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And he didn't have to strip down to his jeans, pump iron or pick a Hallmark Mystery movie heroine as his running mate to get there.* (*Although, if I'm being candid, Kamala Harris occasionally reminds me of a supporting character in one of their Christmas movies. You know, the one that's always reminding Candace Danica Lacey how important the office Christmas party is to the company?)

I remember when people were shocked that SSM was succeeding JER as HW at DAYS, and I was like, "If you (still) remember Aunt Mary and the moose head stuffed with diamonds, then you know DAYS is right up Sally's alley, lol." I think hiring Winther helped GENERATIONS greatly, because he zeroed in on the storylines that were working and made some much-needed changes to the cast with AMC vets like Dorothy Lyman, Debbi Morgan and Bob Gentry.

For me, the problem has always been that I am being asked as a viewer to invest myself emotionally in these mobsters, when I know what real-life mobsters do and the impact they have on our communities. Even though Sonny and Jason have been sanitized for our entertainment, that doesn't change the fact that in order for them to appear at all sympathetic to the audience, their adversaries, including those who work in law enforcement, have to be incompetent, psychotic or somehow more amoral than Sonny and Jason are by comparison. I'm not saying GH glamorizes or romanticizes organized crime - although, let's be honest, Sonny and Jason (and Luke) have received more than their fair share of propping over the years - but I do think it's irresponsible for any show not to portray the full reality of organized crime or even show these sociopaths - and that's who and what mobsters are, ladies and gents; they are, at their core, sociopaths - receiving true comeuppance in the form of lengthy imprisonment and/or death. I felt that way when shows like "The Sopranos" were all the rage, and I definitely feel that way in 2024.

They really have put Ava through the old ringer, haven't they, lol? To me, having Ava fall for Sonny as she simultaneously plots to ruin him would be an almost total retread of what happened between him and Claudia, and we all know how THAT turned out. (I just hope there's room enough for two in Claude's grave in the woods, lol.)

IDK if they were there at the beginning, but it would not surprise me to learn they were hired later.

Actually, @DramatistDreamer, I think there were at least three: Frank Dandridge, Judi Ann Mason and, of course, Michele Val Jean.

Better to be thrown under the bus than to be thrown out of the back of an ambulance!

It's possible that Ava and Billy Joel Valentin have separate agendas, but have teamed up to accomplish a mutual goal. But the question is, what happens to their alliance if/when they succeed in neutralizing Sonny?

I'm doing okay, thanks for asking, lol. This news is...interesting. And that's all I'm gonna say, lol.

I'm very worried about where that storyline might be heading.

We are so merciless on these poor young actors, lol. I, myself, tend to be like the late Sam Hall. I get very annoyed whenever I see an infant or toddler on TV who is clearly looking straight at the camera or up at the lights. That's all we can really ask for. I'm not expecting Steve Burton to turn into Larry Bryggman. I just want him to try. Give the new writing team something to work with!

I truly believe the man just wants to be a Chippendales dancer.

All I really know about RFK Jr. is that he thinks vaccines cause autism, that wi-fi gives you cancer, and that the way to the WH is to let people record you pumping iron with no shirt on.

It'd be like watching "Good Times: The Next Generations."

To me, it seems a little strange for anyone, let alone for Anna, to recruit a former (?) mob enforcer for the police department - I mean, wouldn't it be the other way around, lol? - but, like @Vee said, I don't think Dex is long for this show, so whatever. I don't hate it.

I agree! I'm surprised MAB didn't have him running an all-sandwich food truck, lol. It is! Or, it would've been. To me, though, it was frustrating how the one, semi-wealthy African-American family on soaps had to run a bunch of Baskin-Robbins knockoffs while their white counterparts got to fry much bigger fish, running oil companies and media conglomerates. Especially when you had the real-life Johnson family IN Chicago running Ebony, Jet and BET. On the other hand, at least Sally Sussman had the decency to spare us all from "Marshall's Famous Fried Chicken."

You know you've messed up when Chuck Todd says, well, anything.

What if Elizabeth Korte and Patrick Mulcahey are about to pull a Josh Griffith and handle all the breakdown/outline-writing duties themselves?

I concur!! As loathe as I am to admit it, JER is EXACTLY who and what DAYS needed in '93 to "rescue" them from the bottom of the ratings barrel.

I wouldn't say he's "hot as hell," but he definitely has become a very handsome young man, lol.

There was a lot going for CAPITOL, especially when Peggy O'Shea and (later) Henry Slesar were writing it.

Why do I feel like you should be telling us this inside an empty parking lot, with your face obscured by shadows and cigarette smoke?

I'm sure the soap press would have criticized it, but at least Bill and Luke were cousins. I still don't know what, if any, connection Tad and Ted had beyond looking alike, lol.

AFAIC, Thomas could wait the next 1000 years until Hope is ready to marry him. He stalked her and terrorized her for months on end. He deserves to be left twisting in the proverbial wind.

Sorta brings new meaning to the phrases "hold the phone" and "off the hook." At the time, I loved watching the "Who Killed Georgie Phillips?" story. For me, it was the first time I was riveted by anything that OLTL was doing since at least 1991, lol. And I thought the climax, which aired in primetime, was particularly tense and riveting. In retrospect, however, I can look at that story and see the excesses.