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Interesting how Barnard Hughes and Elizabeth Wilson played LC's parents in the first pilot. A year later, I think, the two would co-star - again, as husband and wife - in "Doc," also on CBS.

I still argue that Jack Scalia and Susan Lucci had chemistry in spades but that Chris Stamp was just too ill-conceived to work.

I wondered that myself. That "look" would have been all wrong for primetime, as viewers would've thought they were watching a sitcom.

LMAO!!

Linda Dano/Rae Cummings' hopscotching across the entire ABCD lineup was such a joke. I'm honestly surprised they didn't have her pop up and looking for her long-lost child on other ABC programs as well.

I am praying - PRAYING - that Michele Val Jean will convince her good friend, Patrick Mulcahey, to join the writing staff, if she hasn't already. Mulcahey is one white writer whom I trust to write for people of color with dignity.

It really is a shame that they didn't give Tom Selleck a contract. Of course, if they had, there might not have been a "Magnum, P.I.," lol.

ICAM!! This election proved John Edwards correct: the Democratic Party has lost touch with the working class. It's gonna take another Bill Clinton to bring them back.

Someone else has said that, too, although I can't recall who it was atm. I thought Bill Bell's dialogue on Y&R was very dull and affected, too. Then, I heard Y&R WITHOUT his dialogue, and I realized just how integral the dialogue was to his storytelling. Maybe his characters didn't talk the way real people talk, but no one else in daytime has used dialogue to reveal characters' inner thoughts and feelings the way he did either.

I cannot WAIT until someone ends Drew. Of course, with GH being GH, they'll chicken out in the end and say it was Cyrus. Nevertheless....!

I'm not surprised. When they brought back Peri Gilpin, Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert for S2, I knew the revival was in trouble. I tried, but I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea of Frederick dropping out of Harvard and becoming a firefighter. It still doesn't make sense to me. And everything on the revival that isn't Frasier and Frederick has proven to be even less essential to the revival than it was in S1.

James Lipton was a very good dialogue writer for THE DOCTORS. That's about as far as I'd go in praising his writing, lol.

GR isn't my cup of tea, but I don't hold him responsible for making Leo such an unbearable character to watch. He's only playing what's written for him. The truth is, they've had several opportunities to make Leo more sympathetic, and they've blown each and every one of those opportunities, too. So, yeah, I'd agree: Leo's gotta go.

The four who wrote that article got what they wanted, which was Donald Trump back in office; so, now, I'm gonna politely ask them to leave Joe Biden the [!@#$%^&*] alone.

I'd put up with the one-dimensional writing and bland production aesthetic (not to mention, the Teen Scene From Hell) just to watch Jane Elliot and Laura Wright spar on the regular. God, I love JE. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: give her your worst and she'll still knock it out of the damn park.

It can't be soon enough. It's bad enough when Ron Carlivati stumbles into a joke that only he finds amusing, but he always makes it worse by beating the rest of us over our heads with it. (Newsflash, Ron: if the joke doesn't land the first time, it's never gonna land).

There's a lot that I miss about OLTL, but one of the things I miss the most is Wanda.

And I...? Really don't care who can take the kids legally, so long as they take them, and they take them far, far away. (ICYMI: I really don't like children, and I like child actors even less, lol).

The problem with a lot of sets today - not just on GH, but on TV, in general - is that they don't reveal anything about the person or persons who live there. They're just Wayfair showrooms for actors to use, so they don't have scenes in front of bare walls (which would be an improvement, AFAIC, lol).

That would have been my guess, lol! For me, it was Travis. Now, that's partly because of my long-standing affection for Larkin Malloy, stretching back to GL and, even further, to EON, which was my mom's favorite soap. But I also thought he and Susan Lucci looked good together and shared natural chemistry as Travis and Erica.* So, of course, AMC's writers had to torpedo it as quickly as possible, lol. Before Travis, though, I'd say the pairing I enjoyed most for Erica was with Jeremy. *Of course, Susan Lucci's the type to have chemistry with just about any man. I still remember fondly when Drake Hogestyn was one of her co-hosts at the Daytime Emmys one year, and thinking, "Damn, somebody's gotta get that man off DAYS and on AMC pronto!" I agree. I especially loved her first HW'ing turn, with Victor Miller. There was almost too much story going on at that time - which is bound to happen when you have a cast of 65! - but it still felt like AMC. By the time she was HW'ing again, she did a lot of great work w/ Jeff Beldner, Hal Corley, Frederick Johnson and Michelle Patrick, but the show had changed a lot, so it didn't feel like the AMC I had grown up with.

"Coming this fall to CBS...," lol.

Even conservative, old-fashioned moi was entranced by "Twin Peaks" for a moment as a child, and that's due to David Lynch expanding the boundaries of what could be done on network television. With that show, he created an entirely new visual language that, I would argue, continues to influence TV today. His impact cannot be overstated, nor can it ever be forgotten. RIP Mr. Lynch, and may God be with him and every life that he and his work has touched.

Poor Alan. He tried so hard for so long to show Monica that he (and not Rick Webber) was the man for her.