Broderick

Miss Nicole is perfect ... You nailed it; she's distant and kinda cold, but she's so pretty and so engaging that you can't help being drawn in.

If I were getting something delivered from Dooky Chase, I'd get the pompano or the veal panne -- not that damn ole gumbo. Winterfest hit all the right marks for me -- it's like those countless parties we ALL attend in early December -- overhyped during the planning, and then it's just a basic party where somebody gets drunk off their ass [in this case, Vanessa]. From a dramatic standpoint, I thought it served its purpose -- it highlighted Kat's isolation from her childhood & from the people she's loved all her life; it gave Leslie another chance to torment Laura & Mona; it showcased Bill's nostalgia for Dani Dupree & her family; it struck a note of jealousy in Theodore when he saw Beautiful enter the club with her new beau; and it started Beautiful's "healing process" from all the hurt she's felt since learning of Ted's betrayal. And best of all, it caused Drab Ashley to leave in an even more MOROSE mood than usual. My only complaint is that the writers seem to think we're as DUMB as Leslie about Vernon's meetings with Sharon. I thought it was clever to create a situation where Leslie gets the wrong idea and can potentially make a fool of herself, but the writers seem to think we're all as stupid as Leslie about a series of voice lessons. Hopefully, we ain't. One thing the writers have done well is consistently show us the kind of person Senator Dupree is. No sense in trying to trick US into thinking he's suddenly changed.

Having adult kids is the most interesting thing I see about him. Maybe Kat can trade-in that dud she's stuck with for one of Dr. Rollins's kids, lol.

I imagine the writers considered dramatizing the scene involving Madison, Chelsea, and Willow but decided it could easily backfire from a medical perspective. Either Willow would've had to go WAY over the top with her observations, or else her commentary would've come across to many viewers as completely reasonable, especially with Chelsea sitting there smiling & encouraging her, while Madison frowned in frustration. The end result, unless Willow was presented as TOTALLY bizarre, would've appeared that Michele Val Jean supported the position that a "smile and a crystal" are more effective than an antibiotic in clearing up an infection, and I don't believe that's the impression BTG hoped to give. In this case, it was probably better for everyone to discuss it afterwards to highlight that Willow is down in an internet rabbit hole, and Chelsea was encouraging it. As Anita said today, "I thought Aunt Melba was completely normal and fine in the brief amount of time I spent with her, but I realized Vernon and his mother had FAR more experience with her than I did."

I had nothing against Maurice Johnson, but I'm crazy about Keith D. Robinson. I believe he came along at a difficult time -- "after the damage to Ted had already been done", so to speak --- but I can't imagine anyone else in the role now.

Not at all. The entire storyline with Victor & Nikki wouldn't have happened with Erica Hope, lol. There was an undeniable chemistry in Braeden's "Dracula" character playing opposite Melody's "I-just-need-to-be loved" dingbat stripper/cultist/lingerie model. It wouldn't have flown with Erica Hope's more conniving, manipulative version of Nikki. The Nikki character's motivations softened, and she became someone we were (usually) rooting for when Miss Thomas took over in 1979.

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Gosh, I had no idea those two "actresses" were actually "TV people" until I came to the board. I assumed they were a pair of ghouls who'd auditioned for the role of June last summer, got passed over, and someone pulled out their headshots from a file folder and said, "Get these two on the phone & ask them to play the country club hags on December 1st."

Melody Thomas as Nikki Reed on Y&R was completely different from Erica Hope. Erica Hope always seemed grouchy, angry, and casually whorish, while Melody Thomas debuted as more of a smiling, airheaded dingbat who could be easily convinced to do anything, no matter how lurid it was. I felt like the audience warmed up to her immediately. (Though I still think of her as the New Nikki, lol.)

Same here. I can tell the difference in the dialogue writers. I can also tell some difference in the directors. For me, what distinguishes a "good episode" from a "lousy episode" is (a) what material the headwriting team gave the breakdown writer to work with, (b) whether the dialogue is crisp and realistic, and (c ) what choices the director makes in presenting the scenes.

I can't tell one breakdown writer's work from another.

Because Kay Alden (a female writer living in Chicago who had a big crush on Eric Braeden) wanted to write some scenes for Lori Brooks (a female writer living in Chicago who had a big crush on Victor). The whole storyline was self-indulgent and foolish.

She told Vanessa to "DOUBLE her offer" on the Jarvis house. The Jarvis family accepted the doubled price. Assuming the house has an appraised value of $2,000,000, she's theoretically paid the Jarvis family $4,000,000 for the house. The bank would loan Leslie 80% of the appraised value ($1,600,000), and Leslie had to pay the balance with cash at closing --- $2,200,000. She only had ONE million. Where the hell did she get the rest?! And now she's got contractors working on the house all day & half the night. Who's paying THEM? I keep thinking all this will crash around her. Either that or the writers have absolutely no idea the limits of a million dollars. Sounds like a "lot of money", but it obviously ain't when we look at Leslie's spending since she got that million dollar check in August.

My (dim) recollection is Eileen Davidson met Brenda Epperson in a restaurant where Brenda was waiting tables. Brenda said, "Oh my God, you're Eileen Davidson. People are always saying I resemble you." Eileen told Brenda she was leaving Y&R, Brenda auditioned, and they hired her based on her physical resemblance to Miss Eileen.

Thanks, I never saw her on One Life to Live. My only exposure to her was on Capitol.