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A lot of young actors on these shows learn bad habits from the scene partners they admire most or bc of personal relationships off-camera. (See: The GH youths being taught to emulate Benard or Howarth) Chandler is no different. He can be very good or he can [!@#$%^&*] around and it doesn't all come from Smith or anyone else. It's on him to be consistent.

This doesn't quite get to the bit about how Axios works hand in hand with these outfits bc it ultimately sympathizes with conservatives and comes from a breed of journos who were raised and reared in conservative think-tanks, but it's a good takedown.

Finally:

Okay! We'll see!

This is Days. "Fools" is the show's middle name. They went back and got Missy who went full COVID denier, they'll do the same with Smith. I'd love to be wrong but I've watched this show step on its dick about a hundred times and I don't know why people are always shocked and surprised when they [!@#$%^&*] up.

GH also at times looks like a CDC clean room, but yes, it does look better.

If I know Corday and Days they will continue to pursue Freddie until they get him back which, like swapping Cady McClain for Missy Reeves, is a mistake at this point IMO. But I'll be shocked if FS does not return to the role. If you want to retool this show for the streaming age leading with strong faces in key roles is the way to do it.

I didn't see this posted, so I thought I would. Jackee talks about DAYS at TV Line:

IIRC they did play it like someone was lying re: John(?) not being Greta's father. But by the time Brash and Cwikly came in she was played out.

I always liked Greta, bad stories and all. I don't expect we'll be seeing her though. I will be both surprised and unsurprised if they get through this without Kristian though. Using Gina this way is classic Ron Carlivati, which he learned from Frank V. at GH and OLTL; gamble that you can get or keep an actor, write the story anyway and then roll the dice.

He's got many sockpuppet accounts. You get used to spotting them. Some more obvious than others.

Good lord. Talk about names I never thought I'd hear again. Did they mention where Greta is?

What!! They brought up Greta??

I was finishing school in and around Baltimore in the last few years of the show as they were still filming. I had spent a fair amount of time in the city off and on as a kid, but didn't fully immerse myself in the show til a while later (though it did play on the campus TV network regularly). I still think it's probably the best long-form television series I've ever seen, only matched by Twin Peaks.

I'd forgotten he got his start as a backup dancer. I didn't know he and Latifah were so close.

Terri Conn was not that popular in the final years of ATWT, lol. The show just pushed her on the audience, same as Julie Pinson. Conn's early years were the ones where she had much audience cachet. The reason it got so much blowback was bc she and Peck were together, allegedly, sanctimonious Jesus freaks BTS.

Woof, that'd be a downgrade.

It's Belmondo and MKW for me. Two huge losses.

Chandler has given his share of bad performances and it's not all the fault of the hairy guy who's not 130 lbs. Call a cop.

It is entirely possible for Chandler Massey to do poor work and let down a storyline onscreen even if you've been staring at his nipples for the better part of 15 years. I don't miss Freddie, and I welcome the recast and think Massey should stay but he's fucked up plenty onscreen. It's not always the fault of the guy who definitely isn't a twink anymore, not that Chandler is either. People whitewash his flaws and lay it all on Smith who is admittedly a clown, but no one is impressed by just stanning him without any critical faculty.