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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.)

I oversold it a bit. Jared Donaldson is a now-retired American ATP player who was mildly hyped as a next great white hope. His outburst was MUCH more aggressive, and he should have been defaulted. But it was similarly amusing:

LOL at Diego’s high-pitched wail! Shades of Jared Donaldson…

Fran from Spain 🇪🇸

Nice resurgence after a rough couple of years:

Mehdy from Lebanon 🇱🇧

Adel from Cuba 🇨🇺 in Berlin 🇩🇪

She was a decent Jill!

ATWT wasn’t “my” show when I started getting into soaps in the early ‘90s, as I watched OLTL. It was my mom’s show, so even though I didn’t regularly watch until maybe the Richard Culliton era, I still feel a kinship to it. I associate it with my mom and how much she loved it.

Wandson from Brazil 🇧🇷

Netflix is talking about doing a Crown prequel series that would start with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and lead up to where The Crown started, with Elizabeth II’s wedding. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-crown-left-bank-prequel-netflix-1235228281/