Faulkner

I guess it’s not too late:

Ben and Rafe were bad enough, but LMAO.

This is funny if you follow Armond White, the notoriously “contrarian” cultural critic: Calista?!?!

R.L. from NYC 🇺🇸

Christmas songs dominated:

I love seeing Carly crushed.

There can only be so many black folks, especially black men, on these shows these days. Not just a black man but also a Horton, so that’s two strikes. Perhaps it was his decision?

Granted, I’m the least loyal to DAYS of the remaining soaps, but I actually find a flatlining Y&R more watchable than this current version of DAYS. Just a waste of a lot of really great talent (better than Y&R by far) on ridiculous sh!t that goes nowhere.

Mor from Israel 🇮🇱

I was fearing that he died by his own hand, but it was believed to be a heart attack. Just so sad.

NuNoah is cute but he’s so fücking glum and low-energy. Fitting for the show, I guess. There’s something very telling about how CBS promotes their soaps. They don’t even really push their big weekly dramatic stories as ABC and NBC do for GH and DAYS (which, ok, Y&R doesn’t have any), but they have this sorta generic, shiny-happy-people-laughing vision set to pop rock. Obviously they must have market-tested those, so they have some sense of what their audience wants. Someone said Hallmark Channel and that feels right. Good vibes only, light conversations about trivia (lots of chirpy, conflict-free filler chats about business/life events like today’s Chelsea/Abby, Elena/Sharon, and Sally/Tessa), very little sex, superficial emotions, vaguely low-budget Canadian afterschool drama feel.

Jonas from Brazil 🇧🇷

I don’t understand why Y&R’s ratings don’t drop *now* of all times when they have in the past. Even people at home due to the pandemic doesn’t quite explain it. It’s holding up much better in the demos than many of its (relatively more entertaining) competitors, so it can’t just be an excess of grannies who don’t know how to work the clicker. It’s actually embarrassing reading those “spoilers,” and I can’t imagine who would be excited by them. Maybe it’s just comfort food? Ambient TV? Familiar faces like Eric Braeden keeping folks company? It’s odd. But they have zero incentive to make changes with the ratings they have. Why would they make Sally and Chelsea adversaries? Don’t put your bad girls all in one corner. Mix them up with the heroines—Abby, Sharon, Victoria, Lily. Even Phyllis made some sense as a rivalry with Sally, but they’ve dropped that.

Wow. He reportedly died at his cabin outside Quebec City.

Yeah. He’s a hard 39.

Episode 3 is at the art show, and she’s featured the most there so far. The Adriana/Julia innuendo bugs me. That feels forced to me.

I want to read that. Good?

Andy C. loves his Latin men in bed. I guess that’s the extent of his cultural appreciation.

A hot couple: Nico from Italy 🇮🇹 and Luis from Venezuela 🇻🇪

The “sugar daddy” is allegedly 38.

Colton’s gone public with his new boo months after TMZ posted photos of them making out on a Hawaiian beach:

A Y&R thread poster in the past. Could we see him overseeing Genoa City one day?