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BROOKE IS BACK!

God, I'm functioning on 2-3 hours of sleep. Barely keeping my eyes open. Not doing this again... I'm not 20 anymore. I'll have to learn to fall asleep early... GOAL NUMBER 1.

You need to see the movie - The Substance, if you haven't. You'll love it. ❤️

This is soo special. I love it! ❤️

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This video made me tear up. People should strive to live their lives in a way that in the moments when they win... There are going to have a... family reacting like this. This is even more special than anything. 2a0af16f8a4733b293061125540d81e3.mp4 P.S If someone is confused - this is Demi's family.

MY GIRL! ❤️

I am sooo happy that you followed my advice and I'm looking forward to hearing your reactions to the months ahead. ❤️ And let me assure you - there is this only one period of bad-audio episodes and by the time December 1988 starts... everything is perfection (at least it's very rare to get a bad quality episode). If you need some guidance on that period, I'm also here to help, with my limited knowledge. But I'm learning and as passionate as can be. The show really slowly builds up in October-December 1988... and I'm feeling that in 1989 there are going to be some fireworks culminations. We watched January 4 1989 last night, but I still haven't had time to write my review. Later tonight when I'm rested and off work. I wish all you Another-Worlders a beautiful day. ❤️

2 more hours of work! Woof! It's not as bad as I expected it to feel after weeks of doing nothing but rest, food and freedom. I kinda even missed the deadlines and the ordeal of it all. ❤️

A masterwork in less is more approach. No raised voices. No maniacal facial expressions. No over the top dialogue. Cold as arctic ice, words cutting to the bone, more threatening than anything you can imagine. The power of Beverlee McKinsey. 2025-01-05 19-25-16.mp4 Killing... with a smile. ❤️ @Contessa Donatella

@Contessa Donatella The Joan Crawford Episodes!!!!!!!!! Our dream!

Wow thank you for this. And the fact that Liam is in 2000+ horrifies me.

I don't think she's ever truly gone over the top. My opinion only. In comparison to all the others in the show, she kept it normal and realistic till the very end. At least I would not describe it as over the top. But I see and understand what you mean and refer to. I would just use a different word in my own commentary. I would say that at some point it seemed like she didn't care as much. The scripts were so, so bad... she was made to yell at Brooke - you whore, you slut, you prostitute every single month... so at one point it felt like the venom was turning into repetitiveness and just... boredom. Just the fact that Brooke started laughing at her insults in the last seasons... is telling. Stephanie stopped having her threatening and powerful presence - she became nothing more than a guard dog for Ridge and his children. They also made her more brutal and inhuman like (arranging a strange man to come in Brooke's house, giving him a key, which is basically accomplice to RAPE). They did give her some of her own storylines... her father's abuse... her mother passing, her cancer... even Pam... but still... the biggest portion of the material was her telling Brooke how she is a ho. It could have worked if it was done more sporadically. And ever since they made Stephanie to be some kind of... lying ex-slut herself with the 2001 rewrite of Massimo being Ridge's father (incredibly wrong rewrite if you ask me... and made only to serve Brooke and give Ridge a new brother who Brooke can sleep with again)... the whole... high and mighty Matrona-persona just... flopped. Brooke started telling her that she doesn't have a moral high ground anymore and in a way she didn't. And Stephanie yelling at Brooke how disgusting she is... was not hitting the same way. STILL, these two women gave the show a sense of purpose, of continuity, of familiarity even. We loved to see Brooke and Stephanie at it. Of course nothing compares to the original war circa 1987 to 1993. Nothing. There were glimpses of powerful moments (2005 was a great one with Stephanie's heart attack)... but... nothing was ever the same. We all know why. Bradley Bell turned the show into a badly written Jerry Springer episode. So I would just say that... there were moments where Susan was not giving her usual 100 percent and I felt it. Even when uttering an insult, it was not the expression of real hate that we used to see. The energy was not there all the time. But she was STILL turning it on regularly when she had to and I will repeat myself - tranformed sh-t to gold many many times. The show really breathed its last breath with her death. Just this last scene... is a testament to that. Susan... giving a quiet, yet powerful performance in her last minutes of a 25 year old role.

Would loveee to see a KKL cameo on BTG.

People like to underestimate professions like a cleaner... or cashier or... even private assistant... but the truth it... EVERY SINGLE PROFESSION MATTERS. And I'm sick of hearing people think they are better than others. When the covid pandemic hit... we saw that we won't survive without these people cashiers! They were the people I met every single day for... basically a year and grew so fond of them. They put their health at risk for us. And imagine the world without cleaners... We would certainly notice their absence for sure! So yeah... underestimating professions is... not okay.

Eddie Drueding uploaded this missing episode from the period we've been watching, me and my husband. I'll watch it later tonight with him. We are way pass that in storyline time, but still... I want to see it. It looks to be a great episode. Heads up to anyone that may be watching late 1988.

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If she had said this in 2024... I can't even imagine the reaction... with the way social media and the world works these days... She would have probably needed to record 10 different apology videos. And still... not enough. TOO VILE.