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I would be surprised if they don't leverage the Bell/P&G linkages at some point. It's easy eyes on the show with various guest characters.

The trailer already has me going back through all the past cast/character announcements which put a persona and thumbnail sketch to the various daughters, sons, cousins, etc. The whole bit with the young woman being run off the road hits different when you realize who (I think) that is and what baggage she apparently has. I have a feeling Nicole's 'perfect' husband Ted may be the other dark horse here - I find that whole summary pretty ominous while the promos have us deliberately honed in on messy Dani and her family drama. Though for someone who was always very lukewarm on Karla Mosley in the past (though I admittedly haven't seen much of her B&B work) I think I, like the rest of us, may end up ride or die for Dani Dupree.

I trust MVJ to not deliver Tyler Perry-level schlock.

It was obvious in that period that Frons, McTavish, etc. were also leaning on Lily to replace Bianca as the new young 'heart' of the show - for an interval of time she even had Bianca's slot as the final falling picture in the opening as the theme wound down, before Erica and the book. It just seemed bizarre to me. As did having her play a promiscuous wild child twin of Lily. There were stories in those days about Rambin being wild, a NY party girl, etc. That may have all been slander or it may be to a degree true, but that doesn't change or invalidate the fact that she was a very, very young girl put in an ugly spot on a daytime soap opera during very misogynistic times.

I'll just assume Aiden Turner was once again among the creeps.

Am I the last one who just now realized the Duprees are almost certainly all deliberately wearing black to Dani's ex's wedding? lol

I still don't understand how "the #1 soap" is using embarrassingly bad greenscreen on the regular in lieu of sets but GH isn't and keeps churning out new locations. If anything explains how Frank Valentini is keeping his job it's that wizardry, and I can't fault him for that. Every soap today has those problems - I remember the OLTL cast talking about it in their oral history a decade ago. "Why are we having so many scenes in the hospital? Because it's up!" The key is how different shows and their producers manage the constraints to keep a community and canvas still feeling alive and vibrant. Y&R can't.

It's not even a guess. It's him doing what he's always done from his career during the dying days of the old P&G soaps defending their failing honor, and it's very tiresome especially when you get actors and writers who want to dig into an issue from that period where he minded the store (or even before) and be candid.

Lookin' good! And no, while the show is bright it is nowhere near Rauch's GL. My eyes bled back then. Someone mentioned the PP soaps and I do think they had the lighting down. OLTL in particular had a lot of dark or shadow and atmospheric lighting or warmer/darker tones in furniture and sets, which was good for the renewed contrast between it and AMC. But I'm not seeing anything egregious here yet.

I don't. Her star image never had any relationship to her character in Dune, particularly Part Two. But while Challengers uses her persona (because the character in Challengers is also a megastar, in the vein of the Williams sisters) it also inverts it in a certain way. She is far from perfect, all-seeing or infallible. In the end the film is a love story about the boys as much as her if not IMO moreso. The male bond is what none of them can shake. It's the platonic happy ending of something like Ken Russell's polyamorous Women in Love, or a somewhat more honest version of Robert Towne's Personal Best (which also ends similarly). I don't think Zendaya is Viola Davis, but she's also not Paris Hilton. She has a specific range of talent, possibly, but she does keep challenging herself and the work she's done this year has been pretty good (I can't speak to Euphoria, as I haven't seen it). I'm only interested in the memes or online reaction if some of it's funny, but stan culture has no bearing on watching a film to me.

But that has nothing to do with the actual movie. I think the movie is excellent. Oh, and Lily-Rose Depp should be on there. That's a shame she wasn't nommed.

Hence why they have trained a lot of the (dumb) online audience to expect the longtime characters to never do controversial things.

Of course he is, when dead-eyed Wiley and the other random children also regularly make it in.

I'd rather Lucy not be wasted on another incredibly boring villain from this regime. Martin was bad enough.

I think both Guadagnino's movies are brilliant, particularly Challengers, so I'm not thrilled they were snubbed. But not surprised. I don't connect unrelated fan content (or conduct) to the quality of the movie itself, which had nothing to do with the product. Do I think either needed a ton of nominations? No, but I would've liked to see a bit more, particularly for Mike Faist. I'm glad both Conclave and The Brutalist got some recognition, though I am still unpacking the epilogue of The Brutalist. I do think Fiennes should probably win. Isabella is lovely and very talented but there was no reason to nominate that small part other than who she is (a la Jamie Lee Curtis, who should've won for a role they would never nominate in Halloween 2018 so they gave it to her instead for EEAAO). I have no interest in Complete Unknown, and I still need to see The Substance this week. I saw Fargeat's first film and it was solid. Oh, and very happy for Anora and Mikey Madison. I still need to see The Apprentice and Nickel Boys.

