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Glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you very much! Soft suiting, feathered hair, minimal jewelry, soft makeup. Good lighting. A far cry from DAYS (sometimes)

Thank you! It's interesting to see how they've styled her. She's not Kate Roberts, nor is she Jess' Jill. I look forward to it.

Looking good and sounding great at 93. She has since jetted off to St. Tropez to start her summer holiday. I expect the autumn is going to be busy for her with My Duchess set to be released.

Yikes. I've never been a Kelly fan and this cements it.

Yes, that angle of Kate's characterization is why she's one of my favourite soap characters. She can acknowledge when she's hurt someone, but she can also remain steadfast in her actions. Lauren Koslow and Josh Taylor made it work. The lawsuit storyline has had good ripple effects, but it's been so underplayed by the writers, that I hope we're going to see more prominence for it and for Lauren Koslow.

Absolutely, and it's remiss of me not to mention that. I wonder if the needed move out of Television City was so stressful and distracting that the writers just put the show on autopilot for a few months as the actors and crew navigated the move ahead of their hiatus.

It really is interesting to see how the show has turned around so dramatically. B&B has always been nimble that way and sometimes it’s been to the show’s detriment when Brad gets bored with something. I actually wonder if Eric going to Logan and then back to Forrester so suddenly wasn’t a rewrite when the writers saw the potential of having a defector designer but thought Hope being the secret designer had bigger payoff. DAYS could never do that with its production model. It really seems like the move to the new studio at Las Palmas did something behind the scenes. I don’t miss an episode. I can’t say that for any other soap.

I'm really enjoying the show and the previews for this coming week seem promising. The Logan storyline is good and it's the first time, in a long time, where there feels like real purpose to the show's storytelling. It's also put Heather Tom/Katie in a prominent position, and given her something to actually do. Katie is going Victoria Newman on us, and that's a great thing, I've never liked her portrayed as weak or wimpy. If I took a shot for every time Steffy says "focus on couture" (though she pronounces it 'ka-tour') I'd be dead. I really hope the show stretches out the reveal so it has maximum impact. I want to see Brooke and Ridge have a nervous breakdown and for Steffy to implode. It needs to be shocking. The Remy/Deke scenes on Friday were the first time this storyline has felt real. I just hope that B&B has the guts to keep going with it. Give the audience what they want. I think RJ and Miss Dylan have more chemistry than Elektra and Will. I could do without the repetitive scenes of Elektra and Miss Dylan talking like 16 year olds in homeroom. I really want Shauna and Wyatt to join up with Logan. Build up that crew. They're like Spectra with money.

Thank you!

Please let me know when we've got spoilers for the week of June 22 - I can't wait to see LK as Jill.

This! Yes. That’s what they need to do. The show has lacked that role since SF left in 2012 and it’s desperately needed.

I've been catching up on the show. My random thoughts: The Lexie is Alive storyline is awful and the actress playing Lexie is a cold, brittle, dud. Renee Jones imbued Lexie with a warmth and sparkle to the point that half the audience was rooting for her when she kidnapped Hope's baby, and the other half at least understood why she did it. This storyline was never a good idea, but in the hands of this particular actress, Lexie is just an unlikable bitch. The pub scene with Marlena, Abe, and Lexie highlighted this so harshly as Deidre and James Reynolds were so warm and then you've got Nikki Crawford patting Abe on the arm patronizingly saying she wanted him to focus on their family while she's been dead for 14 years. This storyline is ill conceived and nobody could have made this work...though if Renee Jones had done it, at least we'd feel something for Lexie. But this particular casting choice...whew. Leo is still annoying as hell. I liked the Cat and Rafe scenes. The Xander and Kate sabotaging Johnny storyline is the one with the highest stakes and yet it's the one that's gotten the least attention, and been burning so slowly, that it's like it was an afterthought on the part of the writers, and somewhere along the way a producer noticed how good it is and have pushed it along. That's all down to Paul Telfer and Lauren Koslow. God knows it isn't the writing. The writing for the Chanel medical scenes has been very unfortunate and made me cringe. They went the cliche route of having Chanel quote maternal mortality statistics to the robotic jerk white male doctor. Wouldn't it have been more original for Chanel to express her concerns to the doctor and for him to surprise her by acknowledging her concerns and saying he's got her back? Characterizing doctors as villains really bothers me because 99% of the profession are stellar people, especially those in oncology. The scenes with 'Destiny' were also cringe. Like...isn't it pretty clear she was drug addicted, malingering, and looking for painkillers? Why make Sarah look like an idiot?

Heather Tom was great on Friday, channeling vintage Victoria Newman, boiling over with rage. I just wish she'd slapped Brooke back. The writing for the Forresters in this storyline is so sanctimonious and divorced from reality. Do we think this is intentional? Are they meant to come across as idiotic and unlikable? We literally saw Ridge force Eric into retirement and Eric enthusiastically join Katie, repeatedly thanking her for giving his career a second life. Thorsten Kaye: has he ever been good as Ridge? I'm just not seeing how he's needed for the show at all, other than to give KKL someone to play off against. He mumbles the same lines, wearing shirts too tight for his stomach, over and over again. I'm not claiming Ronn Moss was a thespian, but he was charismatic and at least he was Ridge. I really hope that Remy's roommate ends up being Sheila. She needs to get back on the canvas.

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