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The Phyllis stuff is finally moving

Phyllis meets with Carson and finds Tucker.

Tucker tells her Carson can clear her if she joins forces 

She makes a deal with Tucker to take Jabot down. She agrees and reveals herself to Christine and Chance and they arrest her

For the July 6th episode of YR, Brent Boyd was not in the credits. Just Jeff Beldner and Marin Gazzaniga

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

The show isn’t wonderful. Things don’t feel completely thought through, aside from the general sibling rivalries that have always existed on Y&R.

You can still feel the impact of budget cuts, but the spaciousness and vibrancy of the Athletic Club make Y&R feel less claustrophobic. It’s an actual place where people *would* hang out and take meetings, unlike the tiny hotel lobby of the Grand Phoenix.

The movement and sense of conflict have improved largely enough to make it more watchable. They remembered this is a soap! Scenes need to have friction, with two people wanting different things and trying to figure out ways of getting them, and couples need to have affairs. Audra has been a great addition as a sneaky snake who loves sex but still has her goals in mind.

Audra/Kyle still felt pretty unsexy to me, though, even though the show lavished them with lengthy scenes of them wrestling in bed. Not sure if the current intimacy-coordinator climate has changed how Y&R does these scenes or if it’s just poor direction, but the choreography felt super awkward, like they were posing instead of overcome with passion.

Michael Mealor is gorgeous but he can’t sell the sexuality, which is weird, as I thought he did an OK job when he started.

They’ve also slowed down the business merry-go-round and added some stakes. (Jack installing Diane at Jabot had at least been in the works for a while, and you can see where it’s leading, whereas JG’s previous attempts at playing out corporate subterfuge have been underwhelming, aside from Lily/Devon/Nate’s battles.) 

And at least Tucker and Diane have freshened up the tired Ashley/Jack rivalry (some of the recent scenes feel like nearly word-for-word retreads of scenes from Mal Young’s era, when Ashley faked blood tests to suggest Jack wasn’t really an Abbott.)

Tucker and Diane remain largely opaque characters who make Ashley and Jack seem like idiots, but TSJ and SW are charismatic enough for me to *somewhat* roll with it. I feel like JG is hedging with them, unsure if he’s going to allow Tucker or Diane to be real vipers in the grass. It makes them feel a bit underbaked as characters.

I laughed at Nate as an outright villain needling Nick for not being there when Sally’s baby died and letting Faith get kidnapped. They are letting him venture to dark places. I hope it’s worth it and they let him really wreck Newman. Nikki issuing him a warning felt like a similar scene she had with Drucilla over Nick back in the day.

Broken record but AH still isn’t doing it for me. When Victoria forced Nick to take a leave of absence and was volleying with Victor over Nate, I kept thinking of how HT would have played it. Sorry, but if she was credible, I wouldn’t be thinking of someone who hasn’t been in the role in LITERALLY 20 years. Of course, they’d likely be writing things differently if HT were in the role.

I’m getting a sense that they’re reverting back to Phyllis as a loudmouth, misunderstood heroine with Michael as her hype man and Christine as the great hand of injustice who just can’t get over her vendetta against the woman who tried to kill her. (Why can’t she just get over it, guys?)  That’s not something I’d want to watch.

It was refreshing to see her widely disliked for a change, and Stafford actually showed up to play for a while and not just vamp. But this show still sees her someone the audience should root for, like a more flamboyant, female Victor. Michael and Phyllis are not cute, and I need to see people other than Kyle reading her riot act.

The Jerry Douglas tribute was ok, but the recasts limited how much they could show. Some of Jerry’s best work was with Terry Lester and Brenda Epperson. Sick of Traci trying to unite her family. Give the woman something else to do.

Summers starting to see through Phyllis, realizing she was manipulated to commit crimes 

Zuleyka Silver. Actress who plays Audra did a podcast with SOD, she says right now there is a rivalry with Adam. She has something Adam wants.

