Faulkner

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.

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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.

From Thailand  

Sorry that Sherry couldn’t join but watching now. Marika, MZ’s daughter, is godmother to Sherry’s daughter.

34 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Rublev let it slip that Novak wasn't going to play Miami earlier this week. 

 

The Miami tournament is going to be even worse than usual this year.

 

No wonder Rublev mouth was watering at the possibility of winning it.

3 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:

I have no proof and I am not suggesting something icky. But it is clear to me

the fact CK is "passing" is both helping her be in interracial relationships that have been off-limits when they tried with other characters of color (note too that an AA woman has been allowed to date white men but the outcry has been too much when they tried to pair an AA man with a white woman... enough said) but also hindering the show from going deep into exploring the AA experience more explicitly.

I think you’ve hit on what a lot of people have shared over the years. CK’s light skin, etc. has opened her up to pairings (and rivalries) that Mishael Morgan, Loren Lott, or Angell Conwell never would have had. Being in Cane Jail sorta obscured those advantages (even though, of course, he was white). But Y&R clearly sees her as palatable enough to the aging white audience to be a lead. She’s seen as formidable enough to go up against another longtime (white) lead, AH’s Victoria. 

She barely interacts with her black family at all, and her mentor is her dead white best friend’s mom.

This hair tho

Valerie has a new gig.

If these shows want to be sci-fi, they should commit to it. Not just lazily use sci-fi when it’s narratively convenient. But that’s pretty much the past 40 years of soaps.

The masks thing RC falls back on seems singularly, eye-rollingly stupid.

Shapovalov was so annoying today, so I’m glad he lost. Harris is also rolling.

Wow.

Stefanos defending really well.

This is funny.