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I had no idea Darlene Conley had done a role on DAYS! Adding her to the first post. Thanks!

The Y&R/B&B crossovers really make a difference here!

Ha, was just doing that! Great minds, etc.

I knew there had to be someone else who'd done all four! Good catch.

Ooh, good ones! Thanks.

Duh! Thank you. I think I blocked out Genevieve...

The only one who comes to mind is Judith Chapman! She was Ginny on GH, Anjelica and later Diana on DAYS, Gloria on Y&R, and crossed over to B&B as Gloria. Edit: Thanks to others' contributions, we also have: - Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie, DAYS; Dorothy, GH; Joanna, Y&R/B&B) - Rick Hearst (Scotty, DAYS; Ric, GH; Whip, B&B; Matt,Y&R) - Darlene Conley (Sally, B&B; Rose, Y&R; Trixie, GH; Warden Edith Baker, DAYS) - Marla Adams (Dina, Y&R; Beth, B&B; Claire McIntyre, DAYS; Mildred Deal, GH) - Patrika Darbo (Nancy, DAYS; Shirley, B&B and Y&R; Sally the waitress, GH) The ones I can think of who have been on three of the remaining shows: - Steve Burton (GH, DAYS, Y&R) - Scott Reeves (DAYS, GH, Y&R) - Robin Mattson (GH, B&B, DAYS) - Lauren Koslow (DAYS, B&B, Y&R) - Greg Vaughan (DAYS, GH, Y&R) Who am I missing? And is there anyone besides Chapman who's appeared on all four?

I've always found this to be a strange choice! Not giving Victoria any real contemporaries also did something weird to the character in future years. I know the ages on Y&R in particular have gotten more and more compressed as time has gone on, but having Victoria in triangles with Ashley by the late 90s aged her up in a strange way, and then they teased her with Jack, Brad, and even Michael, right? (I have a faint memory of all that in the early-mid 2000s.) She basically fits into the Nick/Sharon age group -- and now they've crammed everyone from Billy to Phyllis into the same amorphous peer group -- but the way they utilized her as this sole teenager for a few years has always seemed odd.

Idk, I watched Sydney Sweeney on "Euphoria" and season 1 of "The White Lotus" pretty much at the same time and could handle it.

The Cass Winthrop reference was the level of "in-joke" that works for me. If you caught it and got the reference, it was a fun little treat. If you didn't, it was just a name said in passing. At least they didn't bring the scene to a screeching halt like they usually do so that Abe and Paulina could have a random, ridiculous discussion of how Cass used to work in Bay City and had done business in Oakdale and Springfield and, oh, remember that lady Felicia he used to hang out with...?

Rest in peace, John. We were lucky to have him on our screens for as long as we did!

Not really, honestly? I mean, she wasn't bad, and it was fun to see her as Kristen, but that whole portrayal didn't really fit into Kristen's narrative at the time (Why was she after the Peacock? They never explained that), and it was more about "Eileen Davidson playing a glamorous, bitchy character so she could re-enact that Real Housewives scene with Lisa Rinna."

I think they've lost the plot on Kristen regardless of who plays her. I thought Haiduk was very good during her first stint as both Kristen and Susan, but they brought her in with that psychotic energy and it's basically ONLY been that since (aside from that weird period right before the time jump where she was pregnant and suddenly embraced by everyone). I do think Eileen would make some more reserved choices, but the character HAS been manic for years -- she's essentially been a deranged fugitive since the moment Eileen played her for that quick, quick scene in 2017, and all she has done since is commit crimes and go on the run. I get why the character is the way she is, considering what's been written for her, but she's at Dr. Evil levels of cackling villainy at this point.

They're safe: https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/11/days-of-our-lives-actor-james-lastovic-missing-hawaii-kauai/ Pretty terrifying. I'm glad they're safe -- that could've been a lot worse.

