Darn

Naw, I watched it from the beginning too and it was always bad to me. Repetitive dumb dialogue, sitcom lighting, bad acting, terrible plots. It's the first soap I ever saw premiere and I was so disappointed. I spent a lot of hours in the summer of 99 trying to get into this show.

A BIT?!

I swear I read that she played a prostitute.

I've been watching so many clips from that channel and you're right, the music and production values are incredible. When did AMC's look and score go into the dumps? 2006?

I find it so weird when soap opera actors do that. They were ON a soap, you know people don't act that way, why are you perpetuating that outdated idea?

Phew that was so good. I just watched the Barber family drama. Lillie Belle was just wicked! Love her. I want to know what happened after this. Olivia was so sweet in her earlier appearances, when did she become such a harridan? Was it after Nathan's death?

Is this Kristian Alfonso? I feel like it is but I'm not sure. It's from 1981.

Mmmm meeting that quota of one. Thanks for sharing your story @mikelyons. As a black man it really hurts to see how little a genre that I love respects us.

She came back out of respect to her co-star and the fans.

It's not her fault you can't read, dear.

I can't believe she's almost 50. It just doesn't make sense. On The Good Wife I recall that she was meant to be the same age as Cary, who was 26. Renee was 40 at the time. Bless her skin.

Jesus Christ. Sassy. Sassy. VR posted this in reply to someone on her Instagram.

Here you go

I always thought Palmer and Erica were close. Their stories didn't intersect much outside of Opal but they both lit up when they saw each other.

Buzz and Reva were married? How did the set survive?! But really, I had no idea and I watched the show for a few years. They didn't act like exes at all. Their paths rarely crossed when I watched.

She's utterly brilliant in Hamilton.

Ah, thank you! For some reason I thought she left in 2001.

Can someone tell me what was Mark Consuelos doing in 2002 that they could get Kelly Ripa back for Maria's return but not him? Or were they both still on contract during this time and he was sick or something?

I'm pretty sure most viewers were just happy to have people they didn't hate onscreen. The Wildwind Chronicles youtube channel has been uploading a bunch of stuff from Maria's return and I'm surprised by how much I don't hate it. The story almost works in a bubble.

It's so funny to read someone calling other people old and sad after they've spent paragraphs defending the former star of a dead genre and can vividly describe news and rumors from 30 years ago.

Thank you for that detailed summary @will81! Before I read your commentary at the end I was going to replying how much I didn't like any of that. Sounds petty and like they didn't have much story to tell for either John or Jill so they threw them into whatever that was.

How and why did John and Jill remarry? How long did their second marriage last and why did they divorce this time?

GL's last few openings weren't just embarrassing for daytime, they were embarrassing for television period.

AHHHHHHHH! This is amazing!