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Billy Flynn and Michael Roark stood out to me this week. Really good performances from them. For me, though, the stalker storyline is a dud. I don't feel any real sense of danger for Stephanie, and that's a problem. The stakes just aren't there. Combine that with a ridiculously stupid police department, and you don't have much.

Audra gets plenty of airtime. The problem is there's no growth with her. She goes from job to job to job, never staying anywhere for long. She makes devious plans in every position and then wrecks it before moving somewhere else. She does the same with every personal relationship: gets close to people and then wrecks it. It's all rinse and repeat with her, and I have a hard time caring about the character any more than I care about anyone else on this mess of a show.

-- At this rate, Naomi will tell everyone in town she has the cancer gene before informing her family. -- Leslie is batsh!t crazy. -- Derek isn't much better. -- Dani talks about how much she respects Andre, but she disproves that every time she gets near Bill. Her talks with him are disgusting. -- At Anita's and Vernon's age, shouldn't their estate planning already be in place? -- I'll take more Mona, but sex-starved Owen loving Jan can leave any time.

-- This Mariah mess is so bad I want to throw things at my TV and destroy it. -- Mariah has the worst therapist in the history of therapists. -- I don't care about Audra and her mistakes or why she made them. She has had a dozen chances since getting to GC and has wrecked every one of them, and not for good reasons. -- Sally. Please go away. -- I don't care about Amy, either, or whether she makes up with Audra.

I agree. The WSB has always been out-there stuff, but typical GH. Now? Making Joss a big part of it ruined it completely. None of it is remotely believable, and it ruins everything about the WSB, including Brennan. -- Did Wes Ramsey always play Peter August like he's doing Hamlet in Duluth community theater? -- Once again, this show is striking out with Britt. They get so many things right, but then wreck it all by writing characters as obnoxious and insufferable -- while expecting us to care about them.

I thought the same thing. It is INSANE to believe Jacob could go undercover for anything in that town. Just garbage.

More off screen bullsh#t. In other news, maybe Cane should visit Victoria's children and fill them in on all the messes and mistakes she's had in her life.

-- Elon goes to JOEY about his own son? No concern about putting his kid in danger by doing that? -- Would this blood plasma case really be handled by a local police department? -- Vanessa is such a whore. She has no empathy whatsoever about wrecking people's marriages. -- I still don't understand why a realtor making millions in a high-end market would risk any of that by running an escort service. -- Madison needs to dump Chelsea who claims she hasn't been her "authentic self" with Madison. Really? Does "authentic self" mean popping street drugs from a dealer? Girl is an absolute mess. -- Nicole gave face like she was OK seeing Ted and Shanice together, but she was clearly pressed. At first I wondered if Ted was being too much with Shanice in front of her, but I changed my mind quickly. Nicole is the one who moved on almost immediately WITH HER HUSBAND'S BEST FRIEND. -- And sorry, I don't see any chemistry between Nicole and Carlton. -- Tomas doesn't come off like law partner material in any way. -- Why is a partner-in-waiting spending so much time on Lynette's case? Makes no sense. Now we know the woman has no money. Gotta love these criminals who are always broke. -- Dani is embarrassing. She needs therapy for her sickening obsession with Bill.

This show never got past having kids being so overly involved in their parents' love lives that it's nauseating.

Exactly. That makes the show even more embarrassing. They take no chances, they push no envelopes, they take no advantage of what cable can do vs. the network. Many of us thought we'd get more of what Beyond Salem gave us, but no.

Yep. That's all we get as far as business stories. The biggest laugh I got this week was watching Victoria work on Newman stuff on her laptop at Crimson Lights. That's right. Their company is being destroyed by (the slowest moving of all time) AI program and she decides to use public Wi-Fi.

Nicole better be ok with seeing Shanice with Ted, because if she's not, I'll be back here to rip her a new one.

More good points. I also had trouble with some of the dialogue, including Jennifer telling Chad "We're taking your kids but we love you very much." Just tone deaf.

--No wife swapping for me either. -- I actually find it disgusting that Jack even goes to Nikki with his stories about Billy. Since when can Nikki be trusted? She eventually spills it all to Victor. -- Are we really supposed to care if Nikki runs Chancellor? -- Phyllis has a lot of nerve saying Billy fails at everything. Has she looked in the mirror? How many jobs has Phyllis had? How many times has she been fired? What are her successes except for being "the world's greatest hacker"? -- Why should we care if Billy gets Chancellor back? What difference will it make on this show where companies do everything and nothing?

I agree with all of that. Jeremy should be given much more to do than he has.

Rory Gibson has been incredible. I can't picture another actor doing more with these scenes while giving so much to other performers. This -- not screaming or crying -- should be the award-winning stuff.

Just watched today's show. -- It's a winner just for being Leo-free. -- Billy Flynn was really good today. -- I'm glad Chad brought up Jennifer's pill addiction. She's such a self-righteous and sanctimonious bitch. -- Thomas, go to bed. -- The Bereavement Book Club meeting was as dreadful and as deadly as I thought it would be. -- It was impossible not to notice Deidre's cold shoulder, which was turned 90 degrees away from Suzanne. -- If no one will tell DH to knock it off, they can at least turn Marlena's chair towards Julie's. Instead it was turned towards Maggie, making it even more obvious these two don't get along. -- Jeremy is looking so fine in that tight blue top.

Right. Instead they ruin Dimitri by having him fall in love with Leo. Are you kidding me???

RSW is a himbo whose acting is limited, but he looks good, so I'll take him every day of the week if the choice is between him and GR. At least he's not annoying as hell and an embarrassing stereotype. When Heated Rivalry has taken the world by storm, we are stuck with this complete embarrassment of a gay man. I know Rikaart is supposedly a great human, but I hate the character and the performance.

GH didn't record for me today on Xfinity, and I am so pissed. I checked Reddit, and seems as if it happened to a lot of us Comcast DVR users. I don't have Hulu, so I guess I have to wait for it to show up on the ABC site -- which isn't the date of airing.

Honestly, the actor playing Kyle would work better with a guy as a romantic partner.

I think they ask Greg Rikaart's husband, and that's it.

-- Shanice reading Anastasia was the best part of the show. -- Carlton continues to be excruciatingly boring. -- I still have problems with Ted being this forgiving to Carlton. -- Please don't give these writers any idea about Vanessa and Kial getting involved. No bueno. And again with that coffee set from nowhere? -- The cotillion story has promise. -- Jacob's anger with Marcel seems a little over-the-top. -- Naomi's excuses for keeping her BRCA gene a secret are so lame. No wonder her marriage has "quakes." -- Kind of weird that Naomi went to the hospital to get cancer gene info without an appointment -- and ended up talking to a doctor who's not even an oncologist. -- Someone here mentioned Eva and Izaiah as a couple. On Monday's BTS episode, I heard them reference Izaiah as a former bad boy. I still don't see any of that, and they need to do something to jump start that relationship.

-- I love Deidre Hall, but let's face it, she's the constant in every one of these alleged squabbles. -- If Leo is the most popular DAYS character in their testing, that means they spend as much on testing as they do on sets.

I understand not airing it. Although many people watch on streaming, there's still a linear TV audience that doesn't. Losing the numbers from the entire east coast means lower ratings for the episode and for the week. Why risk that with an episode so many people are waiting for? I think BTG should have pre-empted, too.