Faulkner

DAYS just won the WGA.

Ha, I saw that ad this afternoon too.

I thought her Brooklyn accent was pretty good tbh.

Didn’t she get a reprieve when her initial Billy pairing took off? She’s still coasting on that reprieve a decade later... My idea was to make her Y&R’s Cersei Lannister with some mild dashes of Alexandra Spaulding and the older Tracy Quartermaine. Make her totally vicious and power-hungry, fiercely protective of her children and their birthrights, and more of a formidable foe to Victor instead of this cowed pathetic thing she often plays. Bringing on all these iterations of Adam sort of sapped her, as he became the most dynamic Newman power player, and now she’s this odd earth mother—not only to her kids but also to her man-child, Billy Abbott.

Totally. HT’s Victoria was so multilayered (her rage, her sexiness, her longing, her power), but also because she was written that way. She had sort of a mythic quality that Bill Bell nurtured in all his characters. But, in the great ABCification of Y&R, they wanted her to be more of a bog-standard heroine, and she’s become superficial. She’s the constantly aggrieved businesswoman in the shadow of daddy—but she also wants love! It’s just sorta hackneyed and played-out. I wish they would play to AH’s strengths and just lean into the icy villainy more. But nO, sHe’S a HeRoInE! It doesn’t work at all.

But like with Amelia Heinle, sometimes it never becomes comfortable (at least not for me). AH has certain strengths, and there are times I even enjoy her (she does “cold bitch” extremely well), but she’s yet to take ownership of Victoria IMO, in contrast to PB as Jack. Just weird. I think he would have split the difference between TL and PB’s portrayals in an interesting way. He would have had PB’s erudition (but not his warmth and weepiness).

Serena out of Miami, her home tournament.

PB’s Jack is a different character to me, both in portrayal and in writing (as Bell wrote to PB’s cry-at-the-drop-of-a-hat matinee idol strengths, which is close to PB’s persona IRL). His Jack that’s far less fascinating, charismatic, and rich as a character than TL’s, but one that I’ve come to accept on the basis of PB’s talent and decent chemistry with his onscreen family over the years. I wonder what Lane Davies might have been able to do with Jack in a sort of role swap, as TL later played Mason on Santa Barbara. He wouldn’t have had the easy swagger of TL, though.

CLB and GR were both more credible as straight when they were baddies IMO. But, like other have said, they became less believable when they settled into their routine portrayals and thus more like their offscreen selves. OTOH Terry Lester was gay as all get-out and completely believable as pu**y-chasing playboy.

Kat and Bridget, GL Viki and Karen, OLTL (from what I’ve seen) Nikki and Katherine, Y&R Olivia and Ashley, Y&R (although Olivia betrayed Ashley with Brad) Dru and Sharon, Y&R (Dru literally DIED for Sharon) Lily and Colleen, Y&R

From Taiwan 🇹🇼

From Italy 🇮🇹

Yes, he should have, but he needs to work on his mental game. It’s let him down too many times in big matches.

This Stef-Sascha match? Mess.

From Israel 🇮🇱

Yeah, that guy’s a crowd pleaser. I sent his photos to a couple people who were instantly smitten.

From Thailand 🇹🇭

Sorry that Sherry couldn’t join but watching now. Marika, MZ’s daughter, is godmother to Sherry’s daughter.