Faulkner

I know the character is very connected but I’ve never enjoyed Michael for any extended period of time, no matter who is playing him.

Whoa. Andy Murray will be Novak’s coach:

Abby has such a bizarre origin story, but on paper she had potential. Even if she simply added a different dynamic to the played-out Nick/Victoria/Adam/Victor snoozefest, it would have been useful. Abby and Adam as the two outsiders (reminding Nikki of Victor’s other great loves) up against Nick and Victoria writes itself. Her antagonistic chemistry with Amelia Heinle was the best thing about her. She could have played more of a role in the Abbott/Newman war for sure. But the writing was on the wall when Abby didn’t even play a part in her own mother’s mental illness story. It’s crazy how dominant she was with story with Danny Boaz’s Chance—they were pushing MO as Y&R’s young leading lady. DB’s firing and the idiotic baby story derailed all of that. Devon doesn’t seem long for this world either. Marrying him off to a story black hole and bringing on another Black male in his age range (billed as a mover and shaker and more connected to Nate) doesn’t bode well. Devon Hamilton is one of the most ill-conceived long-running characters I’ve ever seen, so it’s a shocker he lasted this long.