Faulkner
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Oh thanks!! Denis Shapovalov is looking soooo much better. He cleans up well, even with the sun-burnt face lol. Not quite as effortlessly stylish and elegant as his compatriot FAA…
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Getting old sucks in a lot of ways. Hard to watch. Still, he made the QF off two knee surgeries (which is both an indictment of his competition and a testimony to his skill). ESPN is lame, of course. We’re missing the tight Berrettini/FAA match while they chatter on and on about Roger’s defeat.
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I think Eboni kinda wants to be that as well. She feels a bit entitled to the crown. I felt like the show was borderline rudderless last season as well. There’s nothing that really galvanizes the show anymore. Dorinda would have been a great “alpha” last season, but she couldn’t get out of her own way (similar to Bethenny’s final days IMO—but she seemed over the show).
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Completely agree, and co-sign @Cat’s comment that the COVID bubble magnifies the problem, since they keep having the same conversation over and over and over and over, when, in the past, the fast-paced NYC backdrop would have naturally given us different dynamics. The drinking last year was too much, but this is also too much. This franchise feels a bit rudderless.
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Far too young. R.I.P. This is a nice scene.
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Other than Zoe slinking out of town, there was no real follow-up to yesterday’s events, which is insane. Basically the same thing happened with Quinn after the Shauna/Ridge fake wedding revelation: Eric ripped her a new one, and she disappeared for what seemed like weeks. There are so many loose threads that could have been addressed today: Quinn’s vengeful anger at Paris and Brooke; Ridge wrestling with the betrayal of his best friend; Carter’s status at Forrester; the list goes on. Instead we got Ridge giving a play-by-play of the aborted “commitment ceremony” 🙄 to Steffy and Finn, and a pivot back to the Spencers/Justin/Thomas stuff. And that pathetic farewell from Zoe… They treat Rena only slightly better than Heather Tom: they throw her a frontburner story every blue moon to act her ass off and then treat her like a glorified extra. You’d think, with Zoe gone, Brad might play out the Quarter romance, but like most of his stuff, the affair feels like a stunt and a momentary diversion from Liam.
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Wow. Really great scene that I don’t remember watching. These veteran actors add so much richness and wisdom to these stories. Such a shame these shows began to see older actors are expendable. (Even today, they could play Jackie Zeman with Eden McCoy more to tighten the Bobbie/Joss bond. It would add a lot of depth to Joss’s character.)
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Bershan is a breath of fresh air who deserves a midseason apple, and the vibe is closer to vintage NYC than other episodes this season. I do like the tension between Bershan and Eboni. These shows don’t often highlight different approaches that black women employ to navigating mostly white environments (sometimes in competition with one another), so that feels somewhat fresh. And Eboni’s talking-head interview in which she said Bershan was encroaching on her territory was interesting. Glad that Eboni’s connection to Fox News and past statements were addressed. Her mother voted for Trump. This season is basically a write-off, though. Maybe a necessary transition? I dunno.
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Sharp elbows in the Queens Borough President race:
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LOL Luann mentioned that hats on the bed were bad luck. I learned that watching Drugstore Cowboy.
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Very sad but freak accident? That’s…. hmmm…
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Funny… FAA is dating Alja Tomjanovic’s cousin, and Alja is dating Berrettini, who’s playing FAA in the quarterfinals:
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Erstwhile Hollywood starlet Carroll Baker, now 90, gives an impassioned defense of Bill Cosby… Lordy:
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It’s an effective game, though. Whether or not that’s a damning statement on the rest of the WTA is up for debate, I suppose. I don’t love watching her play either, but she’s a respectable No. 1.
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Well, NuChanel is… diving right in.
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Ash Barty just made 25% first serves and still won her opening set 6-1. The level of play is simply not Grand Slam caliber this year.
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What Ben is doing is not cute. Agree with everyone else.
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A sixth week at No. 1 for “Butter,” a song I’ve yet to hear in the wild. (Its airplay numbers are decent, so it may just be me.) Ed Sheeran’s latest enters the top 10 at No. 5.
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It’ll be hilarious if this is the year Karolina Pliskova wins a major title. Lord.
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EL/Tara being No. 1 is NUTS. They are truly clueless.
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Certainly B&B too. GH at least has some peaks and valleys lately (the lead-up to Peter and Cyrus’s departures had energy I haven’t seen on Y&R in years, but it all just deflated almost instantly).
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Yeah, it’s super sad. The dialogue feels like they think it’s smart but it’s really not at all. It’s just stiff. Victoria, Ashland, and Amanda and her family feel particularly hampered by it. It’s not as pop-culture cutesy as Amanda Beall’s work on AMC, but something about it makes me feel like she has a hand in it as co-HW. If a certain spoiler comes to pass, I might be out. Just out of principle. Part of me watches because I’m trying to envision what behind-the-scenes environment fosters such a show. And I like the community here. But it’s a slooooog to get through episodes, and life is short.
