Faulkner

Brook Kerr/Portia is an underrated gem on this show. So is Rebecca Budig coming back or what?

Kelly’s ex is making that Clarkson ATM go brrrrrrr.

Yeah, if this was part of a greater story (like Phyllis falling for Jack again and Sally is the obstacle—everything is in place to tell that story), it would be fine. Right now, I feel like they are hedging their bets on pretty much every story.

I think I’m out on this season of RHONY. I skipped last night to watch the Olympics.

This guy from Brazil 🇧🇷

This bed is on fire with passionate love The neighbors complain about the noises above

They have ZERO idea what to do with Phyllis (or anyone really, but Phyllis sticks out, as they made such a big deal in luring back MS and ousting GT).

RJP will star in a reimagined film version of The Saint for Paramount: https://deadline.com/2021/07/bridgerton-star-rege-jean-page-to-star-in-paramounts-new-reimagining-of-the-saint-1234800662/ (Stepping stone to 007 à la Roger Moore?)

That is so on the money.

More of Artur Dalaloyan, from Russia’s gold medal-winning men’s gymnastics team 🇷🇺 :

They showed Dustin Lance Black reacting to Tom Daley’s win at home with Tom’s mother, and he let out the most high-pitched scream. I’m sure the neighborhood dogs were in distress.

Ditto.

The only song of theirs I’ve heard a lot out and about is “Dynamite.” These other songs, nope.

And BTS replace themselves at No. 1 again, with “Butter” soaring back to the top (for its eighth week at No. 1). Officially the summer of BTS for Billboard.

Elizabeth Leiner gets a lot of deserved criticism for her low-energy performance but I find Burgi extremely wooden too.

These were bad but it could be interesting for soaps on streaming to take on some Marvel Cinematic Universe characteristics. Having a mothership and multiple ongoing spin-off series that characters come in and out of but with a tighter focus. For example, a Will/Sonny/Paul series where they can show more of their lives immersed in a gay community, and people like Kate, Sami, and Gabi can pop in (similar to how characters from GH turned up on PC and GH:NS). It would require a creative visionary with a defter hand than Ken Corday and someone to make sure all the different series cohere narratively under the DAYS umbrella, but it would be an interesting streaming model further down the road. A way of introducing a lot of content using tried-and-tested IP.

Just saw that, yeah. If it’s reasonably successful, maybe they’ll do a DAYS universe on Peacock of spin-offs (and provide a roadmap for the other soaps). And, more importantly, give the genre an off-ramp…

SON poster Khan. He loves him some Zach Tinker.

Donkey Booty vs Stallion Booty, Part Deux.

Khan would approve.

💯 I will say that some of the existing creatives appear to want to do more but just can’t. They’d have more freedom in a streaming environment (if they were released from the current internal structures, that is).

This show likes to nod to “social issues,” but never really delves into them the way that soaps can. Maybe that’s the best they can do in this day and age, given Patrick Mulcahey’s commentary on soaps avoiding things that would ruffle the feathers of core (read: white, older, and conservative) viewers.

The body is ok, but that’s not a flattering photo lol.