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More of Rich Burns, an actor 🇺🇸

Sammy from Ghana 🇬🇭

Tanner Novlan and Kimberlin Brown actually do favor each other a bit. I liked Ridge questioning Finn and his parents if they’d plotted all of this all along with Sheila. I thought that was a nice touch, and I liked TN’s incensed reaction.

Sometimes this show feels like it’s written by aliens who have never interacted with human beings. (That comment is in regards to this Mariah abduction story.) Glad to see Sally moved into Chloe and Adam’s orbit (even though the whole Chloe-working-with-Adam thing is… odd).

Bolu, a model from Paris 🇫🇷

Not watching, but I heard Tsitsipas choked big time against Ugo Humbert. Broken when serving for the match and lost a marathon tiebreak (Humbert won it 15-13, forcing a third set).

Austin could have been written as Justus’s long-lost son, but nooooo. They had to write RH a third role.

Sheila isn’t just your mother-in-law, Steffy. She’s your kid’s grandma. Countdown to the baby going missing…

The story itself is rushed, but B&B knows how to drag out a moment. I’m like, “Fücking spit it out, Finn!” Donna and Katie and that badly Photoshopped photo of Eric and Stephanie 😂…

Yep.

Cuomo just resigned. Kathy Hochul will become NY’s first female governor in two weeks.

Brad from Taiwan 🇹🇼

Villain is one thing, but why a serial killer? You can’t really come back from that. One you go there, you have to commit, and that character either has to die or go to jail. You can’t call an “oopsie” and make him a romantic hero.

He doesn’t have to care. The media and his fans will fete him (in spite of no results to speak of), and he’ll continue to make bank.

I tend to be anti-recast when you have an original performer in a role for years and years and years. Except for when I feel like someone is checked out, like Stafford, Kelly Monaco, Michael O’Leary, or Missy. (I’d actually add Matt Ashford to that list, which pains me, because I once loved him. He seems tired.) But I can understand why people are invested in MR. For me, Cady just lit a fire under Jennifer, similar to how Gina Tognoni revitalized Phyllis.

They definitely have chemistry. It’s a shame it’s been wasted on such insulting garbage. Soaps back themselves in corners when they don’t need to.

He won’t go deep in many tournaments with that attitude. That and his mediocre fitness level.

This is why I think they’ve botched it. They should have had Sally in Nick’s orbit a LOT sooner to be see if there’s a there there. We should have had MANY scenes of them together by now, instead of a handful. Casual chats at the Grand Phoenix. Anything. Because everything is right there to tell the story of an affair except for the most important thing, the connection, which, at this point, would take time to build. It may not even be worth it.

This is Mau, who I think is Brazilian, but is based in Dubai 🇦🇪

Wow, three retirements on the women’s side in Montreal today.

Daytime Confidential mentioned something was in the works but haven’t heard any follow-up.

Saw the tribute to Stuart Damon that closed today’s episode. Have they announced plans for anything else? Edit: saw this from last month but no date as of yet. I can imagine these tributes, if done properly, take time to do well.

Gigi Bermingham (who’s the recast for Hayden’s mom) reminds me of a toned-down Robin Strasser.

Theo Carver. Zende Forrester. T.J. Ashford. Moses Winters. If you’re a black male under 30, even if the actor is gorgeous and the character is tied to core families, you exist only as a barely used, one-dimensional prop with no POV. (And if you’re over 30, like Carter, Justin, Sean, Devon, Nate, or Eli, you’re not doing much better. Carter has a “hot story” on paper, but in reality it’s flimsy. And at least Curtis on GH has a love triangle, but he’s a C-stringer at best.)