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No doubt, Bernie Sanders dropped out, because he's about to land another gig with a fat paycheck. But, whatever. He's done. I'm satisfied.

Yup.

Wretched title aside, this sounds like it could've been an interesting soap. After all, even GENERATIONS had some potential at the start.

Erica Kane once faced down a bear in the woods. Surviving this virus should be like an evening at The Chateau for her. I'm kidding. But seriously. If Susan Lucci says we can do this, then, by golly, we should listen to her. Thanks, @DRW50.

Agree. But, if a streaming platform wanted to jump into the soap business, my advice would be to return to this genre's roots and produce 15-minute (or less) episodes. Streaming a series that you can watch anywhere on any number of devices isn't the same as planning your lunch break around a half-hour or hour-long show that airs on network TV. Even now, with virtually the entire world on lockdown to the COVID-19 outbreak, I don't believe the patience is there to watch a half-hour show on your phone, tablet or computer.

You know, if Donald Trump weren't who and where he is in life, he'd be one of those scavengers who's hoarding toilet paper (and everything else) and selling it back to us at an outrageous markup.

Same, although I'm sure Agnes Nixon, like Bill Bell, also missed the appeal of having a half-hour soap on the air.

Someone (forget who) once said even the show's title sounded generic and betrayed a lack of definition for the entire show.

Actually, @soapfan770, Jessica Klein had written for ATWT before, w/ her then-husband, Steve Wasserman, during the 1984-85 season. Remember the big "Cinderella Fantasy" storyline for Marisa Tomei's Marcy that featured Phyllis Diller as her "fairy godmother," along w/ Jermaine Jackson and a then-unknown Whitney Houston for a musical performance? Supposedly, that story was Klein and Wasserman's baby. (As was pairing off Barbara with Brian McColl -- which, in turn, led to Colleen Zenk and Mark Pinter's real-life union -- although, Susan Bedsow Horgan also takes credit for the pairing.)

Oh, that is tragic news to hear. Peter Miner remains one of my all-time favorite directors from this genre.

Damn. Coronavirus did what countless villains in Monticello could never do: it took out Mike Karr. Thank you, @Taoboi. I must admit there are days when I don't feel, for lack of a better word, inspirational. More often than not, I feel more like Howard Beale, the anchorman-gone-mad on "Network," ranting and raving on the air about a society breaking down into utter chaos, to an audience of no one and everyone. I truly wish I could make more sense of these times, but I can't. I know only too well how we arrived here, but how we get out of it and where do we go after that? I haven't the foggiest idea, lol.

And, I'm sorry to say, I'm one of 'em. The CDC might recommend we all wear masks in public for the time being; however, I'm worried that'll just give racists another excuse (as if they ever needed one, lol) to marginalize and even harm POC like myself. I always believed reckoning would come for Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP. But, I never thought so many others -- namely, those who weren't necessarily supportive of them -- would get caught in the metaphorical crossfire.

The latter.

Wait, the governor hasn't issued a stay-at-home order to all Iowans? I thought they had one! 😮

It was just a matter of time before some kook decided to do that.

I am so wrong for hoping Vladimir Putin becomes very, very sick with this mess...and I don't care. Yup, lol!

OMG. If this is true.... (Too bad you can't sue the government, though. Otherwise, ours would be sued up the ying-yang by all those individuals with lingering, debilitating conditions as a result of contracting this virus.) How ironic that an administration dead set on getting people (and especially people who arrived here "illegally") OFF the government dole could wind up having more people on unemployment, disability, food stamps and other "entitlements" than ever before. So much for making America great again. Yup, lol. But seriously. Whenever you hit Republicans with actual, confirmed, indisputable facts and statistics -- and not what was overheard at the country club -- their go-to response is, well, no response at all. They just shut down, claim you're just being close-minded, etc., because they know they've been had. I'm learning this from my own arguments w/ Mama Khan.

Something tells me Patti LuPone does this even when she ISN'T in quarantine.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we now live in an America where a man's life is threatened simply for telling the truth. Exactly. Y'know, about the only GOOD thing to come out of this outbreak might be exposing Republicans for the morons they really are.

ICAM, @Chris B (and you, too, Willona @marceline).

IKR? Who'da thunk that an infected bat at a meat market in China would end up upsetting the entire planet!?

Through his gross incompetence and unchecked narcissism, Donald Trump will be responsible for the worst crisis ever to hit these United States. More Americans are projected to die from this virus than did from 9/11 and the Korean and Vietnam wars COMBINED. So, not only am I not shedding any tears for this man's once-more sinking approval ratings, but I'm also outraged -- OUTRAGED -- that even one person still believes this man has done nothing less than a beautiful job.

Y'know what?

I dunno. Christopher Meloni's okay, but Stabler was so damaged by years of bad writing on SVU. Plus, I'm not sure I dig the premise all that much. He's head of an organized crime task force? Again, I dunno. I see Stabler working as a private investigator, totally disillusioned by his years in law enforcement.

Could Justin Deas be OTT? Perhaps. But, I'd take an actor who's OTT over one who's thinking about pizza.