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    General Hospital: October 2023 Discussion Thread

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    11 hours ago, OzFrog said:

    I fantasised for a long time about getting Rena Sofer back to play Lois against Amanda Setton’s Brook Lynn - and I’ve been nothing short of mesmerised by how natural these two have been playing mother and daughter. This scene here, for example… they just bounce off each other, and it’s as though they’ve been doing this for YEARS…

     

    They are so good together. But these choppy scenes again?

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    Bravo's The Real Housewives of....

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    4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

    Andy Cohen and co. continuing to protect Ramona Singer is one of the biggest WTF's to me.

    Totally. She’s not even a cast member on one of their franchises anymore. They’d avoid so much bad press if they simply cut ties with her and didn’t bring her on stuff like UGT and WWHL.

    Unless it’s one of those “she knows where the bodies are buried” situations…

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    Bravo's The Real Housewives of....

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    The Vanity Fair article is out and it mostly focuses on OG RHONY, Bethenny’s crusade, Eboni, Leah, and Ramona. Kind of a nothingburger to be honest. (It’s paywalled so use your favorite archive site.)

    Not a lot is revealed that hasn’t already been rumored or speculated about, but Bravo is very brazen to still be in the Ramona Singer business:

    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/real-housewives-bravo-reckoning

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    RIP: In Memoriam Thread

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    One of the most traumatizing moments in my childhood TV viewing:

     

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    Y&R October 2023 Discussion Thread

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    2 hours ago, 1974mdp said:

    I personally think the show needs an Adam break. It's the same story over and over again. I would say rest the character and bring him back in a few years with a fresh perspective.

    I actually think, of the two brothers, Nick needs the break more, although that’s a minority opinion. I feel like Adam’s return—a total “In Case of Emergency Break Glass” move that previous regimes had been avoiding—was in part to give Nick something to do, as he had been flailing for years. 

    Instead of dealing with the problem of defining Nick as an adult pillar of the show, no longer the dimpled studmuffin, they’ve defined him as the anti-Adam. He hasn’t quite worked in most of his romantic pairings, try as they might (aside from Sharon, which feels a bit lackluster). The Sally pairing is so painful that I regret having suggested that he hook up with Sally when she was beefing with Phyllis.

    He’s not given opportunities to be a father to his young kids, and he seems more like an older brother to Noah than a dad. He does shine as Faith’s dad, but the show doesn’t feel committed to Faith either. In relation to Victor and NE, they can’t decide whether Nick is the vengeful son or the ambivalent outsider.

    Whereas Adam is defined almost to a fault. Mark Grossman has chemistry with several people and Adam is an active, dynamic character who can drive more story. I’d love to see all the Newmans go, but I think oddly Adam has more potential on this low-budget version of Y&R.

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    Y&R October 2023 Discussion Thread

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    2 minutes ago, Jeff said:

    I don't like this story at all.  Alzheimer's/dementia is a horrible disease, and to fake it?  Shame on the writers.  I wonder if EB had any thoughts on doing this story.

    Not that I’m defending the story, as it’s lame, but I think soaps have to allow people to do horrible things, even if they “set a bad example,” as these incidents surely happen IRL. Victor is a horrible person who had Phyllis raped, etc., so it wouldn’t surprise me if he pulled something like that. I think we’ve gone so far that mere dramatization of ghastly behavior is seen as endorsing it. Sometimes soaps cross the line into glamorizing horrible stuff (like the violence on GH), but that’s poor execution.

    The other characters should be the ones taking Victor to task. The problem is after a week or so they’ll be back kissing his @ss, in the same way Phyllis has suffered few real consequences for faking her death. There’s no stakes because characters come through stories completely unfazed.

    2 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

    Lord is Phyllis falling for Danny again?!

    I’d be fine resting all of them except Nikki.

    She’s been the one the show has considered most expendable until VERY recently. I suppose Audra and Claire Grace have given her new life.

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    Y&R October 2023 Discussion Thread

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    10 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

    The Newmans are so tired to me. Victor is so bored now that he decided to fake dementia just to test his kids because he has nothing else to do. This is ridiculous. Does Abby even know anything is going on with her dad? She’s so isolated from the Newmans AND the Abbott’s somehow.

    They keep covering the same ground. Mark Grossman is solid but if this is what they brought Adam back for, it wasn’t worth it. They need to move them off the hamster wheel or consider taking some of them off canvas if they can’t find other things for them to do. It’s boring. 

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    The Tennis Thread

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    Monfils just won his first title (a 250) in a few years.

    Meanwhile…
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    Y&R October 2023 Discussion Thread

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    29 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:

    I feel like we've seen Nick and Adam fighting over the same woman waaay too many times. It would have been so much more interesting if it had been a Nick/Sally/NOAH triangle. I feel like Rory Gibson (not to mention the character of Allie) was never given a real chance. I think they keep trying to do "younger" stories with Nick and not letting the character mature, so there's not much of a place for Noah.

    I’m almost feeling like there isn’t a place for Nick anymore. He’s been essentially drifting for the better part of 15 years. He’s never made sense at Newman. His bar and Dark Horse were massive failures. He hasn’t had a successful pairing since Phick 1.0 and the repairings with both GT and MS have all flopped. His kids have no place on the show except for Summer, whose relationship with her mom drives more story for her. He’s the dictionary definition of a character that’s coasted. Everyone just wants him back with Sharon. I personally think he’s taking up space and money on a show that could use more dynamism, especially in his age group.

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