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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).

Knew he was alive but ugh.

Ed Sheeran creeps closer to his next No. 1, and Lizzo and Cardi debut at No. 4.

Like you say, the black characters on B&B are ornamental at best (almost literally with Carter, whom they value solely for his pec-tacular assets out of clothes). Less charitably, they’ve made the black characters into paper-thin interlopers who betray the white characters (Carter, Justin, and mostly likely Paris). It’s so abundantly clear they don’t care about any of these characters.

This show engages in some Jim Reilly-level wheel-spinning. Finn and Steffy are a broken record.

Johnny declares himself “100 percent into women, one woman in particular.” These shows will dabble in female pansexuality but continue to be scared of male-on-male sexuality (as well as black male/white female sexuality, to a somewhat lesser extent, Quinn/Carter on B&B excepted—Quinn is coded as “bad.” Molly/TJ are a non-entity on GH). Theo wasn’t even allowed to have sex with his fiancée. Interesting that both GH and DAYS have elevated black female heroines, both paired with the globetrotting scions of villainous dynasties.

Wendy… sheesh. But she got good digs in. Gizelle seemed pretty unbothered. Still this season’s drama ratcheted waaay up.

Amauri Pesek-Hickson, running back for the University of Kansas football team 🇺🇸

Charlie from Love Island 🇺🇸

Pierre, a Haitian-American model 🇭🇹 🇺🇸

Seems like Daniil injured his wrist? Didn’t expect him to lose to Rublev like that. My money’s on whoever comes through on the other half (Tsitsipas or Zverev).

The great Borna Ćorić 🇭🇷

Yoav from Israel 🇮🇱

The LML era was unwatchable. I certainly remember that much lol. The different eras of Y&R since the mid-2000s have been awful (or at best mediocre) in so many unique ways.

Or even a statement from CBS or Sony that at least gives the impression that they give a sh!t (which they obviously don’t).