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In a move that will surprise absolutely no one except those who have had their heads lodged inside their you-know-whats, WaPo owner (and Charles Foster Kane worshipper) Jeff Bezos has laid off about a third of the workforce at the paper that (in)famously helped to bring down a president (who now looks like JFK compared to the Oval Office's current occupant): NPRBezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

I'm not sure Carlo Hesser ever works for me, lol.

I'm surprised they don't just cut to a shot of the ocean (or the docks) whenever two characters are about to make love.

That's their master plan for Sonny: to turn him into PC's answer to Cesar Millan.

What else? Mainstream credibility. It's not enough to be a "niche" show on Saturday nights; you gotta up your game if you wanna hang out at the pool with the cool kids ("Law & Order," "NYPD Blue," "Picket Fences," etc). Plus, as fascinating as the four Reed sisters had been (due more to casting, I think, than to actual character development), I don't think there was much more you could do with any of 'em after S3 without feeling like you're repeating yourself.

I agree. I've watched the entire series I don't know how many times, and I still don't feel like I know anything vital about Kenny, other than he was once a surfer (who lived out of his van?) before he decided to give marriage and a career (as a record producer) a try. To me, guys like Kenny Ward end up leaving their families behind because adulting is too hard for them, and they end up living out of a van with some chick half their age in a vain attempt to recapture their youth.

IMO, if "Sisters" needed to transition from being a quirky family dramedy to a full-fledged "serious" show or soap, it needed a stronger producer who knew how to do that without letting the stories go entirely off the rails. IOW, it needed a Peter Dunne.

I agree. Even David Jacobs had Richard Avery dismiss their backstory as a joke - "they got married on an incoming wave" - and Jim Houghton and Kim Lankford just didn't have any real chemistry with each other, or with anyone else. (Houghton really should've stayed on Y&R). There's no WAY anyone would've been able to do this on primetime TV in 1979, but I think I would've written (or, rather, rewritten) Kenny and Ginger as a couple where one of the spouses (maybe Kenny?) is gay, and the other spouse knows about it, but agrees to be their "beard," because of their deep friendship and their fear of being alone.

I think Hogan Sheffer was good at structuring his storylines, but I think his worldview was too dark for a genre like daytime drama. I don't think he had much hope in life; and to write effectively for the soaps, you gotta have hope. You have to believe that people are innately decent, and that good will always triumph over evil and love will conquer hate. Sounds corny, but it's really the only way that a genre of storytelling that thrives on its' audiences "tuning in tomorrow" can operate.

I tend to blame that on the casting woes. The original Hart, Jeff Phillips, was a dud. His successor, Leonard Stabb, was more promising, but the injuries he sustained in an accident left him unable to continue with his acting career. Sean McDermott, who replaced Stabb, was just a temp recast until they could write the character out; and when they did bring back Hart, they did so with one of the most bland actors GL ever hired (Marshall Hilliard). By the time Grillo and his "goomba" accent and demeanor took over the role, it was clear no one at GL even knew who Hart Jessup was anymore.

Judging from their names, perhaps we should pull them over and ask to see their papers? ;)

IIRC, there was some suggestion that somebody had rigged the Newman jet to crash, but it was all quickly forgotten.

LOL!! He THINKS he is. He even knocked up a woman (allegedly!) to prove to everyone he was straight (and made himself an even bigger religious hypocrite in the process). As if gay men can't conceive children, right, lol?

"Who Shot Roger?": another "Who Shot...?" mystery that led to nothing (except, in this case, temp recast Billy being carted off to jail for awhile). People can argue with me all week about this, but if the bastard doesn't die or see the light, then what's the point?

I keep hoping that all those psychos who keep invading GC are all part of Brooks Prentiss' master plan to destabilize the town, so he can then swoop in and buy it for a song. (Okay, I don't really hope that, lol).

Ten bucks says he has NO idea who any of those standing behind him are.

With all the upheavals it had to endure throughout the '80's and '90's, the fact that AW lasted as long as it did at NBC is nothing short of a miracle.

I think a major problem with the Gary/Val/Danny/Amanda storyline - aside from the obvious - is that it's hitting us too soon after Jill's reign of terror finally ends. Like, we just got rid of one psycho who tried keeping Gary and Val apart; now, we gotta deal with another!? If reuniting Gary and Val after Jill wasn't an option, then, at the very least, we needed to see the two in something that was a bit less crazy and more lighthearted, for lack of a better word, if only to give us a breather.

Tyler Perry is a closeted, self-hating gay, who hides behind religious condemnation of other gays, rather than accept his own truths. There, I've said it. And I'm not taking it back. A typical TP scene (again, from any of his shows, 30 minutes or one-hour): A: "Get out of my house!" B: "No!" A: "I said, get out of my house!" B: "And I said no!" A: "Maybe you didn't hear me the first time: GET OUT. OF MY HOUSE." B: "And you didn't hear ME the first time: NO. And might I add: HELL NO." A: "Why can't you just get the hell out of my house?" B: "Why can't you just accept that I said 'no'?" A: "Dude! I said, get out of my house! Which part of 'get out of my house' do you not understand?" And on and on it goes for what seems like 20 minutes, before somebody gives us a break by cutting to commercial. Even worse, the episode "ends" and they are STILL arguing over why B just won't get the [!@#$%^&*] out of A's house. But, hey, all dem Jesus-lovin' grandmas out there eat that [!@#$%^&*] up with a spoon and ask for more, so who am I to judge, lol?

Seriously, don't those yahoos have a paintball tournament to go to?

I still think whoever came up with the name "Lamont Corbin" had The Shadow in mind, lol.

That's because TP's scenes (on ALL his shows, not just THATHN) are like Möbius strips: they start nowhere and finish exactly in the same place.

They were Don Craig's. ;)

I think that's because Gary and Val's presence made the Wards redundant. Both couples were about the same age, and both were newlyweds, too (even though Gary and Val had been married before). Gary and Val received more attention, however, due to their connections to DALLAS.

I still think John Whitesell's intended move toward using fewer storylines and scenes per episode was smart. Like he said, SFT couldn't compete with the hour-long soaps, so why not just keep their heads down and be the best HALF-hour soap on the air instead?