Darn

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.

I think it's clear they value Chavez a lot and want to keep the door open for his return.

Decades spanning male feuds are few and far between but Victor & Jack have got to be at the top of the list.

I never thought I'd be one of those fans but here we are 20 years later and I'm still missing Heather Tom as Victoria. Sigh.

He's perfectly in line with Murphy's brand of boy. Handsome, fit, white, young. He could easily shift to one his other shows or get enough attention from this and parlay it into other roles. I hope he's successful, he's a rare talent.

Ashley and Traci arrive in Paris. By phone? Or have their walled off a corner of Crimson Lights' patio to serve as "Paris"? This show wouldn't even pony up for the stock footage establishing shots GH uses when characters go to other countries.

I am so sorry. Yet concerned.

Let's just have every formerly employed mid-tier soap actor play Lucky on alternating days since quality doesn't matter. Daniel Cosgrove IN as Lucky Spencer Mondays on ABC! Justin Bruening saddles up every Tuesday as Lucas Lorenzo Spencer this fall! Is it Wednesday? Let's wear pink! Jonathan Bennett's triumphant return to daytime on General Hospital! Jordi Vilasuso, fresh off an Emmy nominated (probably, idk) stint on Y&R, steals the show as Luke and Laura's offspring every Thursday! And finally, Colin Egglesfield turns in a tour de force performance as Detective Lucky Spencer every Friday on ABC's lone daytime drama!

Probably doesn't count but Bethany Joy Lenz nabbing (or rather being handed) the role of Michelle after playing young clone Reva was obviously an enormous hit.

Those Y&R spoilers are not story beats. It's NUTS they can get away with this.

I'm pretty sure JJ left of his own accord, the show wasn't happy to lose him. I can't recall if it was for college or just to spread his wings.

They have very similar looks. I wonder why they recast.

And she was never to be seen again. Good riddance.

I think if not for the job security at B&B Clifton would jump at the chance. At least on GH he wouldn't have to repeat the exact same dialogue day in and day out.