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Armie Hammer checked himself into rehab. TMZ link above, for those who don’t want to click through.

Poor Iga.

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I want stories, but definitely not so far gone that Pratt or Mal or MAB would be a step up. Yet the writing is… puzzling, both on a longterm story and a day-to-day script level. I would love be a fly on the wall in BTS meetings or story pitches. Y&R hasn’t been able to find that balance. It’s either the batsh!t-crazy sensationalism of Pratt or the wheel-spinning of late. CBS continues to promote the show as an unfunny sitcom, which is telling. It also doesn’t feel like a show for adults. Like I know Y&R aspired to be more ABC-ish in the past couple of decades, but it’s beyond that. The tone feels like some cheap, chirpy Canadian soap opera that got cancelled in the mid-‘90s and no one remembers.

I’m loving Casey Wilson telling Andy on WWHL that she’s ready for Lisa Rinna and Erika to “ease on down the road.” LOL! He keeps claiming that they’ll both reveal a lot this season.

Leah and Bethenny: I’d love to see it. They’d murder each other. Leah is NUTS. She’s exhausting. At least RHONY didn’t think Kelly was the star of the franchise. I’m looking at the reactions to tonight’s episode and Leah’s getting slaughtered. Even though Heather had some own goals tonight.

Heather is dropping straight knowledge right now… Oh dear… I’m walking that back… She meant well, but lord, Heather’s weird sense of affinity with black culture based on her work with Puffy, et al, has always been one of her more problematic aspects. White savior complex aside, I appreciate her explanation to Luann about what happened. Sonja’s the most attuned to the situation. OOF, Heather… ARTICULATE?! Don’t make me side with Leah to get you off this show. Haha.

I’m just thinking back to #metoo (around 2017) when a lot of people, mostly women, revealed they’d been the victim of some kind of sexual abuse or assault. For a soap like DAYS, with so many rape survivors, that could have been a moment—one relevant to real-life conversations at the time—to address that. The problem is they play too fast and loose with abusers-turned-heartthrobs.

The American version of Eurovision is open for submissions.

I think Sheryl has been funny as a standup, but she’s terrible as the Emmy host. At least #metoo means she might stop pawing over every hot dude.

I was wondering if Sascha was playing that well (not watching), but saw this from Morgado. Lord, these up-and-comers are just sh!tting the bed left and right.

Why? Why all of this hullabaloo over the on-off-on-off Skyle wedding? No one gives a sh!t at this point. Even their stans are bored, I’m sure. This Amanda story doesn’t work at all. Everything is off screen. Sutton needed to be more involved with this story.

Looks like WB might own Sisters. Thirtysomething used to be on Hulu, so I guess it got pulled. Speaking of soaps, the sitcom Soap.

Lord.

Chris Harrison will reportedly exit the franchise with an eight-figure payout: https://deadline.com/2021/06/chris-harrison-leaving-the-bachelor-franchise-controversy-1234771200/

The original Equalizer with Edward Woodward Northern Exposure (reportedly a music rights issue) Roc with Charles S. Dutton Once and Again Sisters with Swoozie, Sela, et al

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Xander’s hairy pecs are putting in WORK on the daily. At this point, they deserve their own “Starring” credit like the late, great Frances Reid. And ELI in the towel!

Yeah I saw that afterwards (I didn’t watch the match in full). He’s getting pummeled for that. Look at Pavs making big moves at 29. Good opportunity to make the final with the semi against Zidansek.

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Texas and Loving.

Mulcahey also wrote for Justin Deas on Santa Barbara. JD’s mugging was at least more appropriate on SaBa because he was playing a broad, oversexed schemer used mostly for comic relief.

GH is doing very basic soap stuff. Like having big secrets that viewers are waiting to be revealed (Sonny being alive, Brook Lynn and Valentin’s baby actually being Maxie’s). The only “suspenseful stories” we’ve had on Y&R in recent months was Chelsea framing Adam and Kyle hiding his son’s paternity from Jack (why would he care that much?). I’ve been somewhat enjoying GH, but I also don’t want to overrate it for doing things that we’d normally expect from even bad soaps back in the day. Y&R is soooo flat and uninspired, it’s pathetic. I don’t even think it’s a step up from DAYS, production-wise, and if it’s going to be “character-driven,” they need a stronger writing staff. Of all the remaining soaps, Y&R characters have the least distinctive, individualized voices. Even Faith’s dialogue as a teen doesn’t stand out much. Speaking of off screen, Amanda is working on Sutton’s case, but where has he been? Have we even had a scene with Sutton and Naya/Imani yet? We should have seen Amanda at an Ames/Benedict family dinner at this point (forgive me if I’ve missed that), but I suppose that’s beyond Y&R’s shrinking budget at this point. (Hell, they could have had dinner at Society, for heaven’s sake.) We get strained meetings in the Grand Phoenix lobby instead.