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These dudes 🇺🇸

I wasn’t sure if that was Peter who went down the stairs or if it was Brando lol.

Y&R has never in my years of viewing been this bereft of villains. Sometimes they’ve gone too far actually, like in the early 2010s, when it was just psychos crawling out of the woodwork. Usually they have someone mixing it up, whether it’s Sheila, early Phyllis, early Michael Baldwin, Mary Jo Mason, Matt Clark, Veronica, Tricia, Isabella, early Kevin, David Chow, the list goes on… (Not to take over the GH thread, but you know what I mean… not asking for an avalanche of villainy. Just one or two would do.)

Matt Smith in the trailer for Edgar Wright’s latest with Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy:

Lots happening today. Missed a bunch due to the preemption. How is it that DAYS and GH have all of these villains running around, and Y&R and B&B barely have one between them?

Oh the shower! Gotta open up those pores, ya know.

Elijah is sorta sexy. A whole-ass man. And the actor is legit creepier as a villain than Kober or Ramsey.

The nominees. GH got 17, DAYS got 7, Y&R and B&B got five apiece LOL! OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Days of Our Lives (NBC) General Hospital (ABC) The Young and the Restless (CBS) OUTSTANDING LIMITED DRAMA SERIES The Bay (Popstar TV) Beacon Hill(ReelWomensNetwork.com) A House Divided (UMC) Studio City (Amazon Prime) LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, Y&R) Genie Francis (Laura, GH) Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, GH) Finola Hughes (Anna/Alex, GH) Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy, B&B) LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Maurice Benard (Sonny, GH) Steve Burton (Jason, GH) Thorsten Kaye (Ridge, B&B) Wally Kurth (Justin, Days) Dominic Zamprogna (Dante, GH) SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Marla Adams (Dina, Y&R) Tamara Braun (Ava, Days) Carolyn Hennesy (Diane, GH) Briana Henry (Jordan, GH) Courtney Hope (Sally, B&B) SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Darin Brooks (Wyatt, B&B) Max Gail (Mike, GH) Bryton James (Devon, Y&R) Jeff Kober (Cyrus, GH) James Patrick Stuart (Valentin, GH) YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES Tahj Bellow (TJ, GH) Victoria Konefal (Ciara, Days) Alyvia Alyn Lind (Faith, Y&R) Katelyn MacMullen (Willow, GH) Sydney Mikayla (Trina, GH) GUEST PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES Kim Delaney (Jackie, GH) George DelHoyo (Orpheus, Days) Briana Lane (Brooklynn, GH) Cady McClain (Jennifer, Days) Victoria Platt (Amanda, Days) WRITING TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES The Bold and the Beautiful General Hospital The Young and the Restless DIRECTING TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES The Bold and the Beautiful Days of Our Lives General Hospital The Young and the Restless

The dialogue for Amanda, Imani, and Naya is SO stilted. It actually kinda hurts to listen to it. It sounds like a readout for a corporate earnings report.

Renée Elise Goldsberry is profiled in the NYT for her breakout success on Girls5eva, and the article makes passing mention of her OLTL run: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/arts/television/girls5eva-renee-goldsberry-tina-fey.html

From Germany 🇩🇪

One of my favorite Dylan tracks: One of my favorite Dylan covers:

How many Family Matters actors have come through Y&R? Bryton, Michelle Thomas (R.I.P.), Darius McCrary, now Telma… anyone I’m forgetting?

Olivia gets her second No. 1, and J. Cole gets four debuts in the top 10. First time five songs have debuted in the top 10 during one week apparently:

I’m so here for all of this. And they’re teasing another physical fight? With Candiace involved, from the looks of it? (Unless that’s a Bravo style bait-and-switch.) Man… Sorta looking forward to Wendy vs. Gizelle.

Whoopi is not here for Meghan’s bullsh!t today.

From Brazil 🇧🇷

Really good interview, and I’m glad you asked about streaming old episodes (the issue being renegotiating union contracts for residuals for cast and crew involved in those older episodes).

From India 🇮🇳

I thought the jury had it right with Switzerland. Italy reminded me of some of the weaker retro rock cosplay we’ve endured over the past 20 years. YMMV.

So bad.

LMAO at the UK.

From the Philippines 🇵🇭

I thought it was nicely done as a one-off, self-contained story that felt somewhat organic and rooted in the current world of GH. And Caitlin Reilly is a really strong actress who fit in seamlessly.