BetterForgotten

Sharon and Daniel should bang and have hate sex, just to make Giggly Heffa's head explode when she wakes up. It would also be karma for Giggly Heffa for banging her husband when her daughter died.

Ah, maybe she was the first choice for Anita (who a lot of us thought she would be great for initially). Debbi keeps busy anyway and her career isn’t slowing down.

I will say the transformation was rather sudden this year, regardless of what her methods were. This is the best she’s looked in years - and there is no stigma or shame in using weight loss meds, a ton of celebrities do. There shouldn’t be a stigma or shame attached to it if it works and it is a medically approved option.

And it’s lucky it even got those 12 years under the radar at that.

B&B’s wardrobe choices have been pretty trash since Jeresa left. I’m excited to see how she dresses the characters on BTG, she did some great things at B&B.

At least he’s young and green. Van Hansis, on the other hand, has no excuse for how terrible he is and how much his acting hasn’t improved since ATWT.

Unless he's back tomorrow, I don't think the horribly static Michael Eilbaum has directed in a few weeks either.

I'll jump right on requesting medical records!

With the whole world on contract, they have guarantees to burn.

Ned is Alexis's longest relationship on the show, right? lol

I’d love for Helena to still be alive and come back to assassinate Valentin. I don’t care how f.ucking old she is to still be doing this sh!t either!

MTS and SW look stunning today.

I wish some of that storyline could be posted somewhere (the DAYS archive exists, so it’s available). GL told the same story with Meta on radio years before, and those radio episodes are every bit, if not more, gripping than anything I’ve ever seen on television. DAYS seemed to have bad luck with recasts and those characters delved into almost irrelevance after popular actresses left. Flannery and Alexander in particular went on to more notable roles in daytime that seemed to erase their previous success on DAYS from public consciousness.

I agree that the way Jill sometimes spoke to Mamie did have some racial undertones that I can see clearly now as I’m older. She was dismissive of Esther, too, but I always felt she had a visceral hatred for Mamie. I stumbled across this promo, and when a white woman speaks of a black woman “knowing her place” it does take on a totally different meaning/undertone, whether that was the intention or not.

If any OLTL diva suffered in the 00’s, it was Dorian/Robin Strasser. I don’t think they ever quite got Dorian right again when Robin returned in 2003.

By the end of the ABC run, Erica just felt so irrelevant and watered down. You still saw her, but she lacked purpose for much of that final decade to me.

Debbi Morgan also stays busy (even if this is Tyler Perry crap). Ignore/skip NPH and Burkta, but Debbi was on a local NY morning talk show last week and spoke a little bit about Angie/AMC as well.

Crew Morrow is reciting the same corny-ass dialogue his dad did 30 years ago on Y&R.

Was Flannery still in the role because didn’t she leave that year? I know her replacement wasn’t very popular and Laura never again had the same status she had when Flannery was in the role.

Colleen and Ray are here to chew every available piece of scenery and they make no apologies for it, lol. Let them run wild, it’s probably better than what Griffith has written anyway.

Some of these kid actors are decent when they’re young but don’t grow up to be very good as they age. People like Kimberly McCullough and Camryn Grimes were exceptions the more I think about actors who started on soaps young and are still capable when given a chance.

The Rocco actor continues to be the best younger actor on this show. I felt it when he told Danny that they’d always be brothers no matter what anyone says or does. Too bad all the Danny actor can do is smirk after he recites every damn line in return.

I think BTG has an uphill battle if we talk pure ratings. It has direct competition from GH in that timeslot, and obviously the 2pm timeslot is less desirable in terms of getting an afternoon audience. Not to mention, it will follow a creatively bankrupt BOLD in most markets. That said, more telling is how the show resonates and does with Black demographics from the onset, the demographic the show was originally created to serve. That is the main audience they hope to aim advertising $$$ to and if they don’t support it, that will be a major issue.

I think a lack of optics is a systemic problem in mainstream media when it comes to how ethic characters/characters of color are portrayed or even named. It’s a problem that continues to happen. These shows continue to have no black or ethnic voices in the writers room or in production, so there is no voice calling out how naming a domestic character “Mamie” would be problematic. I don’t have confidence that an elderly white man would know any better, especially if the name was based on someone he knew in real life. It’s a sad reality, and the show has never bothered to correct it, showing those in charge still don’t see it as an issue. Staying with Y&R, the same applies to Latino characters. Diego with the Newmans (once portrayed by all-American Greg Vaughn), and the never-seen Mrs. Martinez with the Abbots. These characters were either barely a blimp on the show’s radar or never-seen - did they have to infer they are Latino when a Latino presence is non-existent otherwise on the show? The optics problem continues to be pervasive to this day.

The cliche grieving mother writing for Alexis is so surface-level. These writes can’t write anything with depth, nor can Frank produce anything with real depth or emotion. NLG is doing all the heavy lifting here.