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This Potomac episode lol… chaotic. Has Candiace been hanging out with Heavenly Kimes with all the “Yo Mama!” stuff?

Did not expect this scoreline…

Very true.

It’s sad. He’s more than simply an Asian man, although it’s important. He’s Jack’s son. He’s estranged from his father. He’s most certainly lived a life in the years he’s been off screen. He might have a wife and kids or have had several wives (or partners). He might have made some enemies. There are so many fascinating avenues they could take. And there are plenty of HOT talented Asian/biracial actors who would love the opportunity.

It’s super weird, right? And if they really wanted to do away with Keemo, as mentioned, they could have killed him off off screen. But they mention him periodically, as he has board voting powers at Jabot. It’s as if he’s “on ice,” always waiting to be reintroduced but no one has the balls or, more likely, the awareness to do it, even though it’s completely organic diversity. (These shows seem to only see diversity in terms of serving markets, and I’m not certain they see an Asian viewership, who are fragmented into so many different distinct cultures, as a lucrative soap audience. But does diversity have to be viewed solely through that lens? Why not simply have a broader and more interesting idea of humanity, for variety and for its own sake, as we live in a multicultural society? Is that a naive, Pollyanna-ish idea? Perhaps that’s an indictment of the viewers, but the writers also have to make them care. And they often don’t make the investment in fleshing out non-white characters.) Meanwhile, writers have been reaching for Jack’s stories, with addictions and one failed pairing after another.

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Yeah, I mean, soaps reinvent and give new personalities to characters all the time with recasts, especially after years off screen… and that original story had been largely forgotten by the mid-2000s. It would be useful for someone like Jack, who they value, to have his children represented. Beyond just Kyle. Lots of story potential. I think the racism part is likely the biggest issue, in combo with PB’s issues, as I don’t think Y&R would know what to do with an Asian male lead (the obvious answer would be to do whatever they do with the white male ones, which ain’t much, as I’ve said before, tbh. They certainly don’t treat the black men well.) I think they feel an Asian lead wouldn’t have as many story options or wouldn’t be well received by the audience. A total lack of empathy and imagination. If someone over the years really cared, they’d have forced PB’s hand, and I’m sure he’d have sucked it up and played the story like a professional.

It’s insane that they made up a son for Paul and Nikki (yes, to accommodate Steve Burton), dug up Nina’s stolen child, made up a son for Katherine, brought on Theo as an Abbott-Brooks, not to mention ridiculous and implausible stuff like having P3 fake his death to avoid coming out as gay, etc. yet Keemo is *right there* as a living Abbott offspring and they haven’t brought him back in a quarter-century. And PB has agreed to play even more absurd stuff over the years, like Peruvian Marco, Jack’s unrelated doppelgänger down to having the same physique and penis.

Jason, a fitness model from China 🇨🇳

Marci is wonderful.

Sammy from Ghana 🇬🇭

It’s funny—they’ve dropped so many sets. You rarely see Sharon’s cottage anymore, if ever. Adam’s apartment is gone. I wonder how long Devon’s place will be around.

And Austin is with Scotty. Can they stop this? Maybe the Facebook Karens love this too? I didn’t miss him at all. I reach for my remote every time I see him. Admittedly he looks better without the Rudy Giuliani shoe polish on his head. Why do women love this @sshole so much?

Is that John-Paul (James Sutton) from Hollyoaks? He’s definitely better looking now, but I thought he was hot back in the day. Too much over-the-top mewling but that wasn’t unusual then.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that, especially with Jack being so cognizant of his mortality post-Dina’s death, that he wouldn’t try to reach out to Keemo. It’s BS.

That poor Julie. Thrown down the stairs, had a heart transplant, had her pacemaker hijacked, now bashed over the skull with a hospital tray. That poor old woman’s body has been through a lot. I guess that Johnny serenade was sort of cute. It’s sort of odd that someone with Johnny’s background would be a country singer, but there ya go.

An interesting piece on why SNL cast members don’t leave anymore—our current fragmented, IP-driven media landscape doesn’t offer as many opportunities for post-SNL stardom:

Trainer Jay Cottz and his “twins” from Dublin 🇮🇪 242605137_198579905675326_2803770589718535502_n.mp4

A harrowing thread about what can happen to your body when you’ve gone into the ICU for COVID. Click below for more.

For some reason, this will be one of my favorite Porsha moments:

Thank YOU!

Lord…

It is true. Courtney Hope is in her 30s, and her character often feels like a green yet ambitious recent college grad. And Summer and Kyle felt like high school kids playing dress-up as junior executives. But a lot of that is reflected in society, for sure. Thirty-year-olds simply felt older back in the days (compare “thirtysomething” to any comparable show these days—those characters feel ancient.) More and more, young adults feel like they’re in a prolonged adolescence. There is a commentary to be had about forty-something men feeling rootless and adrift, but Y&R wasn’t making it unfortunately. They just didn’t know what to do with its male characters. They still don’t. Nick is all up in his siblings’ business with no story of his own.

🎯 It’s just laughable that they playing these moments like big reveals, ending today’s show with Eric telling Ridge he gave Quinn permission to fûck Carter. None of it makes a lick of sense. Even the oldest and most conservative members of the B&B audience are more sophisticated than this.