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I imagine the only way it could've is if they'd kept a much larger and stronger younger ensemble vs. a few young players. It would've meant a substantial shift. I also very much doubt it would've survived the Les Moonves purge of female-centric sitcoms and dramas that came not long after.

Won't pass the Senate but this is good for the base and messaging, especially right now. Now all we need is the IRA:

I haven't watched it all and have only a passing familiarity with Neighbours (I'm pretty sure I used to watch it a lot during an extended trip to Australia as a child and found it baffling), but I was particularly impressed with how much they pushed Hollywood hunk Guy Pearce with his former love interest, a woman of a certain age who is still beautiful but not the starlet you would see him put with in film work (because there's always a double standard with older women vs. older men). They didn't hesitate to make those two a central storyline in the finale despite both being well over 50. That's classy. And what a great final line. Up there with Search for Tomorrow. However hokey it is that everyone on the street suddenly decided to stay on, I think that's the ending they owed the audience - I think one of the creatives said this as well in that recent special about the show someone posted, but I've always felt that serial dramas owe it to their audience, especially younger audience members who grew up watching a soap (like so many of us did), to give them a sense of comfort that that world keeps going, that it doesn't conclude or die but that it's just out there where you can't see it, with stories still going and those characters still living their lives. They did that beautifully.

Life and work has gotten in the way but I promise I'll be back at it in here! Knots is just such a deep watch at this point with a lot of note-taking; I've already gotten through an episode or two since last time, but I feel obligated to write 'em up (and will probably continue to do so through most if not all of Season 5, we'll see about Season 6, but I intend to keep going as a viewer either way). Cheers all. Go see Nope with Donna Mills, it's amazing.

I was not happy about Garrett being let go, but I thought Chad was a very decent recast initially despite being more conventionally soapy cute. But his skills have completely atrophied over a more than a decade of total dreck, and nobody takes his Michael seriously as a lead anymore. There needs to be a recast. I'd welcome Drew Garrett back today - but he notably has only worked so much since, which makes me wonder what exactly happened.

May be double-digit GOP votes for CHIPS despite McConnell and McCarthy attempting to whip against it after the Manchin doublecross. Meanwhile:

And now, as David Lynch so often says, "a woman in trouble":

Timeline clarification:

I just don't think Yang is influential enough to depress our turnout. It's going to be an uphill fight no matter what, but not because of Yang lol. As for David Hogg, those kids mean well but are doing stupid shít. Meanwhile:

It seems like they did a lovely thing. Here's an article about the finale (with SPOILERS):

It was, like a lot of that run, a year caught between Ron's best and worst impulses (and a lot of interference, I'm sure, from Frons).

2009 was a very messy year with some great highs and godawful lows. The Bo/Nora/Clint triangle was golden and I loved most of Kish and Brody/Jessica, but the Gigi/Rex/Stacy story was awful and everything with Victor/Todd (who had just come off of re-raping Marty) was despicable. I also never forgave the show killing Jared, and frankly I don't think Carlivati, massive flaws and all, did either because I think that was down to Frons wanting to re-center John. Several years later, Ron made sure Natalie's last line to Mitch was "that was for Jared."

Manchin vamps for Punchbowl, at the beginning of what I can only pray is the final Manchinology Morning of my natural life:

From past and future DW showrunner Russell T. Davies, who brought Cribbins to the show; Cribbins was returning to the show and filming for Davies' DW anniversary specials very recently. Davies also wrote for Cribbins' show for preschoolers, Old Jack's Boat, which he co-starred on with former DW alumni Freema Agyeman.

Wow. Russell got him back for next year's specials just in time - he was filming with Tennant and Tate as of the last month or two. RIP.

I told y'all Newman wouldn't last long.

Good luck with that! Meanwhile, Manchin's favorite subject is back: Himself. The report allows Manchin to cast himself in the best, most martyred and noble light possible, which is always what he wants. But as long as the bill passes, I don't care: And, like sands through the hourglass....