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Yeah, but it's Mitt Romney. It's kind of like Caligula telling Nero to pump the brakes.

In a way, that's how I feel about the first JER era to the present. I can connect to the Bill Bell/Pat Falken Smith era (that is, what little I've been able to see/read about it) and I can connect to the Pat Falken Smith II/Maggie DePriest/Sheri Anderson/Leah Laiman/Thom Racina era. But, once JER entered the picture, I felt like DAYS had regressed into something I never wanted to see or see again.

I think AMC lost a lot when they let go of scenic designer William Mickley and costume designer Carol Luiken. The two lent such a distinct visual feel to Pine Valley and its' denizens. You really felt like PV was a Main Line town in PA.

Let's put it this way: knowing everything that I know about Cybill Shepherd, it makes it very difficult for me to enjoy "Moonlighting," a show that I LOVED as a kid.

Have I mentioned how much I appreciate these monthly recaps, @beebs? They have REALLY lifted my spirits. Reading these synopses, however, I get the feeling that DAYS was a show in desperate need of new direction. We all can complain from now until doomsday how much the '80's ruined the show with all the run-and-gun stuff, but the truth is, there was no way the show could revert back to the Bell/Falken Smith style of storytelling. The ratings were dropping, and there was really no one around who can do that famous style of storytelling as well as Bell and PFS.

Sorry to hear about your sister, @Taoboi. I'll be praying for you and your family.

Meh. Bish had it coming.

IA, Alex and Marie's backstory is UGLY. I'd be okay with the ill-fated romance and maybe Jessica's conception, but the S&M and the drugs (and the murder/accidental killing)? Elizabeth Harrower, or whichever HW dreamed up that aspect of their past, went entirely too far.

Sorry to hear about your ex, @Vee, and about Richard Schiff and Sheila Kelley, too. Donny Boaz, OTOH.... *shrug*

Honestly, Emily Murphy looks like an SNL cast member.

Agree. If nothing else, Laura's death would have freed up Bill to pursue a real romantic relationship with Kate Winograd.

Yep, it's Nancy. It must've been while she was still on "Matlock." BTW, that's James Kiberd (ex-Mike, LOVING; ex-Trevor, AMC) in the Advil ad; and Janet Zarish (ex-Natalie, ATWT; ex-Lee, OLTL) in the Vaseline Intensive Care skin ad.

Exactly. Which is why I don't agree with merging Kate Roberts' history with that of Dr. Kate Winograd's. Doing so makes Kate's history far too contradictory and convoluted -- and that's not even including the ridiculous backstory of her being Stefano's prostitute. My theory: Sheri Anderson intended Kate Roberts to be Austin and Billie's long-lost mother, but Lucas would have been either Curtis' son as well (she was pregnant when Curtis beat her and dumped her on the side of the road), or the product of some affair with another, more sympathetic guy. It was JER, therefore, who muddied the waters by making that other guy Bill Horton and tying their affair into Laura's mental breakdown. At the VERY least, he could've written that Bill and Kate had hooked up AFTER Laura had been committed to the sanitarium, and Bill had left Salem. Bill could've even told Laura, in her catatonic state, that he'd fallen in love with another woman; that they were going to have a baby; and that, because of Curtis, the two had planned to leave and start a new life far away from her abusive husband (thus prompting Curtis to nearly kill her and separate her from their children). That way, you achieve the same results (namely, the revelation of Bill and Kate's affair/Lucas' conception, and the effects it had on their families) without contradicting what viewers had witnessed back in '79. But, nah, JER just took the hacky way out.

I've always believed that if we, the viewers, didn't see something happen on-screen, then it didn't happen. You have to be fair with the audience. Otherwise, the trust between them and you, the writer, is gone; and once it goes, it's hard, if not impossible, to win it back.

If that's true, then it only proves several people's point: that the far-left progressives, including AOC and the rest of the Squad, are pure poison to the Democratic Party.

There are times when his refusal to concede the election plays like something Bill Bell and Kay Alden would have written on Y&R.

How much of a narcissist do you have to be to think promising lap dances and hot tub parties will persuade potential donors to part with their cash? I know 90-year-old church ladies who are hotter than Kimberly Guilfoyle.

I realize she isn't everyone's favorite, but I just love to see Patty Weaver again. I hope she's doing okay.

I know one thing: if I were to lie about something as major as voter or election fraud, I ain't gonna do it for no $130,000.

Thanks, @sivad40 and @Skin!

Here's what I don't understand (and if I have my facts wrong, please, by all means, correct me): even if Trump's legal team succeeds in getting votes tossed out, those wouldn't be enough to change the outcome of the election. Ergo, what is the point in all this, except to burn everything down and keep Trump's name in the papers on his way out?

Oh, [!@#$%^&*].

A "Jeopardy!" (and indeed, a world) without Alex Trebek. Unfathomable.

Laura's exit story reads so awful and bizarre to me. In retrospect, they would have been better off just killing her off in some accident or something.