DramatistDreamer

The sharing between family members in the Montgomery family certainly didn't start with Craig. The storyline where Lyla was into Frank, who was secretly seeing Maggie...what year that did storyline take place, was it '83 or '84? And you just know that if given the opportunity, TPTB probably would've tried it again between an adult Katie and Lyla had Lyla returned to Oakdale in the show's final years. The only reason why it didn't happen between Margo and Katie is likely because Tom looked too advanced in age for Katie, who was written as chronically immature until she married Brad Snyder. One of the reasons why I'd guess the show decided to write Tom as having an affair with Emily.

Maggie was already being eclipsed by Margo before the new writing team took over.

From what I understand the Secretary of the State handles voting issues and elections but how much power they wield tends to vary by state. I've never lived in a state where polling places were shut down. I tend to find it to be very politically charged as well as highly partisan and quite honestly, seems to be a Republican obsession, as they are the party that, for the last 50 years tend to face the most accusations of deliberately trying to disenfranchise black voters.

Well, a lot of people are blaming Chief Justice John Roberts right now because his vote in the Supreme Court helped to end the Voting Rights Act along with his declaration that the VRA was no longer needed as racism was over. But it also has to do with the Secretary of the state of Georgia who used to be Republican Brian Kemp, who, incidentally is now governor of Georgia. As a result of all of these factors, many voting places in predominately black neighborhoods were shut down, allegedly due to "cost-saving measures" In a nutshell, voter suppression. Someone would be calling to speak to a manager PDQ.

Damn, I'm reading that the lines in Georgia are hours long to vote. When will people finally decide that this in totally unacceptable?!

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, they say. Expose them.

She takes her time but once she expresses herself, her expression is so eloquent. And who else adds a reading list at the end of their statement, lol?

Last year, I predicted that the U.S. would be in a recession by election time, mainly due to the effects of trade wars and those stupid tax breaks for the 1% and I still believe that should be considered a factor but the pandemic has clearly taken away any way to prop up the economy until November, so here we are. The Nasdaq hitting a high just draws into sharp relief how little difference the stock market's gains make to the overall economy and GDP.

So Brazil decided that they would simply stop reporting some of their deaths from COVID-19

Name recognition saves her repeatedly. She should've already been out of a job. I know I shouldn't be laughing but this made me giggle.

P&G is a business. P&G was never about artistic integrity. They just happened to have had the grit and tenacity of Irna Phillips building these shows and attracting considerable talent over decades. Marland was winning Emmys for a show that had been a permanent underdog in the preceding years. They had no interest in the physical or mental health of their headwriters or their talent. They simply wanted to keep the machine churning. Giving talented headwriters or actors time off was not generally part of the plan, it's one of the reasons why so many young popular actors left at the height of their characters' success. When ATWT/P&G found the person who they believed wielded the 'Golden Pen', I doubt they were ever going to rotate him out. They'd rather let him drop dead of exhaustion first. Anyone who has ever worked in television knows this. It is a grim reality of the business, especially network television, especially a long running show that ran very much like a machine. A man in his early 50's who had worked as a writer in daytime and had become used to the security was unlikely to make waves at that point and stay put rather than try to strike out in an uncertain creative landscape. Perhaps had Marland kept one foot in the theater, he might have been able to segue in that direction with some confidence that it would work out if he made the leap. But yeah, if you think that P&G cared that much about Marland or any of their headwriters, you definitely don't know the business of television. After all, Irna Phillips didn't toss herself out of the company and she created those shows! If you had watched the grim, morbid storylines that Marland had written in his final years with a writer's discernment, you'd realize that this was the work of a man who likely knew he was not going to go on for much longer that way.

It was my theory and my contention that Marland was likely burned out and needed some time off and also likely a co-headwriter. If the actors talked about the exhausting pace of playing out those scripts, think about how much went into conceiving and writing those scripts, making tweaks and changes on the fly. I wouldn't be surprised if going at the pace, almost non-stop for consecutive years led to his deteriorating health.

Speaking of the Defund talking point, Meghan tried it with Sen. Harris and well, suffice it to say, she should've known better. Sunni had to step in to save her.

Double entendre aside, if it were a choice between her and M.O. on the show, I'd dump M.O. for V.B. in a heartbeat.

Vail Bloom was such an intriguing actress in appearance and sound. Too bad she was wasted on the show (take that any way you please). She could have easily fit the role of a vixen or a heroine or a vixen turned heroine or vice versa. She could have become a P.I. working alongside her father using her brains, guts and wiles to help solve cases. There were many ways that her character could've gone if the writing had been there. I got the sense that the writers never really knew what to do with the character, regardless of who was playing her.

@BetterForgotten And his portrayer seems like he's trying to worm his way back into the daytime universe. I have noticed that his scheduled appearance on The Locher Room was postponed. Too bad it is only temporary.

I loved that scene that took place in Lucinda's living room, it was quite spicy! When Craig starts to walk away, then Lucinda has to take one final jab which send him right back into her living to curse her out, LOL. Sierra watching the entire thing and then breaking down after Craig leaves and confessing that she still loves him and had to hurt his feelings to keep him out of her life to protect him from Tonio. Then Lily, who enters and guesses what's been going on and tries to encourage Sierra to go after Craig, only to be met by the dead-eyed expression of Sierra who basically reminds Lily that she's a married woman. Then Lucinda chides Lily for what she perceives as Lily's immaturity, only for Lily to verbally jab Lucinda and storm out. There was a lot going on in that scene! It's sad how soaps no longer have this much action going on in a scene unless characters are physically fighting.

Soaps don't know how to write for characters independently of being tied to another character, and it is especially rare for women characters to be introduced or sustained without being tied to a man. It's really sad and I think that was what happened to Juliet, they never tried to extricate her from Cane. You can't sustain a character as solely an appendage to another character.

Al Freeman is one of what, three black actors who've won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Actor in A Leading Role? CBS has never had a Black actor who has won an award in this category? The whole entire network! Why are they not embarrassed about this? Wasn't the first black actor to appear on a televised daytime soap on CBS??

Andy (to Lien): Are you okay...did he hurt you? Lien: (too busy choking to answer)...

Black people tried to "go high" and take a knee in silent protest until y'all put your knees on our necks.

From what I've seen, it seems as if Moon had previously been a sort of the "go-to" Asian stock character in the P&G universe, having made appearances on at least two P&G soaps prior to Y&R. His role on Guiding Light seemed to be a complete stereotype and he was on As The World Turns for seemingly a short time before another actor, Russell Wong, stepped into the role.