Darn

A couple of questions: when did Douglas last appear? Did he get an exit? Also did he have a function on the show being Victor's talk-to? I mean, did he have a job? Was he Victor's, for lack of a better word, manservant? When did Lynn last appear on the show? And it looks like in 91 they were hinting at Nina and John becoming a couple, does anyone know if that went anywhere? In looking at old episodes I'm starting to realize how strong and necessary Y&R's secondary/recurring characters were. And honestly looking back the show was just full of heavy hitters, watch any episode from the early 90s and all the characters leading story are incredibly important to the fabric of the show as a whole, I can't say the same for old episodes of other soaps I've watched.

Loving the representation but my god this promo is boring as all fukc.

This has to be some of the worst acting I've ever seen on this show. They're both just talking in weird cadences at each other.

At this point I'd take Carlivati writing the show over whoever's writing it now. At least something would be happening.

Gigi's introduction was the only story that ever worked for the character IMO and the only time Farah delivered consistent, good work. I think having to act opposite ES everyday upped her game and it showed.

Do you mind sharing?

I've seen a lot of soap actors talk about conflicting acting methods. For instance if you like to run lines and your scene partner doesn't you're going to have a problem.

Wasn't Sonny off his meds the whole time he was in Nixon Falls?

I wasn't trying to correct you or anything haha! I don't follow this type of stuff but I do love to google.

I don't know, I've been watching the first few months of Veronica Reed's tenure and John is busy in some weird quasi-triangle with Jill and Leanna. John and Mamie have hardly interacted. But who knows? Bell did plan pretty far ahead.

I found this facebook post that says she'd be credited as "associate head writer" starting June 3rd, 2019.

Thank you! Very interesting that her last episode was Dru's first. I don't see the different direction (this is long before Mamie and John become a thing, Mamie's still doing her Mamie thing, serving as a talk-to for her nieces and surrogate family) they're talking about it so there must be more to it.

They do all seem very serious and dour but that's GH for you. I watched a scene with Alexis, Shawn and Sam and they were all head to toe in black, if I didn't know any better I'd think they were going to a funeral.

Can anyone tell me why they recast Mamie? It seems like it happened right before Mamie got a family of her own.

That's how it should be! Kids on other soaps have the plot lines of 30 year olds, it's stupid. Let these young characters BE YOUNG.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Y&R is extremely top heavy with veteran players and unlike Days and GH, which also employ a decent number of veteran actors, their vets are on contract. How much do we think Braeden/Thomas Scott/Bergman, etc. are earning?

Instead of a temp recast they decide to just recast him completely? Sus.

Andrew Madrigal? Though it seems like there was no follow up to Danny getting shot because in these episode it's the next day and he's not injured? He got shot in the gut! Twice! Maybe he was wearing a bulletproof vest or something. Speaking of Danny, he and Chris are terminally boring. They have 2 topics of conversation, David and how great they think each other is.

I never thought Robert Newman would want to be shackled to a soap again in his life. But a job's a job.

I'm watching a bit of 1991 and did Danny get shot at the masquerade ball with no follow up? He gets shot on October 2/3 and then in the October 9 episode he's perfectly fine. Did I miss something? Also an almost daily occurrence in the dialogue is the phrase "_____ where _____ is concerned". Every episode!

It took me entirely too long to realize these weren't actual spoilers.

I wonder why we Y&R's budget cut is so apparent onscreen. GH doesn't look nearly as cheap and I'm pretty sure that show is produced for even less. Actually none of the other soaps look as cheap as Y&R, what's the deal? Y&R is rather top heavy with veteran talent. Maybe that's where the majority of the budget is going.

Can someone clear this up for me, I was reading the Wikipedia article for Victoria and it says that she was raped by her stalker Gary in the treehouse but I don’t recall is happening and if it did I’m not sure it’s been referenced since.

I don't know if this has been posted before but I just spotted Timothy D. Stickney (RJ, OLTL) playing the sitcom dad in this music video