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I have no idea why A-M was brought back without Rick Hearst. I've mentioned this before but back in 2003, when I thought OLTL was disposing of both of them, I thought Roscoe Born and Catherine Hickland had crackling chemistry and my grand plan was to have them migrate to GL to play Alan Spaulding (I couldn't stand Ron Raines as Alan, though I softened on him years later - I think Born had much more charisma) and Hope Bauer. I wanted the characters reunited as part of a scheme against Alan by Alexandra, and of course the pipe dream was to have Bev McKinsey return to that role. Never would happen.

I didn't find Harley intolerable until around Peapack and Cyrus when it was clear they were just throwing her at any hot dick around, but I wasn't watching much in the intervening period prior. I was always lukewarm at best on her and Gus (I liked her with Phillip). For all her apparent BTS antics though, it was wrong that Harley was just dropped entirely from story and discussion.

Yes, I was going to say that would have been a problem in Harley's twilight years.

Oh, my God.

I don't know why they never went back to Josh and Harley. I would have. And I thought on paper the idea of Josh and Cassie (with Laura Wright in the role) was transgressive and interesting, but given where the characters all were in story and how they'd just reunited Josh and Reva, I think it was just wrong. Especially when the show began leaning on Josh and Cassie as true love. I think Robert Newman is a tremendous actor who needs to be in more and better stuff all the time. You can see his mind working at every moment. He's still hot, too. Grant Aleksander should also be somewhere. They can make him Jeff Webber for all I care.

Okay! I care about you too much to have this argument, if you want to cut yourself off from quality programming* out of spite that is your decision and I will still like you tomorrow. (* - it's not all quality, of course; look at that Ashton Kutcher show)

Fortunately and unfortunately, neither does he.

Oh, Carl, you hate all things new and popular.

I enjoy being the only person excited about the LIS remake.

He also just called the NYT "an American jewel" at their meeting after insulting them all night. And began talking about climate change being real. Like I said - he is a narcissist with no politics of his own, the right's worst nightmare. They voted him in. All he cares about is being liked and attended to. He is still horrifying, but this can work both ways. And again: Any time he is directly confronted by the objects of his scorn, he rolls over, submits and strikes a conciliatory, often meek tone to avoid open attack on himself. It happened with Hillary, it happened with some of his primary opponents, it happened with the black pastor who called him out at a campaign stop. It's happened again here. He is a coward at heart. More details on yesterday's shitshow.

I would still hire Colleen Zenk to play Liz Webber's scheming mother on GH - a neurosurgeon or something.

More strong, decisive leadership from the ascendant head of state from Naboo: The NYT meeting is back on.

Tulsi Gabbard is also anti-gay and anti-Muslim. Sanders 2020!

Jake Tapper from CNN is outraged about this, as he should be.

Insanely, McMullin stands alone:

No, you cannot. Which means the way forward is that much more difficult. Elements of Sanders' message are not wrong, going further to the left is not wrong, populism will be necessary, but he is the wrong messenger and so is the aggrieved, smug far left which considered both Hillary and Obama 'sellouts'. We have to find a way to merge the different factions within the left. And that's hard as hell when nobody wants to admit they did anything wrong - starting with the far left which has subsisted on pride, anger and self-righteousness since the Bush years, and now likely feels more emboldened than they have since 2005. I'll be interested to see what comes out of the media conference debacle. If there's one thing media cares about more than anything else it's themselves and their egos. When they are spurned they turn on candidates, as they did on Trump with his hotel fiasco (and Hillary, uh, 25 years ago). Now that Trump has hit them again I don't see them being as submissive as they would otherwise. They will become aggrieved for themselves while posturing that it's about the American people. As long as they actually do their job I won't care.

Trump confronts the media. If Bernie thinks the way forward is to demean Hillary's candidacy publicly and dismiss 'identity politics' (a.k.a. 'issues not relevant to the older, financially secure white progressive') he and the rest of the far left have even more learning to do than the rest of us.

Sick and sad.

Both those characters you mentioned were there last season, along with Jesus.

It was a more compelling hour than I'd initially expected, with the great Richonne opening bit and the wonderful stuff with Lauren Cohan and Sonequa Martin-Green who always deliver. Jesus was also very solid. Even the kids and their tiresome twee indie teen love affair in the apocalypse (the skates were too much) brought it in their big scene, which I didn't expect from the exceptionally mediocre girl playing Enid, who I only find tolerable with Maggie. I like Carl but I usually have little time for those two together; that said, Chandler Riggs was selling the intimacy of that big moment and it was pretty real. The night sequence with the car, the music and the pack of zombies was exceptionally shot and cut, with a great showcase for Sonequa and Tom Payne - and again, TWD is utilizing a pool of underrated film and TV directors of color, including this week's director Darnell Martin. To me this stuff is what the show is best at these days, showing people working together with a common goal to defeat tough odds, whether in battle there or in building a community. That may not be cool enough for Robert Kirkman but it's what the show always seem to angle towards on its own, and it's what interests me about Maggie, Sasha and Jesus at the Hilltop. Maggie giving Gregory her full name was also great. And Carl and Jesus looks like fun.

It was a more compelling hour than I'd initially expected, with the great Richonne opening bit and the wonderful stuff with Lauren Cohan and Sonequa Martin-Green who always deliver. Jesus was also very solid. Even the kids and their tiresome twee indie teen love affair in the apocalypse (the skates were too much) brought it in their big scene, which I didn't expect from the exceptionally mediocre girl playing Enid, who I only find tolerable with Maggie. I like Carl but I usually have little time for those two together; that said, Chandler Riggs was selling the intimacy of that big moment and it was pretty real. The night sequence with the car, the music and the pack of zombies was exceptionally shot and cut, with a great showcase for Sonequa and Tom Payne - and again, TWD is utilizing a pool of underrated film and TV directors of color, including this week's director Darnell Martin. To me this stuff is what the show is best at these days, showing people working together with a common goal to defeat tough odds, whether in battle there or in building a community. That may not be cool enough for Robert Kirkman but it's what the show always seem to angle towards on its own, and it's what interests me about Maggie, Sasha and Jesus at the Hilltop. Maggie giving Gregory her full name was also great. And Carl and Jesus looks like fun.

It was a more compelling hour than I'd initially expected, with the great Richonne opening bit and the wonderful stuff with Lauren Cohan and Sonequa Martin-Green who always deliver. Jesus was also very solid. Even the kids and their tiresome twee indie teen love affair in the apocalypse (the skates were too much) brought it in their big scene, which I didn't expect from the exceptionally mediocre girl playing Enid, who I only find tolerable with Maggie. I like Carl but I usually have little time for those two together; that said, Chandler Riggs was selling the intimacy of that big moment and it was pretty real. The night sequence with the car, the music and the pack of zombies was exceptionally shot and cut, with a great showcase for Sonequa and Tom Payne - and again, TWD is utilizing a pool of underrated film and TV directors of color, including this week's director Darnell Martin. To me this stuff is what the show is best at these days, showing people working together with a common goal to defeat tough odds, whether in battle there or in building a community. That may not be cool enough for Robert Kirkman but it's what the show always seem to angle towards on its own, and it's what interests me about Maggie, Sasha and Jesus at the Hilltop. Maggie giving Gregory her full name was also great. And Carl and Jesus looks like fun.

Just when I think it's gonna be a different canvas altogether this week, they give me some solid Richonne.

We all have our SNL issues, but this is funny: Also, this sketch nails CNN/TV media.

Supposedly, according to the NYT piece I posted earlier, Trump may be freezing him out over that scandal.