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Laura evolves and changes a lot over the first three seasons (and then more when she meets Greg Sumner), but she stays a character who keeps her own counsel and marches entirely to her own beat. And yes, I love that episode.

Kristina Wagner celebrates 40 years as Felicia. A great interview and a commentary again on what has been lost to taping time.

I said it on Primetimer, but while I love Rick Hearst and I love Ric as a slimeball, Ric is beneath Liz and has been for many years. She's a single, lonely lady slowly becoming an empty nester. She should hit it and quit it with Ric for a night or two just to get laid, then move forward with Lucky for romance. It happens with exes! Rick Hearst playing this as Ric the schemer realizes he got used would be hysterical.

I know! This cracked me up. Whereas I don't think Val came into her own until leaving Gary. In the first three seasons she was much more at his feet. Her crowning moment that starts this, besides getting into her career as a novelist, was her confronting Gary in jail at the end of S4 and tearing him apart, telling him sacrificing himself for Ciji re: guilt over their marriage accomplishes absolutely nothing. I think the Val in S4 and S5 is much stronger and more sure of herself. She knows what Gary is to her but she works to move past it.

Apparently the mics will be unmuted for cross-talk, which is good.

They also would not have gotten the same juice from Joe and Stephen Macht that they got from Dobson, or from a new central love story for Karen. And I liked Joe a lot and have always been fond of Macht.

Silver is cooking and unskewing his own polls. He says it himself.

This has finally broken through and is not going away.

I think the Val operation episode in S2 is pretty hilarious tbh. Sid karate kicking the door, etc.

Axios (and the relentlessly anti-Dem gossipmonger Alex Thompson) are annoyed people aren't hitting Kamala Harris enough: Meanwhile:

My take remains the same: We will take GA, and likely PA.

I also care not a whit for Stone II: Revenge of Stone.

That is hysterical.

Feckless media cheerleader Stelter RTing this is also a big deal.

In other news, Silver has basically admitted his latest nonsense predictions are due to him unskewing all the polls by reducing all Dem polling by 2-5 points because of the lack of a convention bounce (which, again, was already baked in) and his assumption that Dems will trend downward towards November, which hasn't happened in awhile. He also admitted to adding Trafalgar and Rasmussen, both of which are laughing stocks. He's become what he used to mock. Meanwhile:

Her and Brian Kerwin.

This all is finally getting real traction in the last few days, particularly since Mike Barnicle blasted the media practice of auto-sanitizing and editing Trump's words on Morning Joe.

TW: Brian Stelter.

Oh, "Man of the Hour" gets painful in that very arch sequence where the theatrical bereaved mother shows up and repeats the title over and over lol. But I have become very fond of Steve Shaw. I wish they'd done more with him and Michael, though I believe they do get some story and he's still going strong in Season 7.

I think the debate will be important for many reasons, and I'm not happy Harris' team relented to muting the mics because Trump's team is terrified of him getting owned by her a la Kavanaugh or Pence which is a moment the Harris campaign was definitely aiming for, and threatened to cancel if they weren't muted (over Trump's objections). If the mics are open during cross-talk (which Harris' team claims and ABC is denying, but I bet they are) that's good. I am excited for the debate but I think Kamala needs to bloody his nose. It's time to move to the next step and start breaking away even more. At the same time, this article is good because the Harris team is almost certainly doing a headfake on some of this - trying to lower expectations and keep her the underdog to surprise people. That is how the game is played. The enthusiasm polling is all over the place today so I don't really buy the Luntz, etc. narrative that Dem enthusiasm has gone anywhere. Most of that polling I've seen today still has Dems way up. Guys like Luntz and Silver are looking for an exit ramp from the last month-plus.

I have no doubt Frank would cast Bree again if he thought he could get away with it.

No, naive was believing the show when they said William Lipton and Sydney Mikayla were staying after booking other opportunities/committing to school because GH said so and you wanted the actors to stay. Whenever people pointed out career realities and past precedent you got very mad that anyone would suggest it wasn't going to last. Nobody is saying Landon doesn't want to work or even necessarily that she doesn't need to. But she is not a starving artist.