Faulkner

Wow. The awful shocking losses continue.

His jacket is so fire.

Same as the Oscars. In what world was Tatum O’Neal “supporting” in Paper Moon? Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People? Viola Davis winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the same role she won a Best Lead Actress Tony for? Or even the reverse with Olivia Colman winning Best Actress in a movie where Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone were co-leads (and competing against each other in Supporting Actress). It’s all strategy to have the best chances to win. I wish there was a more objective way for placement but politics and powerful $$$$$ voices always get in the way.

Yeah, that’s definitely shifted in the past decade as the soaps have dwindled and the perennials like Slezak, Zimmer, Flannery, Lucci, and Jeanne Cooper either have been largely sidelined or had their shows cancelled, retired, or died. We still have vet/star nominees like Bergman, Stafford, Maura West, and Finola Hughes, but folks like Mishael Morgan, MCE, et al. would have submitted in the Supporting categories back in the day.

Yeah, category fraud. I’m sure it was in deference to (or to avoid competition with) the more tenured marquee stars. Not sure if SL was still submitting throughout the 2000s. AM did get a Lead nod for Kendall in 2011 (alongside Debbi Morgan) but lost to Laura Wright. Back in the day, it often felt like Lead vs. Supporting was more about the performer’s public/industry profile vs. how much his/her character drove that year’s story.

This gorgeous man

It’s fascinating: These show-by-show roundups (which are mostly spot-on in a “duh” kinda way) reveal so much about these shows in their choices and what they *don’t* talk about. Victor/Nikki as Best Couple is kinda hilarious.

I saw a clip. It really was perfectly played by EH. I actually thought the brevity/compressed nature of the scene worked here (partially because the young actor is so green), although these shouldn’t be the norm. And yes—GH opens a lot of interesting doors and quickly slams them shut to focus on the safe “faves.”

2009, I believe. A very lurid era for the show.

Y&R: Adam dressing up as Victor’s dead wife Sabrina to gaslight and torture a pregnant, mentally fragile Ashley, leading her to fall down the stairs and miscarry, with Adam quickly disposing of the fetus in the Newman Ranch fireplace. Then, with Ashley suffering a hysterical pregnancy, Adam steals baby Faith from Sharon and gives it to Ashley, letting Sharon believe her baby died just a few years after she’d tragically lost Cassie.

And NATAS. We were just taking about the lackluster montage at the Daytime Emmys. TCM puts obvious care into these packages with the well-chosen audio clips and clever match cuts.

Connor Floyd at least seems fun IRL. Chance allows him to show none of that.

Michelle Stafford (along with Finola Hughes) was on Pacific Palisades and did a few guest spots between her first couple of Y&R stints. Vanessa Marcil slipped in stints on BH90210 and her leading part on Las Vegas during her breaks from GH.

Noah was moping around wearing black for absolutely nothing.

I believe Hillary B. Smith played Nora on OLTL and did her (short-lived) NBC sitcom with Gene Wilder at the same time as well.

Ncuti thinks the Doctor is an Aquarius (like me). Haha, fun clip:

Justin Hartley: was a breakout star on PASSIONS as Fox, then booked Smallville and later Revenge before returning to daytime to play Adam on Y&R. Of course, he later got a role on this NBC primetime drama called This is Us…

An update from David Simon on streaming for Homicide in light of André Braugher’s passing:

Anita Baker kills me. LMAO. She’s funny as hell.

You better preach!

Granted, the network promo wasn’t great, and it was a postponed and quickly rescheduled ceremony, but those ratings are pathetic. Lowest of the night on among the broadcast networks. I wonder what the viewership by half-hour was.

Oh totally. I was watching in real time, so was hopeful that they’d do more of those types of tributes throughout the ceremony. I was disappointed that they didn’t. Obviously, Jackie Zeman’s passing was almost completely ignored, and she’s a five-decade icon of soaps and multiple Emmy nominee who was still part of her show. It was definitely clear that no one in production had much love for soaps. Why not super serve your viewers? The only people watching an Emmy ceremony… on a Friday night… during the holidays… following a tree-lighting ceremony… are going to be loyal daytime fans. I get that the leaders of these organizations have obligations, but the president’s speech and the presentation of the medals also ate up a lot of time that could have gone to other things (like clips, which are a huge part of awards ceremonies). And the Primetime Emmy ceremonies had started to cut a lot of the presenters’ banter in recent years, which give them more time for clips. Just a very dull and disrespectful production last night. The SAG Awards do a great In Memoriam year after year and they are just a little over three minutes. Very simple concept. Obviously the Academy is too cheap to acquire the clips and/or cut them together: https://youtu.be/a968G4bUKqE?si=cuYUzfgGaR0K844w

Word.