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Rohan, former Mr. Gay India 🇮🇳

Not sure if this was shared, but Karla Mosley (GL, B&B) co-hosts a podcast about artists and mental health. A little over a year ago, she had her longtime friend Bobby Steggert (ex-Sam, AMC) on as a guest. He has retired from acting and is now a therapist. He has a lot of great insights:

Matt from South Korea 🇰🇷

Zhuwan from China 🇨🇳

More Vassia from Canada 🇨🇦

Good for them for saving their pennies. I do like the idea of her playing a cold bitch (even colder than Gina), like she did on Melrose Place.

I like Julie Pinson, but I wish some soap would snap her up for good so she wouldn’t always be floating around as a potential recast lol.

It’s an absolute FU. I see we’re in good company with our irritation across social media. We’ll see what happens, but there’s zero reason to be optimistic, given the state of the show currently.

Lol. I have to turn off any to do with this Keemo story. Just makes me annoyed.

I watched and have zero interest in watching more. These ladies feel so phony and thirsty.

She looks great. Effortless charisma in a small scene. Y&R in its current condition would dreadfully waste her, but she’d give it pop. It wouldn’t deserve her charity.

They’re engaged.

You’ve turned on Carson! Haha.

He’d probably say that it’s budget (limited versus 20 years ago), but it’s not like you listed more characters than we have now. Brooke, Ridge, Taylor, Deacon, Hope, Thomas, Steffy, Sheila, Carter, Paris, Liam, Grace, and Zende have all been featured, and they could be doing much more than repeating the same tired dialogue every day and playing out a single A story (everything surrounding Brooke) and a segregated black B story in a corner (Carter/Paris). So much richness and character exploration is left on the table. There are times when it feels like JER at his laziest. Maybe they think the aging audience won’t be able to keep up with speedier or deeper storytelling.

I saw it, and it just seemed odd to not even have a peck on the lips. Not the hugest deal, but it struck me. This show obviously doesn’t shy away from same-sex intimacy as evidenced by the Chanel/Allie love scene.

At least Paris wasn’t grimacing and squinting during today’s love scene with Carter. She just looked kinda bored. Zero chemistry or connection between the actors, whereas it was palpable between LSV and RS. The hyper close-ups on Paris/Carter were also a bit odd. Again, they’re just pretending like Crazy Taylor never happened. New actress, wipe the slate clean, I guess. B&B has a problem keeping the energy up between story peaks.

No smooch between Craig and Leo?

What even is this show? Zzzzz.