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Meanwhile:

Putting aside the amazing new streaming infrastructure, this sort of stuff is always where the European, etc. soaps put what's left of the US ones to shame. GH won't be introducing a multiracial family let alone visible LGBT parents any time this decade.

Literally two posts above you.

What an incredible character actor, what an incredible presence in so many things. RIP.

Never knew Don Briscoe was on Days.

Nice:

Meanwhile:

@DRW50 @Faulkner Ncuti Gatwa and Bonnie:

I still can't believe they let Donna go and tried to pair up Ray and Jenna.

Descent? I feel like Cliff has been little more than a cross between an Andy Griffith Show character and an anime pervert since at least the fourth or fifth season. Granted I've been bingeing and skipping around a lot.

Threads (not the BBC miniseries):

I can't see Michael Malone at Y&R or understanding the show. It was its own very rarefied world. I also am not sure how Gottlieb's modernist approach would've jelled with that same deeply insular house style and tone. Gottlieb and Malone with OLTL were simply a perfect marriage of materials.

He's very well loved by most and for very valid reasons, but there's some pretty interesting stories about Frank's handling of certain folks at OLTL and GH. When he freezes someone out or wants to placate them he'll allegedly say a lot and do something else. I think he can be a control freak, but he's never treated his shows with contempt in the way I feel Goutman did near the end. (The audience is another story) But yes, I do think Martha would never have left. I've said before the vibes with her and Goutman are very strange and make me think there is a huge story there that's just barely never been told. I have never gotten vibes like that off FV with anyone, ever.

Thanks! Never seen much of this period.

Unlikely. I do not think this was a Putin op because he wouldn't expose himself like this.

Pretty sure it's the same editor who's done so many incredible pieces like that over the years.

Another great from so many things.

For the love of God:

If you want to finish S1 of Prodigy (and I do), do it now - it's allegedly leaving Paramount as soon as Monday. According to The Wrap it was actually one of their higher rated shows. This is another streamer crash and fire sale.

Thanks - shame they couldn't get Behrens back over the years.

I had no idea on that one. How long was he gone in '88?

Also, sorry to spam people: What exactly went down with Jake Meyer's exit? It seems like Sam Behrens may have gone for a long stretch of 1988 before he finally exited, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. He's so good with Jackie, it's too bad.