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Trending this morning: "SIGN THE BILL". Trump is holding the bag.

LAT reporter goes all in on bothsides-ing the covid relief fight and, fortunately, gets ratio'ed to the hills and back. These are her (poor) attempts at rationalization, also ratioed: Meanwhile:

More WandaVision: That's Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, and the incredible Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness.

I'd never seen this - a memorial to Lis Sladen from the Smith era.

Virtually all of those guys are being clowned on social media on the regular these days. They speak to an ever-shrinking constituency.

GOP water-carrier Jake Sherman's thread (click through) on this is instructive - I can't stand him but he has a good feel for these things, generally: Like him, I can't see the Dems getting the $2K checks right now despite them seizing on it when Trump mentions it - Schumer, Pelosi, AOC, etc. all said 'sure, let's do it!' But I doubt that can happen atm. What can happen is the GOP can lose Georgia over this because Trump is purely and simply out for revenge against McConnell and co. Another thread:

I think you can train an audience's attention span just as streaming or premium cable shows have. It's a question of molding the beast, not just feeding it anything in desperation or only hunting for 16 year olds.

Shari Headley (AMC) returns in Coming 2 America with Eddie Murphy, reprising her role as his love interest turned queen. (Yes, she's in the trailer.)

The pacing is what concerns me more tbh. I've watched primetime soaps in the last decade-plus - most of them are super-choppy, breathless on plot and character points to get to the end of the 40-45 minute block. If they're not on streaming services they're almost all like that unless (and sometimes even if they are) prestige dramas. You look at the attempts at updating Melrose or 90210 for example - both breathless, super-choppy in cutting and pacing.

I just think most modern primetime soaps these days are either very overly campy, very poorly paced and thought out or both. They're ashamed to be what they are and be substantive. We'll see how this goes - I am cautiously hopeful.

I always thought it would be interesting to try to bring Cathy back - I know they remodeled her into the model of playing a 'modern feminist' as an adult, vs. Catherine Burns who I guess was the original and a wallflower, or Amy Levitt the damaged young addict. Said it before, but Burns was incredible in Last Summer. I've never gotten to see Kavanaugh or Harmon as the adult Cathy and I'd like to. Years ago, when Michael Malone brought on Daniel Colson and his son Riley, and Riley rather randomly announced that he was named for crusading reporter Joe Riley who his mother had known and admired, I sometimes wondered if they were trying to imply Riley's mother was Cathy Craig.

I would hope they'd give Julia Barr a cameo at some point with Brooke as Adam's widow. I don't expect to see everyone in key roles when you're reinventing a daytime soap for primetime (the mind still boggles at the logistical dangers tbqh), but I do think you can make those little allowances. Nader, I'm not sure ABC would've ever brought him back but PP did and he was wonderful in 2013. I would kill to see Dimitri once more, but it's a question of a) whether the network would allow it and b) if anyone involved gives a solitary shít. They need to run Debbi her dollars and have her there on a regular basis. I don't care about what's practical or realistic with primetime in that case. But she did just have an extended run on Power.

@DRW50

I don't think any of those people run the conversation in serious progressive circles these days. But other very annoying people sometimes do.