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When they first brought the Nurses Ball back Epiphany, Monica and Tracy stood around singing the Pointer Sisters or something in what looked for all the world like matching sequined caftans. I don't think they've failed to embrace camp lol. I just think the budget and sometimes the taste falls way off. But I still wouldn't give up the NB. I would just stop the dumb fuckin' "welcome to the Nurses Ball" opener which is cornier every year. I don't remember that being a thing in the '90s but I could be wrong. Meanwhile, Jane:

The NB has always been OTT and often cringe but I don't mind it. It's a perfect venue for plot and umbrella stories, I was fine with that in the '90s and still am. The issue in recent years is the execution; they simply do not have the budget to do what they used to and instead you regularly end up with sub-middle school talent show numbers like the random stilted bits with the nurses singing and dancing and marching in place under unforgiving lights that look cheap. You don't get, say, Dara and co. doing a most atmospheric Fosse number like you did back in the day, and they often have less access to copyrighted songs or you get random pop numbers that have nothing to do with anything (Meghan Trainor, etc). I would never want to lose the Nurses Ball though, to me it's a great story venue and part of the heart of the show. Cringe and all. I do think it's improved since some of the the truly gruesome lowlights of 2013-2014 (and the 2013 Ball also had some great stuff amidst the ugly), but I reserve the right to take that back when I see more of this week!

I've always found Lemon fun but clearly unstable. I can tolerate him in doses but it's no secret he puts his foot in it constantly. Sadly these stories are far worse and don't really surprise me.

Lord. Good luck with that.

This is how the Nurses Ball has been for a decade tbh. At this point I just go with it.

It was always outsize with reality. Carly, Jason and later Sonny would whine incessantly about the evils of the Qs but anyone watching longer than 3 minutes in those years saw a boisterous, often comedy-oriented rich family that just bickered a lot. You were not dealing with Victor Lord or even Victor Newman.

Even for proudly non-voting/opinion-having '80s Republican Peter Baker and Michael Shear (who once hid in a close family friend's bushes for a story) this is a strange premise.

They will definitely attempt this. Fortunately, what I'm hearing is they don't have the numbers in local government to make that stick. Starting with the governor. Everyone in the line of succession is a Dem.

I remember a person elsewhere who was absolutely obsessed with Gerald Hopkins' brief run as A.J. and insisted he be put forth as a Todd recast on OLTL in the early 2000s. I've barely ever seen him.

I said it last year and I'll say it now: This won't stop here. The backlash that still matters is Roe. And it's going to keep happening into next year. The indictment is poison too, but not for us.

Ron has been plotting that way since his and Frank Valentini's budget-conscious storytelling methods at OLTL and GH that plotted and scheduled according to guarantees. Sometimes it worked. Later on, at both shows, it didn't.

If he tries to run while on trial (and I'm still not convinced he will) it will be the shitshow of our times, and that's saying something. You'd get to watch a GOP general campaign implode in record time in a way that I can safely say has never happened. And I don't think either the GOP or the media has adequately begun to admit to themselves just how intensely toxic he is to the general public, how he has shed more voters each cycle, and how yes, all of this is having and has had an impact. There are several reasons the media has clung to DeSantis, to Youngkin, etc. for the next cycle, but they are easily dazzled by the live shot, and still not prepared for just how colossally doomed Trump is as a candidate if he tries to run IMO. Meanwhile:

This is not going to be easy to walk away from.

Oh yeah.

This article's very informative re: certain elements of the current BTS process. idk Frank. A lot of this is understandable, but @Darn and I were just saying the show now has a major youth traffic jam due to too many fuckin' kids and not enough care taken in recent years. I lost my mind to realize Aiden is now almost a teenager with teens Rocco, Danny, stupid-ass Charlotte, Jake, etc. and they're all banging up against the current frontburner youth set. Not to mention 5-6 kids just born or rising in age by the day (Donna, etc).

Oh, that's great. I'm happy for Kim. The play is a new one on me.

It's not a question of a select group of viewer opinions about whether CBS is liberal or conservative enough. Their opinions aren't what's relevant. What's relevant is CBS staff testimonial and media study over the policy skew at the network over the last decade or two. You can look that stuff up yourself, it's all well-documented. In other news from the "For the love of God" Department:

Ncuti featured in promotion for Barbie.

Llanview's own Scott Evans (Fish, OLTL) is featuring in the new Greta Gerwig Barbie film starring Margot Robbie.