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Showing tonight in the UK...

Here we go, here we go, here we go...

Stephanie Williams vs Victoria Rowell - that would have been *dynamite*.

Honestly, the first and only time I visited the USA was back in summer 2016 when I visited Seattle for about 10 days, while Obama was still president. The good memories I have from that visit are the ones I’ll keep about the US. When Trump got elected, I vowed never to step foot over there again while the GOP were in power. And if he does get re-elected, then sadly I would need to write the US off completely as somewhere worth visiting.

Just wondering - if the Dems do win back the Senate and Biden wins the presidency, could there be a investigation launched into Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court? Or was his Senate confirmation hearing the only chance people had?

What was the truth that Lois was trying to get out of Ned here? Was it the fact that he was Ned Quartermaine rather than Eddie Mayne?

Thanks @DRW50. These were fantastic to watch. I love how charismatic Dorothy Lyman is in that intro section. Re the episodes themselves, I’ve heard a lot about the Roger/Merrill affair in passing, but it was nice to see it in action. And also helped to solidify and clarify in my mind all the relationships between the families (eg. I had no idea Merrill was a Vochek). The exposition done in just these first two episodes was written magnificently and it’s a shame it never really gained ratings legs. Why did they get dismissed? I was hooked into all of them as well just in those first two episodes.

Umm if you were referring to the tweet I posted, that’s a satire website 😏

The above posts are exactly why I have had issues in recent weeks with the way the UK has redefined reported COVID deaths. They will now only consider a COVID death reportable if it was within 28 days of a positive test. This has led to (IMO) an artificially low death count where we all know damn well that deaths from COVID can occur well after 28 days, especially in light of the above “long COVID” cases that are arising. This in turn is leading certain leading figures in the UK to declare that we are getting the pandemic in the UK under control, which couldn’t be any further from the truth - we experienced an almost 100% spike in one day over the weekend, and fears are that it is about to go higher. On top of that, the UK is running out of available tests - people are being directed to testing sites 10s or even 100s of miles away from where they live, due to a shortage. That is also a major cause for concern. I’m afraid every day that the UK is about to go through another lockdown, on top of the mess that is Brexit. The next 12 months are not looking very good, unfortunately.

How is this for some vintage Eric Braeden?

Speaking of parodies of Brenda Dickson, the first time I ever saw any footage of her was when Deven Green (of Mrs Betty Bowers fame) came out with the Welcome To My Home dub-over in the mid-2000s, and I was in awe (not to mention insane laughter) at how utterly bizarre it was. And then when I watched the original Welcome To My Home, I was just as weirded out. Anyhoo, here’s the Deven Green dub-over...

oMg iT wAs sUcH aN aCcIdEnT eVeRYOnE’s oVeRaCtInG oMg... 😏 Novak needs to get in the bin 🚮

I believe it was Deborah Adair’s Jill who was originally fired from Jabot by one of the Abbotts, if the 1981 synopses are anything to go by, so yes DA was working at Jabot. I haven’t see any footage, so I can’t attest to level of professionalism. With all the chatter about how detached Brenda Dickson seems in her scenes (and yes I notice it too), there is only one person whom I’ve noticed she doesn’t do this with and actually seems human around - Beau Kayser. You visibly see her relax and just enjoy herself. Any 80s scene I’ve watched thus far between Jill and Brock shows Brenda Dickson to be almost a completely different person from when she shares scenes with any other Y&R actors, even Jeanne Cooper. I don’t know whether that’s just how she plays the Jill character or whether there was something deeper there.

And this is why I have always loved PB & ED’s Jack and Ashley (you can probably tell that by my profile pic). Their scenes together are always dynamite. When she arrived in 1982, ED was a little green, but then by 1984, she was ON. It’s a shame TPTB can’t bring her back for some solid story.

This is an absolute goldmine. SOD recaps of SFT from 1975 up till the show finished. These should help you! https://classicsodsft.tumblr.com/

I’m surprised they never had a scene with Douglas and Derek at Victor’s wedding. That would have been rather entertaining.

Can vampires survive COVID?

I just checked out the SOD recaps from 1981. Andy and Danny are both mentioned for the first time in the update dated September 15, but the updates are typically 2-3 weeks behind, so they both debuted around late August to early September 1981. Broderick is right that Andy’s debut was him bartending at the Bayou in the midst of the Nikki/Edward storyline, while Danny is someone that Patty meets at the cafe, around the same time that Patty also meets Jack.