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Cardi’s 5th No. 1 and her second with no accompanying acts (after “Bodak Yellow”).

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As bad as the JT/domestic violence story was, its conclusion (and Victoria’s subsequent stint on the backburner) was the perfect opportunity for the right writer to reset Victoria. Unfortunately, we got JG, who regressed the entire show, and so it was more of the same. Victoria tries, lamely, to assert herself in business. Victoria uses her kids to reel in Billy.
 

JG just flat-out doesn’t care about Nick or Nikki. He’s got such a hard-on for Adam. I’m not gonna complain about the lack of Nick, as I don’t enjoy him much, but Nikki deserves better.

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DAYS just won the WGA.

29 minutes ago, AlexElizabeth said:

Also random but I'm pretty sure I saw the guy who plays Brando (Johnny Wacker or whatever his porn-sounding name is) in a commercial for the Gardisil HPV vaccine.

Ha, I saw that ad this afternoon too.

43 minutes ago, j swift said:

How about Rena Sofer as Lois Cerullo on GH?  She was from New York, not the Cyndi Lauper School for Girls who want to have fun.

I thought her Brooklyn accent was pretty good tbh.

1 hour ago, KMan101 said:

 

Summed it up perfectly.

 

It doesn't work at all.

 

Deep, deep deep down they have to know that. But at this point, she's been Victoria for what, 15/16 years? Yikes.

 

I won't lie, often-times it's read like "we're kinda stuck with her" ...

 

Interesting how I didn't mind her Victoria or Ordway's Abby under Sussman and Alden ...  ... hell, they even almost turned Cane around!

Didn’t she get a reprieve when her initial Billy pairing took off? She’s still coasting on that reprieve a decade later...

My idea was to make her Y&R’s Cersei Lannister with some mild dashes of Alexandra Spaulding and the older Tracy Quartermaine. Make her totally vicious and power-hungry, fiercely protective of her children and their birthrights, and more of a formidable foe to Victor instead of this cowed pathetic thing she often plays. Bringing on all these iterations of Adam sort of sapped her, as he became the most dynamic Newman power player, and now she’s this odd earth mother—not only to her kids but also to her man-child, Billy Abbott.

15 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

I wasn't going to bring her up LOL because I *always* do but I agree. AH does cold bitch well but there's just something lacking in her Victoria. I know that's apparently "what they want" but yeah no. I say comfortable because I've seen numerous comments around social media anytime I've brought up Heather/Amelia and so many are "comfortable" with them where they are. Settled. They don't see it as we do, unfortunately, lol. 

Totally. HT’s Victoria was so multilayered (her rage, her sexiness, her longing, her power), but also because she was written that way. She had sort of a mythic quality that Bill Bell nurtured in all his characters. But, in the great ABCification of Y&R, they wanted her to be more of a bog-standard heroine, and she’s become superficial. She’s the constantly aggrieved businesswoman in the shadow of daddy—but she also wants love! It’s just sorta hackneyed and played-out. I wish they would play to AH’s strengths and just lean into the icy villainy more. But nO, sHe’S a HeRoInE! It doesn’t work at all.

7 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

I do miss aspects of Lester's Jack that Bergman just doesn't have, which is fine. I like Bergman as Jack but like I said, I can see why people loved Lester in the role and can't accept Bergman. I get it. I feel like I do the same with certain actors and actresses ... and I do think overtime, you become more "used" to that portrayal and it becomes comfortable.

But like with Amelia Heinle, sometimes it never becomes comfortable (at least not for me). AH has certain strengths, and there are times I even enjoy her (she does “cold bitch” extremely well), but she’s yet to take ownership of Victoria IMO, in contrast to PB as Jack. Just weird.

7 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

Lane Davies is an interesting thought. I'm still salty GH wasted him. 

I think he would have split the difference between TL and PB’s portrayals in an interesting way. He would have had PB’s erudition (but not his warmth and weepiness).

Serena out of Miami, her home tournament.

13 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

 

I've seem more of Terry Lester in the last few years as Jack than I ever have and damn do I love him in the role. I see why folks hate Bergman as Jack. I was always indifferent but I can't even look at him the same, lol.

PB’s Jack is a different character to me, both in portrayal and in writing (as Bell wrote to PB’s cry-at-the-drop-of-a-hat matinee idol strengths, which is close to PB’s persona IRL). His Jack that’s far less fascinating, charismatic, and rich as a character than TL’s, but one that I’ve come to accept on the basis of PB’s talent and decent chemistry with his onscreen family over the years.

I wonder what Lane Davies might have been able to do with Jack in a sort of role swap, as TL later played Mason on Santa Barbara. He wouldn’t have had the easy swagger of TL, though.

CLB and GR were both more credible as straight when they were baddies IMO. But, like other have said, they became less believable when they settled into their routine portrayals and thus more like their offscreen selves.

OTOH Terry Lester was gay as all get-out and completely believable as pu**y-chasing playboy.

Kat and Bridget, GL
Viki and Karen, OLTL (from what I’ve seen)

Nikki and Katherine, Y&R

Olivia and Ashley, Y&R (although Olivia betrayed Ashley with Brad)

Dru and Sharon, Y&R (Dru literally DIED for Sharon)

Lily and Colleen, Y&R

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From Italy  

1 minute ago, Soapsuds said:

Tsitsipas should've won. Sascha was playing awful in the first set and had the double fault yips again.

Yes, he should have, but he needs to work on his mental game. It’s let him down too many times in big matches.

This Stef-Sascha match? Mess.

From Israel  

2 hours ago, YRBB said:

I clearly need to go back to Thailand!

Yeah, that guy’s a crowd pleaser. I sent his photos to a couple people who were instantly smitten.