Darn

Y&R did a similar story in the 80s, a black man infiltrated I want to say the mob? It looked that old SNL skit with Eddie Murphy. I'm curious about how they made her look white, I wonder if there are any clips out there.

Can anyone tell me more about Taylor (Roxbury Cannon) and her undercover mission as a white woman in some racist organization? I can't believe daytime did this story more than once...did they just want an excuse to hire light skin actors? It seems like she started as vixen and then they just made her a crazy lady after Ingrid Rogers left (?).

Ha! That was a treat, thanks for sharing. I don't recall Bo and Cassie interacting much at all when I was a kid, their relationship was certainly never brought up. It seems very weird but Cassie seems like one of those characters with a very fluid age. Kevin is a kid here but in a few years they'll be love interests and played as contemporaries.

I wonder what, other than Brad's short attention span, prompted them to have Brooke so immediately go after Ridge. I'm not kidding, it's literally the same episode. She even slyly tells Thorne (within MINUTES of signing the annulment papers) she's going to and says it might hypothetically be good for the company. That is the most whiplashiest writing I've ever seen.

Brooke signed her annulment papers from Thorne in the morning and by the afternoon she was already trying to seduce Ridge. God, what a ho.

I could definitely see Sweeney as MTS's daughter. Could never see Jennifer Gareis as Victoria, she doesn't have the gravitas the character needs.

The show at least knew quite quickly she was a miscast, she lasted exactly one cycle.

I'm usually PB's biggest defender but I think he's actually terrible in that scene and the dialogue is so on the nose...it doesn't feel like anything an actual human would say. Maybe the voters were distracted by his luscious hair. MTS, who I think is a mediocre actor at best, is a lot more impressive there. Where was Cricket meant to be during the school year? Did they bother to explain?

Perhaps it's a long lost relatives week.

Thanks for the link @Forever8 Thanks @DRW50 for that detailed summary! Reading all of that and to have it conclude with "...and then she throws herself in front of a truck" was quite the ride.

Robin is ice cold. I love her. What was the backstory there? What became of her?

I just checked out his twitter. And wow...he's a condescending deliberately ignorant prick. There's no compassion there, no listening, all he cares about is his own white voice being heard.

That reminds me of how Kyle and Lola's wedding last summer was advertised as "The Wedding of the Year" and it looked like they bought the decorations from Dollar General.

This is so helpful, thank you! This story was so intricately plotted, I wish I could've seen it in real time, so many twists and turns.

Another in a long line of underutilized black talent who have gone onto primetime. And her case has to be one of the worse because they didn't even TRY. SHE tried, she talks about trying to generate chemistry with the actor who plays Fen but they never wrote it because they didn't care. The show simply needed an extra black person and Devon's sister was the best option. Not once did they care. It was 2018 and they couldn't be bothered to write for a beautiful (she's legitimately one of the most stunning women ever on daytime), talented actress.

I swear I was about to post the SAME THING!

Thank you! They felt really out of place on the show. And she didn’t look old enough to be Mel’s mother. Oh I I didn’t mean to tell everyone, that would’ve been despicable. What I meant was during one of their many arguments where Viki was revering her father why would Dorian never have said “what about what he did to you Victoria?“. It just felt like clearly rewritten history.

I’ve seen people here complaining that they’re not showing the RIGHT episode from 1987. Which is just ????

I've been watching a lot of Viki's 90s DID story and oh man is Krista Tesreau bad. I have no idea what she's doing in her scenes and seemingly neither does she. I have questions, perhaps someone can help me out (paging @Vee). So Dorian knew for almost 20 years that Victor molested Viki? And she never threw this in her face, despite being on trial for murder, out of...kindness? I know she keeps saying she thought Viki knew but I don't buy it. How long was Dorian in the secret room? How did she get out? Did everyone find out Viki kept her captive? Since I'm asking questions, I also watched an episode from 97 (the infamous one where Blair pushes Tea out of a window) and Mel is there talking to some older woman. The scenes were mindnumbingly boring so I didn't care but who was she? And then she had another scene with a man who I presume was her husband? Who are these people?

You know as much as y'all are complaining...let us a take a moment and look at how CBS was calling a 5 year old episode a "classic" in 2001. Yeah we're not getting episodes from the 70s or early 80s but a bunch of these eps have been at least 20 years old.

I'm trying to be all calm and sh!t and @Khan ❤️ you

Ah okay, I misread. You described one incident but were actually pulled over multiple times with him in the car. I feel bad for your ex.

You understand because you dated a black man for a year and got pulled over once? I'm not sure what your story is illustrating. What do you understand exactly? I'm trying not to be dismissive because you said you feel dismissed in conversations like this but this comment is bewildering to me. She says for people (the black audience, which CBS was surprised to learn counted for a considerable portion of Y&R's viewership) to stop watching because advertising dollars matter more than a handful of actors speaking out.

I was talking to a gay white male friend of mine yesterday and he agreed that a lot of the time you think because you're gay that you understand but trust me, you do not. Especially the experiences of a black woman in society (specifically the workplace). I'm a gay black male and I will never understand it. Unlike the other actors you listed VR has spent her life being an advocate for social justice, from foster care to civil rights, the rest are working actors who went along to get along. I assure you they've had their issues, in fact we can SEE their issues onscreen daily. The one time Kristoff complained he was punished for 3 months. And this happened within the last decade. While we have white actors who complain about their material on a regular basis but I suppose he should just be happy to be employed (which I'm sure he was and I am sure he understood the responsibility in the role he had).

The problem is that people focus on the delivery and not the message.