Faulkner

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.

I had saved this from @vetsoapfan, who had picked his favorite years of each soap:

It’s been said before but 1993 feels like such a pivotal year for all soaps. Doug Marland’s death forever changed ATWT. Todd’s rape of Marty on OLTL changed the trajectory of that show to the end. Claire Labine took over on GH.

Barbrosa in Tel Aviv 🇮🇱

James from London 🇬🇧

It’s this guy: https://instagram.com/carloscunh4?utm_medium=copy_link

Nikki seems like an obvious option, as people have mentioned, and she’s been sitting around doing nothing since JG took over.

To say one nice thing, Mark Grossman looks good today. The haircut makes him look younger.

I guess it’s budget-driven? You can tell the shift over the past decade, and it was worse than it’s ever been, post-COVID.

They really don’t like Denzel lol. Very strange Best Actress noms with no Colman, Kidman, or Stewart. I know BAFTA selects some of it nominees via jury now, but still I wouldn’t have expected Alana Haim over them.

Carlos from Brazil 🇧🇷

They always half-ass it. They never really commit to it. They chicken out and go for incompetent needy daddy’s girl. They need to really lean into full vengeful power-mad yet cold bitch with her. But to your point, she’s horribly miscast role of Victoria as written.

She’s amazing. Just imagine Stafford trying to pull her usual nonsense in scenes with her. But you’re right. They’d f*ck it up. So good.

I so wanted Zöe Lucker on an American soap. If Mal Young were good for anything…