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That white coffin is so campy.

Sad but Potomac is in the doldrums. Very few franchises have gone this long without major changes, and it’s due for a rethink, especially if Gizelle is simply gonna fake her way through the series. Mia is still a flop. I don’t care how much contrived drama she brings. I wouldn’t mind if Candiace moves to ATL and anchors a reboot there.

I think part of the problem is that JG writes out of his @ss and didn’t have a plan for Sally (or for Jack or Phyllis at the time). Maybe he was also waiting for stars to line up to tell the Diane story (although he seems to have lost the thread there as well). I wonder how much CBS wanted to hold on to CH after her B&B tenure ended. They likely issued a firm “suggestion” she move to Y&R, and the Jack romance/Summer-Phyllis rivalry/Theo friendship is what JG scrapped together, all things that are rarely referenced now.

That’s a huge admission for you. You don’t like much about these current shows aside from the torso parade lol. Or at least you don’t say it. They almost salvaged Sally with the Adam pairing, but JG said nope! Nothing on this show should actually work. Let me fûck this [!@#$%^&*] up. It’s actually impressive how badly they messed her whole tenure up when her story could have written itself. She could have been a scrappier, street-fighter version of how they are now writing Audra. She’s the freakin’ namesake of Darlene Conley’s character! But from the poorly written Jack story with the enormous age gap they never addressed, to the asinine Summer rivalry where she actually got Summer *a better job* yet was still subjected to humiliation day after day from Phyllis and the rest of the town, to the stupid rivalry with Chelsea, to her dumb WTD story, it’s been a disaster.

These aggressive brain cancers are merciless.

My friend in Taiwan knows him!

As much as I dislike JT in the role, he’s had moments of extraordinary work as Billy. Even the isolated stuff with suicidal Chelsea/MCE on the roof (an ill-advised plot that went nowhere, even though it was sold as this deep PSA dive into depression) was affecting. He’s a really strong actor. He’s just miscast and the writing hasn’t done him any favors. I can’t imagine even Billy Miller at his best selling the podcast stuff and the weird Jekyll/Hyde nonsense (granted, some of that bad writing may have happened because he was so miscast, but then again, all of Y&R’s cast has suffered in recent years).

Much drier today but yesterday was a nightmare.

This is NYC right now, y’all.

Will always have this seared into my mind:

Nene on Bethenny’s podcast!

Dianne Feinstein has passed away:

Dianne Feinstein has passed away:

I haven’t been posting as much lately so it’s all good! They are sorta settling into their late-stage OG RHONY era in which they’re solely coasting on personality, charisma, and hijinks.

What am I, chopped liver? 😂 I will say it’s probably the least entertaining trailer they’ve had.

They don’t even try to make these conversations interesting.

Very few characters would meet the threshold of Mac Cory or Victoria Lord. I don’t think RC’s Skye fits the brief (saying this as someone who couldn’t stand her), although I think her stans quieted down quite a bit over her GH run. I feel like this board is one of the few where I didn’t see as much clamoring. Her fans were unhinged in some cases. Aside from Devon (agree to disagree on BJ), I think HT’s Katie fits. I was just thinking that, 50 years in the future, someone stumbling upon whatever records we have of the Daytime Emmys would think HT’s Katie Logan was this major popular character on B&B, and she’s barely a blip on the show, even when they used her more back in the day.

Maybe all 10 of her fans had multiple accounts on MediaDomain because I remember folks getting the vapors every time with every breath RC made, especially in her OLTL days. Her stans were out of control, and she was catnip for Brenda haters among GH viewers. I know we disagree on Devon (I love Bryton and think he’s enormously gifted and richly deserving of his two Emmys), but I don’t think he has a fan base on his own, aside from the temporary magic he had Mishael’s Hilary. I don’t think it’s BJ’s fault. The writing for him has been uniquely terrible (either absolutely boring or ridiculous) even during a sorry era for soaps. A lot of black characters have been poorly served by this genre, of course. Look at how Nate is being received, and it’s no wonder.