Khan

Here's how I would describe S7 of KNOTS: imagine what happens when a nice kid who's into art and theatre decides to start taking HGH so he can join the football team and finally impress his emotionally distant father.

Perhaps, they did, but I also think that Friday night just was the wrong night for that kind of show. I mean, I get the counter-programming strategy, but I also think NBC needed to take into account the typical viewing habits of most young adults during that period. True, ABC's younger-skewing TGIF lineup had been successful in the past, but I think that was because the majority of their audience were families and pre-teens who were allowed to stay up later on Fridays because it wasn't a "school night." The kind of audience that a show like RT needed - teenagers, college-aged kids, young adults in their 20's and 30's - aren't gonna be home as often on Friday nights as families and little ones.

I agree. With some notable exceptions - such as "Murder, She Wrote," which finally got its' own "channel" on PlutoTV! - streaming services and OTA channels can overlook a lot of great shows from the '70's, '80's and even '90's. My recent experience has been that it's either the "newer" stuff that's offered (and by "newer," I'm talking about shows from the '00's and '10's) or it's whatever is still viewable from the '50's and '60's.* And that's just from the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC)! Once you include early FOX, UPN, The WB and early cable and first-run syndicated shows, the pickings get even slimmer. That's why I encourage others now to hold onto their DVD's and Blu-rays of their favorite series and, if possible, purchase or re-purchase them wherever they can, because even if there's a chance that a "Picket Fences" or a "Northern Exposure" were to pop up again on another streamer or OTA channel, it won't last forever there either. There are so many past shows out there, waiting to be viewed again, but these streamers and others have only so much "space" for them all. *Recently, I've been reminded all over again how many frigging western shows they made BITD, lol.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I want y'all to give a good, ol'-fashioned Salem welcome to this young man who's gonna take the country music world by storm! Mr. Johnny Lee DiMera!"

That's what I'm saying! But, apparently, I'm the biggest [!@#$%^&*] of all time, because I happen to think a nice guy who is pulling down a paycheck is in fact all wrong for the role and should be released from his contract ASAP.

At this point, I think that's the only way you could revive the Hortons. Addie, Alice, Bill, Laura, Mickey, Tom and (presumably) Tommy all have passed away (and should remain deceased, IMO, because there's been more than enough resurrections on this lousy show). Steven Olsen could return, but I think it would have to be after you were to introduce his children and/or grandchildren and make them a vital and pivotal part of the show. Otherwise, there's no way to justify such a random return of a long-forgotten character. (Same goes for Sandy Horton, and whatever other offspring you could conjure up for Tommy Horton, whose post-Salem life remains shrouded in mystery). Marie is the only offspring of Tom and Alice's who is still alive, as is her daughter, Jessica; but unless Nick has a twin brother or other siblings out there, there's really no place anymore on the canvas for Nick's mother and grandmother. Fortunately, Hope, Jennifer, Lucas, Michael and several of their respective offspring remain alive. Next to dreaming up insta-Hortons, they're probably your best bet for reviving the Horton clan. Of course, even under the best of circumstances, some characters from that set would be easier to bring back than others. (I pity whichever HW is actually tasked with bringing back Jeremy, lol).

Who knows? If Frank Valentini takes a liking to him, he could wind up playing all those characters and more!

ICAM! I still believe P&G would have asked Douglas Marland to "rescue" AW at some point after 1993. ATWT was still great to watch when he died, but I think you could tell where he was getting restless, too. I still look at how he had changed his mind about who Carolyn Crawford's murderer should have been as a sign that something was wrong with him.

I wish she had stayed longer, too. There was an intelligence to her and to Rick Edelstein's work that I think was missing from most other HW's for that show. Her work could be entertaining and dramatic without resorting to melodrama.

If only you people could remember this more often, it'd make life so much easier! But seriously. Drew developing a sexual attraction to the woman who turned him into the authorities (and vice-versa) sounds twisted af, but it's exactly the kind of edgy, heat-generating psychosexual drama that was GH's stock-in-trade in the past, and what the show desperately needs right now. It doesn't make any sense, but it doesn't need to: Drew and Nina can't stand each other now, but they can't get enough of each other either. As long as you keep it all kinky and envelope-pushing, and you don't water it down the way Valentin and Anna have been watered down, that's all ye need to make that combo work.

Personally, I don't think any of Nikki's battles with the bottle have been interesting. Nor does it make sense to me that Jack is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict himself. (Sex addict? Maybe. Drug addict and alcoholic? No). If anyone on this show should be an alcoholic, it should be Jill. I've always felt Jill should have ended up like Kay: a rich, old lush with a yen for hot, younger men. Oh Lord, lol.

It's the perfect time to introduce Cindy Cassadine.

I agree. Supervillains should have died off (and stayed dead) a long time ago.

We can only hope. Personally, I don't get Doug and Julie reminiscing about Tom and Alice, even if it is (or was) Tom and Alice's home originally. I mean, wouldn't Doug and Julie reminisce instead about the times they themselves spent in the house (complete with flashbacks to actual previous episodes)?

I guess this is the part where Paramount+/Paramount+ with Showtime employees just throw up their hands and sigh, "Well, as long as our paychecks still clear the bank." Also, wasn't it not long ago that there were talks of Warner Bros. Discovery Aldi's merging with Paramount Global Petsmart? Has Shari Redstone decided that running her dad's business all alone is just too hard?

I prefer "CBS Mornings" to the others as well. GMA and "Today" just try too hard to be "sunny" entertainment.

I could be wrong about this, but I've always suspected that Phillip Chancellor was an opportunist who had preyed upon the widowed Kay Reynolds, took over her late husband's company (and renamed it after himself) and turned her into a drunk before leaving her for a younger, prettier woman. But, again, I'm probably wrong in my interpretation.

Recreational axe throwing. What will you white people think of next? (Relax, I'm joking.)

The perfect name for an all-girl funk band.

Perhaps he's taken after A.J.?

I think KL always meant for Joshua to be an antagonist, but given what we now know about Michael Filerman's personal distaste for Alec Baldwin, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Filerman made the other producers and writers lean harder onto that in order to force Baldwin off the show.

GH called Laura Baldwin's rape "a seduction"; DAYS calls Laura Horton's rape "an affair." God give me strength.

Ah! Okay. I got it now...I think...? Anyways, here's one I'd add to the list: Jacqueline Courtney's performance as OLTL's Pat Kendall, when her character learns that Talbot Huddleston, Karen Wolek's first john (of many, so many she still, to this day, doesn't remember all their names), was the hit-and-run driver who killed her young son, Brian. I could understand Pat literally going for Talbot's jugular when Karen drops that bombshell in court (even though, I still want to know why no one in the courthouse didn't rush toward her the minute she got up from that bench), but between the timing of that revelation (mere minutes after Karen confesses her hooking to all of Llanview, and to Larry) and the pitch of Courtney's voice and actions in that moment...it just did neither actor nor character any favors. In fact, it kinda gives credence to the long-held rumors that then-EP Joe Stuart was having an affair with Courtney and viewed her as the star of the show.

So, does that mean Reese was really Bobbie's long-lost daughter?