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“More than adequate replacement” sounds slightly… Spanish? He’s all over the map here. Good for Cynthia Watros, who is a consummate professional and could actually shed real tears opposite that mess lol.

I adore Roxy Music. One of my favorite bands, and Bryan Ferry is 🔥. Re: Sob Rock—The song “Why You No Love Me” sorta made me cringe, so I didn’t dig deeper. Maybe I’ll give it another shot.

Lord, who dressed Zach Tinker? I thought he had an open shirt because the center section of that ill-fitting Polo is flesh-colored.

Alan Sarapa has been ranting about this on Twitter. He considers SH the better Kristen, which, no, but I guess I see his point. Still Eileen Davidson, all day, every day. She is the actress who made the role iconic.

What’s up with these soaps neutering their Mobster Avas?

I’d never seen Michael Nader before he was Dimitri, and I was SO upset as a kid when Erica shaved off his goatee. I was like, whhhhy? Obviously he was a handsome man either way.

I do wonder if Carly or Jason will be forced to kill Jax. Esme has the greatest bitch face. Serving Regina George sweetness with a razor edge. Wes is still doing too much. Trying to channel Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter as well as going in and out of an English accent. “You‘ll do everything in yoooour power to tell me wheere Louise…. …izzzzz.” It’s parody stuff.

I wonder if we’ll see (or hear) anything that flouts usual daytime-TV standards or if it’ll be strictly by-the-book so as not to offend the pearl clutchers (since this is ostensibly a test to see if DAYS can survive on Peacock). I remember the old-timey AMC fans getting up in arms about salty language on the online version. But RC seems like the type to capitalize on any content freedom.

Oh, this hurt my heart. The Marick brothers both departed.

Gizelle and Karen are the most fulfilling rivalry in HW history IMO. Very evenly matched in terms of the back and forth but it never goes totally off the rails. I never fear that either will be completely obliterated by the other, but a lot of their blows do land.

Serena has withdrawn from the U.S. Open:

Kyle from South Korea 🇰🇷

This guy, Capi, is just beautiful.

Hugo from France 🇫🇷

I dunno: I would not feel bad never seeing (or hearing) Leah McSweeney ever again. She can kick rocks with the quickness IMO.

Nina, just kill him. A lot of people already believe he’s dead anyway. So many undead people roaming around at the same time. GH gonna GH.

Man…

What are the women at the Chancellor mansion wearing? Especially Sharon and Tessa. This show feels so phoned in…

Model Paul Forman from the UK 🇬🇧

I open this thread with a sense of dread more and more.

Been in my head for a week straight. “You gotta help me oooout, yeah-eh-ehhhh”

And also I feel Tripp was introduced with more of an edge that’s been all but completely dulled. He’s standard insert-dumb-soap himbo-because-our-young-heroine-needs-a-dick. Lucas Adams exists to look good in a damp towel. Now Johnny has been introduced as a bad boy so there’s even less reason to give Tripp even the slightest edge. These shows can’t seem to write characters that pop for more than two or three at a time (and only with the biggest, most extroverted personalities like Xander).