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Yeah, Rebecca Hotchkiss for Andrea Evans? No Lucinda for Liz Hubbard?

She does look good. So glad she’s thriving after the horrifying way she lost her husband.

Even though I’ve always thought the categories were somewhat dumb, I get the reason why the Younger Actor/Actress Emmys once existed (to an extent). However, daytime doesn’t have the deep community of young, high-profile performers it once had. Let the very best compete in the Supporting categories with the adults.

Shemar is doing the most, as usual. Nope. My mom knows English.

The Younger category should be done away with. Hasn’t made sense in years.

The Stephen Nichols tribute to Tyler Christopher was nice.

My mom just said, “They shouldn’t have that grown woman up there with them kids.”

Oof. What a mess this has been. And JG looked so sloppy accepting that Emmy.

No ‘70s clips included unless I missed one.

I’m seeing lots of tacky in this thread. Like low-tier Real Housewives franchise reunion-level tackiness. Ashley Jones looks fantastic, though.

B&B operates like a show with zero budget but splurges on some huge remote or stunt every blue moon. It’s an absolutely unwatchable, mismanaged show. Bradley and CBS should be ashamed.

Yeah, and like you said, people are waiting longer to have kids these days, yet these soaps always go back to sticking characters with babies for short-term stories and live to regret it. Why saddle Teriah with a kid so soon, for instance? Partially because they can’t or don’t want to tell the other kinds of stories for a young (same-sex) couple.

This show survives (and likely stays No. 1) by being nostalgic comfort food for an aging audience (no shade) who’ll rage if Victor isn’t played enough (whipped into further fury on social media by Eric Braeden, one of soaps’ few remaining superstars). In an era when you can’t afford to accommodate a sprawling cast, there’s no room for a young group to flourish, especially if they need a few young non-legacy characters in the mix for romantic purposes. They aren’t going to let Bergman, Stafford, Case, Morrow, Heinle, or Thompson go or take a backseat to their kids, especially with the salaries they command. It’s a huge bottleneck. The tried-and-true wins, with soaps becoming more risk-averse about unloading popular expensive stars whose time may have come and gone. Newbies are halfheartedy introduced, then jettisoned to refocus on the older stars with a proven track record who command more viewer loyalty. I’m curious how Claire will be integrated. Will she be thrown at Kyle or something? Is a Victoria/Nate/Claire triangle a possibility? This show just feels stuck even when it’s “making moves.”

Braugher died of lung cancer just months after his diagnosis, his rep told Deadline.

Andre was great and funny as a flashy, polygamist lawyer on the iffy final season of The Good Fight. His co-star Nyambi Nyambi remembers him:

Is Prakash dating Paula Patton?

WOW. I can’t believe this. He was such a commanding presence on Homicide and richly deserved that Emmy.

Mamie’s return feels kinda thrown in, and her main raison d’etre is to be a nostalgic, 50th-anniversary thorn in the side for her longtime rival, another recurring character (Jill), with a secondary purpose as co-conspirator to Tucker. Her relationships with Devon/Nate/Lily are merely incidental. Only maybe Nate grew up knowing her. (Mamie’s relationships are with their parents, one of whom has been dead for nearly two decades and the other hasn’t been seen in over a decade.) The show should have invested time in getting Mamie thoroughly acquainted with Devon/Lily/Nate away from the business realm, but as we all know, JG sees Y&R solely through the lens of corporate drama. They aren’t really delving into the family history in any meaningful way either. It would have been intriguing if Mamie was more apologetic about her absence in their lives or if the story really delved into the family’s intergenerational trauma (similar to how Dina’s return, the prospect of her memoir, and the specter of family secrets lit a fire under the Abbotts initially—but nope). And that’s not even touching upon what Mamie’s been up to in her years away, and the unsavory characters she might have encountered as an investor, which could be its own story. The Winters/Barber family has been taken for granted for years. They were expecting Neil to be their Traci or Jill, a stabilizing figure they could use on a recurring basis to half-ass a sense of family, but KSJ/Neil’s death showed how underprepared Devon/Lily were to be tentpoles. They can’t just shoehorn Mamie into that position all of a sudden with no setup.

It’s very, very noticeable indeed. Dru (or Neil or Olivia or Malcolm) never would’ve raised children who’d let their aunt be disrespected, even with the knowledge Mamie can hold her own with Jill. They’d have at least said, “She’s family and we won’t allow her to be spoken to in that way. Now let’s move on…” But all Nate and Devon did was squirm like “cowards” (as Jill called them). Hell, Jack or Ashley would have piped up more in Mamie’s defense. Mamie’s return has been a gigantic fail IMO largely due to that lack of familial connection, which is *somewhat* understandable due to her absence in Devon/Lily/Nate’s lives (due to writer neglect, of course—Y&R isn’t even really exploring Mamie’s role in the family right now—she’s completely underwritten). But still—Black families are very protective of their elders in general, regardless, especially with outsiders.

Now I know Nate and Devon are showing some deference to Jill due to her seniority, but allowing Jill to demean their elderly great-aunt in front of them? With no comment or pushback? Yeah, no. Whether Mamie was right or wrong. One thing the show has gotten right (or true to character, more accurately) is the condescending way Jill speaks to Mamie.

This is such an embarrassing garbage show.

While I understand the callback to Shemar presenting Susan with her historic first Emmy 24 years ago (plus Shemar’s a CBS primetime lead and former CBS Daytime sensation), I wish someone with a tighter personal or career connection to SL was at least co-presenting. Granted, someone like a Walt Willey or a Jill Larson or an Alicia Minshew wouldn’t have been a big enough name for promotion, but could they have nabbed Kelly Ripa? Can’t give that much promo love to talent from a competing network (ABC), even on a somewhat neutral ground? Maybe she turned it down or couldn’t be there? Who knows? Hopefully they got good people for her career tribute package…