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Victoria the cold bitch a.k.a. “her father’s daughter” would be interesting if they ever truly committed to it. Which they won’t. They’re too invested in the flawed heroine narrative. Nick... meh. They have zero idea of what to do with him.

Mario is still super hot.

Oh nooo. Tessa and that song at the end. This show is tone-deaf and cheap af.

Weirdly, Lexie Stevenson/Mattie of all people made me misty first today. Lots of good work today. Bryton always steps up when asked. Eileen and Christel were great. EB and MTS felt very much like they weren’t acting. I wish that we’d seen Neil/Jack flashbacks during PB’s scenes. I suppose we’ll get them later on, but it felt like a missed opportunity. Again, soaps have abused death and near-death scenarios so often. When Abby mentioned her fear of losing her dad, I remembered that both Victor and Nikki were in comas in the past year, and it wasn’t even alluded to. Oof. As great as Bryton was in that scene, Hologram Neil was a mistake. Yikes. Not good.

She is hilarious.

I posted him before, but he is thicc.

All this sounds terribly predictable, but I don’t see any Nick/Victoria.

This fücking dude...off the charts 🔥

The full cast signed a letter asking Fox to bring Jussie back for next season.

I can still enjoy the show, but something changed for me when the mainstream acclaim (Emmys, move to VH1) started.

Someone who’s underperformed in the past few months but is too “meh” to mention alongside the likes of Goffin, Dimitrov, Sascha Zverev, et al (his ragefest after losing to Kei in Melbourne aside)? Pablo Carreño Busta.

The ATP World Tour Finals are moving to Turin.

I watched today’s show in like five minutes. There simply wasn’t anything else that attracted my attention having not watched since February. Billy/Victoria/Victor? Summer/Kyle/Lola? Yeah, that’s not gonna do it for me. For me, that sequence really showed how much Y&R’s directing/production has deteriorated in the past 15 years. They really would have sold the emotion of that dialogue-free years ago, just through camerawork and blocking. For me, the only part that cut through was CK/Lily convulsing in horror at the news. The rest just got lost in the extras at the party scene. However, I’m more confident in the ability of the cast to carry this story, beyond just the real grief viewers feel for the tragic loss of KSJ. So I’m looking forward (if one can say that for episodes this painful) to scenes with dialogue.

Laura is so dickmatized. Dude’s in almost every photo she posts.

Gina Tognoni as Victoria Newman on Y&R

Mess.