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I mean I'll definitely look at his body. Will I watch the show? Nope. Judging by the trailer I think it may well make Chavez a star, and he would be wise to get out from under Murphy's thumb sooner than later and keep going bigger vs. ending up another of the repertory players who never leaves like Evan Peters, etc. I also think it sends a message to GH to recast now, because though it was obvious before he is clearly not coming back. He's the commanding presence in that show.

Nicholas Chavez (Spencer, GH) in the new trailer for Ryan Murphy's latest queerbaiting exploitation romp.

Exactly. I'm bored.

Maurice did say in print or online that he liked the bipolar storyline and the town turning on Sonny a few months ago. He said it was a good acting challenge. That was before he apparently had some sort of mental health episode over it, of course. When Mo doesn't like a story turn (like the blowback from A.J. in 2014) he isn't exactly quiet. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I think it's easy for people to jump to blaming Benard (or LW) for everything. I think his health may have been in the mix, but I think his being actively blamed for the Mulcahey debacle is just a convenient go-to at this point based on past history.

B&B drops people (including Kanan) regularly like they're churning out Happy Meals. There will inevitably be a window to get him back, if FV didn't hate him.

The unctuous Jonathan Martin, increasingly seeing the writing on the wall, begins spinning out his GOP comeback fanfic for AO3. (The clear desire for their renewal is best viewed in the full tweets)

We will take PA and GA again IMO. I've seen this movie before, more than once. But Trump is going to try very hard to shake it loose, he is running out of options.

Agreed on all of the above. And in the end they will absolutely pit Wagger's murder on someone else. That's their only option unless they really want to redo the cold-blooded murder of A.J. which, who knows. I've seen this story so many times on the show - there's always some bullshît escape hatch which exonerates the mob either figuratively or literally, proves Sonny right, etc. This goes back to the Guza II years, where even Dante's childhood idol from his backstory, a beat cop in his neighborhood in Brooklyn, turned out to be corrupt or something to make Sonny look good lol. Somehow there will be some nonsense to get Sonny off.

Pathetic.

Oh, I knew they all encouraged the affair but I didn't know the writers had almost pulled away from it at one point. Thanks.

I think Jane did very well with Judy Trent. Her last scene where Gary explains the dysfunctional way his marriage to Val works and something like how he can only see himself as a decent man through her eyes and Judy says "Gary, that's pitiful!" totally aghast is amazing.

What he's campaigned for all along! I will not be tuning in to see his puppet-like rictus grin 24-7. Maybe he'll finally change his 20 year old profile pic to celebrate. Victoria Lord, take the wheel (the full screencap can be clicked on to view):

This is news to me. Do tell.

As do I. And for me the most poetic choice would be that, unlike in 2012 where it was Monica who knew and had been protecting him for years, we discover it is a resentful Michael, who found out from his grandmother that A.J. was once again clinging to life and has been shepherding him ever since, torn between two fathers. At the worst possible time for Sonny, preferably.

He also said (as James Carville quoted in an actually pretty good op-ed I posted in the Politics Thread) 'strong and wrong beats weak and right'. And he was correct about that re: the GOP approach back then and often in the 21st century. Dems have the wind at their backs and some aggression in the mix now, but they need more and they need to sustain it. The press are not our friends.

I thought the interlacing had to come from whatever unrestored copies they have, but I am no techie.

Don't shoot, but I actually think this James Carville piece is mostly accurate (except for the part about letting Trump ramble too long), particularly this section: This is the piece he references from NBC re: Kamala's debate prep strategy.

Two tweets re: the same worthwhile article, and I agree about what she's done.

Plex is mostly used by people to store movies from the high seas and share with friends and family AFAIK (it's certainly what my friends do with it). The livestreaming stuff was incidental to me and ignored til now.

I think she's great, but the writing (and her hair) were terrible. They tried very hard to fit her into a bland heroine mold at a point when the stories on the show were at a nadir.

Lindsey McKeon is a laughable suggestion. Most of the younger women on the show come off like kewpie dolls or sisterwives now. If the Facebook audience can't take Landon that's their problem. They would've freaked out over Sarah Brown's energy back in the day.