Faulkner

I tuned in only for that after swearing off this show and seeing clips here and there, and you’re so right. A mother-son reunion should be an easy moment. If FV has committed to an aesthetic, that’s one thing, but he’s gotta know that this is one time you gotta figure out how to break the rules and make those scenes land and not blend into the rush of the narrative. (With him, the blending in might be more of a feature than a bug.) Slow it down and let the reunion breathe. Milk the hell out of your very good actors who can turn sh!t into sugar. He just doesn’t have that sensitivity when it’s not a full episode-long tribute.

This definitely feels like an acknowledgment that something is amiss at Y&R, but a bit timid. We shall see what follows.

I wouldn’t mind that either, but still want some muscle eye-candy in the mix. YMMV. Yet above all else, give me memorable characters who have layers that actors can really sink their teeth into and light and shade. I’m tired of boring or one-dimensional stock characters.

Looking forward to seeing some fine BLACK men who aren’t just walking torsos trotted out for an occasional fetishistic jolt like Carter on B&B or similarly poorly developed, uninspired characters like Devon Hamilton or Curtis Ashford. Give me body but with some actual flesh—male characters as complex and layered as Mason Capwell or Roger Thorpe or Mac Cory. We’ve never really had that in daytime—even some of the better examples of Black male characters like Neil Winters, Abe Carver, and Jesse Hubbard have felt limited in their scope compared to their peers. This is such a great opportunity.

This guy is perfection:

Madonna pays tribute to her Christopher, who died of cancer:

Sheila/Kimberlin would certainly be a “break in case of emergency” type of return, since they’ve avoided going back to that well for 18 years (at least on Y&R). While I’d be curious about how she’d interact with Stafford, et al, B&B has largely wrung that character beyond dry, and I can’t imagine Y&R would handle her much better than B&B has. It would just be a different kind of “bad.”