I found Steve Wilder attractive when he was on Days. I cannot even begin to see him that way now. He pursued and abused a 14-year-old girl and is a registered sex offender. Mark Valley would've been good in almost any other Days role! He could've been Mike, or David, or Austin... He just was not Jack Deveraux, and the total shift in the writing didn't help.

The GL actor was Doug Hutchison. He had a highly publicized marriage to a much younger person, Courtney Stodden, who was only 16 at the time of the marriage (and now uses she/they pronouns). Courtney has come out claiming that Doug -- who was 51 when they married -- systematically groomed them via the internet, after Courtney took an acting class he was teaching, prior to the marriage. They divorced in 2020. Courtney has since accused Doug of emotional and physical abuse, as well. It's not a good look, to say the least. Steve Wilder played Jack briefly, I think in 1997-98. He was the actor who replaced Mark Valley in the infamous shower-recast scene. He was convicted of abusing a 14-year-old girl and served jail time for it.

Last week's preview for tonight's episode began with, "Next time, on the season finale of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills..." But that was the first I'd heard of tonight's episode being the last of the season!

Yeah, RC was playing it BIG, and the dialogue could've been a lot more subtle. But I'll take what I can get! And the guy hasn't had to act at this one-take-and-we-move-on pace in a long time. I appreciate that they brought him in. This whole Jennifer/Gwen thing, on the other hand, has been so hilariously rushed. Was this all just to give Gwen (yet another) "redemption"?

The Mike/Nancy scenes came off better than I expected they would. Of course it's all rushed, but they hit some nice notes there. I was impressed that they hit on the aborted 70s story of teenage Mike questioning his sexuality. And as random as this is, one thing I do appreciate about this regime is that they make it feel like there's a world beyond Salem and that the offscreen characters have lives. Now if only the stuff we watch day-in-and-day-out could be consistently decent...

That HAS to bode well for Days, at least as far as how its transition will be regarded. Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip 2 likely contributed to those subscriptions, as well, plus the $1.99 deal. I'd be curious to see how much of that new 15 million happened prior to September and how much happened once the $1.99 deal kicked in.

That's so weird about editing Kari out! I was actually thinking the other day about how weird it is that she's around so much and yet we spend NO time with her -- she's just there. This explains that and begs a lot of other questions! I really love this show. It's so, so consistent, and somehow it can be this explosive and yet never turn so toxic that I feel like I can't watch it.

RHOBH I love Garcelle, but there's usually one thing 'off' about most of her looks. And Sutton... poor thing. She always looks like she's being eaten alive by anything she wears. Just no sense of what works for her body and posture. She looks so much better dressed down. Rinna must be ecstatic that people are comparing her to a Kardashian. That Madonna filter on her face... good grief. RHOSLC None of these taglines feel like classics to me, but Heather's is pretty good, and Meredith's is a good combination of cleverness and pointed delivery. Lisa's feels like a bit of a mouthful and maybe could have used one more edit, but it's very in-character. And why does Whitney always sound like she's reading her tagline but it's in a language she's only seeing for the first time?!

I feel like ATWT did this in the mid-2000s for a while. I have memories of downloading the files to listen to while I went for walks.

Cady's Emmy win for Guest Performer was for a four-month arc in 2020-21. She came in, played the role for a specific time, and left. She wouldn't qualify for that category since she's returned. The whole thing is pretty murky, anyway, but anyone not on contract and appearing in multiple episodes is technically "recurring."

That's so true. There are very few characters who seem to dress the way they do because of the characters rather than the actors. For most of the men and for a few women (Gabi springs to mind), those two things seem to work together, but you're right -- Abigail in particular's wardrobe changed so, so much as the actresses switched back and forth. There was no continuity between the two versions of the character. MBE consistently chooses those knee-length, flared, heavy-material dresses and coats IRL, so that's definitely her. And Kate's style (which I happen to enjoy) is very Lauren Koslow. No way would Deborah Adair's Kate be dressing like that if she were still around. Her Y&R character was... uh... best forgotten!