Darn

This is one of those scenes where you see why Alicia Minshew was cast as Susan Lucci's daughter. Personally I think the acting is atrocious (Eden Reigel has almost no lines and acts better) but she's trying and putting her all into it and you still, despite the...everything, come away from it feeling sympathy toward Kendall. I don't think she or Susan Lucci ever phoned in a performance in their lives, I know Lucci never did. She played Erica to the hilt no matter how terrible the material.

Watching old AMC clips from the 90s and I can't believe Erica ended up with boring ass Jack as the love of her life when she had such fire, passion and chemistry with Dimitri for years.

The music starting at the time stamp in this clip until the end of the scene is outstanding. It's awfully tense yet beautiful. They handled Bianca's coming out with such care. The writing, directing and music was on point.

Thanks @Khan and @EricMontreal22. Damn shame, Julia Barr is a treasure and Brooke meant as much to the fabric of AMC as Erica, even moreso to Pine Valley as a whole.

Does anyone remember how Brooke was written out of the show initially? Was she written out or did she just stop appearing? I keep running into AMC clips and Brooke/Julia Barr is a much more important character to the show than the last decade would make you think. I so wish they had cast stronger actors to play Laura and Jamie, it could have kept Brooke relevant for longer.

Reign Edwards (Nicole, B&B) is in the new horror movie Hell Fest. She’s great in it and it really exemplifies how soaps are wasting the talents of their younger crop of actors.

@DramatistDreamer I'd watch ATWT just for that shot of Jon Hensley's overalls falling! Hot damn!

A whole promo about buying a yacht? Was literally nothing else happening that week?

Rauch. Makes sense.

She looked and acted like she hated working on Y&R. Maybe she was just in pain. Who was the EP while she was Mac? She says her fellow actors were kind but not execs or producers.

@EricMontreal22 Thanks for answering my questions!

That's what I was thinking, she looked too pretty next to SF (who was gorgeous, don't get me wrong) and too young to be the mother of all those kids.

Why was the first Beth recast so quickly? She was younger and much more glamorous than the actress who replaced her.

What brother throws his sister’s bachelorette party?!

I'll give B&B credit for one thing: consistency in unhealthy obsessions with the love lives of each others relatives. Beautifully shot, the music is exquisite, the sets are enormous but the writing is awful. And the episode is so creepy. Ridge, Thorne and Kristen discussing their parents marriage like they're little kids. Ridge in particular is intensely concerned with his parents marriage. Maybe it's because Ronn Moss can't act but he's talking about the problems in his parents marriage like it's nuclear armament. And then we have the Logan actively encouraging their mother to have an affair with Eric. That's bad enough but then you have them on the kitchen set of the Hogan Family and it's like what twisted sitcom is this??? Naturally every scene with Stephanie is elevated because SF is a force of nature. The end scene is weirdly, wonderfully composed. You'd never see shots like that today.

He's beautiful but he really wasn't a very good actor.

Travis Schuldt was in the season 8 premiere of American Horror Story. Minor role but he's aged exceptionally well into dad territory.

The real start of a classic soap feud, the moment Stephanie first learns of Eric and Brooke's affair. Susan Flannery is magnificent here. I can't believe it took her until 2000 to win an Emmy for this part!

This interview is fascinating. She's claiming that in 1969-70 that a 1/3 of the audience was black and that ABC had the numbers to back this up, although because she didn't have representation she wasn't privy to this. Wasn't there research from the 90s-early 2000s claiming the same thing? Say Erika Slezak had one of the most high powered agents in Hollywood when she was cast, considering who her father was I'm not surprised. Al Freeman made 4 times as much as Ellen Holly on the show. When he joined the show his lawyer negotiated a contract for 100k a year. Says she made less in 1973 than she did in 1969! Wow. Agnes Nixon did her dirty. It took her 5 years to realize that Agnes Nixon wasn't she just the writer of OLTL but the creator and soul owner. Wow. She was really kept out of the loop on the business side of the show. Sounds like most of that ignorance was bore out of fear of losing her job. As someone stuck in the middle, too light to be black, too black to be white, I get it but damn. And wow, just like Victoria Rowell she wrote for the show with no recognition or pay. Also she mentioned that AMC had some big black story when it first started? Did it? I feel like the black presence on AMC started (and ended almost) with Angie and Jesse. What a smart woman. She knows the industry and she KNOWS soap history, she listed other soap stars off like it was nothing. Watch the whole thing. Heartbreaking!

Imagine if instead of bringing on Shaun and his family (I don't remember their family name), they'd have brought on Carla's (they could've given her and Ed more kids, adopted or bio, doesn't matter). It would have been great. Sigh. I know they tried with Joshua and Ed but they didn't really try. And that they didn't get Ellen Holly to come back is such a missed opportunity. Thanks for sharing this. I know what I'm doing for the next hour.

I'd kill to see that Sadie/Carla cliffhanger. The fact that OLTL ended up so incredibly white and insular is a damn shame (I know the show was "diverse" or WHATEVER but I don't think any soap has embraced having a truly diverse cast of characters where people of color feel fully integrated into the story and as important as any of the white characters). My mother tells me that the black audience knew Clara/Carla was black. We're usually good at spotting our people. Was Carla a lighskinned black woman or biracial? Did we ever learn anything about her father?

She may have but the show never did. OLTL and Days have had similarly outlandish stories for their lead heroines and they...worked somehow, for the most part. The stories for Reva are almost universally panned.

And it's wild to me that after the debacle of the clone saga (™ Marvel) they had San Cristobel and THEN Reva jumping through time via a portrait of Olivia. It's absolute insanity to put her character through those high concept stories one after the other and then like someone else said give her realistic stories like cancer and a late in life baby. Other soap leads were given similar stories, Viki for example, but they were usually years apart. Sometimes decades. Reva was thrown into these nonsense stories one after the other. How was that time travel story resolved anyway?

That's clone Reva again lol It's wild that GL went from the realism of Maureen's death to cloning in 4 short years. I don't know how the Josh character recovered from that...he basically created a girl in order to fück her.