Faulkner

He kinda looks like a blend of Kyler Pettis and Cameron Johnson, with a touch of Corbin Bleu thrown in. I no longer watch DAYS, but give me interesting Black men on daytime, please. Where are Brandon and Jonah?

You’d think CBS would jump at any opportunity to promote that it’s the only broadcast lineup with multiple soaps, including the first in a half-century. But October seems like such a stupid time for the Academy hold a ceremony that will barely command decent ad rates and is smack-dab in the middle of network premiere season. The traditional late May or early June (when the similarly niche Tonys air) would seem to be the best option, since season finales will already have aired. They must have figured it was more trouble than it’s worth, even to just slap it on Paramount+. (Live broadcasts are a pain for these streamers. Even Hulu made a sh!tshow out of the freaking Oscars, blacking out before Best Actress and Best Picture.)

We need to see this on the show:

Crazy that it was left to one of the actresses to clear the air. CBS’s marketing push was solid, but their post-premiere handling of the series has been in keeping with what we’ve expected from them, and that’s not a good thing. They’ve effed up so much over the years that I don’t trust them. At all. And the Skydance stupidity only makes me side-eye them more. It only makes me wonder how many of the show’s issues are directly related to CBS and their meddling or neglect.

It makes the lack of it on the Bell soaps (especially B&B) even more glaring.

I hope that he’s Black. I’m still waiting for my complex, layered Black man that I’ve wanted since this show was announced (at LEAST one on a predominantly Black soap). Bill’s the closest thing we have, and he’s not yet scratching that itch for me.

I dunno. Rules go out the window when one falls in love, and MVJ is playing them too much to just be a friendship. They’d have to set the stage properly to justify the betrayal, but if written well, they could sell Kat/Jacob. Soaps are so much about “good people” making difficult choices and having their values tested (using that very broadly for Kat—she is very loyal to her family in spite of her many flaws). Maybe even an acknowledged attraction they fight over time but eventually give into. Maybe Eva finds out and holds that over Kat, so it enhances their rivalry.

Words to live by:

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The one-story focus certainly made this week tighter than most. I think RRM has proven she’s developed some real chops, and I loved the dream-sequence pep talks from different family members. That was inspired and very different from what we usually get from these types of stories. I like that they’ve positioned Chelsea as a problem solver and not some damsel in distress. The actress who plays Allison? Meh. I’ve not once felt like Chelsea was in any real danger from her. Not once. I’m not loving that all roads seem to go back to Joey Armstrong (not because I don’t like an umbrella story, but I’ve rarely loved the all-powerful Big Bad on any soap and JL is just flat to me in this role).

Not gonna lie. That’s kinda 🔥.

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Just how every actress of a certain age was predicted to be Sarah Horton on DAYS until she finally materialized. Y&R definitely needs new blood, but we all know these actors are walking into a zombie apocalypse. RoHo will be STRAINING to infuse these mind-numbing scenes with his trademark mugging. I cringe at the thought of him and Stafford together again.

LOL at Armond becoming one of the show’s biggest boosters. This is his second article on it and he usually reviews films:

How will Josh G. waste her is the real question.

I think this show leaves money on the table by trying to hide stuff from the audience or aim for surprises that don’t land. It’s the whole Hitchcock idea: when the audience knows stuff the characters don’t, that creates suspense.