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Viki and Dorian also got locked in coffins in an abandoned church on OLTL '03, IIRC. Featuring a cameo appearance by The City serial killer Melissa Dye.

That Hadley Prescott deal (where she, like, got DID?) was some weird [!@#$%^&*]. I watched some of Malone's AW on YT and it bears a striking resemblance to his 2003-2004 OLTL - embarrassingly campy, fantastical, and all over the map tonally with poor writing to back up the broad flights of fancy. It did seem like they were testing Jake and that doomed Amanda at the time.

Remember to use archive.is for paywalled articles like the above (and always remove the dangling twitter linkage from the end of the main URL when copying and pasting it in).

I remember seeing some very early scenes with the young Christie and Drake in those days. They had a real connection.

We'll see.

Posted it above.

This has been an interesting day so far. Manchin went out on the Sunday shows to do his typical pageantry, and instead got pressed by more than one major anchor about specifics he didn't have re: the bill. Manchin doesn't usually get that pushback treatment in the gaggles on the Hill when the Capitol correspondents fawn over him like Prom King. I think the wind is not at his back atm, given some of the behavior of late from the WH (and Pelosi). I think he's going to have a tougher time doing his dance this month.

I don't agree because I don't think that's how he generally operates, unlike a lot of other folks. He's been pretty supportive of Biden from the jump. I do think he recircles the same topic and notes often, at times without offering a viable solution. Sometimes he's right but sometimes he's just retreading old ground.

I think any pairing with her and Nick was always a placeholder for both parties. I don't think most regimes are invested in it or were, but I do think Griffith and several others are loath to relinquish the ABC stars and the dream of the mediocre clone of ABCD which they want the show to be dating back almost a decade now.

Chelsea has never had much of a character and should've stayed gone years ago.

What happened to Chelsea? Is she gone again, finally?

The public response to Biden's speech and initiatives has been majority positive, as has much of the media. But only so far. Corporate media value aggression and bold moves from conservative politicians because they have been conditioned to view Republicans as the stern father-leaders of the true America, and Democrats and progressives/liberals the effete cosmopolitan usurpers whose identifying marks they must constantly strive to shed themselves, by overcorrecting through bad faith critique and false equivalencies. When Democrats make aggressive moves like these, they are attacked relentlessly. That's what you saw on Afghanistan withdrawal, that's what you're seeing from folks like Jake Tapper and WH Press Corps doyenne Zeke Miller, and that's why they persistently demanded (via interrogating the question) Biden promise not to pack the Supreme Court during last year's campaign - which he didn't do. You can expect much more of this if he continues.

This is part of what we had with AMC and OLTL on Hulu, and it's still the future of the genre, medium-wise at least, if it chooses to have a future. BS may not be genius but it's different, at least.

One thing (among many, IMO) that the Snyder/McPherson regime got right is that they should be around as part of the firmament, at least Carrie should. Are they the most exciting characters on Earth - no. But Christie Clark is one of those soap lifer kids who, like Kimberly McCullough or Erin Torpey at OLTL, has a sense of history and a long memory with the audience and a kind of quiet integrity that precedes her and makes her innately believable and sympathetic. Making her a lawyer was smart, whereas it doesn't work at all with Belle who still seems older than most of the cast. Carrie can do a lot on the show.

Is Tripp wearing a Halloween costume a month early? He looks like a kid playing dress-up as a doctor.

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.