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Now that's the kind of soap opera I love. No evil twins, no back-from-the-dead tripe or supervillains out to control the world through weather machines. Just family members reuniting for a big occasion, catching each other up on everything and having normal, everyday conversations about things that we all can relate to. Sigh. I miss that so much.

For me, the bottom dropped out after Peggy O'Shea quit, in '87. For the next four years, OLTL still had its' moments, but I just remember the show getting sillier and sillier, with its' grasp on reality slipping. Then, in 1991, Linda Gottlieb arrives, followed by Michael Malone, and for me, OLTL becomes an entirely different show.

I guess the networks and advertisers made the same assumptions about "Matlock" that they had made about "Murder, She Wrote." In both cases, they assumed the show skewed older in terms of demographics; and in both cases, they were wrong. Of course, I don't think "Matlock" was as well written or produced as MSW - none of Dean Hargrove's shows were, IMO - but it's possible Andy Griffith had the same kind of broad appeal as Angela Lansbury, even if Ben Matlock wasn't as endearing as J.B. Fletcher.

And even after it's been debunked many times over, people insist it's happening. That's how it goes in Trumplandia.

I'm actually surprised "Matlock" did as well as it did in the ratings, lol!

One thing I never agreed with was giving J.R. a long-lost son. If he was going to have a long-lost child turn up, it should've been a daughter.

From a creative standpoint, leaning harder into the J.R. vs. Pam conflict after Bobby's "death" would have been fantastic, giving the show a jolt in the arm at just the right moment. CBS and Lorimar, however, would have needed to be realistic: the days of DALLAS being a ratings juggernaut and pop culture phenomenon had to come to an end sooner or later.

I agree.

Couldn't Stevie Nicks just use her witchcraft to make Kamala Harris president already? There would've been more, but their darn cats kept walking across their keyboards. PSP might have stolen Linda Ronstadt's incredible talent as a singer, but she is not allowing it to keep her from speaking out on behalf of immigrants and I love that. If only we all could be as brave.

Frank Luntz is looking more and more like someone who lives "off the grid" in some cabin in the woods, with no indoor plumbing, and nothing to do all day except write diatribes against the government.

She's "settling for more." You can tell peeps like Jesse Watters want so badly to attack Kamala Harris for being yet one more Black woman who made Donald Trump look like dogshit, but even they are smart to know that when you cross that line, the game is over.

Martha Byrne remains in denial about her husband's culpability and it's sad.

Exactly. WOC always "bring it," because they know that nobody (including white women) has had their backs since the beginning. It annoys the heck out of me when certain people suggest that Kamala Harris can't put a sentence together. Number one, you don't get to be a D.A., a State Attorney General, a United States Senator OR Vice President by being incoherent; and number two, even on her most word salad-y day, Kamala Harris is still far less dangerous to our democracy than Mr. Concepts of a Plan.

It's also up there with, "Well, the number of COVID cases in this country would stop rising if people would just reporting them!" RFK Jr. has a worm in his brain, but Trump's brain has what the worm pooped out.

Just keep those white boy tears a-comin', fellas, lol!

I think Lynley was a lovely actress, but I cannot see her as Valene. I don't think her Val would've been as assured as JVA's was in the beginning (before the Lechowicks turned her into the village idiot, lol).

Never, EVER underestimate the power of a Black woman, lol!

Frankly, that's like giving credit to a father for paying child support. I'm not gonna pat people on their heads for doing what they're supposed to do.

Exactly. Those idiots are never going to vote for her, no matter what. They can pretend to be "undecided" all they want, but again, people are starting to catch on. Of COURSE they didn't fact-check her, because she actually had facts and logic on her side. All Trump has is what he heard Floyd the Barber discuss with Andy, Barney and Gomer Pyle at his barber shop.

That's true. But I'm also seeing more and more people in this country realizing that the establishment/mainstream media is hopelessly corrupt and therefore not to be trusted. That's why the MSM are so pissy right now: they've hit at Harris and Walz many times, and so far, nothing's landed, because people are slowly and gradually catching on.

I agree - and believe me, I've argued that exact point with her many times. But my mom is one of those if-it's-on-the-Internet-then-it-must-be-true types. You can't win with people like that, no matter how hard you try.

Honestly, those are the kind of folks who'd have trouble ordering from McDonald's. [!@#$%^&*] 'em.

Frankly, I had every confidence that Kamala Harris would emerge victorious in last night's debate. If I've learned anything from being around Black women all my life, it's that they know their [!@#$%^&*] and dare you to come for them. And even if it were true that immigrants are eating pets - AND IT IS NOT TRUE - what does that say about this country and our ability to feed every individual who lives here?

I hear that all the time even from my own mother, who has been brainwashed by propaganda videos on YouTube (a.k.a. the bane of my existence). How was your life better when Trump was president, I ask? We were almost wiped out by an epidemic, for God's sake! Typically, low-information voters say things like, "Gas and groceries were so much cheaper before Biden took office," without understanding that it's not the president who controls such matters but the CEOs and multi-billionaires whom their guy (Trump) helped out tremendously with his tax cuts. It's the same thing with Barack Obama. They accuse him of doing nothing during his administration except issue executive orders, not realizing that Congress forced his hand by being obstructionist in every way.

As they say on Election Night, "I've seen enough."