DramatistDreamer

Funny how little discussion there has been about this week's job numbers. Also, the fact that the Federal Reserve has now predicted years of high unemployment going forward.

And I suspect that they'd rather let the show go completely down the tubes than have a black family leading story. It is CBS after all.

Honestly, the story could still be told with good sensitive writing that plays all the beats. We never saw where Sarge lived or who he would've lived with. Or perhaps he left town and moved back to his hometown where his wife was being taken care of by his family. Or maybe his wife was in a rehabilation facility/nursing home and decided to take her out due to hearing about how many people were getting infected with COVID-19 in nursing homes. Maybe that new clinic in Genoa city has need for a physical therapist and Jack, hearing about it from Devon, tells Devon that he might know someone. Jack contacts Sarge about the position. Sarge is non-committal but tells Jack he will give it some serious consideration. Sarge, weighing the pros and cons, decides that he liked Genoa City and perhaps this could be a great opportunity, so he says yes. Unbeknownst to Jack and anyone else in GC, Sarge won't be returning to GC alone--he will be returning with his wife. There could be a series of episodes where his wife wanders out on her own (which upsets Sarge as he feels it is unsafe for her to wander around a town that she doesn't know her way around) but his wife feels safe and that there is an odd familiarity and comfort to the town. Sarge is glad that she likes the town but urges her not to wander out on her own again. Eventually, his wife starts having odd flashes and needs to pursue why. She secretly ventures out again at times when Sarge is at work. Little by little she starts having stronger flashes and recollections until she starts seeing faces, and wanders closer to the center of town. Who will spot her first? From a distance she sees Devon, Lily (whoever plays her, lol) and sees a man's face in her dreams and starts having memories of him. At a beach, getting married. The man is not Sarge.

Yeah, I batted around the idea on this board about Dru having amnesia and actually being Sarge's common-law wife. It was when KSJ was still alive though.

I'd also like to see actors whose time in daytime was relatively short, like an Eddie Earl Hatch, who could offer an interesting perspective on the industry. I'd like to hear whether his views of his time on As The World Turns are the same as they were decades ago.

BINGO! And it's evident right on the screen, right in front of our eyes.

What did these guys do before their entourages? It would be interesting to see how some players compete without their coaches, relatives sitting in the box pretending not to coach from the stands.

I agree @marceline Jose Andrés has been doing great works for people in crisis for years now. More on the clusterf*ck in Georgia yesterday. On a side note, I read that the point person in charge of the acquisition of the new voting machines used to be associated with the Brian Kemp campaign for governor of GA. Some of these machines had a test run in December and had problems back then. Meanwhile, the entire voting apparatus seems to have broken down.

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.