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Second week at No. 1 for BTS.

Xander got “left at the altar” by Kristen/Sarah, married Chanel, banged Nicole, and is now mixing it up with Gwen. He’s basically the straw that stirs the drink for any story right now.

1 minute ago, ChitHappens said:

 

This is ridiculous.  Was he hurt or just mentally not strong enough to continue?

From the little I saw, it seemed like he was legit injured or maybe just overexerted himself  to take the opening two sets.

And Musetti retires against Novak… lordt.

Meanwhile, after falling two sets down (in two TBs)…

And Sakkari beating the brakes off Kenin, yikes…

Novak is making a mess of this match against Musetti.

12 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

Is Sloane match fixing now?  I saw the highlights and that was the single most pitiful performance I've seen in a minute

Oy. Should have known not to get my hopes up.

Meanwhile, Coco is cruising.

From NYC  
 

On 6/5/2021 at 7:37 AM, Forever8 said:

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I’m listening now. I just her.

Aw. Michael Cole is now the last surviving member of the Mod Squad.

11 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Yup..tennis won't grow until the tennis media stop playing favorites. 

And they’re playing favorites with people who are on the last legs of their careers. And then when the other big superstar (Naomi) withdraws early, they’re caught flat-footed. Pretty much they’re now relying on Coco, who they prefer over even Rafole.

5 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

The women bottom half draw is dreadful. The ratings are going to be horrific. Last year with Swanjki making the finals and winning brought all time lows.

 

 

It doesn’t help that they only show the big stars, so people can get familiar with the up-and-comers. Like I get it, but it’s short-sighted and a self-fulfilling prophecy. They are replaying Federer/Koepfer on NBC (both of whom are now out of the tournament) instead of letting people watch Fokina/Delbonis, one of whom will make the quarters.

NBC’s ratings don’t make me any money either way. I just wanna watch some competitive tennis, big stars or not.

Rybakina just took out Serena. 

NBC’s coverage of this tournament is… weird, to say the least.

So Kirsten Storms had brain surgery to remove a cyst that had split in two?

https://deadline.com/2021/06/general-hospital-star-kirsten-storms-acknowledges-recent-brain-surgery-1234770061/

As somewhat expected with his press statements yesterday, Federer has withdrawn from RG after his marathon win against Koepfer. Berrettini advances to the QF against Djokovic or Musetti.

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SNL was the No. 1 entertainment series (meaning excluding sports) in the 18-49 demo across all of ad-supported TV this past season, beating even The Masked Singer and This Is Us.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/snl-ratings-no-1-2020-21-season-1234963138/

29 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

I understand what you're saying. But Tripp is completely favorless at this point. Any edge or distinct characterization is gone.

Also, we all noticed how watered-down Will had become, and even former serial killer Ben is now a self-pitying, neurotic Mary Sue. They’ve become neutered. Basically, the guys are pretty vanilla aside from Xander and the villain du jour (currently Michael Lowry’s character), while the ladies get to have all the fun (Gabi, Kate, Sami, Abby, et al. aren’t out-and-out villains but they get to scheme and be witheringly funny). Not entirely shocking for a female genre, but still… would it hurt to have preserved some of Tripp’s early ne’er-do-well energy while still making him generally a decent guy?

Genie is killing it. What else is new?

But Jeff Kober is actually matching her for the first time during his whole GH tenure. He’s hella talented, so it’s not a shock.

They got all the black folks wrapped up in this drama. We love to see it.

Can we not with the Hellmann’s-on-Wonder-Bread love scene?

RH is playing this Austin reasonably mild-mannered for now, but Goofus is right there under the surface.

21 minutes ago, MichaelGL said:

Tripp should be a good guy, but with a bit of a edge (rough childhood, held a scalpel to Kayla's throat, etc); unfortunately Ron does not know how to write such characters without making them one extreme or the other (boringly too good; or outright psycho). 

Xander’s mostly played for yuks and beefcake, but I feel like he’s RC’s best recent male example of a grey character.

14 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Tsisitpas might be injured. I'm not surprised. He's played way too much tennis. 

He and Ash Barty both looked so strong this season…

I think Mishael has a facility with the formal, somewhat unnatural dialogue that Karla didn’t have, and it really changes the tenor of those scenes (for the better by leaps and bounds… it really drives home how talented MiMo is).
 

You can have an educated, upper-crust family without making them sound like robots… Y&R is really doing them a disservice.

Speaking of bad, this Tara actress is a miss. If they intend for the character to stick around, they need to recast. That’s not to say that this story can be saved (even Richard Burgi feels stiff in his role), but she still is conspicuously bad.