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If Dani doesn't drive a car into a building a la The Bear during sweeps I'm calling the Better Business Bureau. It's right there!

It's coming!

Hot take: Vanessa’s next cougar pull should be Andre. Dani would get over it! I have a feeling those two could have legit antics/capers together, that Sean Freeman can play comedy, and most of all it would get him out of the sphere he is in which (excepting his fling with Dani) is absolutely miserable.

Bill and that Carlton dude look like straight up clones. It's the hairstyle and facial hair. Andre needs to stop going out with these people lol.

I ain't mad at them having Eva play for Tomas. But God, yes, there are so many solid young Latino actors you can get for this roving stud role.

I think she's good at coming across naive and in over her head, and creating pathos. But there's no fire I can get behind there, and you need both for this character. So far I ain't seeing it.

He is still giving male enhancement ad voice-over.

Hayley once again looking like she slaughtered Pepe Le Pew's bloodline.

I actually think AMC and GL are cut from the same cloth in many ways. I don't think they're that dissimilar in their sort of purehearted Americana texture. I can see why someone thought she'd be a good choice. The problem, as noted above, is that Megan was backstopped at AMC by many talented creatives who filtered her worst impulses and problem writing. Not so at GL.

I'm starting to see the vision in it myself.

It is comical. Does she really need this job? Eva's done her share of primetime. Just move on.

That will definitely be a shift, but it can come sooner than that. I'm extremely ready to see the fallout from May sweeps and that first contract cycle, let's put it that way lol. Pamela is closer to Rosanna Cabot IMO, who was upper-class, was fiercely intelligent and articulate in Cady's first run on ATWT and was very different from Dixie Martin. Pamela is a more outsize and comic version of that same type, but I don't see her as very different yet from Vanessa myself. They will need to highlight her breeding and intellect to make that work, but then they'll actually have to give them uniquely distinct roles. Which I don't think they have yet myself. But as i said, I do think they can and should both exist. I'm really not, but I'm not hearing any direct answers from you. Is BTG trash? Are you still mad you don't work there and never will? Are you pleased with the ratings? I hope you find contentment in some other field or vocation in life. Other than writing soaps, I mean. Since you don't.

We know. And you never will. That's the primary impetus beyond your increasingly embittered posting history over the last year across two active accounts (you haven't used the third much since you got mad that Empire existed). As soon as you realized BTG was not going to be using your helpful story and casting notes on this message board, you began constantly spamming its threads with hate speech videos followed by a series of conspiracy theories about how the show is secretly anti-Black and now homophobic. Will you be closing one of those other active accounts, BTW? Do you still think the show is 'guaranteed trash?' You've said that twice before in the weeks before its debut. Like you, I'm also just asking questions.

It's so silly. If they started the show tomorrow and said Nicole and Ted somehow raised Anita and Vernon's last child due to some passing major health issue I would not complain. Or just a straight-up 180. I don't care!

LOL, they're not going to do that with Martin at all. Next Vanguard #3 is gonna claim Kat being a social media maven is MVJ stealth recruiting for DOGE.

That angle cracked me up. I was waiting for Ashley to start stroking the bald spot. Derek is singularly unappealing to me. The awkward family scenes with The Richardsons! were bizarre and seemed like they were all filmed in close-ups at different times. I like how someone clearly told Martin to smile more while woodenly declaiming his dialogue about "Young Horny Bastards!" to his teenage daughter with a big boisterous grin. Very strange. Though everyone but Martin in the family can still act at least.

I think Sarah was on the inside until she wasn't. I think that happened a lot at GH back then, including probably with Tamara. The aggression Steve displayed onscreen towards her when Carly got with Lorenzo for breaking up the Sonny/Jason/Carly trio felt very real to me, and it was ugly.

It's a nuanced issue. Ron has done good work over the years, particularly in dialogue. But I think his discipline as well as tonal control and sense of taste has seriously degraded since the old days almost 20 years ago now (God we're all getting old), and he's gotten lazy and tacky. I do not trust him to HW a show atm (at least not a sole HW). And while I do think keeping Carlivati on breakdowns limits the damage he can do the fact that you can see his house style (or at least believe it's all his) in an episode with his name on it, where a character gets up to a few too many campy antics at once, is something to note. Is it the end of the world? No, KM was fun to watch. But I need Dani to start doing less, or just do other things. Anything else but more Bill and Hayley terrorism for a week or two.

Yeah, MG can't sell the aggression in this confrontation with Dani. Karla could've blown her off the screen if she hadn't kept the flame low. Nice girl but this is why I said go get Loren Lott for Hayley.

Agreed, but I do think she would not have dipped quite so fast if not for JFP trying to flex. I heard the same re: Mo, Steve and Sarah towards LV.

Derek: All your loving, all your caring, pour it all on me. Every drop. 😬😬😬 The bit with the extremely awkward and clumsy bit with Andre trying to lunge at Ashley right at the hospital hub was also quite badly done and written before and after on both days. Please end this ASAP.

I do think Friday and a lot of the break-in stuff is large part on Carlivati's breakdown. The break-in itself is one thing to do as a story point, but this whole business with Dani joking about a bomb, sweet-talking the security guard, killing the cameras and then monologuing to the wine bottle, while fun up to a point, was cartoonish and silly. KM does very well with all of it IMO but it's just a bit too broad too quickly for me. Like, all this at once? Cady's Pamela and Vanessa are clearly a riff on the same character and I do think people are right that Cady is a late addition. Vanessa fits better with both sisters, but I do like Cady in this comic aristocrat role (which I think suits her modern style) and I do think she can do well on the show either in a slightly adjusted role to Dani/Nicole or with someone else. They're clearly working many kinks out in real time, which is typical of a new show (including various bad actors and the entire miserable expanse that is the Andre/Ashley/Derek storyline). Like others I do think Dani's mania is a setup for a story about her major issues psychologically, with alcohol or both, but they need more moderation. And I'd much rather see her being a terror back on the job, like with Chelsea. KM also excels at that business stuff so far, what little we've seen of it. Or let her and Pamela cook on something.

I remember this mess well. Jill drove them both off the show early because she was trying to throw her weight around. It was idiotic and a major blow. Neither had to happen AFAIC, but she was sure she could retool GH for her favorite actors. I absolutely believe Sarah could've and would've stayed, and I know Amber would've for a few more years. LV getting dumped was inevitable so I didn't have an issue with it, even though I liked her with A.J.

I think Megan recognizes other alphas and was probably either intimidated by Zimmer or knew she could only cross certain people. Ironically they're not that dissimilar in approach, though Kim for all her brass is not the kind of gorgon that Megan clearly is.

Okay, there is no need to repost any of that.