Darn

Did we ever get the story behind this? It was so jarring. This poor beautiful girl. I feel for any black actress on daytime honestly. I wonder if Days and GH have black hairstylists (or at least hairstylists who know how to treat a variety of hair textures) since they have the largest AA casts on daytime. Here's what Victoria Rowell had to say about hairstylists at Y&R.

Brad really did work his way through the entire cast. Ashley, Traci, Lauren, Nikki, Victoria, Jill, Diane, Olivia, Sharon...by the time he died the character was kind of exhausted. I think if they hadn't botched the revelations about his past/childhood perhaps he could have lasted longer.

Maybe they'll re-do that entire disgusting opening at some point.

Ah thank you! You’re amazing! They didn’t even seem to try with him. From what I’ve read it sounds like he was written out fairly quickly. The one guy that seemed to match her energy and that she had chemistry with was Roscoe Born and his character was irredeemable.

Didn't they remarry for about a year a decade ago? It's a shame they didn't do more with that (or with Nikki remarrying Jack) other than having Adam gaslight Ashley. At this point Victor and Nikki are so old they'd look ridiculous getting divorced again. Just keep those co-dependent fools together imo.

It really seems like they've spent the better part of 30 years trying to make Ashley work. I know she's a successful part of the Abbott family but she doesn't ever seem to get an A-story that's actually about her. She's had all these love interests and the only one that's stuck as some great love for her is Victor. The rest were sort of duds.

At least Sami and Eric were teenagers. These lunatics are in their mid-30s!

Because while he's a terrible interviewer he's a nice, affable guy. Did Justin show up during her interview? Also it should be fairly easy to find the director who laughed at her her first day, what was her first airdate?

Damn they look so good! I swear Debbi just decided to stop aging in 1995.

Does anyone happen to have Jeanne Cooper's last episode? I've seen her final scene but never the full ep. It's May 3rd, 2013 according to wikipedia.

It's so strange to think that these actors, on TV everyday, seen by millions...are making less than my nobody ass.

Alan was definitely the worse of his soap opera ilk, the selfish multimillionaire business mogul with a string of ex-wives, a la Adam Chandler, Victor Newman, Victor Kiriakis etc. I always felt like they inserted him into plots because they needed a fall guy, his motivations rarely made sense to me (and were rarely explained frankly, "control" I guess?). He was always just the heavy in someone else's story, he didn't feel like he had any sort of inner life. They also paired him with all the "bad girls" that came on the scene (Annie, Olivia, Carmen), even if it felt inorganic and didn't make sense.

Thank you! One more lol how about Miguel? When did he last appear? Thinking about it I'm surprised they didn't make Raul related to John or Miguel. I mean, it's nice that they didn't make all the Latin men related but it seems like that would have been a good way to introduce him, it would tie into the class struggles that were part of his character if he were say Miguel's nephew.

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.