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Boy Meets Boy lol. That was epic.

Have they ever done an Ultimatum-type show with long-term gay couples who are divided over monogamy vs. opening up the relationship, and they test out life paired with other people who are seemingly more compatible? I’m blanking on if they’ve done one. One might attribute that to karma and burning all his bridges. And the ugly on the inside seeping out.

I would watch the sh!t out of a Fall of the House of Newman story. Hell, it may be the only way to make them interesting to me. They wouldn’t have the balls to really do it, though. They are coasting along on this vaguely aspirational idea of the Newmans from years ago. That is SO played out. They toyed with a Newman scandal surrounding Amanda’s grandfather, and of course it turned out to be a gigantic nothingburger, allowing Victor to just stroll in and save the day in a story he had no business being involved with. Ashland could have been a great opportunity to actually topple NE, but you never ever believed he was a true threat. This show has a very sitcom mentality where they feel we expect the heroes to be unscathed at the end. I would love to see a Bernie Madoff-type character wreak havoc on the town.

Ryota in Japan 🇯🇵

@j swift @Liberty City @Taoboi @Gray Bunny @DRW50 Just leaving this here. Another new gay reality series:

Karen is a FIGHTER, and that’s what I appreciate.

That would be amazing. Far too deep for this show.

THIQUE @Gray Bunny @Taoboi

Omar looking good:

Sandro, the hottie who was a finalist on the most recent season of The Great British Bake Off, posing with Jaida Essence Hall:

Those are excellent ideas, but I bet CBS would be so scared of those types of stories. I wonder how the interference plays out on B&B. Brad obviously doesn’t just get carte blanche to do whatever he wants; even HBO showrunners get their ideas nixed by network executives, and Patrick Mulcahey spoke at length about stories and even dialogue that got killed at the network notes stage. B&B has more “excitement” than Y&R—he leans on cheeseball soap clichés that the network seems to like—but there are also long stretches where things just don’t go anywhere and we’re seeing the same sets (Steffy’s office at FC, the Forrester mansion, Hope and Liam’s cottage) and hearing the same cut-and-paste dialogue. Then, all of sudden, there’s a flurry of activity where it feels like he’s saved up enough money to do something bigger. B&B is a small show and is known for those kinds of patterns, but it feels particularly pronounced now.

Medvedev has really lost the plot since he lost last year’s AO final to Nadal from two sets up.

Rob from NYC 🇺🇸

The list is long, but just a couple: Harley and Philip on GL. I really thought they were a refreshing couple initially, but man, were they destroyed quickly. Sprina on GH. They waited too long.

Wait, what?

Canceled.

Someone said this was the best advertisement for the surgeon who replaced Murray’s hip:

Charles Shaughnessy (GH, DAYS) made a statement about his close friend Julian Sands, who went missing along with another hiker in the San Gabriel Mountains in windy, icy conditions over the weekend: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/desperate-search-underway-for-two-missing-hikers-in-san-gabriel-mountains/3076717/?amp=1

I thought that was one of the most well-put, astute observations from a HW. Like that cut Ashley to the bone.