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Muhammet from Los Angeles 🇺🇸

Reign’s on this Amazon series that’s very similar to Yellowjackets, so they missed out.

More “Bruno”:

This show is not great at reveals.

Ben Platt might win a Tony and a Razzie for the same role, wow. He thought that DEH adaptation was his road to EGOT.

One big problem is that this show hasn’t done the greatest job at tying Zende to the Forresters. His scenes are almost all separate from his adopted family. Like would they care? I wonder if Grace will have any role other than spoiler for Carter and Paris. It just feels forced to me, like they needed a story for this part of the canvas and didn’t really think it through. It would have felt more organic for Quinn to have some buyer’s remorse over sticking with Eric and feel uncomfortable witnessing Paris (who ratted Quinn out to Brooke) growing closer to Carter. But John McCook and Rena Sofer haven’t been seen much, so I’m assuming it’s just a general availability issue.

Grand opportunity for a Noah shirtless scene missed lol. Who sleeps in a dress shirt? Y&R needs to chill with the tormented dudes in need of a Celexa prescription. Today was the first day I actually sensed Adam/Sally chemistry, so that’s something.

In St. Louis, Santa Barbara aired at 10 am late in its run, which was godawful. Y&R aired at 4 pm, which was great for latchkey kids like me coming home from school (but also aired opposite Oprah at times).

I remember when this played every half-hour on VH1. Also, a stunningly beautiful Nina Persson solo song that should have been better known:

Jase in Australia 🇦🇺

Cat’s fun and a straight shooter, but man was she wasted and incoherent there lol.

In your opinion, besides consistency, what are some of the qualities that elevated TGL above the other soaps in its best years?

Inmo from France 🇫🇷

Same, more due to the actors than anything else. It’s a shame both are written so poorly (Sally as a punching bag, Sheila just talking to herself all the time). GH maybe Trina. DAYS, I don’t care. Edit: probably Abby, which is a waste. Again, the latter two are favorites because of the performers (Sydney Mikayla and Marci Miller).

A very blink-and-you’ve-missed-it glimpse of the show near the end of Peacock’s 2022 preview:

A good Janet mashup:

Brad from Taiwan 🇹🇼 Alexandre from Brazil 🇧🇷

Habit is really the blessing and the curse of daytime viewership. I miss having GL or AW on as an alternative if I got bored with GH in the afternoon. It just felt like a date. While streaming is great, everything just feels like content in the streaming universe. Like you say, some of that magic has been lost. Now I know that a lot of streamers have started releasing an episode a week (I love watching new episodes of Great British Bakeoff on Friday nights after they’re released on Netflix, when the show’s in season. And Disney+ fans have responded well to its schedules.) But there’s something of a living, breathing parallel universe that soaps represented in their heyday, and you had your daily-appointment window into it. And it’s not the same.

And that’s hiding a dumb kiss spirals into something more serious lol.