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Jonathan Jackson posted a tribute on IG.

I didn’t love Joey barking at that guy. Weird that Martin/Smitty were fully clothed when we returned to their love scene. Granted, anyone could’ve walked in on them on the living room couch, and I guess they couldn’t afford the bedroom set today. We’re so used to seeing the Dani/Andre and Nicole/Kial gymnastics lately, and it would’ve been nice to see the dudes get in on some of that, especially after all the interruptions from the kids we’ve seen with them.

I don’t like Tomas, but Naomi is wrong here re: the way he followed Bill’s order. He’s under no obligation to “loop her in.” They’re both irritating af. Oh god, is Kat going to make a play for Isaiah?

Super heartbreaking. Such a gifted young talent.

I pop in from time to time (especially in recent years with all of the memorials). I popped in for Patrick Mulcahey’s failed stint, the Gio parentage fallout and Michael’s return with Rory Gibson, Sam’s death and Ava’s trial, Lucky’s totally half-assed return, etc. I don’t find the show compelling enough to stick with, but I’ve felt that way for the entirety of FV’s tenure, with a few exceptions. I’m realizing that the spell has been broken for me with GH, similar to what happened earlier with DAYS, which I don’t even keep up with at all. Things always seem to be happening, but… I don’t care. I’m not interested in villain du jour stories or even WSB, which I know is very old-school GH. I feel no connection to the characters, even veteran ones like Anna and Tracy, aside from enjoying the actors. Still, I cry like a baby for its memorials, and they do them well. The longtime shoddy treatment of its Black cast is a big factor. Looks like they’re actually getting story, but it doesn’t seem like they’re being written with any care or depth. What I’ve seen with Curtis doesn’t work at all, even if he’s always had jerk vibes. And seeing what happened to Sawandi Wilson’s Isaiah, who arrived with so much promise and chemistry with other cast members, bums me out. Reminds me of how they had to be coerced to capitalize on Sprina, and it happened way too late.

Other than pretty people together, there’s no there there with Nicole/Kial. Nothing to invest in. Now, Dani and Heather mixing it up has potential. They’ve definitely been telegraphing that. Heather being in town while someone was watching Andre in previous episodes.

One of my favorite William Orbit-produced tracks:

Y&R under Josh Griffith is at a nadir for sure, but that’s a looooow bar. LML, MAB, and Pratt’s versions of Y&R beat his by a country mile, simply because they had actual stories, but they were still mostly unwatchable to me. I dipped out on MAB’s Y&R for years because of how dreadfully vile and dark the show had become. I’ll give Jamey a shot because of the lifelong reverence he has toward the show in spite of my hate for Ambitions (I really didn’t like it). But life’s too short to watch something I don’t like, and that’s getting clearer and clearer to me as I age.

Hell, let’s bring back Keemo and Colleen while we’re at it.

Kim Zimmer as Dr. Casey Reed!

I can forgive Jamey if he Dr. Rolf’s Hilary. Sometimes you need to make use of those break-in-case-of-emergency moments and Y&R is there.

At least it’ll be different, I’ll say that much. I was mildly expecting Amanda Beall, who wouldn’t have been much of a departure. Josh G. (we have to be careful with initials here, since there are two JGs) set a low bar, but there’s so much that’s horrifically stale about Y&R going back even further. The Newmans need a huge rethink.

I wonder if Jamey might try to get Dru back on the show, especially with Steve Kent gone. The fact that VR was even considered for a role on BTG shows that things have thawed since the lawsuit against Sony and CBS. The issue is that he writes like someone who knows life through soap operas alone. Very fan fiction.

Fasten your seatbelts. Gotta say, news is spreading pretty slowly… Twitter would usually jump on something like this. I’m interested in what Jamey and Dan pitched. We need an interview.

I was wondering about him and what his next role would be. People were spreading rumors that he was cast in the next X-Men.