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She was solid and charismatic, but neither Chavez nor SM were without their green issues onscreen. People on Twitter especially (which I don't use) get high on hype quick.

She seems to have chemistry with Chavez at first glance. They'll have to make sure she doesn't become the little woman/sidekick though. With SM Spencer was more the ingenue than Trina, the less conventionally strong or dominating partner. I think TA may be capable of that fire but we haven't been given the chance to see it yet. We don't know what she can or can't do, but she definitely can sell emotion.

I don't think there's enough evidence suggesting anything like that.

I enjoyed a lot about OLTL 2.0 and thought it was aesthetically cutting-edge and more serious in tone than it had been, as opposed to simply leaning into the tonal issues that eventually sank the Valentini/Carlivati brand at GH and later DAYS. It certainly had any number of pacing and structure issues of its own making re: the holdover storylines from ABC, but those were solvable and I thought the youth set was very strong (if overexposed). The overarching suspense plot only began to actually coalesce into something cohesive and compelling at the very end, and the way they handled Roger Howarth and Trevor St. John's limited availability (confining Todd to a hotel room for weeks) was very goofy. You can fault them for lots of things, but I think a lot of what that show did on Hulu would be the blueprint if it ever returned somehow. That being said, I think AMC 2.0 was very easily the best soap of that year, or that decade frankly. I understand they could have more easily survived launching just one, but honestly the whole operation struck me as a grift from day one. I knew what the PP guys were, but I chose to enjoy the shows for the shows for as long as they lasted. And I thought the duality of AMC and OLTL, light and dark, again was very well-redefined by pairing them up together. It's how it should still be, IMO.

I believe they also never paid a lot of the actors.

Don't hold your breath, champ.

This is what Janet said to Phylicia:

If people want to act like Sydney Mikayla's Trina was somehow commanding every scene and dominating the canvas and not at the whims of story, like when Trina was drugged and framed while the white teens had a passionate love scene, they can do that. It's not accurate, though. The character is the same windmill she has been since her inception because GH will not allow Trina to supplant other preferred characters. That hasn't changed from actor to actor. Time will tell if Ali has some of the same fire despite those restrictions, but so far I have been pleased with her work and the depth of it.

She seems very impressive to me so far. The writing isn't on her (and neither Chavez nor Mikayla, while charismatic, were exactly Olivier or Sarah Bernhardt).

Watergate II. You can't make this up.

Nice to see Chalamet with Kyle MacLachlan (the other messiah of Dune):

2/10.

For those wondering, Janet Hubert took Will's side.

This is a very candid excerpt from Tyler Christopher's interview with MB, which basically confirms a lot of the stories we've all heard re: his release from GH and then DAYS. The full interview is here: I'm impressed with TC that he's being so open about his issues which have quietly known for a long time. I wish him well and I'd welcome him back to GH someday.

Didn't Michael do a few of those?

If he'd done it to a white dude he'd be in cuffs and there'd be someone burning crosses on the Smiths' block by nightfall. I do wish someone would clock Fallon though. Rena can really bring the hammer.

Grace Randolph is someone I do not understand the prevalence of. AFAIK the only reason she has any sway in certain corners of the Internet is because she's white and blonde. That's it. I was amazed there were even more entanglement jokes last night after Laverne Cox tried it to the Smiths' faces on the red carpet at another event a couple weeks back, which I thought was incredibly tacky.

I'm not blaming Jada for what happened (and I haven't weighed in for either man, nor do I think Rock's joke was alright). I'm just commenting on what Will said after in his speech. I think the whole thing is simply a mess.

His acceptance speech pretty much made it clear that this was because of the build-up of the last several years of jokes, memes and public (and perhaps private) ridicule over him and Jada.

It was absolutely not staged.