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I enjoyed Sally Sussmans writing. If I remember correctly she really favoured the character of Hillary and was writing a lot for her around that time. The Mariah & Hillary rivalry thing seemed odd but I liked just about everything else

Michaels whole storyline this year revolving around Victor & how he would suck a fart out of Victors a**hole just doesn’t sit right with me 😕 Glad to see Nikki and Victoria will be in L.A too. Hopefully that will make for some good scenes. I wonder if Claire will be annoyed with her mom breathing down her neck. Kyle is really coming across as simp-ish chasing after Claire. Maybe if he gives Claire some space she will actually start to become interested again.

All the creepy background sounds that the show used during any of Sheila Carters scenes were always my favourite. Made the hairs on my neck stand up 👀. I wish they could bring those back.

Yeah it’s pretty bad. This show could and SHOULD be able to do much better!

That’s also why I included “we shall see” in my initial comment because I have no idea if this is all we are getting or if there will be more, and neither do you for that matter. I don’t mind the L.A night club. It’s cute. It’s nothing special, but it’s fine. I didn’t exactly have high hopes for the set usage for L.A after what we witnessed earlier this year for the Dumas storyline. In some ways though, I’m just thankful we aren’t having to see the same 4 or 5 sets and atleast getting something different.

Oh, well probaly because I wasn’t referencing that article. “Sharon Case (Sharon) tells Soap Opera Digest that she’s loving every second of it. “We have new sets,” she enthused.”

February 2001 Coronation/post Coronation massacre episodes - Bradys luscious blonde hair I’m sure did not do him any favours for beating the allegations in 2001, especially in those hospital scenes with Marlena. The show should have just leaned into it. C*nty Brady is a whole vibe! Speaking of hair, Why did Sami decide to dye her beautiful blonde hair after the Coronation to that god awful orange/red colour? It doesn’t do her any favours. It needs to be just a tad bit darker so it’s more of a darker red and then it could totally work. I must have been tuning out at certain points cause I totally missed the part where the audience was in on Victor faking his death. I genuinely thought Nicole and Philip were grieving but was kind of confused why Philip didn’t seen more sad. If the audience was NOT supposed to be in on it, the reveal of Victor being alive should have been WAY more suspenseful and important but it literally was just a random scene after Kate and Lucas at the mansion on a Wednesday with not even any background music to build up the moment. Either way, it’s a good twist and I’m enjoying it.

Bacall is a weird last name too. It’s similar to ‘Tucker Macall’ except that name actually sounds better to me than this.

According to SC in her new interview from yesterday there is going to be a bunch of new sets. We shall see I guess?

Victoria Rowell is just as fabulous as I remember her being 20 years ago. She reminds me of Brenda Dickson but a lot less unhinged. How is she not on a soap?

Good. Hopefully Bo and Hope are still around too. I have been hearing the show has been improving so maybe I’ll give it another chance. I’m sad there’s no Sami or Nicole around to cause trouble though. Has there been anyone in the young set to take the place of Sami or Nicole as their successor yet? I find with Y&R they shy away from the ‘bad girl’ soap characters these days unless their name is Phyllis.. an even with her, the writing is TAME as hell compared to the 90s.

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I saw a clip of Days today of a recent episode and I’m like OMG who are these people? 🤣 the only person I recognized is Greg Rikaart and that’s because he was on Y&R. I haven’t even watched the show in probably 15 years so it’s to be expected that the cast would look very different by now. Good on Days for bringing up the next generation though and centering them. That is crucial for the evolution of soaps whether we like it or not. I wish Y&R would do the same.

I just want Y&R to crash in ratings. Badly.

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I do recall Lexie being a complicated character when I watched in the summer months as a kid in 2004/2005ish. She was one of those characters who were good but could be tempted to do bad things at times. She reminded me of Eve Russell on Passions (although I’m sure Eve was worst). Brady is just coming across as a spoiled little sh*t at the moment, so I’m happy to hear his relationship with Chloe gives his character a chance to evolve. I’m not really enjoying the Philip and Chloe pairing either so I’m glad that will eventually change.

My thoughts exactly. There seems to be no direction at all (with any storyline really) but especially with Phyllis. I don’t need Phyllis to be written off, but I just need her to be isolated to ONE storyline instead of like 3 at once. They want Phyllis everywhere, in everyone’s business at all times and it’s annoying. They do the same with Victors character and I hate it.

