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This new cast of NYC just isn’t holding my attention, which bums me out as they looked so good on paper. I thought perhaps the women had stronger friendships and bonds, but turns out they don’t? We see them bonding and getting to know each other but not really interacting much with the city, which is a huge missed opportunity. NYC isn’t really a character on the show in the way it should be (or maybe this series is an admission that NYC is well and truly dead). They also lack a strong supporting cast. It just feels… slight.

Glad to see her making adjustments and those adjustments are paying off:

I love DeBarge. The In a Special Way album is such a statement from them about what they were capable of. The (sorta) title track “Love Me in a Special Way” is an exceptional use of gospel music as a vehicle for a romantic song (back to R&B’s roots as mixing the sacred, the secular, and the sexual) and shows off El’s vocal power and range:

We’re so removed from the Golden Age of Soaps (or even the last time soaps were decent) that a lot of the most familiar names that come up are old as Methuselah. Wendy Riche being almost 80 still sort of blows my mind on a pure visceral level, but of course she is. She was almost 50 when she landed GH and that was 30 years ago. We’re all getting old.

He will mess it up. I can’t imagine how he will dramatize this. Lots of dry expository conversations about what happened and names mentioned for characters we’ll never see.

That’s a decent (old) picture of Bradley. It’s HILARIOUS how much of a bitch Liam is, and obviously the writers are in on the joke to some extent, given the comedic context of those scenes. He’s the perfect embodiment of toxic masculinity meets “soy boy.” Aside from Scott Clifton’s much-appreciated commitment to fitness, is there anything that suggests “leading man material” for this character?

I don’t know why CBS has leaned into this twee indie-rock aesthetic for its daytime promos. I suppose it fits with the pharmaceutical commercial ads that surround it, but it doesn’t evoke anything sexy or dramatic or remotely soapy. It’s just so… basic. But I guess that’s fitting.

LOL at this royalty-free version of The Lumineers’ “Ho Hey.”

Oof.

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So heartbreaking. My first thoughts went to his scenes in Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime. He played Shirley Henderson’s love interest who comes back to her in visions after taking his own life:

Very interesting. LOL at the two new “hits” being The Single Guy and Caroline in the City.