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Karla wouldn’t work, no. Napiera would be a better Jordan, but that role is a big lotta nothing. If Cassandra Creech were about 10-15 years younger, she’d be an interesting choice, but all of the great black daytime actresses who would kick ass as Gia have moved on to much bigger and better.

AMC: Community, but with a touch of kitsch; almost like a British soap with its messy, meddling, sometimes sexy older characters and its sharp awareness of class differences that is very Agnes Nixon (the balance between the extreme wealth of Erica/Adam/Palmer with the more middle-class Martins and lower-class characters was very well handled) ATWT: Community but somewhat cold and dark GL: Community but with a warmer, more upbeat/uptempo feel than ATWT OLTL: Fast-paced, East Coast urbanity/high society with several dollops of adventure, grit, irreverence, and masculine energy GH: James Bond, mafia, intrigue; more about the families you create in your friends and coworkers than the family you’re born with (and, in the case of the Quartermaines, often felt trapped by, aside from Lila); masculine energy Y&R: Film noir meets Douglas Sirk, Gothic melodrama, larger than life, as much about atmospheric, set decoration, lighting, blocking, and camera movement as it is about characters and stories B&B: Like Y&R in some ways with more sleaze, brightness, and glamour; sometimes a bit stilted, artificial, and on the nose DAYS: big romance novel energy

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I totally miss how textured these shows were when they could afford it. Characters like Miguel, Lynn, John Silva, and Douglas Austin on Y&R or Stavros, Donna, and Ginger on GL added so much dimension (and often lightness and comedy) to those shows. They didn’t need to be involved in deep stories, but someone like Douglas Austin made Victor seem so much more relatable, as their friendship illuminated Victor’s motivations, yearnings, and humanity. GH is the only show that still has a deep roster of recurring characters, but they are used so sparingly that Port Charles doesn’t feel as rich as it could be. Characters need friends who aren’t their exes or family members. (They also made these shows feel repetitive than they do now.)

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And yet, Y&R decided to remake themselves into an ABC soap in pursuit of younger demos. They are lucky that they kept so many of their older viewers.

Rihanna preggers again, her rep confirms after the singer displayed a prominent baby bump during her Super Bowl halftime performance.

Sasha Calle (Y&R) as Supergirl:

You’d watched soaps when they were truly in their “golden age.” Elana Levine in her book Her Stories mentioned that soaps’ lucrativeness for the networks peaked in 1984 with about $1.25 billion in ad sales. It was mostly downhill from there.

Super Bowl eye candy: Philly QB Jalen Hurts is so pretty it, well…

Vail Bloom looks good. That’s all I got.

So sad to see so many men in hip hop dying in their 40s-50s. Plus he died before De La Soul could introduce their music to new generations through streaming, which is set for next month.

Wisdom from Ms. Diahann Carroll: