Faulkner

Stefanos defending really well.

This is funny.

9 hours ago, janea4old said:

However, after she'd been airing on the show for a little while, ThePowersThatBe told her to drop the accent immediately because they thought the CBS daytime audience wouldn't like it, so she dropped it as directed and began speaking American English with no accent. 

Doesn’t that just say it all?

Lorenzo Musetti is rolling. Diego, Frances, and Grigor are great scalps.

From Jamaica  

I’m sick of folks pulling guns on Peter. Kill the guy already.

1 minute ago, slick jones said:

Like this.......

 

HA!

Carrie Ann, who’s been out sick, must be like, “Damn, y’all.”

1 minute ago, victoria foxton said:

@Faulkner Happy belated St. Patty’s day

Thank you! I’d like to “get lucky” with him...

1 minute ago, Ponds said:

I think it's a fantasy to show these uber rich white people never mentioning race when one of their lily white kids gets involved with a person of color.  That's not the real world!

If they actually treated the POC love interests with the same depth and care as the white ones, I’d be a lot more forgiving.

3 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

How has this guy not gotten knocked out yet lol

He is eminently punchable, that guy. If B&B just aired an episode with the rest of cast lining up to deck him, it’d be their highest-rated in years.

And Hope giving voice to a lot of our issues with Liam lol. Not it will mean anything.

It’s interesting. I think there are a lot of parallels between the soap audience and Bachelor Nation:

https://www.thecut.com/2021/03/bachelor-finale-cant-handle-racism.html

Just now, AbcNbc247 said:

Well, Rex was clearly horny so maybe he wouldn't have noticed anyway 

That is true! Maybe as a Gold Star Gay I’m overstating how easily distinguishable a vajayjay can be.  

Just now, victoria foxton said:

This is the same soap. Where a serial killer is written as a hero. Does the Sarah mask make Kristen shorter? And make her sound like Sarah? LOL

...change her entire body structure? Change Kristen’s middle-aged hands? Change her punany (thankfully Rex didn’t get it in)? It’s just so, so dumb...

I will say that I like Sally needling Phyllis a bit. It’s like Phyllis vs. a younger version of herself.

When things get this dumb, I’m out. Hard to watch this stuff with Kristen.

I will say LG does a good version of SH’s Kristen. But that doesn’t salvage this.

Lily spoke about implementing diverse hiring practices for ChanceCom, which was just an empty nod to our political climate.
 

I think soaps have a challenging situation. Aging, conservative daytime audience + the limitations of network TV. Primetime dramas on broadcast can be formulaic, but they have a broader, often younger audience who can tolerate more. Streaming can be more niche-oriented, which often results in more interesting work.
 

But even with AMC’s move to streaming, you had longtime fans who resisted a lot of the innovations (cursing, more explicit sex, etc.) I would love a fresh, dynamic daily soap without a lot of the baggage old soaps have, but that’s a tall order.

4 hours ago, prefab1 said:

For instance, here's an idea I literally came up with in 10 minutes: Let's say that a younger darker-skinned black woman from a working class background (more like Lily's mother Dru) comes to town and applies for a job at Chancellor Communications. But Lily decides not to hire her because she thinks the young woman doesn't fit the "classy" image of ChanceCo.

There was a story on Insecure the first season very similar to that (at Molly’s law firm), and it was very well-done.

From NYC  

From Tokyo  

2 minutes ago, AlexElizabeth said:

Don't throw tomatoes at me, because I know she's a bland actress - but I think the current actress playing Claire on DAYS does a very convincing American accent. I had no idea she was Australian until I read it here.

Huge contrast to Tammin Sursok as Colleen on Y&R, who sounded like she was doing an Outback commercial.

25 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Julianne Moore thought she was bad but I thought she did a fairly convincing British accent as Sabrina Fullerton Hughes. When I heard that her mother was from Scotland, my only surprise was that the show didn't make Sabrina Scottish as well, especially since most of the characters who were not American during that period of the show were from Scotland.

She’s so good with accents. English again in The End of the Affair. Southern in Cookie’s Fortune. Sarah Palin’s accent.

I suppose Michael Swan did a decent Scottish as Duncan.

21 minutes ago, carolineg said:

JJY as Mac as worst? The Australian accent was dropped after a few months lol

JM as Stefano as one of the best. I did not know he was American for years. 

Yes, I was stunned to hear Joseph Mascolo’s normal accent when I was a kid. I guess it’s easier when your parents are immigrants, and you’ve heard the accent a lot or are even fluent in the language. Same with Melina Kanakaredes as Eleni on GL.

I was surprised to hear Fiona Hutchison’s flat American accent as well, but her parents are British.

16 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Bad: Michael E. Knight as Martin Grey; Not only does it sound fake, but it makes this 61 year old man sound like he's 81

Yeah, I wish he’d just abandon it. He looks better than he has in 25 years. A shame that he sounds so ridiculous.