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Huh? A 9 to 5 factory worker doesn't get a hit put out on him by a longtime rival, as has been done with Sonny many times (see: Michael). He doesn't 'steal shipments' and nurse a criminal feud for years. Morgan was tangled up with the Jeromes because Ava and Julian made it their business to target him years ago as part of their war with Sonny. He would not have been there if not for the Jeromes' relationship to Sonny - in the mob.

The point, I think, is Morgan would not be dead/'dead' if not for Sonny and his business. Just like Michael would not have been shot or raped if not for Sonny and his business. Whereas Sam repeatedly divested herself of both Julian and the Jeromes to protect herself and her son. She doesn't have a responsibility for anything that happened there.

At this point I suspect a final season of that will ultimately be the only show Fuller gets off the ground again tbh. It's an easy financial win for him at Amazon or wherever else.

Enzo couldn't act.

I could buy them calming down and approaching each other more kindly and maturely after Jason was gone in 2012. I could not buy them being super friendly or BFF any more than Carly and Liz or Sam and Liz, which is what's often happened since. So them being at each other's throats again doesn't bother me at all. I expect when PM's work is totally gone Korte will reset it all back to Carly's World and Amazing Friends.

Unsurprising: Longtime Politico hack Sam Stein finally goes mask off and jumps to The Bulwark. Not that they don't have some solid columnists and aren't anti-Trump, but The Bulwark is ultimately a center-right Republican outfit, period.

Sam also was in no way involved in the Jerome family business and repeatedly distanced herself from Julian over it. Unlike Carly.

What does Julian and Olivia Jerome's bullshít have to do with Sam? Lest we forget that pre-rewrites, that bomb that took out Morgan was supposed to be set by Sonny.

The show is a mess, but Trevor also got bored very fast.

This week's Tales of the TARDIS will be a cutdown version of Pyramids of Mars with new FX, bookended by segments with the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

What in the hell is Hayley Erin wearing?

I still think you might like Hannibal if you watched it! But yes, the Bryan Fuller project merry-go-round has been one I have largely checked out on in recent years because of all the drama. I'm amazed he managed to fund and shoot his own feature film recently (with a stacked cast).

What I said in my post. I specifically indicated upthread that GH could've either lied to outlets about Bryan Craig or simply changed their plans. The latter is exactly what they did re: Brando filling Jason's role in Sonny's organization back then, which is all I was referring to from what you said in 2021. I was never even remotely implying that SON was claiming that Brando was going to somehow transmogrify into Jason Morgan, and I think you know me well enough by now to know I wouldn't leap to that. You can quibble about my wording, but we're saying the same thing.

Bezos tries to both calm the newsroom and stand by Lewis. Not gonna work.

Nor was I saying that.

It did, but I also think many things are true: A24 was unprepared to properly mount an ongoing series vs. movies, Bryan Fuller was uncompromising and likely overbudget and Peacock/Universal likely also tried to weasel out on a writers room and paying people for their early work, which was a key issue in the strikes. Shameful of the studios.

I agree, it's stupid, but then stupid is Bryan's brand. And GH is desperate and FV does not want to bring back stars who outshine him or his ensemble. Allegedly, Morgan was integral to the D&C Pikeman storyline with Jason that supposedly got them fired and Mulcahey hired. If they are rolling back to that, Morgan would play into that.

Or they lied or changed things up. Not to diss Errol, but I remember when Steve left last time and SON had heard that Brando would become the new Jason.

If it's true and I assume it is (I still can't make out the connection in that photo to the photoshoot, but it sure looks like the set) then I would be shocked if they don't just go back to CVE's bad storyline planned.

Brydog Lives. Ugh. It's not rumored, it's his actual social media history.

As a horror fan, the collapse of this dream project did not surprise me for many reasons. Two things can also be true, though: 1) Bryan Fuller's ego and behavior is often his own worst enemy, he splashes out on budgets and has failed to launch numerous dream projects over the last decade. And 2) Bryan Fuller has brilliant creative instincts and is also often stymied by outside risk-averse bullshít, of which there appears to have been a lot here. The saddest part for me is that it's almost certain Adrienne King (the wonderful heroine of the first film, who was unceremoniously killed off in the opening of the second without a scripted scene while King went into seclusion for years to avoid a stalker) will no longer be involved in any new iteration - Fuller had hired her among many other talented people mentioned to write for the new show and possibly be on-camera again (King can still act and has done a short Friday fan film). The same goes for the likely dismissal of brilliant directors like Vincenzo Natali, and the disappearance of Kevin Williamson's chase-centric episode on the frozen Crystal Lake. Williamson has had many sins since Scream, but his recent pandemic film Sick shows he still knows how to write horror. The one silver lining here is the mention that Nick Antosca may take over - Antosca is a brilliant writer (also from the Hannibal writers' room) who more recently did some of the excellent Channel Zero anthology series for SyFy, as well as writing Antlers, writing on Chucky and doing a very good, unproduced Friday the 13th feature script in the last decade, which was very much a mood piece full of daylight horror, half Dazed & Confused coming of age movie and half slasher with a lot of unexpected turns.

Thanks! Danny seems to have pretty decent recall of Cujo around the same period (which he was very very good in) so I wouldn't be surprised if he remembers his time.

Not to turn the topic too insular to my current obsessions, but does that shifting trend in the mid-late '80s (which I do agree with) possibly explain why Knots Landing (which was less OTT glam and still ostensibly about a semi-relatively grounded neighborhood of people) had a slight edge on the other primetime soaps for outlasting them by a year or two?

Becoming part of Murphy's repertory players is probably very good for his career, at least until Murphy discards him. I can't fault him for taking the work.