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Interesting, I was unaware that the mid-2010s gay blogosphere had such a hate-on for the show. Now I'm curious if the Brady character was an avatar for one (or all) of them similar to how Patti D'Arbanville's whacked lady mobster in season 5 of the Sopranos was styled to look like NY Post critic Linda Stasi who complained that season 4 wasn't violent enough. Life's too short for hate watching, so I stopped after the pilot for the latest QAF reboot. I'm only basing this off of one episode but I thought its box-checking approach to diversity made it less organically diverse. Like it was set in New Orleans with a Black majority population, but there was only one Black guy, and his family was white. Yet there was room for non-binary regulars of both biological sexes. The original UK version was the best of the 3 by a wide margin.

I doubt it's intentional but, but at the moment Katie & Bill split both the Stephanie & Sally functions from the early years of the show. Katie is like Stephanie for the reasons you've laid out. Plus, as mentioned by others she's Brooke's best sparing partner, capable of going for the jugular. But she's also like Sally as she came from humble beginnings, and craves external validation from the queen bee. Bill is more outwardly like Sally as he is main Forrester antagonist who anchors the secondary setting, is flashy, and has bawdy sense of humor. Like Stephanie he runs on pure ego, has fraught relationships with his offspring because of his controlling nature, and counts tangling with psychopaths as one of his favorite hobbies.

This is very smart. It's a more enticing hook to get people to watch than Victor leaving to give a speech at a fundraiser. Being spoiled might be annoying for daily Y&R/BTG viewers but this isn't really for them, it's to entice occasional, lapsed or never BTG viewers to tune in. @Errol 's hypothesis about why Y&R aired a rerun on Memorial Day was 100% correct. Victor's teaser was synced to get viewers to watch BTG the day of the action, if not in perfect chronological order.

Excellent show: the acting, writing and especially the directing were all exceptional. "Looking for the Future" is an all-time great episode of TV. Unfortunately, I think there was more apathy than hate for Looking. The show got vindication from whatever hate was levied against it though when people got their wish with the L Word and QAF reboots. Those shows were much more despised because they tried to be all things to all people. Patrick/Richie/Kevin was such a realistic 30ish triangle because of how unsoapy it was. You could buy Patrick's attraction to both men, and follow his reasoning to why he had problems committing to them both. There were only a few scenes where Richie & Kevin interacted (why would they?) and I appreciate that the show didn't write ridiculous plots every week to force confrontation. I do feel that the creators took too much of the Agustine hate to heart and defanged him too much in season 2. I did enjoy his story with Eddie though, even if I didn't fully buy his fast transformation. I though subverting expectations with Dom by having him date a 60 year old instead of a 20-something was clever.. As for the article...I'm trying to be diplomatic but there are parts where I question how closely he watched or understood the series. At I first wrote off the line where he stated "Agustín’s desire to add a third to their relationship" as just a clunky worded sentence. He wanted a threesome not a throuple. Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but the line comparing Patrick to Carrie Bradshaw as being the central charterer in his friends' lives was a huge red flag. I don't think there was a single scene in season 1 where Dom or Agustine discussed Patrick when he wasn't onscreen. In season 2 Agustine gossiped with Eddie about Patrick's affair with Kevin, but that was to show their growing intimacy with each other, not a "where's Poochie?" moment. There's no question that Patrick was the main character, but Dom & Agustine had fully formed lives and their own desires. In the end, I think she show was hurt by being in the rotation with Veep, Silicon Valley & Girls. Those 3 were probably HBO's 3 buzziest half-hours post SATC, but their satirical tones were a bad match with Looking. If season 2 was paired with Getting On or Togetherness, it might have got another season or 2 because of lowered expectations.

Brooke needing to buy another vowel today after all of Katie's hints & insinuations:

That's interesting, I didn't know that. It's possible that Peacock removed it from the top 10 because they deemed it a wasted slot, as very few subscribers who weren't watching Days already clicked on it.

