Darn

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. 👏👏

The dichotomy of Genie Francis, nearly 50 years into her career on GH, giving performances like the one she gave yesterday next to a lazy, ungrateful, utterly bored actor like Maurice Benard mumbling through all of his scenes is striking. This is the lead of the show?

Lauren B. Smith (Camille, ATWT) is in the first episode (at least) of Amazon Prime's Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She looks great.

What the hell does sister soaps even mean? Is that just a fancy term for spin-off?

The trick to getting around that is to have never watched those movies at all.

Lamman Rucker is so damn fine. And daytime still owes him for what they did to Marshall. I gotta say Tabyana just cannot do heavy emotional scenes. I didn't get anything from her yesterday beyond mild upset. And I don't know if it's just how her mouth is shaped but it looks like she's always on the cusp of a smile when she's sad. At least she can cry on cue.

Ew.