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God give me strength, lol!

Frankly, I'm surprised the show lasted as long as it did. It never was clear what the show was supposed to be about, or who it was supposed to be for. ("A talk show for busy moms"? Really, Sara?)

Jorn Winther was what GENERATIONS needed: an EP with enough experience and objectivity to tighten up the production and focus on what was working and not on what wasn't. I agree. At 300 pages, Sussman's bible for the show contains stories that would've taken YEARS to tell, had GENERATIONS been envisioned as a half-hour show from the beginning.

He probably wanted to end DAYS as we know it and morph the entire show into B&S (but still under the name of DAYS).

Wasn't it revealed years ago (by somebody) that Karen Harris almost took the HW'ing gig at GL before hearing from others how awful the working conditions were? Or am I getting that story confused with something else?

He's still stuck in the '80's, because that's when he still was almost universally loved. Back then, most people knew only what the press and shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" told them: that he was this self-made corporate titan, who built his real-estate empire one dollar at a time, using just his two hands and keen business mind. No one (outside of NYC) knew the truth: that he, in fact, was a "trust fund baby," who knew only how to bankrupt businesses, not build them; and whose fortunes, even at that point, were largely smoke and mirrors. And even when we DID learn the truth, a lot of us didn't care, because he still lived better than you and I. If we weren't a culture that worships the rich as blindly as we do, then he would never be where he is tonight. But, just as you have to recondition a dog that's been allowed to behave inappropriately with no corrections, so, too, we have to re-train our minds to stop looking at people like Donald Trump as gods and start looking at them as what they actually are: men with no conscience, who'd think nothing of profiting off our suffering. The difference between Melania marrying into the Trump family and Jill Foster marrying into the Abbott family is that Jill was far more clever about it than Melania was. At least Jill was smart enough to PRETEND she loved John, even if she didn't actually love him, or at least not completely. Melania, on the other hand, has never made any bones about how she feels about her husband. Like Wendy Williams once said, all she wanted was a green card and a baby.

I said the same thing when the fires first broke out in California. That was a warning shot from Mother Nature herself, giving us a taste of what's in store for us these next four years. If Americans feel giddy today, it's because they believe they have "owned the Libs" once and for all. People who live in the so-called heartland resent anyone who tells them that they're stupid. That's always been the issue for liberals and progressives: "How do we get the working class and the people who live in 'flyover country' to see things our way without saying that they're stupid?" Because, the truth is, people who live in this part of the country are extremely stupid people with extremely stupid (and extremely dangerous) points of view.

I just hope that when Drew DOES get killed, he goes out the same way as Susan, lol.

Fortunately, as of today, I am no longer on X (or any social media platforms, save for Bluesky). ICAM!!

That's why it's difficult for me to come up with a list of actors/characters who could return (even in ghostly form) for Monica's funeral. And in some cases, like with Chris Robinson (ex-Rick), it's probably best they don't return anyway, since this show has managed to character-assassinate so many people over the years. So, I'll just settle for Denise Alexander and Billy Warlock* and leave it at that. *Because, like hell Sean Kanan's ever coming back, lol.

Ironically, for all its' low-budget-ness, "919 Fifth Avenue" was better written and better cast than "Central Park West"/"CPW," which I thought was awful from day one (minus Tom Verica, lol).

It's a new year, and if I have a New Year's Resolution, it's to give certain people second chances. So, if Jamey Giddens ends up joining the BTG writing staff, then fine. I hope he'll surprise me (in a good way, lol). (Ron Carlivati, OTOH, has pretty much lost me for good. You can't do what he did to Abe Carver and expect me to be at peace with it.)

Paramount+ is included in my Walmart+ subscription, so.... Oh, and Vanguard? Shut up.

I would not be surprised if overseas markets had complete episodes of AMC (and other soaps) hidden away in their vaults.

Exactly. The camera work and even the pacing are exactly what you would've seen on Y&R at that time. Just as "Heys of Our Lives" really nailed how DAYS was all about the closeups back then, and "Days of the Week" resembled bits of AW and SFT.

So did I, @janea4old, so did I, lol. I also loved how Susan Lucci's hair looked during that period. Talk about gorgeous!

I would've loved even just a scene where Angela and Melissa came to some sort of understanding. Even if it had been one of those cliched, enemies-trapped-in-the-same-place-type scenarios, like the ones OLTL would trot out every now and then for Viki and Dorian. But something that would have revealed that, on some, deep-seated level, Angela and Melissa actually respected one another, even if they always were at odds.

Barbara Rhoades is dreadful in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

Me neither. I'm being realistic - this IS a blow to the American way of life - but at the same time, I'm refusing to give into fear or negativity. We WILL get through this. I don't know HOW we'll get through this, but we will. We just have to keep the faith. In the meantime, I'm definitely promoting self-care for everyone. Whatever you need to do in order to survive the next several years, do it. As long as it's healthy and hurts no one. Do it. Because, when this new, national nightmare is over - and mark my words, it WILL be over one day - we'll need you like we've never needed you before (because, in a way, that's the truth).

I think what sets SCTV's soap parodies apart from others', aside from SCTV's general level of brilliance, is their pinpoint accuracy. You can tell they actually WATCHED the soaps they're parodying and aren't just going by what they've read in TV Guide or something.

To Angela, the land was all that mattered, nothing else. She sacrificed a lot, including her own happiness, because she truly believed in her grandfather's vision for Falcon Crest. That's what I loved about her, and why I think she was a far more interesting antagonist than Alexis Colby or J.R. Ewing. Because, even though she did some despicable things, WHY she did them was something I could relate to on some level.

At five minutes, all we'd get is the theme song and Sheila calling somebody a b*tch.

I still remember when Jane Wyman said, "I thought it was a little ridiculous [Lana Turner] needed a limo to go to the loo." I think all Liz Taylor wanted when she was on GH was a hamburger (and Tony Geary and Tristan Rogers' d*cks). But seriously. Wyman was a real trouper to wear that hideous-looking coat.

I've long suspected (without evidence) that Bernau left in '84 due to AIDS. He returned two years later, of course, and attempted to keep working, even as he fought the disease privately. By 1988, however, the disease was too far gone, and Bernau was forced to quit the second time.

Guza didn't create Courtney and Kristina, though. They came along during the JFP/Megan McTavish era, when it seemed like everyone on GH suddenly had a long-lost sister, lol. Granted, I wasn't watching GH regularly back then, but the second and third Guza eras just seemed so nihilistic to me. It was as if GH was becoming TV's first daily snuff film. That's that Olive Garden mentality kicking in ("When you're here, you're family!").