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I agree. Of course, it's still odd to me that we're even talking about a spa/fragrance/cosmetics/skin care company on a show called GENERAL. HOSPITAL. (I'm sorry, I love a lot of what EK/PM are doing, but someone's gotta bring this show back to being exclusively about the hospital someday, lol.)

I had the exact same reaction when I heard it.

Now there's an ad campaign: "Deception -- It's Whatever You Want It To Be"! If Deception is a cosmetics or skin care company, then it DEFINITELY needs more than one line and spokesmodel. I mean, where's the line for WOC? Or "Deception Silver" for females 65 and over? How 'bout a non-GMO or cruelty free product line? You get what I'm saying, lol.

Exactly, lol!

I kinda like those episodes as well. They really shake up your expectations (which isn't easy for any long-running series to do) without turning MSW into an entirely different show. I just wish Lansbury and her team had taken more chances like that in subsequent seasons, because it seems like once they had cracked the formula, they never strayed from it not even a little bit.

LOL!! IKR? Especially in our current socio-political climate. Of course, there's no conflict in my concept, unless Lucy faces pushback from someone from within the company, but one major issue that I have atm with GH is that it operates as if it's still 2011. We've come a long way from that period of time, I think; and IMO, it's just not okay anymore for something like the FoD to be exclusively white and cis female. And I swear it started out as a spa, lol!

PREACH!! Demarco and Demetrius is one thing, but when you start having names like Synclavion or Telekeshia.... I will never forgive Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman for introducing on "Sisters" a black, male drag queen with the drag name "Chardonnay LeBlanc." I mean, you barely have any actors of color on your show, even as extras; and when you do finally give us one, that's who and what you come up with??

I'm very sorry to hear that. Edgar was highly respected w/in the theatre industry, and he had extraordinary tastes. His son, David, appeared in at least three episodes of MSW: "Moving Violation" (season 7, episode 13), "Murder on Madison Avenue" (season 8, episode 22) and "Threshold of Fear" (season 9, episode 16). Thanks, @DRW50, for sharing the news.

Similarly, I hope the African-American characters don't have stereotypically African-American names that don't really exist outside of the Maury show. But she was so GOOD at it:

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TBH, if I had my druthers, Lucy (or someone) would launch a whole new campaign: "The Face of Deception...is You." It would signify that, in this day and age, there's more than one standard for beauty; that every female, or every individual who self-identifies as female, is the "Face of Deception," because every female is beautiful.

Now I know what's missing from Cody and Sasha's story: a rich dude to be Cody's rival! Unfortunately, there aren't any Q's in Sasha's age range except Michael, and he'll probably be busy with whatever goes down with Drew, Nina and Willow. Unless...they're going for a Nina/Drew/Willow/Michael/Sasha/Cody hextangle.

ICAM!

I agree.

I'd love to see (on any show) a story about a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy for very simple and practical reasons and who doesn't suffer some form of retribution for it afterward. I'd also love to see a young vixen who isn't raped as punishment for "being bad," and a young heroine who doesn't lose her virginity to rape, too.

As long as Diane or Spinelli doesn't end up being the FoD, I really don't care, lol. I dunno, I'm funny when it comes to pre-teen and teen actors. Pre-teen actors, on the whole, irritate me, because they're so precocious that they make me wanna hurl. (It's been that way for me, in fact, since I had to suffer through Ashley Peldon as little Marah on GL - and I probably wasn't that much older than her at the time, lol). It's why I have no issues with soaps SORAS-ing characters as quickly as possible. On the other hand, when it comes to teens, I figure that they're going through their "awkward phase" IRL, and that there's probably a lot going through their heads atm, so I cut them *some* slack if their acting isn't the most polished. Like I said, I'm funny that way.

ICAM!!

Not necessarily! After all, friends have been known to fall out.

Another situation where you need Tracy's peculiar brand of snark to say what the audience is thinking. I'd love to know why Enzo was replaced. Was his performance during those fight scenes really that bad, lol?

I know I, myself, am getting pretty sick of having to delete all those thirsty, big-breasted 'bots from my list of followers.

Ouch, lol.

I don't believe @Vee has ever made on like he has. Yep. IIRC, he was Rauch's assistant before being promoted to stage manager. All I can say is, I'll be very curious to see how well THE GATES does with viewers and how TPTB at the other shows respond.

I agree. I know I've said this before, but to me, the final 2-3 seasons of DALLAS felt like nothing more than a parade of indistinguishable blonde women mixed with J.R. and Cliff's Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote-like antics.

If there's chemistry between that recast and TA, I agree.

I knew even as I watched it for the first time that there was no way J.R. would shoot himself.