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Good for Bold. If it pulls this off it'll be the first show to outright beat Y&R for a season in this demo since GH won 2002/03.

I hear you, but Katie is a people pleaser trying to mitigate the damage from her 21-year-old son punching her 80-year-old brother-in-law. She also has more impulse control than Brooke, so I like that she didn't take the bait (yet!) when Brooke threw her tantrum trying to make Eric getting punched all about her.

Not gonna lie, seeing that she was only 2 years older than Headley was a shocker (if the IMDB '62 DOB is correct). I'd say it was a mixed bag. OLTL recast Rachel very quickly after the original actress left, and added RJ and Rachel's love interest the year before. GH had to deal with the death of Rosalind Cash. But it seemed like Labine kept trying to make Justus work even though he was a dud character badly cast with the Cosby show guy. Depressing '95 GH for sure would have benefited from using Keisha more. She was played by a very likeable actress, and the only young woman not in a dreary storyline. Being tied to pre-brain injury Jason was a path to nowhere back then though. Thanks, I completely forgot she was on this show! I didn't pay much attention to AMC for a few years after mid '96. I thought it started the year great then just got worse as it went on (though TBF it might have gotten better after I bolted). It's crazy Amelia Marshall didn't get more work, she's an excellent actress. She made that one-note role of Liz on Passions more memorable than it had any right to be.

This week has been the most entertaining since the Logan show fallout by a long shot. Heather Tom was excellent today in her scenes with Morrow & later at the viper's nest. I say this as someone who likes Hope, and Electra is easily my least favorite character, but haven't minded the last few weeks at all. There were some great moments in the 2-month period post-Sheila finding out about the affair and the Hope reveal. But for every Brooke/Katie confrontation or fun Wyatt scene there were 10x as many repetitive scenes of Hope being guilt ridden while staring into the camera like a deer in the headlights. It's been a welcomed reprieve from that while checking in with Sheila, Finn, Carter & Daphne.

Do McTavish or the network execs mention losing Black viewers in their ratings discussions? If Google is to be believed, Shari Headley & Tonya Pinkins were both in the W18-34 demo themselves in late '94/early '95 when they left the show. As I recall, they weren't replaced with other Black actresses and only an increasingly cartoonish Taylor recast remained on the canvas as a regular. Meanwhile, Y&R had the most popular set of Black characters ever on soaps at that time. I think it's entirely plausible that a big contributing factor in AMC's demo troubles, which started in '95, was that a lot of young Black viewers who used to watch the first 1/2 hour of Y&R before turning to ABC, started watching the full show.

A+ snark for today's entertainingly bonkers episode. My favorite unmentioned moments: -Electra being excited to go to Bikini so she could tell her assistant (!) how her first jewelry showing went -Will having Dylan literally hold his beer before decking Eric -Deke promising his dad he'd monitor the situation then standing behind Taylor for 2 minutes when the fighting started

Lol, you know this show has a specific style that when it does a realistic-ish side-plot of two horny 20somethings hooking up then not obsessing over it, people assume it's a rewrite.

Yeah, not out of place for the offices or older people's homes but come on now, what 21 year old guy would have that? Speaking of sets, the Forrester mansion looked pretty run down this week. Stephanie must be relieved her portrait isn't hanging in its current state.

The viewership increases vs the W25-54 decreases for all soaps in the past 6 months have been wild. This week's B&B numbers vs last year are particularly odd: Viewers: +23%; Household:s +19%; W18-49: +10%; W25-54: -21%

Icing a co-star in scenes was the behavior I was referring to.

Obviously if she submitted it wouldn't be those scenes, but it's a small industry. I can see how that behavior would rub other actors the wrong way.

I just assumed she wasn't nominated because she tanks scenes with co-stars she doesn't like.

He did some good work in the fake brain tumor (lol) story. He'll be able to piece together a competitive reel from that.

This is a great idea but unlikely to be produced given how ubiquitous ads for these products are on daytime. Antisemitic.

I can buy Finn forgiving Sheila. It has been a surprisingly long build for this show. Sheila saved Steffy's daughter, what 3 years ago now? She hasn't done anything he hasn't forgiven Li for since then. Finn let the guy who his wife cheated on him with live at his house so he's pretty forgiving. That said it would be foolish of him to ask Steffy to let Sheila be a part of their son's life. He should tell her he wants to have lunches with her away from their home. Sheila not discussing this with Li feels like a missed beat. What I can't buy is that the CEO of a fashion house in the middle of a brand crisis would stroll into work with a trench coat over her nightie.