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Patrick Mulcahey is too good for what daytime has become. Someone needs to hire him to write for primetime, cable or streaming series.

IA that it's a low standard. However, it's one that the current administration has reduced us to. I truly don't care at this point WHO will be the Democratic nominee. I just want him (or her) to beat Trump in the election. That's it.

Once again, WOC seem to be the only ones "getting it." You don't HAVE to like the person you're voting for. You just have to believe they could do a better job than the one who's doing it now.

Grampa Bernie needs to settle down or else he'll have an angina attack.

Sigh. Everybody plays the fool. No exception to the rule.

Well, that's what happens when you take revolutionary ideals into the mainstream. The leaders always get left behind.

And yet, underwear-clad twins looking as if they're about to screw each other seems more tasteful and makes more sense than anything I ever saw on PASSIONS.

Well, that's another poster added to Marlenaphan's growing "Ignore User" list.

AMEN.

JER once said he had worked at just about every soap except OLTL. And he could claim all he wanted that he learned from working with Bill Bell, but his work speaks for itself, lol.

CBS continues to prove just how anti-women they truly are.

Agree with both these statements. I think JER (and NBC) were well-intentioned at the start, but once they saw how no one was taking the show seriously (how could anyone take a show that has a witch and her talking doll as part of the cast!?), they just decided to go all Jerry Springer in order to appease the few 12-17 year olds who gave a damn.

Yeah, Warren was CLEARLY getting under his tanned skin because she had the audacity to come to the table with facts and logic -- which you're not supposed to do as a woman, obviously. I loved it.

Not to mention, cheap humor that no one past the age of 9 would find funny. (An elderly woman who can't control her bladder is funny to you, JER? Really?)

Don't blame Taylor Hicks for being mediocre. Blame the millions who watched his performances and said, "Yeah, that'll do."

Quantity is not the same as quality, and visibility doesn't necessarily guarantee dignity. A series could be filled wall-to-wall Black characters (or Hispanic characters, or Asian characters, or whatever) and still be considered racist or derogatory if the characters are depicted in negative ways. Case in point: "Amos 'n' Andy."

Why was Trevor Noah giving Elizabeth Warren [!@#$%^&*] for asking her husband to marry her (rather than the other way around) or for thinking he had great legs? That is such a sexist attitude (as if men never marry women just to get them in the sack!) and totally Not. The Point.

Bonnie Dennison is so low-energy (and low-rent) as an actress. It's a mystery to me why people keep hiring her.

Frankly, I've tried listening to some of those audio-only recordings (not of AW, but of other soaps) and...I dunno...I hate not seeing the actors' faces and body language. BITD, when directors actually had time to work with the actors, the facial and physical gestures seemed to be a key component to the storytelling. More often than not, they told us what the characters were really thinking and not saying.

As a fan of Nixon's work, I wish more of her AW material was available online. Those few, terribly grainy clips on YT simply aren't enough.

Obviously, I'm not @vetsoapfan, lol. However, it's my understanding that, for its' two years, AW was in a very precarious position -- not just because it was the newest kid on the soap block, but also because a lot of the writing simply wasn't working. Irna Phillips had created the show (w/ Bill Bell) to be more melodramatic in tone than ATWT or GL, yet she was incapable of that kind of storytelling; and her successor, James Lipton, was a journeyman writer who had the "brilliant" idea of de-emphasizing the Matthews clan and replacing them with the Gregorys, whom Agnes Nixon promptly got rid of when she assumed the reins in '66.

As the African-Americans who were interviewed for that story continually emphasized, the number-one, most important thing to remember about the 2020 election is doing what we have to as a country to vote Trump out of office. You might not like everything about Biden (or Warren, or Harris, or Bernie), but there are just some things we'll have to get over if we're going to keep a second Trump administration from happening. Thanks, @marceline!

Today's incompetent EPs and HWs just don't care about the multigenerational element anymore. Soaps weren't built on couples, but on families. That's what fans loved most about them BITD. You tune into your favorite soap(s) either to watch families that were like yours or you WANTED to be like yours. It's truly depressing to think how low this genre has fallen.

Oops. My bad. Thanks, BF!

Well, he was on GH, briefly, as Justus Ward; but, as usual, JFP and her HW, Robert Guza, Jr., wasted him.