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I've had problems with that from the jump. It just doesn't work, down to seeing the actual awatds on her mantle and shelves. None of them look like the real thing. There was no reason to make her one of the most celebrated entertainers in the world.

Back from the dead is a soap opera staple. We all know that.

-- I hated that Anita put her solo up to a vote. What a completely bitchass move. This is doing no favors for Anita/TT. -- For a scene showing "Chelsea changes the show outfits," it should have taken place at least a week ago. Hours before the concert? No. I don't like hand-waving away those types of things. -- Actually, adding a solo right before the concert is also ridiculous. -- Barbara was mentioned so many times today. I trust the show won't have her sitting in the audience. If that happens, I will gag. -- And what are they having Samantha do, asking her to mimic the moves of the Articulettes? This family is able to do everything with no notice. Amazing. -- The moments with Nicole as Martin's mother? Excellent. Playing therapist? Don't like it. I think Nicole should know better.

I'm happy for a new set, but a bookstore? Really? I'd rather see Julie running a store with antiques and tchotchkes.

They paid for the arrangement, but not for the original with Cole and Natalie. I'll give them half-credit. The male singer was a decent carbon copy but the female was not. I'm sure the cost would have been astronomical.

It did look good, but once again the fashion disappointed. Nothing special about any of it. And to what end is Luna alive? So she can come back and go directly to jail? If it's just to send her off without anyone knowing, what's the point?

I want someone to shake Rocco and call him an idiot. Britt raised him for under a year, right? Yet now he's talking about her and Obrecht knowing his favorite food was avocado and his favorite color was green. He thinks they must know even more about him. Are you kidding me with this stuff? If Rocco were with Britt for 3 or 4 years, I would understand this. But months? No. And no, Rocco, you don't have "another mother."

-- I think the show wants us to feel sorry for Eva. I don't. I want to shake her for thinking Tomas is in any way a prize. -- Alex Alegria is so terrible as Tomas that he takes the heat off anyone else's acting. -- The Andre/Ashley scenes were cringe, mostly because of Ashley acting like a 16 year old. This isn't The Summer I Turned Pretty. -- Ashley's talking about her dreams and future. Didn't she just recently become a nurse? Is her dream a red balloon in Paris? -- Why wouldn't Ashley even kiss Andre? Sorry, I don't find that normal. I just don't. -- And Ashley can stop worrying about Derek, period. It just makes her look more immature and pathetic. -- I feel as if the June story is being written the same way the Martin story was written. We're getting information in dribs and drabs instead of realistically. The actress playing Regina is good, but I still don't care about who those kids are or about June's future. -- Why did Eva give her mother the entire check? Why not give her part of the money and not all of it? Let her get her bills paid, get her life on track, etc. We know she blew $50k in a couple months and she'll do the same with this check. -- I hope there's a plan for Leslie, because what we're getting is repetition. -- Joey and his backroom casino continue to be skeevy. Sorry, I can't stand the character. All he does is make Vanessa look like an even dumber slut. I have no idea why she finds his persona attractive.

I have a really hard time with this. I know Belle has a job to do, but to go at Johnny this hard? It doesn't make sense. And yeah, I'm ignoring that Belle and EJ make not sense as lawyers here to begin with. But at some point, you need to have a trial that makes SOME sense and doesn't again hit you in the face with ridiculousness.

You're mistaking Jacob for a character we never met.

Yeah, that's what I said over a week ago. No tumor.

Huge mistake killing off another legacy character. Even worse was the lack of respect for the character Chance in the last scenes. Wouldn't all these people who knew him so well and even loved him talk about him? Instead they talked business. We got shots of everyone else but not Chance.

More annoyed me than not on today's show: -- Tomas asked Kat how the sex was. She replied "Lovely," which is not what someone Kat's age would say. Tomas went further, saying "That's something you say about your auntie's potato salad." What? Who wrote this dialogue? -- Kat's entire response to the sex seemed off, because it was pretty much NO reaction. I don't think that's realistic from someone like Kat. She wasn't happy, she wasn't sad, she wasn't regretful, she wasn't emotional. She was nothing. -- Kat possibly being asexual? Sorry, there's no future in that on a soap. -- Tomas? He was a robot, as usual. -- I was glad that Ted turned down Leslie's money grab, and like everyone else, I'm wondering what she did with the $50k. Still, I don't like seeing Eva AGAIN allow herself to be used by her mother. Yeah, there's trauma and breaking those chains and all that. I'm aware, but I don't want Eva playing both sides all the time. -- Did I hear Andre call Ashley "Nurse Baddie"? Are you kidding me? In what effing universe is she a baddie? -- For being a main hub at Garland Memorial, that nurses' station has so little activity it's hilarious. Ashley takes breaks at will. Why not, when there are no patients in sight? Only Shanice saved those scenes. -- Ashley saw how Parisian Andre decorated his apartment for her and said "The is the greatest thing anyone has ever done for me." Kill me now and light me on fire. -- It's so obvious that Samantha and Tyrell are June's kids that it HAS to be a misdirect. It's way too paint-by-numbers, so I hope to God we're being fooled. -- If S and T are June's children, I do not want to see a ridiculous custody fight...not when the kids were legally adopted and saved from a very bad home life and a mentally ill mother. -- I'd still like an explanation as to why that photo June carries around looks like it was taken in 1962.

Have to agree with you. I think a lot of beats were missed at that wedding. After last week's excellent build up, this was really disappointing. Instead, I found myself annoyed at how shrill Cynthia Watros played Nina in that Drew confrontation. Good actor, bad choices.

I'm kind of stunned that Willow didn't marry Drew. I think there was more and better story to play if she had.

I agree completely -- to the point that I think it's unfair to mention Brandon Claybon in the same discussion with Alex Alegria. Claybon has had some "That Is Not Good" moments, but he's also been solid in others. I think he wanted to do a particular take on Martin from the beginning and that it took a while for it to work, and a while for us to accept it. Alegria has been bad from the start, to the point where I feel bad for being so critical. I looked at his acting resume, and I cannot believe he's still in the business. Every line reading is flat, from saying "Yes, Boss" to Bill all the way to a sex scene with Kat. That sex scene should have resonated MUCH more with the audience than it did. That it didn't register much at all isn't because of Colby Muhammad, that's for sure.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Alex Alegria is awful. For a time, I thought "At least he's good to look at and has a great voice." But that is not enough. Great looking Latino actors are all over the place. I cannot believe how awkward and stilted Alegria is, and he's not getting any better. Scenes without music? When Alegria is onscreen, they need to crank up the entire orchestra. The guy is in a major love triangle with two half-sisters and he brings no heat to any of it.

I think she's excellent in the role, but I think Colby Muhammad is just as good playing Kat. I don't see this huge gap in talent between them that others see. It's not that CM is criticized, but that she's almost ignored because AM is mentioned so often.

I agree with this. Kat is a well-written character and Colby Muhammad does a great job with the role. She gets less attention than Ambyr Michelle as Eva and is often ignored as someone doing a really good job.

Agree with this. It's part of the reason I'm struggling with this June storyline. It feels like they're throwing in EVERYTHING ever said about ANY homeless person.

Josh Morrow is an awesome looking 51. Shirtless and misted up to glisten? Yes, please. They really should have pushed that angle. Of course, this is Y&R, which pretends gay males don't exist except to set off all the gaydar alarms. Yeah, I caught those Billy Flynn cakes, too. Even in the dark slacks, Dat Ass was looking good! A couple years ago, I responded on X to a photo of Billy's perfect butt in tight jeans. I thanked Billy for sharing that with us. Billy liked my post, which made my month 😂

I've made my disgust with Sonny as a character and Mo as an actor clear, and then some. Still, I agree the show would be crazy to kill him off. That would be a self-inflicted wound that would haunt them.

The preview show B&B in Italy next week. Nick Marone is there, looking like a sightseeing lesbian who lost her backpack.

-- June paying the restaurant bill with Monopoly money was not cute or sweet. Is she that out of touch with reality? Maybe Naomi should be real with her instead of going along with all the craziness. -- June's rudeness to others -- like the waitress -- isn't cute either. If writers want me to be on her side, stop writing her like she's either crazy or ignorant or vile. -- Tomas is a scumbag liar, but Kat willingly -- and stupidly -- gave it up. She waited all that time for someone she accused cheating on her minutes before? -- That "love scene" was not hot and it was not sexy. Even the sex scenes are awkward for Alex Alegria. Plus can someone tell these guys that pursed lips kissing does not look hot? -- We know Kat wasn't on birth control. We better not get a knocked up Kat. -- I don't know about the rest of social media, but Reddit was mad as hell at Tomas and the writing today, with many saying the scenes were clearly written by a man and that the entire thing was degrading to Kat.

I do not understand the reasoning behind getting rid of Peyton Meyer as Doug3. His work with Susan Seaforth Hayes should have been enough to keep the character on the show. It's enough to make me side eye these new writers. Every time I credit them with saving us from Ron, they do something like this -- the same day annoying Susan is back to ruin every scene she's in.