DramatistDreamer

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?👀❓🤔