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As I said a few days ago, it is so nonsensical lol. I think the key is that I don't think Laura Wright takes Carly's bullshít super seriously. She doesn't ever phone it in or blow stuff off, to be clear, but while she is always committed there is a point where whenever Carly really lets loose on someone for insane reasons that LW can just do her thing and it feels lighter somehow than, say, Sarah going to town. That's not a criticism because I think LW knows exactly how to calibrate her work. She just knows that Carly has certain modes. Whereas yes, even when I found her fascinating and loved the character I also very often hated Sarah's Carly in equal measure at the same time. It could be visceral. With Laura's that happens less even when her Carly is utterly insufferable. LW is a master at riding that edge and making you laugh at it, IMO. Would I still take Sarah back? In a heartbeat, but I've always approved of the job Laura does.

Murray Bartlett (GL) is at it again. He is in the upcoming HBO adaptation of video game series The Last of Us, playing a character only mentioned in the games -

Why would much be? She had a fairly minor, strange role.

She is literally always crying! But I have never found her or Sasha interesting, among many others (and I still can't really distinguish either). Again: It's like Frank has gone out of his way to populate the show with mostly middle of the road forgettable white people and tame stories or repetitive baby/family-oriented content to focus entirely on the FB and aging red state audience and no one else.

She's a pretty girl but it is hard to quantify how little I give a fùck about Willow, her cancer or her mom. She is a nonentity and Michael is played out. When she asked why he still loved her, the correct answer was 'because you're the only woman in my life left alive.'

It's the truth! I know people love Lauren Koslow but she has had one speed and octave for at least 20 years.

Let's not say things we can't take back.

I like the promo, except I think most of the current show is so lame that a lot of the contemporary clips are cringe to me lol

Another reason this is important occurred to me while catching up on the show today: Alexis' unlikely new role as the EIC of the Port Charles Press or the Invader or whatever paper it is now has shocked me by really working out for her and NLG in the last year. It makes sense Alexis would lose her license after all the crazy shít she's gotten up to the last two decades alone tbh, and NLG shines in that sort of social crusader role. So yes, Lulu should be back. She was a adventurous journalist which was a great role for a Spencer even if it was poorly executed with Emme Rylan, and she could be working under Alexis.

What I can recall of his storylines that I have not blocked out for my own sanity I remember him always playing to the hilt. As titan said, he totally got (and embodied) the show. RIP.

Great news:

The Powerpoint slideshow must go. If they have money for a Carly/Drew location remote they have money for updating FOTH.

I was content with Jane doing her regular stints which are fairly frequent, but if they can secure her for more that's wonderful. I'll believe Rena is back when I see it. I don't think there was an unusual amount of her in there.

I agree, while I think a lot of the current Q mansion looks like a suburban McMansion showroom there are at least more homes now than there were in the mid-2010s when half the cast lived in the [!@#$%^&*] hotel like GL and now Y&R. That started, I think, with Finola allegedly insisting on a house set when she resigned six or seven years ago (and I believe they gave her the old Chandler Mansion set from AMC) but clearly the money has been freed up more and more. Twitter is definitely not real life but I think if they were focused on Twitter you'd see a very different handling of certain characters. You can't let social media dictate response, but that means all social media - not preferring to center older suburban or rural whites on FB, which seems to be the fear issue for the show and its mostly bad stories.

As you should!!

I think he has his fair share, especially in his earlier days. I loved Viki and Charlie in Texas on OLTL, and their first Christmas in his pick-up got me. Marcie holding her hostage as those two stories climaxed so well. The Buchanan Enterprises gala and Nash's death. Jessica's meltdown at his funeral, which was Bree Williamson's best work on the show. Kish's reunion at the mass gay wedding (which I loved, shut up). The big Two Todds reveal in August of 2011 where Todd revealed himself. Bo and Nora getting back together (just the whole thing). Viki's televised speech at the end of the network run. I can probably think of more. At GH he got me with the aforementioned, as well as the climax of the big water crisis in 2012 which probably saved the show from cancellation, however goofy and rushed it was. There was a real sense of exhilaration and joy among the cast which came through onscreen. I've loved my fair share of Ron's work - that's why I used to write about it for a buck when he first took over, to proselytize that OLTL was somehow, against all odds, actually good again. The problem in years since then is everything else, and his inability to evolve or deal with his weaknesses or laziness. I don't have any faith in him executing today.

I'm racking my brain but it's probably Robin's big return in 2013 on GH. The whole thing was so drawn out and so much of the surrounding story got very stupid, but as it so often is/was with Ron Carlivati you could tell he had been planning for the Big Moment above all and when it came, he did execute that at least. It was satisfying. (Then the characters stood around reciting banal dialogue in small clusters while Patrick and Robin monologued at each other, but that's another quibble.)

I've still seen very little of her work on the show after poring over a ton of EON episodes over the years (and bingeing my way through the Mansion of the Damned story most recently, now moving forward into 1980), but Sharon Gabet deserves a medal for retrieving some of these ancient eps from the mid-'70s with Maeve McGuire, Dixie Carter, Donald May, etc. I'd seen some of the Serena Faraday story of course, but the other eps dealing with the large Claude Revenant story and so on are just great. I can only hope other soap stars or personnel will keep gracing us with this rare material in future. I know some kept kinescopes or affiliate-held eps and other things from the '60s and '70s, and we've gotten more in recent years from '70s OLTL and GH than I thought possible.

It's all the truth. He still comes off like an arrested adolescent. That said, the character is still very tired and JM still has a very limited range. So you might as well park them together.

Oh, yeah. Most NY soap performers have a ton of L&O/Wolf credits over the last 30+ years. And of course Kelli Giddish just wrapped, what a decade or more on SVU.

Well, you're insane. She is the worst.

I have no problem running the race with Esme for an extended stretch with Cam or others. But if it was me, the center of that scene would be Spencer and Trina, Joss would get moved into a fluffier/more spoiled funny role with a recast, and the new long-term bitch would be... Emma Drake, the last person people expect, bamboozling Cameron and everyone else. (No, that little girl who played her would not be back. Sorry, she was terrible.) Josh Kelly should've been Lucky #4. But as it is, JJ has allegedly been willing to come back for more stints, however long or short, and they haven't offered. Which is a big mistake IMO.

Kelley is still formidable. Usually recurring stuff like this is often a precursor to a regular role, so I hope it works out for her. And say what we will about Dick Wolf but he always employs NY soap people (Alana de la Garza is on there as well, I believe).

I noticed. It looked like the exact same hospital from back in the day. I didn't know they'd done new exteriors of that location since, I don't know, the '80s. And it didn't look like a period shot.

Two GOATs: Angela gave an incredible performance in Wakanda Forever, though the whole movie was the best Marvel effort in some time.