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Haley and Jacob had more chemistry in their small interaction than I ever saw between Naomi and Jacob. Same with Haley and Derek actually - that was one of the few times I can recall Derek ever having any life in him.

Deadline is reporting that Jake Schreier, who recently directed Thunderbolts* (a return to form quality-wise for the MCU IMO), is the frontrunner to direct the MCU X-Men reboot. I thought he did an excellent job with Thunderbolts* - in a way, that seemed like an audition for the X-Men revolving around a group of misfit characters that come together under a common goal (the mental health plotline was also unusually deep but well handled for the MCU, a quality that would be important for any X-Men project). ‘X-Men’ Movie At Marvel Studios Circling ‘Thunderbolts*’ Director Jake Schreier To Assemble New Team – The Dish

Very much in the vein of stuff Heather Tom and Sarah Joy Brown struck gold with back in the day.

Ambryn Michelle and Trisha Mann-Grant are easily the most charismatic actresses to grace daytime in a longggggggg time. This show wouldn’t be as good without them, IMO.

I’m sure Trisha-Mann Grant would love to play those layers too. It stuck me when she said in an interview that she could identify with the pain Leslie carried because she was a single mother of two struggling with no help raising her kids at one point. You can tell playing Leslie means a lot to her, as devious as the character is (which I’m sure is fun to play for any actor)!

I think Brandon has gotten better in normal day to day scenes, but he’s very over the top when the character is meant to be angry or agitated. I did laugh when she started yelling at Leslie and then when he started to throw all those damn books, lol. He needs an acting coach to work out some of these kinks.

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The end of this montage would have been a good time to have an explosion inadvertently kill off Ashley and Derek in classic Guza style. 🙂

“You’re dead to me!” Oh please, Kat. Regardless of what Eva did, she was “dead” to you the first time your elitist/classist ass laid eyes on that girl.

MVJ seems to be cognizant that Leslie and Eva are true breakouts for this show:

Leslie and Eva continue to prove they are the spark this show needs. They make this show infinitely better when they're featured.

They have since the very first episode honestly.

The last scene felt genuine, especially between the core 4 (John, Laurie, Sara, and Lecy). They were saying goodnight/goodbye again to the characters, each other, and to the audience for one final time. You can tell they really love one another and cherish what they created together - with and without the troubled Barr. And I can appreciate that life goes on as normal for these characters and there was no forced development/event that forced them all to break apart and go their separate ways. It felt like they really cared about the audience’s attachment to these characters for the past 37 years.

That exit never seemed right for Liz to me (granted, she had left before and came back again to your point). In addition to Elsie's exit, it was also a rip off of Julie Goodyear's/Bet's iconic 1995 exit, but with none of the heart and bittersweet emotion of either exit, IMO.

+1 Exactly

They’re dressing and styling Cady/Pamela like a low rent drag queen. Awful.

Ashley and Derek are putting me into a f.ucking coma. They need to go.

I said that because she often has a character reference Beyoncé, at least her first few scripts did.

From what’s been described about her, it always felt like Anita mirrored Diana Ross and her career. From the girl group to the solo diva stardom. It always felt like she made her naming sing breezy pop/r&b tunes, and maybe some disco in the 70s and adult contemporary in the early 80s for good measure. But totally fair that we can necessarily align real-world trends with soap opera timelines.

Was’t Anita’s prime in the 70’s and early 80’s? If Vernon met her in the 70’s and she left her career behind a few years after, she wasn’t singing New Jack Swing, lol.

What’s with this lame/generic BBD/new jack swing backing track, lol. Anita was not singing that type of music in her heyday.

I was referring to Dana aka Leslie, lol

Eva continues to be the standout. I am willing to bet that TPTB had no idea Eva and Dana would be their breakout characters that seem to resonate most and more than the mainline Duprees.

“Ratchet block party” - Kat is an elitist cow.