Darn

Kevin, the black whisperer, is a nice steady presence and I like that Laura is the lead in that relationship (seriously it's so rare on this show for the woman to be the driving force of story in a relationship) so I've accepted that they're in it for the long haul. I think it's definitely the most effective use of her, especially when she doesn't have any of her children on canvas. Typically without much family around you get placed on the backburner but as mayor Laura gets to consistently be part of the action without having to be in constant personal crises.

That period drove me away from the show, the reliquary nonsense, Amelia Heinle's acting and Davetta Sherwood's firing all culminated in me dropping the show. In hindsight I'd happily take that mess back over the last 20 years of absolute garbage. I quite liked Adrienne Leon as Colleen and I LOVED Lyndsy Fonseca, I thought she looked like a perfect combination of Traci and Brad. I also thought she and Davetta had excellent best friend chemistry. I don't know wtf was happening behind the scenes on the show on that time but their over investment in people like Gloria and Kevin was just mind-boggling.

I'm glad Kevin is there to explain racism to the black people. I'm sorry but the fact that the black characters didn't consider this or voice it is actually insane. Especially with two older black people in the family. Nina says Sonny's name once per episode but hasn't mentioned Willow in weeks. She don't care about that girl, she was just mad that Carly kept something from her. Willow doesn't care about her either.

Carly Roberts, etc. exclusively, fully and without question for the first 5 years of her tenure on the show. She's grown a bit since and exhibits true concern for others but her initial stories were incredibly narcissistic. Sonny Corinthos basically the entire time he's been on the show. He only cares about people he views as either an extension of himself (like his children) or who fall in line with his temper tantrums. Look at how quickly he iced out Nina, a woman who 6 months ago he declared he'd love for life, when she committed a pretty marginal sin against his preferred loved one Carly.

One tweet: Social media is DRAGGING Jason’s return I wish we could put a moratorium on posting tweets from random twitter accounts. Especially when we couple that with declaring their one tweet is somehow a consensus of the audience.

Some of the comments in here are exactly why actors fück up their faces. It sounds like some of you would have been advocating for recasting Kimberly McCullough in the 90s because she looked too young to play adult Robin. Lexi Ainsworth is talented, an Emmy winner and played the role for a decade. Just...write for her. Nothing about Kristina's current story needed a recast, all she is is pregnant. Lisa LiCicero is beautiful and talented but her face is full of fillers, you lose fat in your face as you age not gain. Every wrinkle in her face is literally filled in. It's funny because I've been thinking how much better Kelly Monaco looks lately, she's stopped or paused whatever she was doing to her face, especially her lips. To me she looks and sounds so much better than she has in a long time. I found last week very engaging and as someone who cannot stand Jason, Sonny or Carly that's saying something. I've found the characters suddenly have personalities and varied perspectives and reference history. My first thought when Olivia arrived at the hospital was "This is like when Sonny shot Dante" so to have that be the first thing she was said to Sonny was both surprising and in character. If this show were to reveal Ava to be behind all of this (at this point I'm all for shifting the focus of the whole damn show to Ava as Mob Queen with Sonny diminished and struggling to regain power and position) I'd call it the best thing GH has done in 20 years. And truthfully I'm most thankful we don't have to deal with amnesia or twin (triplet?!) bullshït.

Anyone believing Phyllis over Christine or Danny about anything would be actually insane. Chris and Danny have never done anything wrong in their entire tenures on the show whereas Phyllis lies about everything. The idea that she'd be believed for even a second is crazy, she's been lying since the 90s!

She's terrible! But I was also wondering where she was. If I have to tolerate Uncle Remus and this week's latest Molly I can certainly handle her questionable acting talents.

Bro, she's 60 and pulled this crap 30 friggin years ago. With THE SAME PEOPLE. This show is SO STUPID.

Question, did anything at all come of this?

