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Max Ehrich is very smiley in this interview. Big-time stoner vibe. He’s promoting his new faith-based movie and talks a wee bit about Y&R.

It’s unwatchable and I actually like CH a lot. They’ve gone through hoops to make that character fit into this show. Just appalling the state of this show as it approaches what should be a milestone anniversary.

This is kinda fierce actually.

Kyler Pettis (ex-Theo, DAYS) is nekkid on his Instagram (rear nudity only, of course). Just FYI.

The hair could use some volume/styling but the body is on point. 😂 Everyone has different tastes in here (aside from general athleticism) so all is welcome.

And they’re clearly in invested in Courtney Hope as a face of Y&R. Yet she’s not featured in the intro. Odd but not surprising for a show that, if I recall correctly, left a visible watermark in one of the stock images they use in their opening. This is their Peapack era for real.

And B&B and GH have updated their intros COUNTLESS times since Courtney Hope first arrived. Just shows how cheap and tacky Y&R has become. If they can’t keep their intro updated, maybe they should do a title screen. They could do stills like GH and B&B. Or use clips like the late 2000s opening. (Or, hell, find an artist like Sandy Dvore and go back to the sketches as a throwback, but they’re probably too cheap for that.) Someone said they shot a new opening during that 50th anniversary photo shoot, I believe, though. Not that I’m optimistic they’re going to maintain it moving forward, given their recent track record.

Dylan from France 🇫🇷 He’s cute.

DAYS has never been a show I’ve loved, even though I watched (and was entertained by) the first Reilly era. Soaps already require a healthy bit of suspension of disbelief even when they are more grounded. Sci-fi/fantasy breaks the spell for me, especially when the sci-fi rules are so often inconsistently applied. It’s not like watching something like Doctor Who, which can be silly but is a contained story that breezes by in an hour and dazzles you enough with wit and cleverness that you don’t consider the logical inconsistencies. For me, RC lazily uses sci-fi as an out when he can’t come up with compelling story complications. Let’s have people run around in masks and pretend to be other people in order to break up couples instead of organic conflict rooted in story. Nothing is believable or worth getting invested in. And it doesn’t help that the show is so shoddily made.

Love the drumming on this. So classic.

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I did the same. I know she wasn’t seen as successful at ATWT, but I enjoyed quite a bit of it.

You’re talking too much sense. But the snooze-worthy Newmans rule the roost on this show.

Goni from Argentina 🇦🇷

Who is this?

Russell T. Davies’s UK series Cucumber had a very similar concept, but I recall it being super depressing. (It’s available to watch for free with ads on the Roku Channel.) There are some web series like The New 30 and The Disappointments that tackle that concept but neither has a Netflix budget, of course.

LMAO I wasn’t following the commentary but saw headlines saying Ariana’s opener was getting criticized. I expected it to be a bunch of anti-woke folk not wanting to see a Afro-Latina rapping at their precious BAFTAs. I didn’t expect her performance to be such a spectacular trainwreck. She’ll be better known for this than her Oscar-winning role.

No disagreement there! None of the soaps have been able to thread that needle, which is why I’m sorta pessimistic. RC has tried (featuring more inclusive forms of sexuality—pansexuality, threesomes, etc. Things DAYS wouldn’t have done 25 years ago.) But that show is just so unwatchably bad that it undercuts any progressive material. GH is content to do multiple concurrent maternity/paternity stories.

And they’re probably right. Soaps feel like the last bastion (in terms of new original scripted TV) for the conservative, “go woke, go broke” audience. Even the Yellowstone universe is more progressive, and it’s got a reputation as the “red state” series.

GH is the only soap that *attempts* to be a soap in the way we remember then from 20+ years ago right now. Multiple sets, a big cast, events and set pieces, etc. All the others are creatively inert and you really see on screen how their low budgets have affected them every single day. So I’ll give them that. But yeah they seem very hamstrung by their perceived core audience and playing to their expectations. They are likely hoping that Sprina fans will STFU for a while now that they’ve been given this and pivot back to whatever lame Corinthos family drama they want to force-feed them.