Yep Sheridan was put THROUGH it. That actress must have been exhausted playing her. More commentary on the January 2001 episodes: John/Marlena/Roman The conflict between them in these episodes centre about Brady and his hatred for Marlena. He’s a real brat. He’s like the male version of Sami in these episodes. I am actually rooting a for a Roman/Marlena reunion in this moment and just basing that preference strictly on this specific storyline (with no prior knowledge of their relationship from previous years), but John is annoying me for not being able to see how manipulative Brady is being. Bo/Hope I am just now finally starting to understand their storyline after about 20 episodes and the whole princess Gina thing. I gotta say that whole thing was pretty stupid. I’m sure it looked really cool on screen back then because they had the budget to pull it off and make it interesting but Hope thinking she’s princess Gina is not going to be a favourite storyline of mine. Lexie/Abe So Lexie has Bo and Hopes baby but doesn’t know it, an Bo and Hope have Marlo’s baby who was pushed down the stairs by Stefano? Do I have that right? Lol the whole thing was a little confusing to wrap my head around but I’m at the part where everyone is in Paris and Stefano is trying to convince Lexie to stay there (I’m assuming it’s because Stefano doesn’t want Hope to get close to her baby). I’m enjoying the internal battle Lexie is having with accepting that she is a “true DiMera”. Sami/Brandon/Austin/Greta This storyline is definitely among the most interesting ones for me right now because I love scheming Sami and the whole “tape” drama where Lucas confesses to killing Franco. Her and Kate are battling it out for who gets the tape and I’m obviously rooting for Sami but Kate’s scheming is very entertaining to watch as well. I also like the chemistry between Brandon and Sami. She finally has a man who is interested in her for who she really is but she can’t get Austin off her brain ofcourse. Nicole/Victor/Kate This is another fun storyline to watch but I’m slightly perplexed by Nicole’s motives because on one hand she seems completely motivated by money but on the other hand she actually seems to have real genuine feelings for Victor, so I guess I just need to keep watching. Victor is now aware that Kate put a hit out on him and has already exposed her to their son Philip who saw Kate screwing another man (yikes). I am rooting for Nicole because I can’t stand Kate, so whether it’s Sami or Nicole or takes Kate down, both would be equally delicious. Shawn/Belle/Mimi/Philip/Chloe I didn’t realize how corny the writing was for the teens back then. I thought that it was a new problem where writers just don’t know how to incorporate pop culture and lingo into their writing because they’re old. Well clearly they were just as old and out of touch back then too. All that aside, the writing and storylines are still solid and they’re doing a good job of building up these couples so the viewers become invested in them. I’m excited for when crazy Jan starts to really lose her [!@#$%^&*]. Chloe seems to be in a love/hate relationship with Brady and Philip is becoming jealous of that. That will end up becoming a solid triangle there. Shawn and Belle are adorable and I really loved the first Shawn, I can see the early signs of Mimi becoming a problem with them though. Jennifer Jennifer was really backburned during this time and kind of on an island. I have been enjoying her scenes with Alice at the Horton house but we don’t seem to know yet what’s really going on between her and Jack. Alice has set it up so that Jennifer is going to the Coronation in Paris and sending Jack there to meet her so I’m assuming there will be a reunion at some point (whether or not it’s a happy reunion though, I am yet to find out)

I’m watching Days from January 2001 onwards and I’m close to the Coronation episodes. I was watching Passions during these years but not Days (mainly because Passions was on after school and Days was not. It aired too early in the day here in Canada). The question I have which I’m dying to know, is if JER was purposely ripping off storylines from Days and writing it into Passions with just slight differences? I know he was head writer for Days in the 90s but it seems like his storylines for Passions are a rip off of what Days was doing after he left. Sami’s execution being the most obvious to me at the moment because JER did a storyline involving Theresa’s execution just a year later & oddly enough the plots are almost identical. Sami was being accused of Franco’s murder when it was really Lucas who did it & on Passions Theresa was on death row to protect Ethan for killing Julian & she took the blame. I’m sure I’ll pick up on more examples as I continue watching these early 2000s episodes.

I wanted Sharon Case to win. I feel like her Emmy is long overdue but I don’t know if the stuff she submitted was necessarily Emmy worthy. I saw the Heather s/l and I just feel like she’s been doing this over acting thing a lot lately and it’s so bizarre to me because SC has never had to do that in her acting. It’s one of the main reasons I always loved her. I still would have wanted her to take that Emmy though. Super super happy Susan Walters won. Well deserved. She is such a joy to watch and it’s so weird how I consider her as one of the vets even though she hasn’t been on the show for as many years as the others but she just gives that classic Y&R feel without having to try.

😂 I was like why is she right up there?

I’m talking about this category specifically. The reason for my comment is because this category had so many Y&R people.

Wow. Not a single Y&R person won. Well, atleast it wasn’t Michelle Stafford again.

Greg Rikaart pretending to be overly excited to over compensate for how pissed he is for losing 😆

I’m pretty sure you can rewatch the stream here: https://watch.theemmys.tv this is I’m watching right now on my fire stick