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The social and economic fallout of the pandemic (and the unacceptably modest federal response):

They don’t have the budget for those iconic set pieces and it’s sad. Look at how bad the effects were for Billy’s breakdown. Hate to be that guy but, in light of the remote ads with TEB promoting the Masquerade Ball, I think Peter Bergman needs to learn how to do his own makeup.

Yeah I was surprised at how much I liked Sutton. She’s very eccentric in a fun way. I totally expected to like Garcelle. She and Erika seemed like fast friends, but I wonder how long that’ll last. Teddi remains useless. I wonder how the ratings were. The show was trending No. 1 on Twitter, which I know rarely correlates to actual viewership. I imagine Rinna would gloat if a LVP-less show went up in the ratings (probably more due to coronavirus keeping folks at home, if so).

An ABC News report about how doctors are delaying procedures for sick non-COVID patients and the potential deadly impact of this down the road:

From Beijing 🇨🇳

Seeing a lot of buzz not just on Ozark, but his role as Joseph L. Mankiewicz in David Fincher’s Mank opposite Gary Oldman is getting him some major notice. Interview on Ozark: Interview on working with Fincher and the notorious number of takes he demands of his actors:

From Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬

That’s 1 pm EDT.

Y&R could do scary, disturbing villains better than anyone for a good 15 years. A lot of the Tricia/Matt stuff was so legitimately unsettling that it actually drove me away from the show (and that’s not a criticism). MAB tried and failed to replicate that with Adam and Patty.

From Atlanta 🇺🇸

From Lisbon 🇵🇹

From Malaysia 🇲🇾

More records on the verge on being tied or broken:

From Almería, Spain 🇪🇸

From Dubai 🇦🇪