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Ali thinks her way through her scenes and you could see it from the start. A lot of the younger actors on the show (and not just teens) don't do it the same way. Kimberly McCullough is who it reminds me of the most. There is a lot working inside there that is very fresh and new for the recast for me. I thought Sydney Mikayla was talented but green (like Chavez, particularly when he started) and frankly TA is better than both of them.

Not 3-4? Impressive! So I'm complimenting a fantastic recast as I've done since Day 1, and you have a problem with it. Got it.

Do you even know what I'm talking about? Aren't you weeks behind as usual?

I like that the cover just says 'the possession story ends, we promise!'

That would've been great. We all know she's just gonna play the piano again! I can't believe I was right about this last time when they literally brought this important long-lost original castmember back just to play some damn player piano accompaniment like a Disney animatronic at Frontiertown.

Let's focus on the real issue: That I was right about Tabyana Ali all along!

TA looks amazing. Very glad they let her hair down.

Stick a fork in Cawthorn. He's not coming back from those Venmo screenshots.

I have a real hard time believing they'd do that kind of death to that character and not someone posing as them. Spill it about 'more to come' though.

Charles Parnell, the exceedingly hot Derek Frye #2 on AMC, will be appearing in both Top Gun: Maverick next month with Tom Cruise but also in Part 1 of Cruise's upcoming two-part Mission: Impossible film, Dead Reckoning.

Bernsen got LA Law fairly soon after that appearance. He made the right choice.

Or he may back out, as he often does on big claims.

Ben is unrecognizable with the current actor and I literally cannot tell him and Callum apart most of the time. From that to this story it's failure all the way down.

Rakhee Thakrar rumors are swirling again re: the Fourteenth Doctor under RTD. I know @DRW50knows her from one of the UK soaps - I can't recall which one. But these didn't pan out on something else awhile back, so I doubt it will here. One never knows. It seems it has been corroborated a bit more, though, that Chiwetel Ejiofor was offered the Eleventh Doctor under Moffat and turned it down.

They really could/should both have died potentially en route to embarking on an affair, and that could have spurred story for multiple people as Adam tries to prove his ex and the mother of his child was deliberately murdered by Hashland Block [misspelling intentional], Sharon gets involved on her end (but not necessarily fùcking Adam again), etc. Nothing of value is lost if Chelsea dies. IMO virtually all of Sharon's non-Newman love interests in the last 10 years or so are immaterial. They come and go with little trace or impact, because the show isn't committed to Sharon with or about anyone but Nick or to a lesser extent Adam. Meanwhile Nick continues to trundle around the sets looking like an ex-football player at a gridiron bash and sleeping with whoever while Sharon just sort of is relegated to the forever tease. It's a waste. If it was up to me I'd just cement her with one of the two brothers, Nick or Adam, leave it there and move forward. I personally don't really like Nick or want them back together, but it's clear the show will never give up the tease. So why not just fulfill it and end this? With certain couples, it's a waste of time, resources and ability, and diminishing returns, to not just enmesh them for good and work from there. Nick and Sharon are by no means comparable to Mac and Rachel on AW, but that show knew when they had something that they'd only diminish further by doing stupid shít. How many more random people can either of them fùck? How many more times can you play the reunion beat? Just put them back together and go from that point, and start refocusing major story on their adult children instead of them. Frankly it'd be a bit refreshing just to see them happy together in secondary canvas roles, as opposed to the dumb bullshit we've been expected to be entertained by frontburner for years.

Same. I grew up around tech people.

I never had a Twitter, and I never will.

Musk taking Twitter is awful news, among many chief reasons being it is almost certain Trump will be allowed back on, as goat man Dorsey retreats further into his ayahuasca vision quests rambling into the abyss about how he can 'prove' CNN engineered chaos in Ferguson. That being said, I think it is ultimately transitory. Musk has the attention span of milk. He will get bored, break Twitter somehow and walk away in due course. It's not as if we don't have enough horrible shīt to deal with which is much more taxing.

A lovely cover, if nothing else. I am amused the Ace shot is clearly just derived from a well-known screencap from the Blu-Ray promotional skit.

She comes off utterly insane, and maybe someone realized they already have 50 characters.

I liked Beanie Feldstein in Booksmart, but everyone involved in this should've known better. Mound of salt, given the source:

Exactly. Just because it's on Twitter doesn't make it real.

Is it me or does she sound dramatically different IRL? Much higher voice, much more relatable than the post-'80s Hope who is the stormy ice queen. It's lovely, it's just so different.

In which CNN mourns the death of CNN+, with no small amount of ego protection and confirmation bias:

I still can't believe "Jake Tapper's Book Club" was an actual CNN+ show.