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Exactly. B&B has been delivering what the rest of the pack have not been. And it's working. I hope they realize this isn't an accident and keep moving forward with this momentum.

That would be the dream. Natalie was always meant to be Kay Alden's successor and Janice knows the show better than anyone currently writing.

The best overall primetime soap is Knots Landing because it never became a shell of itself and it had a proper ending, something the other primetime soaps cannot claim. Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, and Donna Mills are all very good playing layered characters. I'd say Knots is the most 'real' of the primetime soaps from this era. For my money, season 2 - 4 of Dynasty are its best as a glitzy primetime soap that still had some edge, season 5 it starts to focus on a particular storyline that provides its most memorable season ending cliffhanger, and I liked season 9 much more than 6 - 8, where the show really lost its way. If you want to watch one woman singlehandedly reinvent a show, look no further than Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington Colby. She rocked it and nobody could have played that part like she did. Dallas is solid for the first 10 years and then it starts to fall apart as several important cast members leave. It's also the primetime soap where the male characters were generally more important than the female characters. Larry Hagman is incredibly good as the incredibly bad JR. Falcon Crest was never my show and the little I've seen over the years just confirms it.

I’ve watched a few episodes and the show looks just fine in terms of resolution and the like. It looks to be around 1995 or 1996. I’ve been rewatching Dynasty on PlutoTV and the idea of these FAST channels is appealing. There’s nothing to manage for the broadcaster and it just keeps going and going on a loop.

Yes! Our girls are back. I can't wait.

I did not! Wow. That is insane! The mistress sounds nuts. Brian appears to be such a scumbag, and he was on WWHL with Rulla a week or two ago, what is she thinking?!

ATL For me, the best line was when Angela referred to Pinky as "Mrs. Clean" RI This show is explosively good.

The writing for Brooke and Ridge and Eric is so insufferable. The 'Logan' story line is so objectively easy to root for Katie because she and $Bill have done nothing wrong and are perfectly within their legal rights.

It does speak volumes. Those who supported Joan knew that John was being bitter about the fact she made the show a hit. And I'm sure the women all quietly knew if Joan had been a man, that it would never have been an issue... Jack Coleman was and forever is team Joan. He and his wife still see her. From everything I've gathered, Joan was very welcoming to new cast members because she had not received the same treatment. I always like this clip from Ali MacGraw talking about how nice Joan was to her and how John didn't like their storyline: Joan is not a jealous type. She has way too many friends, both female and male, rich and less rich, to be jealous of anyone. Joan knew Linda before Dynasty and was, I think, very disappointed that Linda sided with John and basically blanked her, and just gave up on bothering with her. Joan and Diahann were great friends and neighbours in Sierra Towers in LA for many years. I think they just 'got' each other and liked each other and had fun together. They knew they were dynamite together on the show. A rising tide lifts all boats, after all. I've been seeing some of the show on Pluto TV and the soft focus used on Joan and Linda in season 8 is wild. No one else is shot in closeup with it so in one scene you go from sharp camera work to gauze and back again.

The answer to your last point is I reckon we are going to see Hope quit Forrester and join Katie at Logan.

Monique walked it all back after the reunion aired and posted on her Instagram that she no longer believes Stacey had anything to do with her issues with Chris. I hope that gets acknowledged on camera. It's A+ Housewives. This is what happens when Bravo films with a cast made up of organic relationships.

I thought the writing of her exit scene had to be an in joke with AB's pregnancy. Lugging a fake plant to her ride share to a flight to part's unknown. When Ivy copped to Elektra that hiding the letter "was not proper, not proper at all" I howled. I am begging, begging the B&B producers to insert that line as the opening of their Emmy reel package. I sure hope AB returns - she's been so fun to watch. Brooke, meanwhile, is insuff

I'd go on @JAS0N47 's wonderful cast episode charts and just watch the Kate episodes (there are 5 from January - March) and the Vivian episodes (3 of them).

Margo is absolutely full of crap. She went too far and didn’t like getting called out by every single one of the cast. Mark-Francis said on WWHL that he saw texts where Margo bragged about her “Oscar worthy performance”

Enjoyed the scenes with Kate denying everything to Roman. But whoa, did Josh Taylor mumble his way through those scenes. Audibly.