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Had it been a Mrs. John Doe OF COLOR, we'd be getting ready for her public hanging. IKR? And I don't know about y'all, but I can't WAIT for her post-incarceration interview with some news outlet, where she'll undoubtedly blink back tears as she talks about how jail "changed her for the better" and now she'll make it her life's work to assist low-income, non-Caucasian female inmates everywhere who have been railroaded by the big, bad justice system in this country. Yawn.

He has his "chosen one," Ivanka. The others...? [!@#$%^&*] 'em. Ironically, I think Barron is Trump's most handsome offspring, poised to look better than even Ivanka and Tiffany.

Oh, I didn't know that! I thought they were two separate services! Thanks, @dragonflies! Really? It's still free? Shows you how often I watch these damn things, doesn't it, lol?

Well, an illicit affair between a middle-aged, upper-middle-class woman and a high school boy would've been right up Bill Bell's, and early Y&R's, proverbial alley!

Streamers' budgets are maxed as it is. Subscribe to any more of these services and you might as well go back to cable. Meanwhile, how many of these services are out there now, including the ones that have been announced but have yet to launch? On my list, there's Netflix, Hulu, Sling, Philo, BET Plus, Amazon Prime, Disney+, AppleTV, HBO Now AND HBO Max, AT&T TV Now, NBC Universal's one, Warner Archive (which, I guess, will be merged with HBO Max?), Criterion Collection and YouTube TV. What am I missing/overlooking?

Yeah, like why Barron would rather call him "Dad" than call Trump.

There were two actors from that period who, when they finally "hit it big," they REALLY hit. One was Ted Danson, the other was Tom Selleck.

Well, he needs to stop, before he ends up making his son sound like the male version of young Drew Barrymore.

I'm confused. Is he saying Barron is vaping? This is just like when Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis in the '80's, yet acted like a bunch of businessmen coming down with Legionnaire's (sp?) Disease was a clear and present danger to all civilization. A few morons who thought vaping would be safer than smoking cigarettes get sick, and Trump wants action yesterday. Meanwhile, the next racially-motivated mass shooting is likely right around the corner, and all he can think to do is tag the mentally ill for "surveillance purposes." It's extraordinary just how backward we've gone in this country from Obama, Clinton and even George W. Bush.

OTOH, if he had signed Tom Selleck, we might not have had him as Thomas Magnum.

The song DJT must be playing to HRM: So...the whiter you are...and the less educated you are...the more you think he's doing a brilliant job as president and deserves a second term. Good to know.

Oh, man, that's terrible. :( May God's will be done for Cameron.

Speaking of monitoring the mentally ill, perhaps we should do the same for our president? Apparently, in his paranoid mind, there are boogeymen all over the world, just itching for the chance to come inside our borders: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bad-people-gangs-bahamas-entering-1458384?fbclid=IwAR2bYT0MHdeVz9FBprNRk38lWfX7DUPw-JzRDs4o-5oAbylXznr6MMrKQR8

More and more, I wish there were some way to repeal the Second Amendment. (I know, I know, fat chance of that ever happening.)

You know what struck me most about that episode from '75 (aside from the intelligent dialogue and acting)? You didn't see the elaborate set furnishings or camera angles that came to define Y&R in the next decade. The Brooks living room was the most expensive-looking set -- and even that wasn't as sumptuous as other sets I've seen on other series from that period. What's my point, you ask? Very simply, you don't need to mimic the Wes Kenney/Ed Scott aesthetic for Y&R to still be Y&R today. All you need are well-drawn characters, engaged in engrossing story that (as @DramatistDreamer says above) takes its time to unfold.

That's the trouble with living in the Age of Trump. No matter how absurd an idea might seem, the chance of this administration putting that idea into action is greater than it should be. IOW, I put nothing past him, or his "people." Not even targeting the mentally ill (which, if you'll recall, Hitler did, too). And I don't care if THAT sounds "crazy," because, these days, what is and is not "crazy" is nearly impossible to discern.

Just what mentally ill people needed: proof "they" really are out to get them.

Agree. With both of you. I'm sure I'll come around to feeling the same way, too, in time.

I never thought I'd say this, but I almost feel sorry for BoJo. Almost. It's like...yes, I am aware that he is as incompetent at his job as Trump is at his. However, when I make a sarcastic remark about Boris, or just generally laugh about his latest...whatever, I don't feel as good about myself as I do whenever I do the same to Trump. To me, laughing and/or making fun of Boris feels a bit too much like picking on the special needs kids at school, something I would NEVER argue about criticizing our president.

Which was appropriate, since their budget had been slashed to the price of a Big Gulp. If CBS (or, more accurately, Les Moonves) had not cancelled ATWT, I think there would have been a mass exodus of actors on the level of "The LOVING Murders," with many veteran characters being bumped off by a serial killer (or natural disaster -- but, more likely, a serial killer, since murdering them would be cheaper than staging a tornado) in order to cut costs and maybe generate some buzz for the show. I also think there would have a combination of relocating production to Stamford, CT and increasing the taping schedule to somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-10 episodes per week -- again, in order to cut costs.

But it was getting there. Bob and Kim's house was gone, and Tom and Margo's had been reduced to a broom closet.

Nothing -- and I mean nothing -- will ever be as bad as Peapack.

This is an unpopular opinion, to be sure, but I really believe DAYS would be better off gone. NBCUniversal/Comcast has slashed the budget so much -- and you know that if it is renewed, they'll just slash it even more. Hope DAYS fans love the Blue Room, because it will be the only set you will ever see. The ONLY set. And they won't even bother redecorating for each new scene anymore. You'll just have to take the show's word for it that you're in a completely different location. Well, I've always assumed that one reason why ATWT and GL never had crossover events was due to the fact that the shows didn't run back-to-back in all major markets. That was especially true when CAPITOL was on the air, and maybe even SFT before then.

No, I always figured the final four would be B&B and Y&R on CBS, and GH and AMC on ABC, with NBC out of the soap race entirely. (Remember, this was back when Jeff Zucker was still in charge at the Peacock network, and he seemed DETERMINED to make NBC Daytime one long "Today" block). OLTL was never in anyone's "final four." Even when that show had its' highest ratings during the late '70's and early '80's, it still was seen as ABCD's red-headed stepchild, a placeholder between AMC and GH. Which is why AMC's cancellation, rather than OLTL's, took literally everyone by surprise.

IA, DD. The truth is, I think we'd be down maybe to one or two soaps by now, if not for the fact that the networks can't find anything to replace them.