Working Vanessa to death for a short run again 20 years after the first time they did it and drove her away isn't the answer. Give her a contract with the breaks and potential outs they lavish upon James Patrick Stuart and leave it at that. Easy. She can shore up a lot of this show on a long-term basis. I am catching up since I'm finally back in L.A. but I will say at least LNL2 still have it while the story is pure boilerplate. I'd rather they were investigating literally anything more interesting. Same goes for Alexa as Lulu - the energy is there for her and it's great, but why sideline her at Deception and have her obsessing over that mutant?

Certainly none in the 2010s. IIRC he literally fled the Q mansion on foot like a bat out of hell after being found out as being in league with Fluke. I thought it was too bad as I felt there was a real spark there with Jane. But of course they have so much bad history. The same could've held for Richard Burgi's Paul Hornsby recast as Burgi is a very accomplished actor, but he was wasted by turning out to be serial killer. And the show passed on Jane's major chemistry with Michael Easton when Finn first came on, and seems to have no appetite for pairing her with Cody. So castoff recurring player MEK it is.

I do wonder if they ever had him mention Llanview. I'm still stymied by the magazine print preview I saw not long ago from late '91 which indicated he would reappear on OLTL in time for Megan's "exit" the following year (death). I wonder what happened there.

Wow - thanks.

And so long as we remember to continue not to post full links to huge swaths of episodes in here so as to avoid YouTube's rampant soap copyright trolls, everything should be fine.

It was clear the clips used on Sunday Morning were raw and likely sourced from the taping when the news segment was there as they also had no background music, so I'm not putting much stock in that. I did think the lighting was fine.

Well, Drew was a prick to Nina in 2023-early '24. But the whole 'abuser Drew' thing the Sonny/Nina stans tried to put over on Twitter was always just astroturfing to try to stop the Drew/Nina plotline from happening during the brief Mulcahey era. Ryan Lavery OTOH is another story. And I read that comment a bit differently in the press myself - I felt he was more saying 'you never know!' and playing devil's advocate in the interview, which was largely about how unsympathetic both characters have recently become. I believe he said he enjoyed playing the heavy. I didn't think it was a serious investment in them being the new Luke and Laura on his part. And it is plainly obvious the show does not regard them that way, or as any kind of heroes or root-for love. They could not be treated more as a bad couple doing bad things courtesy of master manipulator Drew. That's in the scripts and the narrative.

I don't know that I agree - I think Cameron's vibe is more that of an endlessly genial TV show host, which in part comes from his spending years as on-air talent for shows in the Access Hollywood/Extra genre. That can certainly come off very plastic and artificial but I've never found him cold or unpleasant except in Ryan Lavery's worst years. More smarmy, smooth or just plain cheesy. But I do think he still has a lot of charm when utilized well. Or he can easily come off sleazy and skeevy, which Drew is clearly supposed to now. Fans took to his Drew early on when he was rescued in Greece and before he became Carly's latest sanctimonious enabler; that's when they quickly turned on him, in a self-righteous role that did not play to CM's specific strengths. The reaction to Mulcahey's Drew Q last year was certainly mixed but it was also somewhat baked in due to his spending several years as Carly's howling purseholder. Which is all he ever was to this creative team: A replacement part for Jason. I'm not so sure. The show is very clearly painting Drew and Willow as in the wrong in this story, and is presenting Drew specifically as the supreme heavy and baddie, and GH has very little appetite for long-term, more organic 'bad' or ne'er-do-well characters or schemers who don't come from the outside like Sidwell or Cyrus to ramble on through endless stories that go nowhere. Drew is a more organic outgrowth of an antagonist than those cartoons, which means he may need to go, and Cameron neither comes from OLTL nor do I think he is super cheap. Which makes me think he will go soon. Do I think FV might hold on to him longer out of sympathy re: the fires and his personal struggles? Yes. Would it be the first time a soap has cut an actor in a sad or inconvenient IRL situation? Nope.

Jill used the same tactics at OLTL she did at every show: Shock and awe and a lot of slash and burn. It worked and temporarily reinvigorated a coasting show, until the audience caught on to how she did it; frontlining veterans in increasingly crass stories designed to further her favorites she brought in from other shows and tied to those veterans. Only time that pattern changed is when she tanked the network flagship (GH) with her typical vision, and was subsequently largely disempowered creatively for the rest of her time at the show and ABC when Guza returned with co-EP control. Reducing her to a glorified line producer. I like to think of it as a fate worse than death, and what she deserved.

Bye! They should wait and get a much stronger recast. But knowing Frank he'll keep it open for Chad too long.