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I do not get people dragging Nicole for living her life as a newly single woman. I'm not seeing some OTT promiscuousness. The only thing I thought was a bit goofy was the extended public makeout session with Kial in the middle of Orphey Gene's. It should've been at home if they were going to have it go on that long. I don't see anything unusual for soap storytelling re: the Impaler storyline. We do not know or care about the random flunkies getting roughed up so we don't need lots of scenes with them; Smitty's scared informant was enough for me. The only thing I would've added is seeing the guy dumped at the ER a couple weeks ago for Shanice and Ashley to handle. And let's face it - soap cops with very public profiles, far moreso than Jacob Hawthorne, go 'undercover' all the time. Within the context of daytime there is nothing unusual or silly about him doing so too. He's not exactly as locally/worldwide famous as a John Black, let alone Robert Scorpio, Roman Brady, etc. I have no issue with his hood wardrobe lol.

Sam is not coming back from the dead. Folks (not you) need to stop dredging up every bad rumor they find on the fringe and breathlessly reposting it to various sites.

We all know the extent of GH's research is Frank cherry-picking on senior citizen FB. He and the writing team have admitted as such in interviews. DAYS can't know anything valid 10 years out.

Thanks!

Again, I have my doubts FV has any devotion to Britt at this point given KT's many BTS antics. I think his only real interest there is in her extended family - Ryan Paevey's chest, Kathleen Gati, etc. Britt was a means to a strategic end, namely finding a reasonably popular love option for Jason. Unfortunately they cocked it up, and I don't see FV going hard in the paint for her for years as he has Eden McCoy.

It's not like less Jason is going to make Britt soar with the rest of the canvas!

A legend. He's known best for the wonderful Harold and Maude, but Brewster McCloud, one of Robert Altman's strangest and angriest films, really haunts me. The scenes with him and the late Sally Kellerman are spellbinding. He also took a real risk doing Roger Avary's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis book The Rules of Attraction. The film is an oddball, both ill-considered on many levels and still daring and mesmerizing in places, but he is great as the younger brother of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman.

Very sad but not surprising given his condition. Just an awful thing.

They can't. It would remove Valentin's connection to the core canvas, which is her whole reason for existence on Frank's GH. Rebel Danny with wallflower Georgie is exactly what they should be doing. And meek Rocco with a wild new girl. Mix and match then they end up with those endgame pairings. Simple as.

I dunno, Frank's OLTL and earlier GH with Ron both got pretty hot and heavy at times. Including when he first took over at OLTL and Troy and Lindsay got down and dirty from behind on Malone II's first week. A sequence that will live in infamy! OLTL did not lack for sex and illicit behavior in his era. He even encouraged Thom Christopher and David Fumero to improv their highly homoerotic prison scenes. I think FV is a chameleon who responds to the times, but whose own personal tastes have ossified in some ways. I think he takes a lot of himself out of the equation on certain elements (and not others, ergo his playing favorites) and he is determined to make the show survive above all. And I think he has decided that the GH that has survived into the Trump, etc. era is now an often chaste, heterocentric and 'safe' one catering to his perception of senior Facebook viewers. (That's how you get the EP who once championed a frontburner interracial love triangle with Renee Elise Goldsberry running and hiding from Spencer and Trina 20 years later.) Hence the years we've spent with these WASP couples pumping out babies ever since roughly 2016, the year before which he avoided the axe by letting Carlivati walk the plank. For better or worse, GH's libido went with RC. But that was also when the country began to really change (or show its old/new face).

So long as the party hats are involved.

He is very handsome and has a wonderful voice, I will give him that.

You are so hard on ol' Cameron lol. I think he has sold the hell out of this role for almost two years. He's clearly loving playing the heel.

Whose wouldn't? And yes, Drew should def fake it for awhile.

I was very happy for Ricky on Sunday. What a nice showcase.

If there's any justice in this life Willow will fúck Chase before Drew's eyes, as the Captain Pike from Star Trek respiratory machines beep helplessly. Literally any other regime would do this.

I actually don't have a problem with an occasional 'forbidden' quasi-incestuous romance on a soap, when it's the right people. But this is just poor Danny and this test tube mutant horror. Pass!

Nathan at least comes off like a grown man. Unfortunately he has even less personality than Chase. I will take Dante all day.

Chase has always been an idiot with no personality. I shed no tears for his future comeuppance and I hope it is sleazy.

I see we're all revisiting our forum-wide lust for Buck from the Loving Murders in 2020. I can't complain.

I think it was a coked-up venture capitalist pipe dream like so many others. I suspected that from the beginning. I think they gambled they would make a big splash and then it would all somehow pay for itself. I just feel for the cast, crew and creatives who did legitimately great work and really updated both shows. It was the future of the genre IMO, it was just in the wrong financial hands. I especially feel for people like Debbi Morgan who did some of the best work of her career, was finally the center of the show and who apparently doesn't even like to talk about AMC 2.0 today. Fortunately many of the BTS personnel have found their way to DAYS, GH, etc. in recent years. I know one of them just popped up again in the BTG writing staff the other day. I hope someday someone (like the enterprising @EricMontreal22 , hi Eric!) can get some of the writers on record about the shows. I know Thom Racina and Susan Horgan have been polite about their time at OLTL but pretty vague, but allegedly (per Bob Woods and others) there were more stories in the offing, and the Triskelion Cartel conspiracy arc forming at that show screamed Racina's work. And AMC 2.0 had a lot of changes and plans floating around, so maybe someone can talk to McPherson or whoever else someday. IIRC the HWs all got rotated out once or twice while the PP guys were trying to save money (and presumably snorting lines).

Did she? I just watched an ep with her in '82 or '83. Poor woman. I liked long-suffering Lieux Dressler in the role.

I think she just didn't watch it and sadly she was indeed wise not to get involved. I don't blame her at all. But I still maintain that despite the BTS debacle it was the best AMC had been in years, and one of the best soaps of the 2010s if not the best. Still, it was a good thing my ass wasn't in that audience. "ACKSHUALLY, Susan, Marissa got shot." I know Erika Slezak had to stare down the purser or whoever in person to get any of her payment at the end. She told that story on Linda Dano's podcast. They still owe a lot of them money.

Or an RV.

There is definitely a lot of Frank Capra in her show. These people all knew and loved each other well, year after year. The Labine years have some of that too but on a slightly smaller and more intimate scale. WEHT poor Alice Grant? Did she die? I was a bit flummoxed seeing her still tending house a year or two after killing Diana Taylor.