Vee

She appears to be happily married with a sculptor daughter in Arizona. I'd kill to have seen Lorraine again on AMC 2.0, preferably reunited with Charles. (side note: Do not ask me about the teen scene Halloween trip to the ghost town of Corinth I'd write if I had an ABC soap revival to myself.)

Rush also apparently had a recurring role as a doctor on PC in '98 - I do not remember that at all and would love to see it.

One of the greatest scenes of the LM: Ava's monologue to Alex (timestamped below). I don't know if this is her last day or not; I hope not, as I feel the reasons for her to end the marriage entirely vs. leaving town are still too thin. I don't know how they'll transition from this to Alex and Jocelyn.

Also, from the climax, which I feels bears out my theory on the killer, along with other recent pieces including one in the above with Neal Warren - they know but have mentally distanced it; it's not DID or blackouts, they've always clearly known it is them, but the lines are psychotically blurred. The killer never, ever speaks or mentally identifies as "Trisha". Trisha is just a mechanism.

Some great stuff with Angie and Lorraine, too. Frontburner black story!

Why on Earth do these young gay men have a preteen child? Only to desexualize them. Oldest trick in the new book.

This... seems like the rantings of a crazy person. This seems like some fetish fantasy this guy wrote up.

We've been talking about it a lot lately in several threads, including this one and the Loving one. The black canvas and its central force in story on LOV '95 is consistently amazing to me, even more now than when I was watching as a kid bc on today's soaps, 25 years later, it'd never happen. I just wish we could see Elise Neal's character, a young schemer who I don't remember and who was killed off as a rushed rewrite in '94.

Geoffrey Ewing is absolutely wonderful in the later episodes of the Loving Murders playlist with Maggie Rush as Lorraine. (I Googled her BTW, she's still beautiful) I know they brought Lorraine onto The City and gave her a cool pairing with Roscoe Born and said she and Charles broke up bc he was on the rebound, but I like to think they're back together.

I'm glad Jesse seems to be doing well. He looks better recently. He was always the only J.R. I really liked, though I grew to accept Jacob Young and Ryan Bittle. JY's stories just sucked (though unf, his recent IG is hot).

Come on!!!!!! No!!!!!

Making my way through the curtailed S4 - it only got half its season completed (plus tonight's animated episode, previewed above) due to the pandemic. Max being back is lovely, though I keep expecting a shoe to drop in his and Penelope's renewed romance. The pregnancy news for

is intriguing.

I wonder if Alex's hair is due to another role Marcel Ruiz took before filming - it seems to be lasting past Halloween.

He's just the best. So hot, too.

Laurie Heineman can be seen as Sharlene in the mid-70s episodes from Eddie Drueding that ended up on YT a few years ago. I don't know if they're still there, but I DLed them long ago.

What happened with Hicks?

Just ban permanently.

Liz fans love her having a man valued by the EP and getting airtime. That's it. Some of those folks would be down for her with Sonny or the Emperor from Star Wars if it kept Becky employed and on 3 days a week. They cape for Franco bc it's airtime and prominence, their feelings mean nothing to me in this instance.

1 hour ago, Darn said:

You're great! You're all great! I really enjoyed that entire podcast. I've wanted to do a soap podcast but my one friend who watches soaps won't do it with me (he knows who he is).

You're goddamn right I won't. These people have long memories!

7 hours ago, Darn said:

Imma answer for myself and @Vee: No.

Word.

5 hours ago, Taoboi said:

I want to put out Dan O' Connor as an example from GH. I think by this point it is clearer what is Frank with 'the pets' and the things that Dan like (for example, he likes Obrecht and tries to write her as he can a la DAYS Stefano back in the 90s with his comings and goings)  

I don't care about more Obrecht, I had enough of her years ago. The show sucks. Dan O'Connor seems like a lovely and talented guy but there's so much interference and bullshit from the EP to the network and back. What is the point of putting your name on what is mostly bad schlock in a near dead industry? Until and unless there's a better space and commitment to serialized drama off the networks I don't see what there is to discuss.

@DRW50 - check this out. These run for a week.

@marceline we're waiting for you on Rampgate!

That was a weird [!@#$%^&*] period. The show was so dark, the Ciara rape so unnecessary and ruinous, and then they got a major genre film actor (Tobin Bell from the Saw flicks) to come in and redo John's backstory yet again. All very Griffith IMO, and not his best. He should've been fired for the Chase/Ciara story alone.

I will say the scene where Hope executes Stefano was very well-produced and cut. (And I think her killing him - especially after what he said to her - was appropriate.)

LM 67-68: 

The reactions to Jeremy’s death are gutting, particularly Ava and Angie, who knew him best. Randolph Mantooth is heartbreaking as he struggles to bridge the gap with Ava - you can see why this might be her final straw. They’re such a good couple, I wish we could see them together again once more.

Jeremy was always a lovely presence for me even when forced, so dashing and gentle. The deep callbacks to his AMC history with Angie don’t end there - Gwyneth says at the end of the episode that she got a call from Erica Kane about it!

The convo between Jocelyn and Ally about her rape accusation is very good and very educational even for today, but unfortunately it illustrates the mistake of doing this unseemly subplot at all.

The Charles/Lorraine stuff, with him so vulnerable and broken and her strong instead, is lovely. Her passion makes Geoffrey Ewing soulful. I liked her humming their song as he slept.

Jesse as the spectral hitchhiker counseling Jacob sounds like an Agnes thing to me, but who knows. (She had to be behind Williams’ return.) I wish we could see it. Did Jacob arrive in February or March? Charles says Angie made him wait three months for her to marry him, and by July they were newlyweds.

I still don’t know how to read some of the killer’s reactions in recent episodes prior to Jeremy. And I’m still surprised they left Trisha like this unless they intended to lure her to TC.

LM: The cave in with Ally’s kid and Danny is a full on Event that def feels like Linda Gottlieb who was apparently involved in '95. It is redolent of her Al/CJ down a well anniversary episode on OLTL in 1993, it has most of the cast on the scene just like OLTL, and there is a whole show-y film element with Frankie’s microphone picking up Danny's voice blasted to the entire town. An excellent setpiece which leads into the pretty racy Jacob/Angie lovemaking, and Jeremy's epiphany. 

I don't, but I'd heard a bit recently. Awful.

Malone was on by end of August, I know that much. Jason Webb turned up then.

This is Joey Thrower as Kevin.

Malone and Gottlieb kept the Larry/Viki relationship and his closeness to the family; Viki calls him "Uncle Larry" to Joey. Michael Storm's last appearance, a recurring stint in 2004 during Malone's heart transplant story for Viki, kept that. I always appreciated that.