Sapounopera

Whose idea was it to take a guilty pleasure, a trashy, scandalous reality show with iconic cast members and rebrand it as a boring, depressing docu-series-wannabe,? There is a reason why NY is the least successful. It's the cast. This is the third or fourth show starring Yandy this year. Nobody cares. Nobody ever did. Mena hasn't been useful to the show since her lesbian days. The new cast members belong to Growing Up Hip Hop. I am more bored watching this than Brandi is filming her scenes.

Willow gives me Canadian 80s teen soap vibes. I understand that Michael and Chase don't really need another person for their triangle, but still. I find the Jordan actress very boring. She sleepwalks through her scenes. She seems to hate acting. I see no reason for Shascha's scenes. Who is she? Who cares. These three actresses make KeMo look better. BTW Sonny's scenes are unwatchable. He is no longer needed on the show. The Port Charles citizens have move on. TPTB seem more inspired by other characters and stories. The viewers are over MB. GH is the only soap I enjoy watching on a daily basis. The last time this happened to me was with SSM and KA's Y&R and RC's early material on OLTL and GH.

Ramona is RHONY. Leah and Eboni are the ones who have ruined the show for me.

What a surprise. Every time I open a thread with this title it is either Chloe or Nicole.

Did they change the Q living room again? The scenes with Maxie and the baby didn't seem to take place in the same room Michael was expressing his love to Willow every single day. I had never seen Michael Easton smile. Not a robot after all. He looked nice. What is the deal with Curtis's club? What is he always doing there? Serve drinks to random characters who come to see him? If all of them helped him a little bit, this place would be open for business by now.

Exactly. RHOA will end up losing years of history and introduce another desperate woman with no ties. Someone who will to try to prove that hiring her was not a mistake from the very first scene... again? Last season's scene at Kenya place with Marlo, Kandi, Cynthia and Latoya fooling around was the best we have seen in ages. Not every single cast member has to be toxic. Not to mention that Cynthia is the most beautiful housewife ever.

The Ginas are like the AW Ceciles in my mind. I love the actresses who took over but I prefer the original interpretation.

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LG was amazing as Gina. I would have never recast. Linda Gibboney and Ava Lazar were amazing in the beginning of the Brandon story. (What do we know about Robert Eden?)

The thread's title made me think it would be Marlena.

BH I hadn't watched this show in many years. Garcelle is the star of the show. The woman is gorgeous and smart. She was what I wanted Eboni to be, but in my eyes she plays a very uninspired and one-dimensional role. Did Doritt always sound like a drunk Swedish person with hiccups trying to speak with a british accent? Lisa Rinna and her Dudley Moore wig.. She tries to create a fascinating persona but all I see desperate, mean and starving for years. Did Erika always sound like that? So nasal? She sounds like a coked up retired stripper for some reason. Love Kathy's energy.

I thought of Love & Hip Hop. A soap opera version of the reality show might be fun.

Cyrus acts like Sascha's father. Is this where this is heading? The "Mike" story shows that Sonny is played out and the character is a burden for everyone around him. Carly is more interesting (and vibrant) these days. Sam didn't make me fall asleep on the floor in her scenes with Dante. I don't get the point of Michael's girlfriend. Why doesn't he get a cat or a dog?

I never understood why the Di Napoli family was brought to Santa Barbara. It was a rather weird time with the Donnellys, (Ethan and Laura Asher as well?) and CC's newest son (and Ted replacement) Craig Richardson. The show had a hard time keeping up with a plan and a specific vision. Cruz & Eden, some Capwell drama, rape stories and random people taking over for six months.

I remember reading that AMC's original finale would make everybody cry their eyes out and that it had a "Six Feet Under" vibe. Agnes Nixon had written it herself. Or am I making things up?

She was a DAYS superstar. From what I understand the Rick & Lesley drama was the first story that made people pay attention to GENERAL HOSPITAL. She had star billing on ANOTHER WORLD.

Years ago I could see Abby being a new version of Mindy Lewis (Kimberly Simms). Involved with a married man, I even considered Cane at some point lol. MO doesn't really feel like an Abbott or a Newman. Perhaps a Grace Turner type? Another big problem for me is Kyle. He doesn't look like an Abbott to me. He could be Noah, but not Kyle. Watching KM play Amanda makes me understand how important MM's presence is. Watching Karla makes my ask myself: " Why should we care about this newcomer's drama?" MM should be the star of the show.

I liked Pray Tell in his original function on the show. Now this is too much. It has been too much for quite some time. All the crying and the yelling and all the stories and the young, sexy lover. They even gave him an addiction storyline. Next week's trailer of only scenes of BP acting like a martyr, crying and yelling, yelling and crying. I am not interested in that and this is not what the show is supposed to be about.

Carl Williams got the Stuart Brooks treatment a few years later. Bill Bell loved driving the audience crazy.

POSE is at its best when they remember that this is a show about trans women and not just Billy Potter's vehicle for an Emmy. I loved this episode. As much as I loved last season's episode with the girls on vacation.

I know but there should be a difference between camp and a joke. (I have to admit that I liked pre-Sally B&B much better. I was (the only one?) sad to see the Logans leave lol)

And that's why I haven't considered B&B a soap opera in years. It is a cartoon show where nobody remembers what happened in the previous episode.

I loved Sheree's fiascos!

ATL I guess Porsha's days as an activist as over. Her new story suits her much better. BRAVO has to understand that this woman cannot be the face of the show. Kenya, Cynthia and Kandi have to stay. No to Phaedra. Her story has been told and she is pure trash. NY Is it me or Eboni trying to hard to talk in a way she doesn't normally talk?. Coming to this group through Leah was not the best idea. BH I haven't watched in years. But Garcelle makes me want to watch.

Stephanie was inspired by Vanessa Prentiss, Katherine Chancellor and Jennifer Brooks. She was nothing like the primetime soap divas in my eyes. I think that primetime took ideas and characters daytime and made them bigger than life. Early Krystle/Blake/Alexis reminded me of Rachel/Mac/Iris. A triangle which was not about romance. Or was it? Angela Channing was more or less based on Phoebe Tyler Wallingford. Dina Mergeron had quite a few similarities with Alexis Colby, but her story was also based on Bill Foster. Jill Foster started out a lot like Rachel Davis, Erica Kane and Lisa Miller, she morphed into Alexis Colby and then Bill Bell got bored with the character after Brenda Dickson left (and Edward Scott made sure that Nikki would be Genoa City's first lady).