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I'd be here for it at least once before Nina exits, maybe as a final fúck you to her ungrateful daughter.

I think there is a lot of softness and tenderness there with the right person, albeit still intense. He's shown some with Jacinda even if I don't care about her, and Sasha. But what I think he needs right now is another strong, equally intense female partner who can match him. Which is why I thought of a driven female surgeon or someone else. Serena Baldwin is always on the table too, but I wouldn't make her that kind of hard-driving character (though she would be a philanthropist and probably involved with her mother's business). He does have chemistry with Katelyn MacMullen, but that relationship should never be sweet and purely romantic again.

Rory's performance is a very specific choice and I think it works for him. But he also showed real emotion, tears of pain and rage with Willow last summer and then real softness with Jason, Tracy, etc. in the fall.

There are elements of both. But he has always gravitated to the Q side of things as an adult. It's just got a much darker edge than most fans of the Qs are used to since, well, the very early '80s tbh. When Alan and Monica were at their most conniving and dangerous.

I absolutely hate this stuff with doddering, weak, soon to be brainwashed Anna. I love Anna and Finola but I've made my issues with her choices in the last decade clear. I am sure she loves this material in order to plumb the emotional depths and show her range, but it makes the character look terrible. And it's likely to go on for months and months. Anna has needed to lock in and be a boss for years. The closest she came, during the Mulcahey interregnum, she still managed to weep her way through the farewell scenes with Sonny. I believe Anna can be strong again, but we're sure not there now.

Rory Gibson had Mo back on his heels in those scenes with Michael angry and drinking post-verdict. It reminded me of the way Mo (or Sarah Brown, or Vanessa at times) used to destabilize some people BITD. The deeper seed here, of course, is that Michael hates Willow but clearly also still wants her, which can make this all that much more twisted. They have been wise to highlight the renewed distance between Sonny and the scheming, volatile new Michael since the recast, and it's only increased as he began actively plotting against Willow who Sonny believes is innocent. Bringing back A.J. (as a secret weapon for the family, against Drew but possibly also with his own agenda) would only enhance this further, but we can't have that when James Patrick Stuart needs a permanent home.

There's no need to make her a serial killer. She has a least a couple years of more varied villainy left in her.

This story is absolutely going to play through at least May. We'll be lucky if it ends before November. It's endlessly tedious.

Spot the difference.

Carlton's beard continues to grow, menacingly. I still kind of miss the Ted/June angle but I am not hating Ted and Shanice. Though it is moving quick.

Her career has never been that rough tbh. At least not in the last 5 years or more. The Dropout was a huge hit for her (and she was very good in it), Ann Lee is a major critical darling and while she is not at MBJ's level of stardom and likely won't be, The Housemaid has also been a sleeper success this month. (Which the struggling Sydney Sweeney needed much more than Seyfried - Seyfried does not really aim for being an A-List movie star like Sweeney does.) Point being, she's had a very solid career in a lot of both major TV and strong film. I suspect both Housemaid and Ann Lee will now up her profile further.

The issue is that he does and his only purpose in life is to make the board react. It's just boring lol. And diminishing returns in recent years. Sad last days.

I have no problem with Greg Rikaart. I don't watch enough DAYS in 2026 to care that much about Leo but he's always been polarizing at best for their audience.

I do not care about bringing back Kai's dayplayer friend. Just find someone else.

Dude has only 2 purposes on this board. 1) Telling you ad nauseam that he has famous daytime friends, for real and 2) "subtly" baiting for negative engagement via his flopsweat compliments of SON's anti-favorites at every possible opportunity. Did you know how brilliant JFP is? How amazing Carlivati is? I met them at a party and they laughed at my jokes. Don't you know how fantastic and fun Leo is every day? SON just doesn't understand the real audience. Believe what you want!! I've had him on block for years but it cracks me up any time I stumble across something like this and it is always the same 3-4 talking points. Once people stop biting he'll move on to defending McTavish or Stephen Miller or something. Gotta get the clicks!!

This show drags its heels on a lot of stuff. In a less lazy regime I would give him less than 3.

I don't think Willow is going anywhere. But I will be shocked if Kai is still on this show in 9 months.

He's recurring. With that boring beanpole it is a matter of time before he vanishes. I'd cut him tomorrow.

Naomi has consistently been wound too tight about one drama after another for the last year. She's gonna spin out sooner or later. In a smarter setup, she would spin right towards her brother-in-law. I like Eva and Izaiah together, but all they do rn is talk about how amazing the other is which is rapidly approaching becoming as boring as Jacob and Naomi were around May of last year. Lami is talented and has charisma, but he's green and sometimes delivers his line like he's going door to door selling chocolate bars for the school trip. Eva/Izaiah should be into some serious GH '96-style boot-knocking, with Izaiah being less of just a much hotter nice guy. If he had an affair with his brother's wife it would not be endgame, just an obstacle for him or Eva/Kat down the road. Failing that, let crazy Naomi fúck her BFF's new man (Jordi). I'm not picky!

Honestly I'm still mentally stuck back with Giovanni Mazza prancing around in tight little black boxer briefs on Friday's show. I'm not gonna lie to you people. They didn't have to do me like that.

SMG clearly doesn't need to work, despite a string of post-Buffy flops. But right now she is preoccupied with the high-profile Buffy revival with Chloe Zhao. (I am not at all convinced that show will work, but the point is she's busy) Before that revival got off the ground, SMG was clearly in the mix to do the proposed AMC revival on ABC primetime. I think if that had gone ahead you would've seen her reprise and star as Kendall alongside Kelly, etc. Susan or no Susan. She would've done a make nice press tour settling the old rumors. But I think it's pretty unlikely Sarah would star in a Lifetime movie. Whatever her hits or misses she is still seen as above that tier. I think the best you can expect there is maybe her doing a cameo as Kendall in one of them (or one similar to her appearance in 2011) as a favor to Kelly and others in the cast who she is still devoted to. Meanwhile I think it is highly unlikely you would ever see MBJ or Seyfried even cameo on a Lifetime movie lol. But I wouldn't hate it.

@DRW50 I know you were looking into the show. Monday's recap special/interview show for MLK Day might be for you. It is clearly geared to grow their new audience.

First some stylish lighting, then Ted and Shanice get it on, now Derek is giving stalker and Chelsea is on some stuff. And miracle of miracles, a) Ashley has real spark and chemistry with a human male (Jordi Vilasuso) and b) the boring Hawthornes finally have another room in their home! The show is shaping up nicely this year so far.

I just think Lifetime and their movie franchises is a much better fit than trying to compete with the primetime sweat grind these days.

There's a bit more detail in the article which makes it sound like it's actually a thing happening now. It beats the radio silence on these for however long. Susan also hinted at it recently in her Soapy interview with Budig. As long as they're not using that real ropey 'dark' ABC primetime pitch from a few years ago, I am open to this project. Network primetime dramas today do not understand pacing or character anymore. They are running scared re: streaming and race through story to try to keep eyes.