Faulkner

She has the whole top 10 LMAO

OT: Peacock will become the streaming home for Hallmark (plus live simulcasts of the linear channels), which as President Biden would say, is a “big f—-ing deal.” https://deadline.com/2022/10/peacock-streaming-hallmark-programming-christmas-movies-1235159080/

Worst: Ashley/Brad/Olivia, Y&R. Just an ugly, random, out-of-character moment for Olivia to hook up with Brad when Ashley had cancer. And for what? Really damaged one of the show’s tightest friendships for no good reason, and I don’t think Olivia ever really recovered from that. It was like, “Oh noooow you decide to break Olivia out of the Hastings/Winters bubble to get some action in Genoa City. To betray her deathly ill best friend…”

My heart hurts for this family. Just feels like so many young people are dying of cancer lately. A post from Cormac back in July:

Carter needs his own Ann Douglas origin story. What made him so desperately needy?

I’m sure RTD knows he has a lot to answer for with Martha. Like Billie Piper, Freema has also improved leaps and bounds as an actress since leaving, so I’d be interested in seeing her return.

Dr. Ibson Lyra (on the left) and his bf(?) celebrating the election of Lula in Brazil 🇧🇷

Taylor is expected to occupy the entire top 10 of the Hot 100:

So good.

Brad

Nathan from France 🇫🇷

I see FAA is putting on a clinic with young Alcaraz.

B&B needs to shore up Carter’s character with more backstory and perhaps the introduction of some more family. He’s so bland and I have no idea who he is or what drives him other than a terminal neediness for female companionship. He’s not fleshed out at all. He’s a hot body and that’s it.

And totally eff it up most of the time. Or use it for stuff nobody asked for (like the whole Austin debacle).

I totally agree. So much of popular culture (from music to cinema to literature and newspapers) is dying due to the fracturing of the old monoculture, and I’m certainly grieving it to an extent. Streaming has been a godsend for TV in many ways but most stuff serves a niche these days, which has its pros and cons. Everything is preaching to the choir nowadays. The stuff that breaks through to find a huge audience feels less interesting to me than it did in the past. Very calculated and algorithm-determined. One of the great things about Spotify is that you can dig into all kinds of old music. There’s so much that I’ve never listened to that I can discover. It may not be new music, but it’s new to me. I wish we had something similar for the soaps. I don’t need new soap content when I could dig deeper into the old stuff, which often holds up way better than I thought it would. (Certainly, the stuff from the ‘70s and early ‘80s was in many ways more progressive than what GH, Y&R, B&B, and DAYS are putting out today, even accounting for the LGBT inclusiveness that didn’t exist then.) Give me ‘70s DAYS before any new soap. Let’s make some effort to preserve this history, which most people alive haven’t seen. But that’s also a tough ask. Classic soap is a niche, and I’m not sure the ROI is there for it.

One of the reasons I can’t be bothered with these shows. They are so frustrating to watch when they ignore history that would enrich stories, sometimes history we’ve just seen play out. I get that B&B was trying to wipe the slate clean with KA’s Taylor and memory-hole some of the unhinged stuff HT played in her later years. But still they haven’t respected the complexity of Taylor as a character or her relationships with Ridge, Brooke, and her kids. B&B is written for kindergartners and has been for years, though.

Victor from Taiwan 🇹🇼 Somebody protect this country and its beautiful men from China…

😂

Marcos is giving your boy a run for his money in the booty department.

Hehe. Gotta say, Dimitrov vs. Giron is a lot of pretty for one court:

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