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Add me to the list of people that doubts she's even watched more than couple of episodes. The whole thing sounded like she has no idea what she is talking about. I don't know what her previous level of writing was, since I've only read one or two things from her, but this piece about BTG is very dull and uninspired. If you are going to go for brave titles like this and act like you are going to be making some high and mighty dramatic reappraisal, then lady please watch the show.

Welcome to Fairmont crest, Izaiah! Are you going to be a good or a bad boy?

I'm still couple of episodes behind... I will have try harder this weekend to catch-up, so I can start reading this topic freely and maybe even watching live when I have the chance. I miss that initial first month excitement where I was watching everything live.

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I would have preferred Brooke to visit someone, just to escape the madness that is LA. She needs to meet new people and new men. (Maybe next time?) But, yeah... overall I'm glad they are doing a cross-over, it was inevitable and expected.

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Ridge... serial rapist, chauvinist that likes to belittle women and call their children whores and bitches. But TK is great.

It feels like Fall came today. It really feels like a different season. Goodbye summer.

Nothing against TK. But Ridge is a hard pass for me. BTG don't need that chauvinist pig energy coming even for a visit.

Her performance last night was horrific IMO. She looked like she needs help even walking. That's not a new thing, yes, but it looked extra hard for her last night. I'm worried for her.

There is not a thing I despise and hate most than the disrespect of someone continuing to send me messages/chats/emails after I have said I'm not available or busy or that I don't want to open and see my box full of messages. I have blocked more people for this reason than having an argument with someone. When someone does not respond to your first or second message, that's the clear sign you should stop till they do. Period. If you can't control your urge to message someone again and again and again, then this is just not normal. After the 6th or 7th message I will block you.

Up to August 6th, 1992. "Sleepless in Llanview." I just couldn't wait... 🔷 Just as when I think Leanne can't get any trashier, she surprises me. The newest thing is that she is taking her practically newborn baby in dirty, loud-music, drunk people bars... just because she feels bored and like she wants to entertain herself with friends. Kevin found her dancing with the baby in the middle of the bar and asked a very good question "So this is your idea of being a good mother?" The custody battle will be hardcore. Leanne, IMO is dangerous to this child. She is incredibly selfish and reckless and can't be trusted. But she is the boy's mother. Kevin is not bright either, but at least he has a better support system than Leanne. I would prefer Duke raised with people like Victoria around. Still, a child without it's mother... is almost always destined for misery. 🔷 What about Tina and Cain? Nothing new, of course, the same old repetitive "Bonnie and Clyde" scenes. Tina needs a reality check. One of her children should get the flu or something to remind the viewers she is not a single early 20s girl. This infantile behavior is so off-putting. I liked Tina a lot better when I started watching the October 1991 episodes. Back then I could imagine a woman like that existing, actually... I know that they exist - a tired housewife that wants to stand out and get back her own identity, yet still keep her family intact and raise her children well. She was rebelling against Cord who always thought the worst of her and underestimated her. Well, what she is doing right now is sort of proving that Cord may have been right - she is irresponsible and stupid. She hasn't stopped for one second to think what mixing with these people like Cain and Alex can do to her family and children. I find her frivolity suffocating. P.S - I adore the actress. She is one of my favorites in the show. 🔷 Reverend Carpenter and his supporters are organizing a protest that has slogans like "Kiss and tell NOT" and they want to protect the rights of all Llanview citizens to keep what is happening in their bedrooms a private thing. (Tell this to Dorian Lord who lives off of people's ejaculate and tears) At the same time, Andrew is being investigated by all kinds of authority figures - from the church, from police... and all of them seem to want to nail him for something. Anything. They don't even care now if he is gay or not. They want to crucify him. This has turned into a witch-hunt. I applaud Malone and the other writers for attempting to tell a storyline like this. It takes guts to show society's true face - to make the viewers see themselves in a mirror. 🔷 Now let's get to the best part in these 2 episodes. I shared a description of these scenes last night and promised to continue my review today. Hearing Renee say: (while observing Sloan and Victoria dine together) - "If she continues with this... she may lose a lot." sounded like a prophecy. You can't hide that chemistry. Clint sees it too, but for now Victoria manages to come out of the questioning unscathed. I think she is close to having a "Bridges of Madison" moment. At one hand, she feels like she owes so much to her husband, a man that she loves and cares for... but a part of her wants to experience something "just for herself". This is a very human battle that a lot of us go through in our lives. And what we choose determines our future. Internal conflicts like this are gold for drama. Absolute GOLD. 🔷 Overall - 8/10. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clip of the day Clint questions Victoria about Sloan.

This absolutely makes sense. Thank you for sharing. I think a lot of people online and even in real life don't understand one other thing... And that thing is that huge ratings don't necessary mean quality. I've had people tell me something must be great because everyone watched it at the time. Yes, sure... But people watch The Kardashians too. And some worse things than that too. And of course all of this is subjective. I definitely agree with the fact that some of these ratings-grab tricks and bizarre storylines damaged the good reputation of soaps. To this day people laugh when I mention I am a soap fan and that this is the main genre I use to entertain myself in my spare time. They cringe when I mention I've watched pretty much every episode of The Bold And The Beautiful, because they have only seen glimpses of the trashy era of the show on their TVs. When I mention the first 7 seasons they don't believe me... If they haven't experienced it themselves. They are just so programmed to think that soap operas are trash. No exception allowed. Here in this community we are a different kind of group, most of us are already fans of the genre, when you go out in the real world you get a completely different reaction. One more example and a way to connect my ramblings to the masterpieces aspect - my husband used to ridicule the fact that I'm a soap fan too. He used to describe Bold as "that stupid show where in one episode someone begins opening a door and 50 episodes later they are still opening it". All of this ended when I made him sit with me through the first 60 episodes of Bold. By then he was hooked... And by episode 1600 he called himself the biggest fan of the show, even bigger than me... and we would rewatch the BeLief storyline and repeat parts of dialogue by heart. He told me "Thank you for opening my eyes to this.". All of this makes me think that if more people had the chance, be it by streaming or some other way, like Bold is popularizing their classics on many platforms... To see more of the soap "masterpieces"... They will completely change their mind. That's just positive thinking. And for the new soaps I think they have the responsibility to start deviating from the most damaging and trashy patterns that we have been subjected in the last decades. (Absurd dialogue, people dying 109 times, idiotic villains and I can go on and on) Or the genre and the makers of it will naturally follow a complete creative and stylistic suicide. All of this is my opinion and I don't say this as the absolute truth.

I love this woman so much. Thank you for posting. I hadn't seen this. So stunning, talented and classy.

I tried to watch GH in that particular storyline since I had heard it was some sort of a prime era of the show... When I got the chance and saw these episodes online... I grabbed it. And... it was really unbearable. I wrote it off as "not my cup of tea" and moved on. I did make a real attempt... But I just couldn't take any of it seriously.

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I had forgotten about that. How despicable. And with the deep-fakes and AI stuff we see on the news lately... you have to reeeeeeeeeeeally be the lowest of the low to impersonate a woman's voice... steal her identity... once again to try and ruin her life. Taylor's kids are a bad look for her as a psychiatrist. Her son is a complete loon and her daughter is one very... very unhappy and bitter woman. And she seems unable to help them or even advise them in any sufficient way. They only get worse with time... It's like they feel they need to protect their 60 year old mother like she is some kind of child. It's really bizarre.

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