Darn

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.

I can't help but think at some point someone from Meg Ryan's team just made this up to add more to her legacy on ATWT.

An open secret you can see on his face every time he's onscreen! Brook does an exceptional job in an underwritten part, she add nuance and pathos that don't exist on the page, every day she makes so much out of so little. @Vee and I often joke that Donnell will only be happy when he's finally paired with one of the many blonde, white women on the show. As soon as Nina and Sonny broke up I'm sure he started panting.

Comic books are soap operas with superpowers. Some of the best selling issues of comic books center around WEDDINGS. Best known comic book stories? Characters coming back from the dead. If soap operas could they would also perpetually write everyone as if they're 35. Oh wait, they do.

You need a verifiable source, it can't be "he told me" lol. How about some of the ones where it's claimed Irma or Agnes (I can't remember who) killed off a family in a plane crash? Or having someone fall up the stairs?

They didn't even try to redress it! And Spencer and Trina didn't talk about the last time they were on a boat AT ALL. I genuinely thought Spencer was going to say "I had the Haunted Star rebuilt for us!". Donna, tell us more. I feel physical pain for Brook Kerr. Here we have an actor so committed and earnest and giving a portrayal of a woman deeply devoted to a man who looks at her like she's an unattractive waitress at his favorite restaurant.

It's funny because in the 90s and early 2000s soaps were lambasted for unceremoniously getting rid of vets and filling the casts with hair models and now they're drowning in characters with 40+ years of history. Y&R is nothing but veteran characters with decades of exhausted story written as if it's still 1995. And they put no effort into any newer character. I think the last "new" character they genuinely invested in still on the canvas is Adam and he joined the show as an adult over a decade ago. GH can get rid of Finn, his brother, his father, his child. The entire family GONE. Bye. Along with Cody, Sasha, Dex (that or recast, a mob hitman should not be perpetually on the verge of sobbing), Curtis, Jordan, Uncle Remus (sorry to that man), Molly, TJ. Have I eliminated most of the black cast? Yes. Why? They suck. Portia and Trina have all the potential, build out of them. And finally Valentin. I'd bookend James Patrick Stuart's soap career and do a big "Who Killed Valentin?" story. Use one of the characters we're getting rid of as the culprit.