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More Britishness from Harry Aikines-Aryeetey 🇬🇧

These shows are just not interesting right now. They are really straining for an effect. GH just feels busy, frantic, disjointed, and overstuffed to me, and the stories don’t really come together to create an overall feeling of a community in Port Charles, even though everyone’s lives are interconnected. (I’m watching 1986-87 ATWT, which admittedly ruins these gutted, heartless current shows.)

Look at Kandi all the way off to the side like some rookie and Marlo just off center peach.

Ah yes, Marlo’s “I’ve always had the juice, but now… I’ve got the PEACH!”

Jamie from the UK 🇬🇧

Yeah, much better than the similar scenes on Y&R. It just makes me sad that B&B wastes all of this talent with dreck 99 percent of the time. But when they nail it, they nail it. And JMW deserves to be a soap diva in a better era. She’s excellent.

Jess from Colombia 🇨🇴

From Britain:

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. The shots of Kimberlin, tho. Oof. The struggle.

I wonder how much ratings are a lagging indicator. Like a strong few weeks previously might bring in good ratings through word of mouth later on.

JMW is the MVP of this story. Steffy’s reaction to Finn’s death was heartbreaking.

Ashley Jones needs darker hair than that. I get that she’s serving Logan realness.

That’s a 🔥 photo of LeVar. It’s from a hundred years ago but still. It’s giving vintage Malik Yoba.

Kyle/MM’s reaction to the news his mother was alive felt a little… off.

Nikki’s dialogue towards Diane is so stilted. MTS doesn’t have the facility with language to make it sound natural.

Koal from Hawaii 🇺🇸

Harry is back at No. 1:

Nikki finally laying eyes on Diane actually felt *somewhat* dramatic. MTS finally has a moment for the first time in years.

Karan from India 🇮🇳 now in Dubai 🇦🇪

The casting struck me as odd—that part requires stratospheric vocal chops and a big presence, and I’d never known Beanie as a vocalist/entertainer—but she seems so likable and eager that I was really rooting for her to do well here. Man, I hope she knows not to read the reviews. She’s getting savaged.

The reviews for Beanie Feldstein in Funny Girl are… rough.