Khan

Once upon a time, DAYS was awfully good at tender moments such as this. I wish "those DAYS" were still here.

The prose is a shade purple...but it fits.

Damn. 2020 cannot be over soon enough. May God be with Ms. Reinking's loved ones, and may she RIP.

Agree. He's not fighting to remain in the WH because he loves the job so much, or because he hates to lose, but because he knows SDNY has his metaphorical number.

Everytime Doug and Julie/Bill and Susan look at each other, it's like looking at them fall in love with each other all over again. Doug and Julie, and Bill and Susan, are what DAYS and soaps in general are all about.

I'd love to see someone like Linda Dano portray a more subdued, less campy version of Vivian. IMO, that's the only way that character will have any staying power. Otherwise, forget it.

So many fast-food containers to pick up, so little time.

Brandon Barash's reaction to the news is especially interesting, lol.

In retrospect, IA that maybe GL wasn't Sheri Anderson's kind of show. (She was much better at DAYS and GH). But, at that time, I was still watching GL everyday, and I was still loving most of what I was seeing.

Agree. And if bringing back Quint wasn't in the cards, then all they had to do was kill him off. Hell, he could have been PRESUMED dead, lost on one of his archeological expeditions or something. Suggesting he had cheated on Nola? Quint wouldn't have done that.

It'd be a PERFECT opportunity, I would think. But, I would want a PP reboot to be set in the present-day. I don't think one set in the '50's or '60's would be too niche these days to reach a wide enough audience.

TBH, I think John Sanderford was the only Frank who didn't quite "work" for me. He just seemed a little too "Hollywood casting" for me -- like, if Bill Bell and/or John Conboy were responsible for casting the role.

You know, it's too bad no one thought to reboot PP during the recent reboot/revival craze in H'wood. In the right hands, a PP reboot might have been fun and awesome to watch.

Frankly, I'd rather discuss Helen Gallagher's lengthy B'way career.

Oh, no, not Squiggy!

IOW: same old, same old.

True. But, you know, even if Nina Laemmle had set out to graft an entire new soap onto DAYS, she still needed to make the new characters and their predicaments interesting to the audience. So far, from what I am reading, she's failing. Miserably.

ROFL! Yup!

Of course, we would be remiss not to mention the feud between Lana Turner and Jane Wyman on the set of FALCON CREST. From what I have read over the years, their feud stretched all the way back to their days in the "studio system;" and apparently, things got so tense between them on FC that whenever the two actresses had to share scenes, they would film each actress' side separately, then splice them together in editing. RE: Nicollette Sheridan -- I know I've read that the other, older actresses on KNOTS LANDING (Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, etc.) weren't all that friendly toward her, but I chalk that up more to the fact that she was younger and receiving a large amount of story and screen time rather quickly. Not exactly apropos, but I'd love, love, LOVE to see someone (besides Ryan [!@#$%^&*] Murphy) do a movie or mini-series about the Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato relationship and his death at the hands of her daughter, Cheryl Crane.

I'd still love to know whether Bill Bell had any plans for Tommy that never came to fruition. If Kitty was always meant to die, then what, if anything, did he have in mind for Tommy beyond bringing him back from the dead and having him unwittingly fall in love with his own sister?

A triangle involving Mac, Alice and Steve will never make sense to me.

Same. Tom suffers a stroke, and Alice and Marie fall out over how best to care for him. Where on Earth CAN you go with such a story? Was Marie going to fight Alice in court to have Tom declared incompetent, or what? Perhaps -- and this is just speculation on my part -- the idea was to place Julie in harm's way in order to facilitate a Doug/Julie reunion. But, heck, those two had their hands full with Lee and Brent and whatever THEY were up to. Adding Kellam and the mystery of his wife's death to the mix is just plain overkill (no pun intended). Gawd, even Dena Higley wasn't this messy, lol.

I don't even understand Kellam appointing Marlena the "staff psychologist," let alone spokesperson. Is it common practice for political campaign staffs to have staff psychologists? Was Nina Laemmle attempting to foreshadow Marlena's rape? If so, I think she's doing an awkward and clumsy job, especially when she's muddying the waters by having Kellam become...infatuated with Julie. Perhaps, Julie was intended to be Kellam's victim, but they changed course (perhaps, because Julie was already a victim of sexual assault). In my mind, Tommy relocated to Maine, remarried and legally adopted his new wife's child or children.