Faulkner

Oy.

One of the great actors of French cinema. An English-language obit:

Damien from NYC 🇺🇸

I agree. I think Marci is tremendous. Chandler is capable of much more than he regularly delivers, which is a damn shame. The problems with Ben, of course, go far beyond RSW.

I think that Stephen Dunn just doesn’t quite have a command on the form, which is understandable, as he’s never overseen an entire TV series. The casting for Brodie (and the characterization) really let them down too. Devin Way, while he’s 32, is too young-seeming, for one, so much so that he often seems like a peer or even younger than Mingus, the high school kid. (Maybe that was somewhat intentional, to downplay the problematic power differential or to drive home how immature Brodie is.) But Brodie is super grating like a yappy dog. Both Aidan Gillen and Gale Harold had this world-weary confidence and intense sexuality where you understood why people were attracted to them (and Aidan G. wasn’t even that great-looking, which the UK series acknowledged).

Emmanuel

Maybe she’s bald

Amanda needs to get a fûcking life. The writers are doing her so dirty.

Rodrigo from Mexico 🇲🇽

Cleiton from Boston 🇺🇸

Dominik from Germany 🇩🇪

Admittedly, the Williamson sisters kept me watching through a lot of Dena Higley’s OLTL.

Ex-Travis from Y&R

Spinelli is only NOW involved in this Esme/Trina phone mess? Get the f-ck outta here. And he’s stumped? Frank, Chris, and Dan think we’re all idiots. As someone said on Twitter, “Spinelli created a program that showed us Drew’s original face. He’s hacked into cameras, security systems, the hospital mainframe, erased the sex tape from public pages etc. But you’re telling me that 19-year-old mean girl has outsmarted the jackal?”

Imani doing her little Lady Macbeth thing on Nate LOL.

A party that actually seems somewhat busy in Genoa City, where the crowd noise actually feels appropriate to the number of people shown on screen? They’ve been taking notes.

Watching Susan Walters single-handedly rescue Y&R from the doldrums inspired this thread. The show only becomes watchable IMO when Diane is on screen. What are some stories/characters/performances that stood out as exceptional even when your show was in the dumps? (Granted, this was a lot easier when shows still had many of their fundamentals, like active families.)