I can't express to you how deeply this scene is ingrained into my psyche. I can hear Dru's "you're not too big now!" echoing in my head. Every scene between VR and Davetta's Lily was just so...BLACK. I can't explain it but if you know, you know. For as many black actors we've seen on daytime Dru is the one character who was unquestionably a black woman at all times. There was no whitewashing of her, no laborious efforts to make her more palatable to the audience. Even as she evolved, got into modeling, mended her relationship with Olivia, moved up in society, she never once lost the essence (on newsstands now!) of who she was and that's entirely due to Victoria Rowell layering her performance with certain acting decisions that spoke to the black American audience in such a subtle, understood, nuanced way. Was Dru hood? Yep. But she was equal parts hood and siddity, the way she weaved in and out of their characteristics was a sight to behold. We were lucky to have her for as long as we did. No other black performer was afforded the opportunity to so shape their character. Dru, and the entire black portion of Y&R was so important for me to see when I did, I think I was about 14 when I discovered the show and after years of the ABCD soaps where the black characters were very very obvious secondary seeing black characters so prominently featured, their scenes given the same level of prestige and attention was revelatory to me as a young person. They regularly got episode ending cliffhangers! They intermingled with the whole cast! As much as I loved Angie and Jesse it often felt like "And here are our black friends!". They were wonderful and both Debbi and Darnell (my namesake and him especially) imbued their portrayals with plenty of "black" qualities having them so isolated limited them. You see, Dru, Neil, Malcolm and Olivia at least had each other to interact with. Their child should not have been the only other black person they knew! To bookend this, here's another Dru and Mini Dru scene that lives RENT FREE in my head:

Next Week: Kimberlin Brown in SHOCKING return

She ain't dead. This show is stupid.

I don't buy it. This is yet another "haha fooled you! they're not dead!" twist. How many times have they gone to this well with in the last 3 years alone on this incredibly dumb show?

She'd come back with two more.

He’s the first person I’ve set to ignore in literal years. He’s a contrarian to get a rise out of insightful posters like yourself who post with no ill intent. It’s a sad life but we can’t control how other people choose to conduct themselves. If coming on this forum to annoy others who just want to share their love of this medium gets his rocks off so be it. I just won’t be a party to it, nor should you @vetsoapfan because your comments are some of the absolute best here. So intelligently shared bringing your wealth of knowledge to us on a daily basis. Please don’t let the stupidity distract you!

I don't know how much guest actors earn but it's gotta be at least a grand, right? A thousand bucks for a few hours of work. Sign me up.

If they hired this Anglo-Saxon man so he'd look more believable as Dex's father I will laugh heartily.

This show is a joke.

My tin foil hat theory is that both she and Jennifer Bransford were temporary hires by Days and GH to better help the audience accept recasts of very popular departing stars. Grandma Madison felt like a relief after watching B movie worthy Charity. Oops I see @DRW50 posited the same theory. The funny thing about that ATWT scene is that I think Ellen Dolan was much worse than KMH. I think Emme Rylan (don't ever come back) and Maurice Benard should win some sort of award for how bad they were/are day in and day out. She in particular never gave one true note in any of her scenes, just a pretty actress reciting lines.

I've been forced to watch some of the past 2 days of this show and I'm astounded we're telling this type of lazy, tone deaf story in 2024. It's unwatchable and all I feel is sympathy for the actors who have to act it out. They're telling a story of this young girl basically being drugged and raped without telling that story. It's gross. She immediately believed Zende's version of events, they even had her say something like "Of course you wouldn't force yourself on me!". How do you know?? And how do the writers even enjoy writing this crap?

Let me see if I can recreate it. Drew after years of torture: 😁🤪 Drew after 3 months in prison: 🤬😡 It IS strange because Sonny and Nina haven't had a conversation about what happened since he found out. It's WEIRD. Finn, Chase and Mount Rushmore are the three dullest male leads I've ever seen. A whole episode about Ben Franklin hiding something about his illness yet again? Go. To. Hell. This is BORING. Laura and Anna, the mayor and commissioner of police, are besties with the local mob boss. How are we supposed to believe they're good at their jobs? This is bad writing.

You don't want daytime exclusively written by 70 year olds?? Those very familiar with daytime do the same shït (my forcefulness is not directed at you, just the recycle center that is daytime). May as well take a chance on unknown rather than the same old writers who largely get hired because they can handle the insane workload and not because they're good for the genre.

He knows who she is. He's just a jerk. I find Kin amusing but he's unquestionably kind of a jackass. John, sweetie, why are we posting 20 year old pictures of this man?

No he most certainly did not IMO. He gives bursts of well delivered lines but rarely does he give a solid scene. It’s unconscionable what he’s able to get away with next to actors like LW, MW, Genie, etc. committing to their art every single day. 👏👏