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They’re saying these courts are playing like they did in the Sampras era: lightning-fast. I can imagine some adjustment issues. They say Ashe and Armstrong won’t be as quick. Is it me, or are the guys on ESPN talking over the game more? Usually they’d STFU once the ball was in play.

Oof. People love to run their mouths for clout and wind up ruining things for everybody.

Gotta say, I like Hawkeye making all the line calls.

Exactly. My sense is that young people (especially *the gays*) love them for the camp value. It is Golden Girls with a side of Sex and the City with the high-end, boozy Big Apple backdrop.

This is such a genius thread. I don’t remember all my ideas—they’re stored away in notebooks at my childhood home—but I was a weird kid, so I created an alternative universe with soaps on nearly every cable network, all themed to the networks’ brands. So I had a slate of black soaps for BET, some melodramas for Lifetime, a sports-oriented soap for ESPN, etc. And I wrote weekly synopses for each as would have appeared in SOD or SOW, and even had fake comings and goings of the fictional actors, interviews with the fictional EPs/HWs, fictional Daytime Emmys, etc. I wish I could find them. But it was a very fleshed-out alternative universe. With all that energy, I could have written my own Game of Thrones.

Oh no disagreement from me. I was appalled by her this season especially. And like @chrisml said even some of those lighter moments had dark undercurrents (including all the one-liners listed in that first tweet).

Promising news for Aaliyah fans who don’t own the physical CDs: Listening to this in hopeful celebration:

I agree with the above tweet. Dorinda may not have always made it nice, but she kept it real, sometimes agonizingly so. I remember, on the plane with Bethenny, when she wondered aloud if she fell at home and died, would her body be discovered or would she simply be noticed due to the smell. She shared so many harsh insights into loneliness and grief alongside some of the lighter moments. I’m thinking again of the trip to London with Carole.

I picked those one of those same two to return for a transitional season, as they were both around this season. Heather might be an interesting choice, as I think she’d somewhat fulfill any demo requirements (she’s a younger-seeming 50), but Jill has the long-standing history and willingness to mix it up. Just depends on whether Bravo could tolerate her full time.

Yeah we sort of called it. Dorinda had a disastrous season.

From Tampa 🇺🇸

The soaps wouldn’t touch a story like this these days. But they should.

Two country songs made the top 10: “7 Summers” and “I Hope.” I read that Gabby Barrett is the first American Idol alum from the last seven seasons to have a top 10 hit (since Philip Phillips in 2012).

Unlike with this past season of ATL, when I wanted them to hurry up and get to the big Toronto blowout they teased, I’m happy to be patient with Potomac as they build to the Monique/Candiace fisticuffs. Next week is the start of more Michael Darby mess, plus Wendy tangling with Ashley and getting attacked by T’Challa. 😂

Lindsay: “Hello Jill. Is your father... excuse me, your husband... at home?” 😂