Darn

One tweet: Social media is DRAGGING Jason’s return

I wish we could put a moratorium on posting tweets from random twitter accounts. Especially when we couple that with declaring their one tweet is somehow a consensus of the audience.

Some of the comments in here are exactly why actors fück up their faces.

It sounds like some of you would have been advocating for recasting Kimberly McCullough in the 90s because she looked too young to play adult Robin. Lexi Ainsworth is talented, an Emmy winner and played the role for a decade. Just...write for her. Nothing about Kristina's current story needed a recast, all she is is pregnant.

Lisa LiCicero is beautiful and talented but her face is full of fillers, you lose fat in your face as you age not gain. Every wrinkle in her face is literally filled in. It's funny because I've been thinking how much better Kelly Monaco looks lately, she's stopped or paused whatever she was doing to her face, especially her lips. To me she looks and sounds so much better than she has in a long time.

I found last week very engaging and as someone who cannot stand Jason, Sonny or Carly that's saying something. I've found the characters suddenly have personalities and varied perspectives and reference history. My first thought when Olivia arrived at the hospital was "This is like when Sonny shot Dante" so to have that be the first thing she was said to Sonny was both surprising and in character.

If this show were to reveal Ava to be behind all of this (at this point I'm all for shifting the focus of the whole damn show to Ava as Mob Queen with Sonny diminished and struggling to regain power and position) I'd call it the best thing GH has done in 20 years. 

And truthfully I'm most thankful we don't have to deal with amnesia or twin (triplet?!) bullshït.

Anyone believing Phyllis over Christine or Danny about anything would be actually insane. Chris and Danny have never done anything wrong in their entire tenures on the show whereas Phyllis lies about everything. The idea that she'd be believed for even a second is crazy, she's been lying since the 90s!

28 minutes ago, Vee said:

I don't think she's a great actress (paging @Darn), but the character is important. So I'm glad to see her.

She's terrible! But I was also wondering where she was. If I have to tolerate Uncle Remus and this week's latest Molly I can certainly handle her questionable acting talents.

Bro, she's 60 and pulled this crap 30 friggin years ago. With THE SAME PEOPLE. This show is SO STUPID.

Question, did anything at all come of this?

On 2/24/2024 at 1:42 AM, Chris B said:

You can take any scene of Victoria Rowell on Y&R. She truly embodied that character and I'd say Dru was one of the greatest soap characters of all time.

I can't express to you how deeply this scene is ingrained into my psyche. I can hear Dru's "you're not too big now!" echoing in my head. Every scene between VR and Davetta's Lily was just so...BLACK. I can't explain it but if you know, you know.

For as many black actors we've seen on daytime Dru is the one character who was unquestionably a black woman at all times. There was no whitewashing of her, no laborious efforts to make her more palatable to the audience. Even as she evolved, got into modeling, mended her relationship with Olivia, moved up in society, she never once lost the essence (on newsstands now!) of who she was and that's entirely due to Victoria Rowell layering her performance with certain acting decisions that spoke to the black American audience in such a subtle, understood, nuanced way.

Was Dru hood? Yep. But she was equal parts hood and siddity, the way she weaved in and out of their characteristics was a sight to behold. We were lucky to have her for as long as we did. No other black performer was afforded the opportunity to so shape their character. Dru, and the entire black portion of Y&R was so important for me to see when I did, I think I was about 14 when I discovered the show and after years of the ABCD soaps where the black characters were very very obvious secondary seeing black characters so prominently featured, their scenes given the same level of prestige and attention was revelatory to me as a young person. They regularly got episode ending cliffhangers! They intermingled with the whole cast!

As much as I loved Angie and Jesse it often felt like "And here are our black friends!". They were wonderful and both Debbi and Darnell (my namesake and him especially) imbued their portrayals with plenty of "black" qualities having them so isolated limited them. You see, Dru, Neil, Malcolm and Olivia at least had each other to interact with. Their child should not have been the only other black person they knew!

To bookend this, here's another Dru and Mini Dru scene that lives RENT FREE in my head:

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This show is stupid.

1 minute ago, edgeofnik said:

TV Line just reported the KB is out and Sheila is dead.

I don't even get this. No build up whatsoever.

I don't buy it.

This is yet another "haha fooled you! they're not dead!" twist. How many times have they gone to this well with in the last 3 years alone on this incredibly dumb show?

2 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

Hate to be graphic but someoen needs to cut her head off

She'd come back with two more.

5 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

He’s the first person I’ve set to ignore in literal years. He’s a contrarian to get a rise out of insightful posters like yourself who post with no ill intent. It’s a sad life but we can’t control how other people choose to conduct themselves.
 

If coming on this forum to annoy others who just want to share their love of this medium gets his rocks off so be it. I just won’t be a party to it, nor should you @vetsoapfan because your comments are some of the absolute best here. So intelligently shared bringing your wealth of knowledge to us on a daily basis. Please don’t let the stupidity distract you!

On 2/19/2024 at 9:32 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

I am not saying that she would be totally reliant on Y&R money to finance her independent film efforts, of course not. With independent film, the margins are often lean and every dollar truly counts. Likely the other work she is already committed to is doing the heavy lifting. But she’s not there, memorizing dozens or more of pages of dialogue just for kicks. I am sure she likes seeing her colleagues but she can get together with them for lunch when she’s in town, and we already discussed that the work itself at Y&R is not exactly scintillating, so there must be something to it.

