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Besides me shouting at mr Perry to get therapy, him introducing Colby - a "fierce gay man" has to be one of the most cringe things that happened. Is this what Tyler Perry thinks constitutes as a self-assured gay man? A skank who runs around and is just annoying? What the hell went wrong with him? Like, mentally?

Always fascinating to see former headwriters from the past cohort with current DAYS players. Makes you think. Is Susan pitching for a brand new DAYS?

Isn't it just the same person that had an obsession with Marcy Walker for some reason? We all have our own little special interests, I guess.

Thinking about it, my least favourite part of Twin Peaks is the episode(s) after the Leland reveal / Maddie's murder. Why? Because first it becomes almost like they're giving Cooper an epiphany - "sorry I've been mucking about in this town for two weeks, but now I know how to solve it" out of nowhere for plot contrivance. Another murder happens and barely anyone but Donna and James react to it, even in passing. Even worse - Leland's wake. We see no real conflict or struggling to grasp the revelation that respected lawyer Leland Palmer not only molested his daughter, but also murdered her. It's actually frustrating to watch how little of the actual aftermath for the town citizens we get.

Bless. I don't see anything wrong with trying to ride the coattails of Beyond the Gates, but realistically, outside that infamous catfight, are anyone really interested in more Generations? By all accounts it was a bit of a mess from the get-go that sort of started improving towards the end, but less than two years on air and a bit of that time dodgy is not a good ground for a reboot. With that said, the sensible thing would be to try and get it on something like BET+ or TUBI or something and see if it can take off from there.

Thanks! I think Beacon Hill is one of those things that's more a curiosity, but once it's seen people will be... disappointed.

See, that's the opposite of what I love about prime time soaps. Well, most of them.

Sorry, but every character's theme on Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots should be the never-remembered track on Robyn's third ill-thought out third album that was supposed to be her US launch: P-S-Y-C-H-O I thought that you oughta know! Why could you just don't let me be? You're turning psycho on me! You better rethink your life! I'll never be your wife... I feel just like Janet Lee, you're turning...

OK, Wyatt has now admitted the priest gave him a "banana foster" and that he wanted his mother to hug him and I can't stop laughing. Why is this show so awful?

Have you ever got caught watching something you're thinking "man there's just too many episodes"? These characters have no internal lives, so nothing they do is ever compelling - even the whole Hanna / Kathryn relationship that's supposed to be heartwarming. You just end up thinking that all of these characters should DIE because they're just all ultimately wusks of characters. Sorry, at some point I will stop writing about The Haves and the Have Nots, approximately when I run out of episodes. It's just like eating pure sugar - at one point you'll get a tooth infection and then it starts bleeding into your brain...

They did, but I think that post-season one we barely saw any of these characters in high school so it was hard to see their connection. We only really saw a bit in the first half of season two with Nadine, but then the focus was on her (and Mike). You'd be excused for entirely forgetting that Shelly, Donna and Audrey were supposed to be the same age (along with James, Bobby, Laura).

Oooh, right, now I get it. So you mean each show would get subforums instead? Yeah, that sounds good to be honest. It could allow more expansive discussions. Plus, as someone who is frequently several months behind on something like Days of our Lives it would be helpful since a lot of the old monthly threads get locked. I thought you were going to just stop having threads on the actual site so that part was a bit confusing. Like it was going to become one of those terrible imageboards or something.

The main issue is that he's writing like he's stalling. It's like he decides that a few "big" things (that often turn out to be not-so-big) should happen in an episode and everything else is just a stalling tactic to get to the "big" scenes. It's not like these long back-and-forth scenes really does any character building or try to reveal motivations behind their actions.

I think the issue is that people like to point to one factor, but that's just not the case here. It's not the Laura mystery ending - nor is it one particular storyline. The truth is that the Evelyn Marsh story is like one or two scenes per episode. Maybe at the high point three - it wasn't taking over the show to the point you'd tune out if everything else was going swell. But as I said, the show lost its footing and balance. Up until solving the mystery, there was a balance between silly, supernatural and mystery. It really doesn't regain that ground until late season 2. I don't think they really "reunited" them as such, but more retconned it a bit. I watched episode 26 today and I found it odd how Bobby just appeared talking Shelly into being in the Miss Twin Peaks contest. Next time I rewatch I might have to take note what happens between them in episodes 20 to 26. Shelly also has her brief moment with Gordon Cole here, but that was probably down to David Lynch having a crush on Mädchen Amick (who wouldn't, tbh), lol.

To be fair, I don't think it's one storyline as much as there's a bit too much silliness going on. At one point you have the Nadine story running, the black widow story running, the James-in-a-noir running, the Lucy baby mess and her having Andy / Dick fostering that child... it's just a bit too much. Knowing that the black widow plot was supposed to have supernatural elements makes a lot more sense. There seems to be hints of it early on (her saying that she's always had bad luck etc). But then they just don't go there at all. Same with the kid being fostered and having "bad luck" with his parents / care-takers dying. It makes me wonder if there was an entire aborted story that was meant to tie things together better. But ultimately, I think the combo of just too many silly storylines that seemingly didn't go anywhere plus the 9PM slot bombing out with China Beach on Saturday killed the show. Twin Peaks was actually doing OK for the first part of the season for where it was. I don't think ABC expected miracles since they pretty much seemed to take "low-rated but critically acclaimed" shows when scheduling the night (Young Riders / China Beach / Twin Peaks). Had the show stayed within the 7.0-8.0 rating it probably would've survived for another season. I think the issue was that they didn't ever plan for Laura's killer to be revealed so they had no back up plan, so they ended up faltering a bit. The season does improve towards the end, but unfortunately, with no solid show in the 9PM slot to keep Twin Peaks' ratings up during that rough patch people just stopped watching. I thought this was interesting: Because yeah, there was even a scene between Bobby and Shelley that read like a break up scene, but then it's just sort of ignored a few episodes later. I guess you can just reason they had a fight and got over it, but it's never acknowledged iirc.