Maxim

@Soapsuds

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Touch. If I can't see my husband, dog, or my soaps - I will go mad. God forbid. Would you rather be reborn as a rat or as a fly?

Meryl Streep, age 75! ❤️

This is one of my most favorite meals - fried rice noodles with vegetables and egg!

Selfish people don't deserve your time.

I need to watch these movies! I am loving your reviews.

After a huge pause - mostly, because of work, I am back to binging Edge... and boy oh boy, Raven is a troublemaker! There is no second boring when that girl is around.

Today I am not tolerating the heat outside well... I feel like I'm trapped inside and I'm getting cabin fever in just 3-4 days of heat. I don't want to wait for it to become night to go outside. I am f-cking depressed. I just ordered food, because I don't have energy to go to the grocery store. Complete fail.

Older characters acting like teens or 25 is a completely different topic. The statement that old characters should not be leading story is the one I don't agree with. I not only NOT agree with it, but I find that older characters sometimes are desperately needed and missed. What Bold for example is LACKING right now is that older-matriarch type. I am starving for a character that brings wisdom. Age gives opportunity for experience and that is not a negative - we need characters that have been through it. I am bored with the virgin in distress or the whore of the week, which Bradley always writes. I need some substance. And yes, people don't always watch to see people their own age, but anyone who reads and knows psychology, knows that what you see - you unconsciously associate with or don't. It is not even conscious process. So yes, I do want variety and older characters who people can relate to and which problems and issues are relevant to them. I will quote my mother who watches tv all the time (she is definitely a target audience, since she also watches commercials and buys things) and always says to me, when I try to suggest to her some too-teen or too-hip show. I don't find these shows funny, it's not my type of humor and these are issues that I am long past. Please don't make me watch this. And then she starts watching a show where there are people over 40 in it. People who some may call older. This is a completely normal thing for some people. I myself can't stomach some things anymore and I'm only 29. And that's why shows have target demos and all the world of ads and commercials KNOW who they are selling to. To know the age of your main audience is CRITICAL for success.

Outside it's like literal death. So hot. All I did today was work from home and lie on the couch. I feel freaking depressed.

Absolutely not true. Just an example - Susan Flannery was quite older when she STARTED on Bold (she was if I am not mistaken - nearly 50 years old) and she MADE the show for the next 25 years. Your statement is against all my beliefs and I don't want to say the word ageist, but I said it. Older characters SHOULD lead in soaps, just like younger ones should too. You should also think about the target demos. If anyone here thinks that soaps are being watched by teens or youngsters only.... and not middle aged women primarily, they are horribly mistaken. This genre is not the netflix teen show crowd. A lot of soaps are watched by women and men long past 50 or 60 and these people need the characters to associate with. Older characters ROCK and should not be in the shadows. The typical strong woman matriarch that always leads storylines on soap operas is never a youngster. I can go with examples and examples. They SHOULD be leading soaps.

I feel like a complete flop today @Soapsuds 😂

From what I read the transmission is not by air droplets. When I read your message I got worried, my heart fluttered and I had to check once again if there was no human-to-human-transmission on the news. I still have trauma from COVID19. The one fatal case was a person who had many other health issues. The other cases so far are very mild. And again - it's transmission hasn't been by air. The moment it gets passed on from person to person by air droplets, that's when we should worry. There are no indications of that from what I gather in multiple sources. The current measures are to vaccinate the people who work very close with animals.

Thank you @Jeff! Hope and Finn looks so awkward next to each-other. They have an actual negative chemistry. They don't look at ALL like a couple or even people who are attracted to each-other. I am also seeing this on screen. Bradley should give it up, before it's too late. Hope and Finn have the same type of negative chemistry that new Ridge and Brooke have. It just feels OFF. I can't describe it. We are human beings and we detect these things as fast as we detect a bad smell. It's in our nature. It's OFF. And this? Is this the future? If so, I am... so sad for this show. The ratings will continue to fall. Awkward triangles don't work like they did in 2010, Bradley. Give it up. P.S Liam is so badly photoshopped next to Hope in this photo, it's embarrassing. And sorry, this looks AI generated. And so WRONG. A girl with her boyfriend and rapist. I am gagging. @Soapsuds Plus... why are they continuing to shoot Brooke with her boring one-beat sisters in bathing suits? Shoot her with Hollis on the beach. Brooke needs to do something NEW.

Back spasming into my 30s.

Bananas are just... perfect.

Intimate. Always. I want to feel that my money was worth it. Would you rather star in a soap opera as a leading role or star in a feature film by a famous director as a supporting cast?

@Liberty City 🍀