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From India 🇮🇳 @Taoboi

It may not be smart, but she’s right. The weird thing, though, is that Robyn originally defended Chris from Gizelle’s accusations.

Derrick from Dallas 🇺🇸

Miley again.

Interesting coincidence considering their connections to Todd Manning.

I’m so thrilled for his success and how well he’s aging. He and Jeremy Pope are blazing such a trail for out gay male actors playing out roles in the mainstream. (And Colman Domingo.)

They should have left DZ with his beard too. Trimmed down of course. I was seeing him a totally new light.

That Brandi story is effed-up. But Bravo ultimately encourages such behavior by not stopping it (e.g. Michael Darby continuing to appear on Potomac).

Thighs like what?

What was Justin Deas like with Eileen Fulton and Don Hastings? For some reason I can’t really picture it, and I haven’t seen a lot of clips of them together.

These shows are designed to dash hopes. They never really tried him with KM. He was earmarked for LW.

Gorgeous guy from India 🇮🇳

Murray Bartlett (GL) is getting Emmy buzz again for some emotional scenes with Nick Offerman on last night’s The Last of Us.

NAC is absolutely adorable but where was the hair comb that day?

@DRW50 @Vee Interesting stuff. Most people who responded don’t believe she’ll have her nomination suspended and certainly don’t support a suspension (in contrast to Variety’s clickbait header). One person suggests a black actress like Viola Davis wouldn’t have gotten away with such tactics.

Soaps overrate familial connections as plot points yet underrate it as a way of deepening character. I get in theory why a family connection would make the story more compelling, e.g. “They hate each other! Now let’s see them try to survive the family Thanksgiving dinner!” But they’ve lost the fact that it’s that character exploration that allows those insta-connections to actually land with the audience. Due to budgets/guarantees, etc., we barely have any family gatherings anymore.

That’s the thing too: IMO, one of the things that makes a successful family is a significant presence on the canvas as a unit. Some of these writers can’t think past their short-term story needs, grafting these randoms on to some family in order to gain audience acceptance, but not really thinking past that. These characters sometimes don’t even meet their siblings and other relatives, as those links don’t matter to the one-dimensional stories the writers want to tell. Family links have become devices for writers to play with in their stories, as opposed to real foundational connections that allows them to explore their characters and their psychology. I’m sure that’s one of the reasons why networks don’t want these characters to be too specific. They can’t suddenly do a “Surprise: Jeremy Stark is Sally Spectra’s dad” story on Y&R if we know too much about Sally. Then you have all of these weird retconned switched-at-birth stories that impact long-running characters. (Like Jill became a Fenmore on Y&R for what purpose even?)

Felix from Germany 🇩🇪

Most of the Hernandezes were failed characters IMO, which is mostly why I included them. They’re down to two siblings who could easily disappear without leaving much of a void, even though Gabi has a daughter who is a Horton. I guess when I think of a family that’s successful like the Quartermaines or the Buchanans, I think of families who managed to get into the DNA of the show and change it. I feel like characters like Tricia and Gabi are successful individually. Their families? Meh.

Thai from Los Angeles 🇺🇸