EricMontreal22

Yes! Right now for the most part she feels just like an annoyance that most of the characters can brush off (the Nicole scene notwithstanding.) She needs something new in her arsenal, or... anything...

Word.

100% It would make the character more interesting, absolutely, but *so far* I don't true that that's what they're doing either so it just comes off as bad writing...

That makes sense--Malone's writing didn't really find its proper shape until he joined as associate (then co) HW...

I thought Broderick had retired? But even in that last great We Love Soaps interview with Washam (was that 15 years back?) he made it VERY clear he had absolutely zero interest in working again lol I admit I kinda both laugh at and love the image of him now joining BTG or something though.

One of Agnes Nixon's requirements when she gave into ABC pressure to expand to an hour was that they would start archiving ALL their soaps (so does that go back to 1977?? That seems to be when we start seeing some full colour episodes pop up...) (Nixon has talked about how jealous she was that Dan Curtis had the wherewithall to archive DS from the start but said they never had the money to do so... Of course Screen Gems/Corday Productions did with DAYS and Y&R from the start too, and... whoever was in charge of Ryan's Hope. Even those B&W kinescopes don't help much with the 70s soaps--networks stopped making them by 1972 (largely phasing them out in 1971) which is why the half dozen+ we have of AMC are all from its first year, for example.

I shoulda read your comments before my post because... basically yes to all of this. Oh I did love Leslie's I assume adlib when she was squeezing past Smitty to her seat, something like "Aww your shirt matches the seat" (it did lol) Funny and in character because of course she'd have to say something...

Yeah, that's my justification for it too. (OK was that "jazz" song a new song as well? I expected sequences so keep that in mind while I nitpick.her to, I dunno, do something like Summertime which surely the rights wouldn't be too expensive for.) I loved that we did get full uninterrupted (albeit short) songs and enjoyed those But yeah, after hearing how these songs changed the world... And that one song wouldn't have even been a Supremes album cut. Didn't they in the end decide they would do more modern choreography (I admit all that part of the storyline lost me) because... they absolutely weren't. And errr how exactly did Chelsea update their costumes?? (And we saw a ticket with a $300.00 general admission on it which seems a bit steep for me--I just recently saw Kylie Minogue in floor seats for $175 Canadian --but I guess if this was a reunion the world had been waiting for I'll let that go...) Still, they did give *some* sense of it being at a sold out theatre, while barely showing any of the audience, which is much better than any soap I can think of has done with such things in ages, so... I haven't read all of the comments yet, so I'm not sure what's being said but the Ashley and Derek stuff is just a mess and I have no idea who the writers think we should be rooting for. Because Ashley's reaction to Derek was IMHO craycray after how eager she was to reconnect with him, etc. What the Hell was she expecting??

I will say--at the risk of TMI--that my first experience of sex was like K's--I just felt like I was going through the motions. In my own experience that was because of my own sexual abuse. But I don't think the show is going there.

...But what was Kat meant to say? "That was not very good at all"?

I love Eva. But yeah--I've seen better acting in porn than Tomas...

100%

I'm with you on Hayley. And on Tomas--I feel so bad for saying this but I still don't get why he hasn't been recast....

This was great. I know they'd never point out that the AMC reboot was centred around her and Jesse. I wish she'd get out of the Tyler Perry orbit and be somewhere else (Beyond the Gates?)

Love your recaps Maxim. This would have been just right around when I started watching. Is Josh Griffith in the credits yet?

Pretty much full 1980 OLTL (and GH). Interesting, Gordon Russell's name isn't in the OLTL credits--this is Oct 1980 and he died in early 1981. Was he already off OLTL with the plans to move him to GH?

The idea of Anita being so missed after... a week? that she has to return for one on one check ins with her extended brood is hysterical. And I'm here for it. I also am enjoying how petty Nicole has been. I have a well regarded shrink in my extended family--who I haven't had much interaction with during my life (mostly just because I'm much younger and she's always lived on the other side of the country.) But from all I've heard, she is the most to quick to judge other family members.

To be fair hasn't this been the way it's been? When we got repeats or no episode in the past (I think it happened twice?) we still had new Y&R and B&B.

I'm curious why they haven't (so far) also portrayed Kenny as a homophobe. Would that just be making the biggot too cliche? It just seems like if he has resentment towards "Black royalty" that would go as well to feeling he has "gay privilege" a theory a lot of resentment homophobes seems to think is a thing that exists.

I fully agree but this has been an issue with American soaps for a long time now it seems to me...

Eve and Thomas have so much in common--they both like reading (print and audio books) and wow they both like reading *fiction*! (Also I would never pick up a book called Mercy and Goodness yawn )

Right. The reason we get Y&R a day ahead and have for ages (and I think at one time did with DAYS too?) has something to do with the fact that it airs very late afternoon (it used to be 5pm where I live but now is 4pm) so at some point because it aired after the US air time--or so I was explained--that would default to the next episode. Or something. At any rate, this isn't the situation here.

Oh and love how Leslie seems fixated 24/7 on her agendas but finds time to chill out with a horror film...

Oh I actually like that Vanessa has an sex addiction (or more to the dangers of it it seems)--there's a lot that they can do with it. I just find the interactions we've seen with her and the men she roleplays with, always in restaurants it seems, are really weirdly scripted. I mean I know a bit about roleplay, and this is just weird *that's all I'll say* LOL "The breakdown for the episode was ok, but some of the lines were a bit off (except during the Anita scenes and the Smitty/Bill scenes)" Completely agree with everything in this statement. (And yeah, actually I find myself enjoying the low-stakes Anita storyline a bit to my surprise. Far more interesting than just hearing them yet again bragging about how important they were to "the cause" and at all these marches, etc. Even when Vernon proved such a bad singing--which of course we know the actor who has sung on Broadway isn't...)

I'll add that I did think the Bill/Smitty scenes were the best--played really well.