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He's recurring. With that boring beanpole it is a matter of time before he vanishes. I'd cut him tomorrow.

Naomi has consistently been wound too tight about one drama after another for the last year. She's gonna spin out sooner or later. In a smarter setup, she would spin right towards her brother-in-law. I like Eva and Izaiah together, but all they do rn is talk about how amazing the other is which is rapidly approaching becoming as boring as Jacob and Naomi were around May of last year. Lami is talented and has charisma, but he's green and sometimes delivers his line like he's going door to door selling chocolate bars for the school trip. Eva/Izaiah should be into some serious GH '96-style boot-knocking, with Izaiah being less of just a much hotter nice guy. If he had an affair with his brother's wife it would not be endgame, just an obstacle for him or Eva/Kat down the road. Failing that, let crazy Naomi fúck her BFF's new man (Jordi). I'm not picky!

Honestly I'm still mentally stuck back with Giovanni Mazza prancing around in tight little black boxer briefs on Friday's show. I'm not gonna lie to you people. They didn't have to do me like that.

SMG clearly doesn't need to work, despite a string of post-Buffy flops. But right now she is preoccupied with the high-profile Buffy revival with Chloe Zhao. (I am not at all convinced that show will work, but the point is she's busy) Before that revival got off the ground, SMG was clearly in the mix to do the proposed AMC revival on ABC primetime. I think if that had gone ahead you would've seen her reprise and star as Kendall alongside Kelly, etc. Susan or no Susan. She would've done a make nice press tour settling the old rumors. But I think it's pretty unlikely Sarah would star in a Lifetime movie. Whatever her hits or misses she is still seen as above that tier. I think the best you can expect there is maybe her doing a cameo as Kendall in one of them (or one similar to her appearance in 2011) as a favor to Kelly and others in the cast who she is still devoted to. Meanwhile I think it is highly unlikely you would ever see MBJ or Seyfried even cameo on a Lifetime movie lol. But I wouldn't hate it.

@DRW50 I know you were looking into the show. Monday's recap special/interview show for MLK Day might be for you. It is clearly geared to grow their new audience.

First some stylish lighting, then Ted and Shanice get it on, now Derek is giving stalker and Chelsea is on some stuff. And miracle of miracles, a) Ashley has real spark and chemistry with a human male (Jordi Vilasuso) and b) the boring Hawthornes finally have another room in their home! The show is shaping up nicely this year so far.

I just think Lifetime and their movie franchises is a much better fit than trying to compete with the primetime sweat grind these days.

There's a bit more detail in the article which makes it sound like it's actually a thing happening now. It beats the radio silence on these for however long. Susan also hinted at it recently in her Soapy interview with Budig. As long as they're not using that real ropey 'dark' ABC primetime pitch from a few years ago, I am open to this project. Network primetime dramas today do not understand pacing or character anymore. They are running scared re: streaming and race through story to try to keep eyes.

I did actually also like her at the paper, a lot. But I am not weeping that she's a lawyer again.

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Thanks! Didn't we have a dedicated thread for this somewhere too?

I'll pass on that discussion.

I'm here for it! Chop it up!

I love Willow's evil bob tbh. I prefer it short. She should start splashing out to the nines as befits a Senator's wife.

LMAO:

It's not that deep tbh. It's a boring job for Emma and she can move to more ambitious pursuits just like Joss has flipped through majors and occupations. They certainly don't need to kill off Robin or Patrick to give her story, nor would the show dare to do that to Robin.

Because it's true! LOL. But I do think Alexis is a character it would work for to try women later in life.

Yes. I thought Agnes and Broderick had something to do with some of that too, or maybe it was just what they inherited near the end. I thought Tom Pelphrey's brief character on ATWT had the James Stenbeck microchip in his head. Or who knows, maybe both he and Paul did. I barely watched any of the show by that point. So bad.

A woman. I agree Alexis has been seriously damaged by a lot of embarrassing shít. Julian included lol. But I think she's had an upswing of late which is decent. Would I put her in an A-tier romance at this point? No. Can she still move heavy drama (like right now) and get a decent new partner? Sure. As for Gregory: I thought the final weeks with the wistful, melancholy material Mulcahey did with the wedding, his death, Finn discovering him, etc. had some lovely stuff. But I never particularly liked the guy before that. Every time I tuned in for like 3 years he was standing around looking like George Washington and shaming Tracy or Alexis, and had little other personality. If he'd had some maybe I'd have felt different. I do credit PM and Harrison, Jane, even Easton, etc. for some solid material in that final stretch.

Hell of a day for this old fool to preempt! And yes, I think it's real too. At least part of this is on Finola for me. As I've said before, I think she came back in 2012 with Anna understandably reeling re: Robin and then Faison/Duke. But since then she has spent most of the rest of her tenure with Anna entirely too emotional about the wrong things, or about people Finola is tight with offscreen (Sonny, etc). I think she feels it shows her range and prevents Anna from being an '80s cartoon supercop, but she has nothing left to prove as an actor. I don't want or need Anna constantly on the verge of tears over everything from shooting Carlos Rivera (a hitman who she took down like so many others from the Cold War), to cutting social ties with Sonny to Valentin's latest scheme or kissing Jason in Africa. It's become rote and tiresome for Anna to burst into tears and I am behind over it. She needs more steel again.

We know why the preemptions last year happened. But you're still claiming the production company/BTG is culpable.

Oh God, I forgot that part. I do still suspect the rumors about Ron and Frank wanting to resurrect Lily as a vengeful villain in '13 were correct. The Lily mentions were fast and furious with Juan, Carlos (also related to her) and Sabrina in that period. And Lilly Melgar was close to the show again at the time IIRC. Small favors it did not happen.

I love Anders Hove but Faison should've been Dead dead after 2013. There is no universe in which I believe Robert and Anna would have let him live after what he did to Robin, let alone what he'd already done to them over the years. The Scorpios are trained professionals. They would've finished him then. I am certain Faison is still dead, but I just don't care about this storyline populated largely by dayplayers or deeply annoying or boring characters (Britt, Valentin, Brad, Nathan, etc). It eats half the show and bores me to tears.

I'm just grateful they never resurrected her. Always wanted another ghost appearance from Meredith.

I can't either, but I do remember he popped up around 2013 because he and Miguel were related to Sabrina.