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Not all of us are watching live so some context helps.

They'll change your life!

The GOAT.

Sure, you're entitled to that. The problem is I see a lot of other people saying the same thing and acting like it's known fact. It ain't.

The Conners has carried the torch very well for the original show at least, even if I am multiple seasons behind. I've been very happy with what I've watched. I absolutely loved the Luke/Laura visit on Roseanne. I watched both shows at the time and lost my mind.

Justin Hartley? Who literally came back to soaps for a multi-year contract after making it in primetime when money got tight, before landing This is Us? Again, cite sources beyond 'I just don't like him'.

I can't take him seriously after what happened to him in the Why Did I Get Married movies lol, I'm sorry. I'll always think of those camp classics.

How many times did Michael Nader come back (not counting his eventual triumphant Prospect Park return)? Tyler to DAYS, despite the drama when he last left GH? Missy Reeves after the huge rift with Corday and lawsuit publicly dragging her name through the mud? And then there's Steve Burton, who was never blackballed for the Monavie pyramid scheme or for refusing to be vaccinated. I can name more and possibly a few as bad as Nader or Pullos. I won't be surprised if she returns someday is all. Daytime is like that.

I would point out that as usual with Elizabeth Korte, nothing actually attributes that quote to her. I've been seeing people coast on vibes about this woman for over 20 years.

Peter Parros was the most boring actor alive to me, I'll pass.

I wouldn't be so sure. Soap stars have done worse and come back when the affection is there among cast and crew (and audience). It may be a long time but it won't shock me.

I am never going to catch up on this show but I promise I will keep trying, lol.

Twin Peaks Season 2 (the scheduling, not the content which is a whole other topic). 'Nuff said.

I like Taggert and would like him to have more of a role in things and play the romantic tension with his ex, but I'd probably bring Justus back from the dead in Witness Protection to shore up the Quartermaines as another patriarch, help restart the Wards, etc. and play Portia with him. It can be Joe Phillips (who I had such a crush on from both GH and Cosby, politics aside and who is only now beginning to barely show his age) or a younger, hotter model who is not Mfundo Morrison, I don't care!

Bye, Esme! Avery Pohl is very talented but they played the character out for a year wasting her on trifles trying to half-ass a redemption arc. Esme is a fine villain and can come and go, she does not need a contract or to be defanged.

No, I agree. I think the media doesn't want to admit that because a) they're bored of Biden/resent Democrats in general, b) most of them are covered re: birth control and don't care about the issue, especially in newsrooms or networks dominated by male department heads, and c) they just can't conceive of any issue sticking with the public longer than one news or election cycle because their own minds don't operate like that. But it's been a couple elections now. It's not going away. And I don't think it's going to go away until something is done.

Every few years since at least 2012 the GOP tries to drum up a new border crisis and the media always carries the water until that line fails at the ballot box. Very little introspection ever follows. The media ecosystem has changed for the worse since '12 and there is more penetration in some segments of the public than before, but I'm not convinced any of it will matter very much in the final calculus come November.

Facebook jokes?

"Centrist" media startup The Messenger, plagued by layoffs and BTS drama for months, has collapsed with almost zero warning to staff and no severance along with the entire website nuked. Thread: A gossipy Puck piece full of commentary from Puck and Axios staff (both as equally vapid as The Messenger) unfolds here (archived to bypass paywall). In more startling news, I did not know that Jeff Zucker, perpetually eager for a comeback, is attempting to buy the Daily Telegraph in the UK with Saudi money which he hotly insists will not bias his coverage.

Exactly. I'd be shocked if they recast Chavez immediately. They're going to wait a bit a la JJ at the very least.

It wasn't a complaint.

The Carly thing always seems like the chicken and the egg. But honestly it seems both simple to me and slightly more nuanced than people sometimes prefer. Labine's team, it seems, created the character sketch for Carly - long-lost daughter of Bobbie, probably out to make trouble (and possibly the affair with Tony was already on the table, but I have no idea). They intro'ed her onscreen in Labine's last days. But it was Guza and co. who fleshed out Carly and made her what she became. Simple as that.

Not a description you hear often regarding a long-running set.