I don't know how much guest actors earn but it's gotta be at least a grand, right? A thousand bucks for a few hours of work. Sign me up.

If they hired this Anglo-Saxon man so he'd look more believable as Dex's father I will laugh heartily.

13 minutes ago, janea4old said:

From this preview video, Amanda is representing Jill/Billy, who wanted to change the name of "Chancellor-Winters" to include/add the name Abbott.

This show is a joke.

46 minutes ago, carolineg said:

CR is truly a legend lol.  I loved her scenes with John because it really felt like Belle was hitting on her own father and it never fails to crack me up to this day.  CR was acting with Kyle Brandt's Phillip and made him look like a Shakespearean trained actor.  I will never believe Days was ever serious with her.

My tin foil hat theory is that both she and Jennifer Bransford were temporary hires by Days and GH to better help the audience accept recasts of very popular departing stars.  Grandma Madison felt like a relief after watching B movie worthy Charity.

Oops I see @DRW50 posited the same theory.

The funny thing about that ATWT scene is that I think Ellen Dolan was much worse than KMH. 

I think Emme Rylan (don't ever come back) and Maurice Benard should win some sort of award for how bad they were/are day in and day out. She in particular never gave one true note in any of her scenes, just a pretty actress reciting lines.

I've been forced to watch some of the past 2 days of this show and I'm astounded we're telling this type of lazy, tone deaf story in 2024. It's unwatchable and all I feel is sympathy for the actors who have to act it out.

They're telling a story of this young girl basically being drugged and raped without telling that story. It's gross. She immediately believed Zende's version of events, they even had her say something like "Of course you wouldn't force yourself on me!". How do you know?? And how do the writers even enjoy writing this crap?

20 hours ago, Vee said:

I'll let @Darn describe his reaction to Drew spending years in supervillain torture vs. a few weeks/months in lock-up, lol. Drew's behavior re: Nina lately is truly psycho. He was going full Wrath of Khan on her ass with Michael the other day. You would think she killed Oscar.

Let me see if I can recreate it.

Drew after years of torture:

Drew after 3 months in prison:

21 hours ago, carolineg said:

Lol.  I don't care that much either.  I am just a completionist I suppose.  It just feels unfinished at this point and pushing Sonny towards Anna or Lois or Ava or whoever feels strange.  I guess we will see what's next. 

It IS strange because Sonny and Nina haven't had a conversation about what happened since he found out. It's WEIRD.

Finn, Chase and Mount Rushmore are the three dullest male leads I've ever seen. A whole episode about Ben Franklin hiding something about his illness yet again? Go. To. Hell. This is BORING.

Laura and Anna, the mayor and commissioner of police, are besties with the local mob boss. How are we supposed to believe they're good at their jobs? This is bad writing.

3 hours ago, Khan said:

Instead of recycling writers, I say bring on some fresh talent.  Not necessarily younger writers, but maybe writers who haven't worked in daytime before.

You don't want daytime exclusively written by 70 year olds??

3 hours ago, Lye-C said:

New-to-daytime writers don’t know the history of the show or its characters which leads to continuity errors and flat-out inaccuracies. That’s why Days’ breakdown writers, script writers, and script editor need to be shown the door ASAP. 

Those very familiar with daytime do the same shït (my forcefulness is not directed at you, just the recycle center that is daytime). May as well take a chance on unknown rather than the same old writers who largely get hired because they can handle the insane workload and not because they're good for the genre.

On 2/4/2024 at 3:54 PM, Lye-C said:

How does Kin not know who Obrecht is?

He knows who she is. He's just a jerk. I find Kin amusing but he's unquestionably kind of a jackass.

On 2/3/2024 at 7:23 PM, John said:

This would be a good way to have Adam style his hair again

John, sweetie, why are we posting 20 year old pictures of this man?

21 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

To be fair Maurice had a lot of good acting delivered in January. An actor can’t be on top of their game every day 

No he most certainly did not IMO.

He gives bursts of well delivered lines but rarely does he give a solid scene. It’s unconscionable what he’s able to get away with next to actors like LW, MW, Genie, etc. committing to their art every single day.

19 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

When they tout their incredible talent to everyone on and off the show, they better be. When they offer unsolicited advice to newer cast mates and then get pissy if they don’t do what they say or kiss the ring, again, they better be on top every day.

Ask that of his other daytime peers. In the last decade his misses have been plenty. I may not have always liked the stories, but Finola Hughes and Becky Herbst have been through it propping for Frank and they never look like Mo does onscreen.

The dichotomy of Genie Francis, nearly 50 years into her career on GH, giving performances like the one she gave yesterday next to a lazy, ungrateful, utterly bored actor like Maurice Benard mumbling through all of his scenes is striking.

This is the lead of the show?

Lauren B. Smith (Camille, ATWT) is in the first episode (at least) of Amazon Prime's Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She looks great.

What the hell does sister soaps even mean? Is that just a fancy term for spin-off?

9 minutes ago, Vee said:

I can't take him seriously after what happened to him in the Why Did I Get Married movies lol, I'm sorry. I'll always think of those camp classics.

The trick to getting around that is to have never watched those movies at all.