Awful week for GH. Not counting BTG vs its first 2 weeks, this is the first time a soap lost viewers YOY since the January snowstorm. Y&R doubled it in W25-54. BTG dropped, but was the only soap this week to match its season average in W18-49. Bold continues its ho-hum May. The odds of it winning its first season in W18-49 are looking shakier.

To be fair I don't think they're pushing that angle. Eric having a collection at Logan would absolutely cut into FC's brand equity and sales. Of course, they're putting the blame on Katie but the fault lies with Eric, Ridge & Brooke. Agreed, best scene in a while, and HT was a force of nature. I thought KKL was excellent too.

Finally saw this after it dropped on Paramount+ and congrats to Scream 3, you aren't the worst anymore! You are spot on, this is not only the worst Scream movie, but the first truly awful one at that. Neve's acting was good, and I'm glad she got her bag, but Sydney was such a moron in this movie. Really, she would run miles to her store instead of going back to get her car keys? Then not call the cops when she knew the location Ghostface & her daughter were at? Easily the worst crop of newbies of the franchise, Tatum included. Not counting Jimmy Tatra & the 1923 actress in the teaser (the best scene in the movie by far), only Anna Camp's son popped. I watched the movie yesterday & can't recall a single charterer trait of any of the other teens. I liked Chad & Mindy in the previous 2 and hoped they'd take a more prominent role with the sisters gone, but they were just tacked on (I guess to appease younger fans of 5&6). Having Joel McHale as Sydney's humorless husband was an odd choice, it would have worked better if he & Mark C switched roles. The Ghostface reveals made Scream 6's look genius by comparison. Ranking the franchise in tiers I'd go: Tier 1: 1,2,4 Tier 2: 5,6 Tier 3: 3 7 "deserves" its own tier below Scream 3. Glad to see there's going to be a new team for Scream 8, I hope for a return to form.

It could be Stockholm Syndrome but RJoffrey has been an entertaining villain these past few weeks. Realistically, a nepo-baby influencer raised by Brooke & Ridge would turn out this way. Bill has been in rare form, which is most welcome. I like having Wyatt back as well, but wonder what he'll do. A Wyatt/Shauna/Ivy triangle would either be gold or pure torture. Seeing Ivy grudgingly try to make nice with Will could be fun. I'd like at least one character to admit that they stopped eating at Il Giardino because they can't lookey loo at Sheila anymore. Speaking of Sheila, what a dropped ball. We're pretty much at the point where her next appearance warrants a thread in the spoiler section.

Three storylines in one episode? in this economy? Man, this show really goes by quickly when there's less regurgitation, I wish it was more common. Is Bikini a redressed version of the pizza place? I'm guessing Remy is Sheila's roommate. I wonder if she's been MIA for so long because they can't figure out a set to place her in.

Thanks Toups - shouldn't Friday's B&B W19-49 rating be 0.21 instead of 0.31? Otherwise it would have 0.22 rating for the week.

Good for Bold, up YOY in every category. It even had a rare W25-54 increase.

I don't think you're wrong about that! I do think they could have complimented each other though. Broderick was better with character building & relationship drama but IMO when she attempted stunts/OTT stories (the Jamaica remote for example), which were being pushed at time, they came off sillier than when McTavish wrote them. Probably why her Days stint was absurdly short.

To be fair, Brooke just needs to convince Ridge & Eric, and the latter has never said no to her. Also, as a phrase of the month: Not Propah >>>>>>>Co-CEO. Love seeing Brooke act this way too. The beauty of Brooke when she's written properly is that she justifies her selfishness to herself enough times that she actually believes she's being altruistic. I thought Steffy did a great job sticking up for herself and her accomplishments. I'm waiting for her to throw Brooke going along with Eric's retirement in her face. It won't happen, but Steffy cashing out and going to Logan would be a great twist.