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Fabulous news. I’m not a Days watcher anymore and haven’t been for years but this is good news for soap fans all around!

Is there really any truth to the rumours of him coming to Y&R? I’m not familiar with his work. I was never an ABC soap watcher. I’ll take anything other than JG though at this point..

I actually like that idea of a recap episode weekly. CBS needs to reach out to Ali on YRChat from YouTube. She’s always enthusiastic about the show even when the show sucks a**. She’s just the type of person who would hype up the show for them week after week 😂 She has been recapping Y&R every WEEK since 2008.

Was totally getting Passions vibes with this S/L like the “who killed Alistair Crane” storyline. At least in that storyline all the characters had motive. He was the most hated character on the show by all the characters. Who tf would wanna kill Damien? It makes zero sense.

Whitney & Chad hooking up as brother and sister is another one. We could go on and on about Passions storylines being inappropriate though… 🤭

Sharon and Victor 🤢 Speaking of Passions, another one could be Theresa stealing Gwen’s embryos and then drugging Ethan & sleeping with him while wearing a blonde wig to get herself pregnant again after she believed to have lost Gwen’s baby.

Michael & Lauren were in today’s CDN episode, but yeah it’s pretty hilarious that we’re supposed to believe they’ve been there this whole time when they’ve barely been on.

So Nick & Sharon are being held captive in some dirty old room. Oh goodie, it’s not like we’ve seen this before!

Theres this really strange person who posts under all the Passions episodes talking about made up characters and storylines that never actually happened in the show. It’s like a fan fiction fantasy in their head & that name sounds familiar so I think it could be them 🤣

Done

I hated Gwen too for obvious reasons (even though I did have moments of empathizing with her during Sarah’s death. Liza Huber really shined in those scenes with her grieving Sarah.) Another character I hated (found to be really boring) was Grace but I was surprised at how much I actually kind of missed her once she was gone. Looking back, she was a pretty important character for the show and I felt like her exit was kind of symbolic at the time for when the show started going downhill. The Bennett family ended up becoming really fractured by the end of the show. Charity should have stayed too, they invested so much in her being a heroine in the show & I know she had her fans back then.

I think I’m gonna watch some more classic episodes tonight but I was wondering if someone could send me the YT link? The vault is great but not ideal.

Passions was THAT soap for us millennials growing up and it absolutely opened the doors for me to get into Y&R and Days. Y&R was always a bit too “mature” for me at the time. I was too young to follow the business storylines and such but I did eventually grow into it around 14 near the end of Passions. The issue with Passions I think is they kept all these triangles going way too long (literally the entire show). They should have shaken things up more. Theresa/Ethan/Gwen being the most notable but the Luis/Sheridan stuff was exhausting as well especially during the Antonio years.. (god we all hated him I think right?) I mean atleast Beth was crazy and interesting. The show always dug into the whole idea of people being soul mates and “star crossed lovers” which is fine to point but it limited the ability to like different pairings. The irony of it all is that JER spent the entire show investing in Shuis just to put him with Fancy in the end. What was even the point of any of that? He knew how to write interesting characters but his actual storytelling was awful and I never really realized that until I started discovering the other soaps and then I realized “oh this is why Passions got cancelled”

Not an EB fan, but he did have some interesting insight to give into the soap world so I quite enjoyed the podcast. Can’t wait to see Deidre Hall’s episode. One word - Queen!

HARD pass on pairing Holden with Phyllis. She looks like she could be his granny. I could totally see him with Amanda though.

I didn’t know Damien that well (only started watching the show again recently) so i won’t pretend I’m sad he’s gone. His character didn’t interest me much. He seemed quite boring actually.. ALL that being said, his death seems completely unnecessary. We’re supposed to believe anyone other than Cane or his dorky assistant could have done this? Who else has any kind of motive? They could have told this same story without having half of Genoa City involved. Nikki, Victor, Nick, Sharon, Phyllis, Billy, Sally, Michael, Lauren and more REALLY don’t need to be involved. If they wanted a story for Cane & Lily just do that? Why is everyone else there?……

Not sure what the obsession is with Lily being with a black man, but anywho. Since Damien is dead, how are we supposed to have a “whodunnit” storyline when most of these people barely even knew the guy. We know Cane has a motive obviously but other than that, what could possibly be the motive. Sharon disappearing because she “forgot something” is supposed to generate some kind of motive on her part I guess? And why just because she’s bipolar? She has no reason to kill Damien either. The whole story is a failure before even starting.

Amazing! Thank you so much.

I got curious today and decided to look up Blake Berris because I saw he was being nominated for an Emmy. I remember Nick and Chelsea from my time watching days when I was younger. Imagine my surprise when I checked Nick Fallon’s Wikipedia page & see Judi Evan’s, Stacy Haiduk and Christell Stausse as portraying the character. As someone who hasn’t watched the show in years I’m like HUHHHHH? Then I realized… oh it must of been another one of those bonkers DOOL storylines 🫣🤣

I’m curious if anyone knows where to find Y&R episodes from last year (2024). I just recently started watching the show again and just out of curiosity I’d love to skim through episodes from last year but I can’t seem to find them anywhere

This character is not Cane at all.. even his personality traits are different. I just don’t get this 😬 not even a Cane fan but I do value consistency and being true to the history of the show and this is just… bad..

I’d be happy to see Sharon or Eileen win. They both had big stories last year & did a great job.

It would be nice to see Sharon Case finally win this year but I won’t hold my breath.

I am at the end of February. I stopped for a couple weeks but I intend on getting back to it. Yes I’m still very much enjoying it but life got busy (had to do a couple weeks of night shifts)

Is this the longest someone has been EP and HW in recent history? Seems JG has been there for ever. That scares me because it makes me think we’ll never be rid of him and they’re just gonna let him drive this show into the ground.