Darn

Yeah, I first tuned in last week so today I expected to them to a couple weeks ahead by now but no, it's the same batch episodes I saw before. In fact I turned it at the EXACT same moment: One of the Peirces recalling his poor dead girlfriend as Janet and Laura stood there looking like the cover of some lesbian romance novel. The episodes that followed were just great. Arlene is the definition of pathetic. Begging Alec to have sex with her, blackmailing him until he did. Poor dumb Hayley not catching on after hearing her mother MOAN her husband's name in her sleep. A classic PV Inn ladies' room clash between Erica, Brooke and Maria. Erica was just at her worst (because of the addiction), picking fights so petty even Opal called her out. It's kind of crazy how much faster characters were established. Maria (btw Eva LaRue is stronger actor than I ever gave her credit for) joined the show in 93. By 95 she was married to Edmund, two of her siblings were in frontburner romances and she and Edmud had been through 3 rounds of IVF. Edmund himself was only introduced a year before. Soaps used to be so good at introducing new characters and firmly establishing them on the canvas. Everyone claims soaps were sooooo slow but my god the current soaps are absolutely glacial comparatively. Maria is publicly humiliated over her fertility issues. Edmund happens to discuss it with Brooke. She tells him she can possibly help with adoption. Erica hears about this and inadvertently tells Maria. How long did that take? 2 and a half episodes. That would've taken two weeks on GH nowadays.

You mean that beta loser cuck? The guy who came in as this cool doctor with a beard from a war torn country in the Darkest Africa who now follows around a woman who is very obviously still in love with her ex-husband, and also pregnant by him, because…I don’t know? Brain tumor? Carbon monoxide poisoning? He’s just plain stupid? I hate that they have ruined all the potential that Isaiah had by making him a simp for both Jordan and Portia. I thought it was bad enough when he had no self-respect while dating Jordan, allowing her to keep the relationship secret because she was working undercover (how’s that going Robotnik?) but whatever’s he become with Portia is just nuts. Speaking of nuts, I wish he would find his. Maybe they’re in Jordan’s center console. There’s no need for him to be practically elated at the idea that the woman he was having an affair with is pregnant by her husband. Let the brother have a modicum of self-respect.

This show is so heavy-handed when they want us to consider someone a “good person”. The moment they decide that Jacinda is not worth keeping around, all of the bad parts for history will be emphasized. It’s very annoying. Anyway, I hope Michael walks in on her and Kristina using their index fingers on each other in the Quartermaine living room.

Forgive me but I just can’t forget that only a few months ago she accepted $50,000 to help frame Drew for drug use. And then later on admitted to smoking crack with Scott Chandler in the cheapest room at the Metro Court! She’s not a great person!

This is so sweet. I actually thought of Susan’s win last night.

And he WON! I remember thinking he was such a good actor, him and Amanda Seyfried were the standouts especially next to ol‘ demon eyes and Micah Alberti. It’s amazing he’s now an Oscar winner. Wild. I’m happy for him like he’s family.

I can’t post videos here!! @Vee MBJ and Amanda Seyfried had a mini reunion on the red carpet last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards. It was very sweet. Google it. And Amanda posted this pic on her stories of them during their AMC days. Reggie and Joanie, my Shayla.

Nice of Run BLQ to wear her best gold chain to the family Christmas party. How is her grandmother more stylish than her? Jane looked lovely as always. She's just so stunning. In the corner we had Michael dressed like he's one of the Roxbury guys. I can't wait until this shooting story is over so Rory can be hot, Michael can make big moves that we see and be free of the dayplayer we're supposed to believe is a worthwhile love interest for him. Trina acting like a toddler over the dissolution of her parents' marriage as if they've been together all her life is crazy work. Girl, you're nearly old enough to be off their insurance and guess what? You were never on his because you met him two days ago. Where the hell is Taggert?! Jordan's a whole weirdo for showing up to Portia's family's holiday party. I know she has literally nothing else going on in her life, her son has disappeared and her "undercover" operation ended when those Sidwell checks started clearing but yeesh. Curtis is the same level of angry no matter what's upset him. He's always at Field Trip Chaperone Upset Over Minor Change in Schedule. Brook Kerr is carrying That Black Storyline on her biracial back but man, Portia always sounds like she's about to kill someone or just finished killing someone. I know @Vee loves them but Brad and Britt are not the gay icons this show thinks they are. Watching the two of them Yas Queen-ing it up is painful. Also Parry Shen simply isn't a good actor. He's also not hot! Sure perhaps Marco is evil but who cares (if you've ever met a gay man you know how very little they care)?! Is Lucas really expected to be torn because mid broke loser Brad and maybe evil but very hot and rich and hot Marco? Please! We really needed Sonny at three celebrations huh? So Maurice could fulfill his contractual obligation to smile. The man is clearly in pain! Let him go home!

No fck that! They then left her because she didn't immediately forgive this random woman! I'd disown all of 'em!

Skye at her big age with her insane personal history acting like an adolescent girl who just found her parents for the first time was grating. Girl, you are 40. What is going on? I never thought a short stint by Erika Slezak would so turn me off the show but I've barely watched since Tracy's entire family turned their back on her for this stranger. This stranger who agreed to steal their family home because Tracy wasn't nice to her one time. You had Brook Lynn and Michael saying insane sh!t like "That doesn't sound like Ronnie". It doesn't??? You don't know this lady. The fuuuuck are you talking about? Tracy will forgive them or rather they will "forgive" Tracy (for being right) but I'm disillusioned, it's all left such a bad taste in my mouth.

Thank you for further proving my point with the nightmare fuel that is this image.

As a professional graphic designer all of these logos have been...terrible. I don't understand the point of this thread. "Let's make new versions of existing soap logos but worse?" And now we're doing AI images of sets that exist? Is everyone okay? Has the rise in AI slop melted our collective conscious?

I’m not exaggerating when I say this but almost every episode of GH in which she appears I think to myself “Jane Elliot is *so* beautiful”. And don’t even get me STARTED on Clifton Davis’ 80 year old fine ahh.

Absolutely. The same holds true for people in general, we're living longer than we ever have in human history. Actors in particular are not only living longer but are healthier and have access to cosmetic procedures that will keep them camera ready for decades to come. Nicole Kidman might never be forced to play mother to an adult in her life! But back to soaps, they've come to realize that chasing younger viewers while ignoring older ones is futile and just plain stupid.

I WILL back you up because you are correct. Vanessa and Victoria are the only two daytime stars that could possible move the needle, in ratings or buzz, left. Shemar can get Y&R ink but because he will never return in any substantial way which leaves them as the only two who would and have viewers perk up. And the show not only dumps black talent but it has very intentionally handed the black portion of the show to the most milquetoast, palatable and boring actors possible in Bryton and Christel. We have Devon, first with his invisible long-term black girlfriend followed by his dynamic black wife, who they killed off when her popularity became too much to bear and the actor dared to want to be paid well. He's now married to a white woman the show does not and never will care about despite being the child of one of their most popular pairings. Then of course there's Lily with a parade of white partners, her romances with black men squashed before the audience is reminded that this middle-eastern looking woman is meant to be black or Christel throws a fit. The fact is black actors come in two shades on this show: light and no longer employed. All of them? Soaps have done a complete 180 compared to 20-30 years ago, they give their older actors, vets and newcomers, plenty to play. I don't think it's happenstance that BTG started with the Vernon and Anita as great-grandparents, Nicole as a grandmother or Dani as a mother to adults. The shows are catering to the audience they have left by showcasing actors of a certain age (sometimes to the detriment), that's why they're drowning in vets with a combined couple hundred years of story under their belts.