Tommorow for Sharon 

1 hour ago, dio said:

i'm not as big up on Imani as everyone on here is - I thought she was a very basic ABC character played by a very ABC actress. Audra isn't any better or worse to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but the Hilary flashback was weird... it made me wonder if they're gonna bring her back from the dead, or something? Like, Tucker has had her away in long-term care facility somewhere and she's gonna wake up from a coma? IDK but it was strange to remind the audience that she existed. I thought it was supposed to be Amanda, tbh. LOL 

Maybe Mishael will come back for another little visit.

I can't believe this Phyllis story is still going. LOL

Would Summer be YRs "Young" Heroine?

Sharon's mystery 

Nick comes by to see Sharon, he finds a box left at the door, it's from Cameron's attorney handling his estate, the items in the box are life changing. They lead to Sharon having to make some important decisions

I have the mag, Kyle and Audra get drunk and have sex.

Tommorow  

5 minutes ago, Sapounopera said:

It sounds so mean, especially for an old man with health issues. 

It didn't come across mean to me, Gabrielle was curious because she hasn't seen the show in years and years, she got all excited when Andy said Victor Newman came for Eva LOL.

Eva, I don't think interacted with him much at all during her stint and didn't keep up with him, she said she didn't know who he was.

https://twitter.com/IsntDaveOne/status/1669537321174089731

17 minutes ago, Sapounopera said:

Really? That's what she said? Is she auditioning for the Real Housewives?

Gabrielle Union asked if he was still alive and she commented under her breath, "that's what I said." 

55 minutes ago, Darn said:

Eric Braeden is such Big Fish, Small Pond that I doubt Eva even heard about it. No one outside of the soap sphere cares what that man has to say.

She did, she talked about it on Andy Cohen show she was a guest on. She was sitting with Gabrielle Union and said she didn't know who he was and when she did find out she was surprised he was still alive. But she said she didn't care about his rant.

I'm glad to see her say nice things about YR even after that Eric mess.

Eva Longoria on YR from an interview she did the other day.

"My mom was so happy when I got the contract because I did like one line on General Hospital and one line on another soap. And I just remember that was the dream, if I could just get on a soap opera," she says. "Then it was a lot of work. I mean, you know, it's a daily show. We move really fast. And, you know, I liked my bubble because I didn't really work with anybody else except Doug Davidson and Christian LeBlanc. So I was in a really small bubble while I was on that show, but it was fun. It was a lot of fun."

Sharon spoiler from SOD podcast 

Thursday: June 15th

Cameron backs Sharon into a corner.

Friday: June 16th

Nick and Sharon face off against Cameron, Faith's life is in danger.

1 minute ago, fivethej said:

When was the last time Victor got into a physical fight? He told Nick that he would back him up if need be against Cameron.

With J.T. in 2018

Next Week preview 

I like Ashley, just hate we're not shown her being even a little bit suspicious of the man who's room she found JABOTS FINANCIAL RECORDS in.

Jack's always been a dummy around women, Patty, Kelly, Phyllis etc

8 minutes ago, Jeff said:

ZS has screen presence and sex appeal (reminds me of LAR/Imani) but what is Audra's purpose on the show other than the town mattress?

Social climber/Vixen is my guess.

Tomorrow's US show

19 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Who was writing the show when Summer slept with Billy a few years ago? It feels like even back then someone may have been experimenting with writing Summer as though she were morphing into Phyllis-lite.

Mal Young

3 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

I still adore Alison Lanier, but the whiplash 180 degree turn for Summer is absolutely jarring (and needless/pointless) to see. Complete character destruction and regression in a month’s time. 
 

I wouldn’t be surprised if Josh Griffith sabotaged his own work out of spite because Summer was getting positive attention  compared to his own lackluster pets on the show. 

If he is, it's not working. They posted the argument on Social Media and Kyle's getting it bad from fans.

How does everyone feel about the Abbott stuff?

Ashley plotting a coup and faking a engagement with Tucker to boot out Jack