim ignorance in their complicity.

Yet another Trump White House scandal delivered to the public by Friday evening news dump. These people are nothing if not consistent!

Oh. My.

In all of this daytime soap nostalgia that has come with the lockdown intermingling with the spirit of the BLM movement, I still cannot believe that no one has done a video chat, livestream, or podcast with someone like Nathan Purdee or Phil Morris. Nathan Purdee in particular, seems like he'd be open to talking about his experience in soaps.

9,000 new COVID-19 infections in Florida! Trump has to be the stupidest president in the history of presidents. Not just in the U.S. but he's the stupidest president anywhere ever. DeSantis is deeply dumb too.

And this was during a ten day window in which Ivanisevic tested negative TWICE. Everybody involved in that tour should be in quarantine.

Borna's like "I'm getting something out of all this..."

And 20+ million living people still wait for their stimulus checks. What a disastrous rollout!

I suspect that some black men disapprove of the fact that Kamala is married to a white man, let's just keep it real (I see a similar yet different dynamic among some black men when it comes to tennis star Serena Williams, whose husband is white). I also suspect that there is a colorism issue and a looks issue (someone actually used the word "cosmetic" to describe her and I suspect they were using the word to refer to her as decorative in more ways than one ). People simply turn a blind eye that her mother raised her as a Black woman, just like Halle Berry's mother raised her to be a Black woman. Also, people conveniently forget that Harris attended and graduated from an HBCU. I always like to remind people that liberal whites were among POTUS Obama's earliest supporters. Much of this had to do with the fear and disbelief among many blacks concerning Obama's viability as a candidate (something that Kamala's campaign suffered from too) but I do think when many black people saw Michelle Obama and that he was married to a black woman, that helped his standing among many black voters. Obama still gets criticized by 'hotep' Twitter over the fact that his black parent was African, not African-American but that is said more in hushed tones these days. Lest people forget, the Black Lives Matter movement was started by Black women, and consequently Black women were the backbone of both the civil rights movement and the Black Panther Party.

Those folks don't really want Michelle Obama. They already know she refused so she's their safe pick, the mythical Black woman that they claim to want in a high ranking (but not too high, like, certainly NOT president) position--supposed proof that they are not 'misogynoir-ish'. So, out of all the accomplished Black women out there, in these folks' minds, there's only one that is good enough for higher office? I call it the "there can only be one' mentality

This is exactly the sense that I got about that matter. Talking about cutting off your nose to spite your face! Honestly Y&R has some some beautiful Black women characters, going back to the 1980s and has, for the most part, wasted every single one. VR/Dru is the one character who actually got some story written for her, with TLW/Olivia a distant second. I guess, Y&R really feared that these ladies would dim a White character's "spotlight". I'm still livid about what ATWT did to LR/Marshall Travers. As many times as they brought back James Stenbeck or 'reformed' John Dixon (I'd mention Craig Montgomery too but they ultimately ruined him in the show's last decade), they didn't have to go full rapist with Marshall. Such a gorgeous man LR is, and such a sexy pairing he had with TT before it all went downhill into the abyss. I really need a skilled podcast host who will keep it 100% to do a Zoom or Google Chat with Tamara and Laman to ask them about their true feelings on that whole storyline. I suspect they'd have much to say. If I had the proper equipment, I'd contact them myself!

There was already a singer with the name "Lady A" so there was some type of dispute that was recently settled--I don't know what the resolution is though. I've witnessed my share of disappointing decisions from NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio but this is NOT one of them.

Speaking of "Dru", I came across this tweet from Angie Thomas, author of top-selling YA novel "The Hate You Give".

Wow. I'm sorry to hear that. Whatever ails them, hopefully your aunt and cousin have mild to no symptoms and recover very soon.

I don't think many Black actors would be crying over missing out on the blow up dolls. These issues that daytime soaps have makes me SMH. I also think viewers who are so afraid that the shows will get canceled that they'll watch any piece of schlock are also complicit. There has bee no collective movement to get these shows improve on their abysmal records on lack of representation, especially behind the scenes and I think because these shows have never had to truly improve, many have lurched toward cancellation with their lack of innovation.

Racism, blow up dolls...with these remaining soaps hanging on by a slender thread. Sadly, I think the clock will run out on these shows before they ever get it together to do the right thing. Also, I need a head count of how many Black writers actually worked on daytime soaps.

Srjdan Djokovic seems to be working overtime at making his son into a pariah. There were two Serbian basketball players who tested positive and were in close contact with Novak over the past two weeks, yet he's so sure it was Grigor who is to blame.