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This show is *very* poorly written right now. Just not thought through enough. The racial optics of the story don’t bother me as much as it’s all so stupid. Esme framing Trina falls apart under the barest scrutiny. The PCPD have never been the brightest bulbs, but this is beyond silly. When Esme first appeared, I had imagined that she would be somehow responsible for outing Curtis as Trina’s father, which would have devastated Trina and make more sense. But they wanted to do an umbrella story and make Esme the new supervillain to replace Peter. I suppose the ambition is admirable, but the execution is abysmal. It makes me not want to watch. Nikolas’s idiocy, for example, is too frustrating for words.

Yeah, I thought about that too, even though Esme has been waaaay overexposed and a pretty one-note, crybaby villain, and Trina has often felt like a supporting character in her own story. We’ll have to watch the trends.

The ratings are something to keep an eye on. They seem less than fabulous.

This show is so incompetently written that it’s embarrassing.

I guess Rena got her episode allotment. NOW she shows up in this story. Where’s Paris in all of this, I wonder?

Norm Macdonald, Louie Anderson, Bob Saget, now this. Wow.

Yeah not sure completely why they’re preempting, but I guess news is fluid, since the shooter hasn’t been apprehended.

28 people have been taken to the hospital as of now. 10 shot.

Oh right, you said that before re: DC.

Nothing close to the horror stories I’ve heard longtime NYers talk about, though. You grew up here, right? I heard people talk about walking in the middle of the street to avoid muggers staked out in alleyways. Just crazy stuff. The city hasn’t been heading in a good direction, though. A lot of it is national trends—Philly, for example, is a hot-ass mess right now—but De Blasio’s apathy didn’t help.

There’s definitely an edge to the city I’ve rarely felt, post-pandemic, especially in the subway, but I’ve only been here for 20 years.

I’m in Upper Manhattan, but I’ve definitely been on those trains a lot. Just terrifying to be on a train in rush hour and have someone start shooting. I saw videos of passengers today trying to open the doors between the trains only to find them locked. Makes me think of the LIRR massacre years ago. Not surprising given the state of the subways, but they are saying there were no working cameras in that station. Great.

Edit: Actually I’m hearing five are in “critical but stable condition.”

Mass subway shootings in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, here in NYC this morning. All the local stations are doing breaking-news coverage. Shooter still at large:

Jorge from Spain 🇪🇸

Same. Totally. Especially when you see how beautifully produced and written it was. Even if some viewers were invested in this crap current show, you’d somewhat assume they’d enjoy the flashbacks, given that they were rarely aired and realizing the show was shut down due to a *global pandemic.* But nope! “Waaaaah, where’s the new stuff?” Pandering to that audience really holds the show back.

That’s a really good point. Yikes. It almost feel like he’s mocking her in a way. RC loves to make folks crazy, but this is waaaaay over the top.

Why are there so few new hits in 2022?

It was weird. A lot of the whiny folk I saw during lockdown were older viewers who were saying, “I’ve already seen all this!” Not all of them, but quite a few. Seeing some of the same complaints from older viewers about Diane.

Today wasn’t a shining moment for any of the soaps I saw. Can Nikolas die already? Like “for real” for real?

Harry Styles ends Glass Animals No. 1 run, with his new “As It Was” debuting atop the charts. It’s his second chart-topper after “Watermelon Sugar”:

It’s a problem with all of these shows to an extent. Maybe not as extreme as B&B, which expects daily amnesia from its viewers. That’s not soap. Makes it so easy to tune out. I’m still pissed about Quinn’s absence from recent stories. She should have been involved in pretty much every story this year so far, from Sheila to Carter/Paris.

As always, not the show’s biggest problem, but when will they update the intro with new cast? Courtney Hope has been on the show for what seems like years and hasn’t been added. Now they have Connor Floyd, Rory Gibson, Kelsey Wang, Susan Walters, et al. Are they that cheap? B&B is super quick with updates these days. They are playing Allie as a naive Mary Sue. She can’t be this dumb. Feels totally plot-driven.

Now that would have been new for daytime… (I think? I wouldn’t have put it past JER.)