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I feel bad for Tamara Braun. All of her scenes involve her reminiscing about the good old times with a random character. I actually thought they might hint that Sienna and Tessa had been involved.

Did we get a glimpse of the elusive "Victor's men" today?! The whole episode felt weird. The actors are capable but these were like speeches from a movie or a novel... all the women throwing themselves at you, how you like the rough ones...because this storyline never happened onscreen, nor did the supposed intense love story between Noah and Sienna. All basically new characters, brought in way at the end of a long story arc for the climax, and likely all dropped as quickly as they came in. Just bizarre storytelling. The ending there felt a bit like a nod to the latest season of Dexter.

Ian was with pre stripper Nikki. So he should be the right type!

Nope. If JG finds out, we may get Ian Ward, lmao. Which I actually think Tricia Cast would kill, but ugh, lol.

1998 should be season 27. Anyway, it's up in the Vault now (main folder, under paisoaps, the name of the uploader). And the next episode 9/14/98 is under under The Young & Restless Vault/Full Episodes/1998/September (shockingly for Y&R, that month is pretty much intact so it is possible to follow the rest of the story for a while).

I hate this so much. I'm actually glad they stopped using the set. It was so bad. Kay couldn't even look out the window at Phillip's grave anymore, which was the defining thing about that mausoleum!

Thank you! This is really interesting tech. The emotion is not quite there, but it's watchable and a decent translation.

There is no excuse to just drop episode 200 with less than 24 hours notice because they randomly changed "seasons" mid-week on a national holiday. This is wild considering they have thrown up so many random repeats over the year and actually had a new one on January 1 and then disappeared it overnight. This wouldn't fly with primetime. People should complain.

Thanks! Interesting to compare year end counts with GH. Looks like GH still has it top stars on a 3 episode a week guarantee and YR tops out at 2.5. You would therefore expect YR to have a bigger breadth of cast, more actors appearing less often and changing it up. But no. They have significantly less total cast members. This accounts for all the episodes with 5 or 6 characters total, just sitting and talking. It really adds up. And when you look through the recurring characters, most of them had absolutely zero story, they are just there for the sake of being there.

Dear God in heaven!

I was annoyed CBS.com didn't have yesterday's show since it was preempted here. You can't expect people to watch on less than 24 hours notice, what the hell. I worry a lot of people who got behind during slow periods won't pick it back up. FWIW reddit found a workaround where you can see season 1 through a Paramount plus free one week trial via Amazon and you don't need prime. I have not personally tried this so YMMV.

Agree the NYE episode was really good. Other shows could learn that the two people in a room talking setup can actually still be riveting (and can still use varied sets!). I can't stand Valentin and Carly individually but they're actually interesting together. Poor Britt just wanted to hook up and blow off steam (and Jason still owes her from the time she got dolled up in her hotel room only for him to announce he was marrying Carly) and Jason was looking at her with his puppy dog eyes all "let me save your life" lol. She doesn't want an emotional attachment while he apparently has been celibate for a while and wants something deep (but not so deep that he can't get out if Sonny, Michael, or Carly need him). There must be a happy medium!

BTG: Better pacing, more "show" and not "tell." Hopefully season 2 has a budget for some modest sets and location shooting as part of tight story arcs. I like the day to day character work but they need more purpose to the storylines. More soap vets with some gravitas, not just hiring middle-aged good looking guys. I like that they had a mostly newbie cast and they've settled in after a year, but next time they cast a key character, let's see someone who will really bring it. B&B: It is what it is, and does not claim to be anything else... I don't have high expectations, but I'd like to see them carry some storylines through without abruptly ending and restarting them on a loop. Like, your villain gets miraculously released from jail and actually sticks around and mixes it up with everyone else instead of immediately doing the same things and getting killed/locked up again. Y&R: I don't see a need to give specific notes, it needs a complete overhaul. They need showrunners with intelligence who care, who will fight for it, and it's just not going to happen. GH: It's pretty good, just stay away from clones and memories on USB and freezing the world. I'm low key terrified how cringe the "Faison final project" could be. I have my own personal preferences which characters/couples I would prefer to see, but they do a good job balancing a huge cast.

Heh, did you catch the other day when they pretended Faith was at Sharon's house? (looked it up, 12/19). Noah and Sienna and were all "Oh, isn't it nice that Faith was here! Too bad she had to leave already! But it was so nice to meet her, she's sweet! Now she left with her security detail!" WTAF. The old school way of not mentioning unseen characters was actually better. They over-explain so much, it's crazy. I didn't need to be told Claire was sooo busy wrapping presents that she couldn't come to Billy's house. I would not expect Claire to be sitting in on Billy's visit with his kids, cause she isn't one of them.

Lord, the way JG scrolled wikipedia to come up with the Victor/Nikki and Jack/Diane Christmas gifts. And what was with the Sally Emmy bait speech to Victoria, of all people? And it just droned on and on and on.

Michael Easton portrays the dead dead Shawn, kidnaps Lauren and chains her to either a sewer or a small room filled with garbage, as Michael coordinates the search at Crimson Lights. Esther wipes down the tables, looking appropriately concerned. Lauren is rescued and the couple has a romantic reunion at the GCAC suite, which Phyllis barges in on. All agree Phyllis is a wonderful friend.

I would love a meta scene where Matt Clark comments on how GC has changed, except his old stomping grounds, the coffee house.

Mona!!!

Alexa Havins is so good but it really is a shame the writers took away all the spunk and fun.

Is there a time stamp for when he talks about exiting BTG? I skimmed but couldn't find it.

Not terrible choices but would have loved to have seen something we haven't seen. I wonder why they would show Kay's party when the Chancellor Mansion isn't even shown anymore. Wonder if it or Jill is coming back.

Omg that's a shocker. What a beautiful and thorough article in the Hollywood Reporter. So many details I never knew. Story wise I'd like it if we learned Luke really died saving women from being trafficked after faking his death on the train in 2022, taking over Bobbie's work. a sort of redemption for what Luke was.

Is the Abbott launch party not getting cancelled this time because no one showed up? 🤣

All narrated from the sofa in her room at the GCAC!

I generally prefer these clip shows over the day to day "action," but this one was pretty boring considering it's always the same scenes that we've seen for CLB and TEB's anniversaries. The staging of these is getting worse and worse... Victor's tribute for example was a big party, Lauren's special was that lame event at Society where we only saw them in the lobby but at least they had Gloria and Fenmore there... now it's pretending Gloria was on the phone and Fen texted them... they just sink lower and lower. Lauren was even worried Gloria would butt in... apparently she lives in town, under a bridge somewhere. They've also stopped showing clips of anyone who's not already in the episode.