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The cast of Generations should try and get them to add it to the "block", lol.

Like... couldn't they have done more with Peter instead since fans had been asking for him for, what? 25 years? Only to get a few days with a recast. I guess this Lexie will last a few months (judging from her recording dates), but still. What if she takes off as nuLexie? It'll be at least a year before we'll be able to see her again (assuming that this actress would even want to commit long-term). I don't get this bring back long-gone (or dead) characters only to have them a limited time on the canvas. Same with Megan.

One of the issues with taping so far ahead I guess. If the viewer response is tepid, we're stuck with her for a few months, but if people love her it'll be a year before she can turn up again.

Remain in Port Charles?

Aaand the talks about it in past tense, because of course she is. Another one of those "quirks" with the show filming a trillion years ahead.

It just seems to me like they had no idea how to run a once-a-week prime time soap (which I guess hadn't been done since even Peyton Place were two episodes to start with) and thought the larger scale, the better. Of course, as we've seen with later successful prime time soaps, they tend to start out with smaller casts and a few focused stories in order to not entirely confuse viewers. No wonder it bombed.

Oh yeah. I've got to the nude woman with a snake pitch. It all seems pretty random. But still, early Chances pretty much looks like Neighbors or Home and Away from that era - it's just obvious to me why it couldn't gain traction. I mostly play an episode here and there in the background and it's not attention-grabbing imho. I look forward to getting to the crazier parts to see if I suddenly feel the need to sit down and take more notice.

Good for BTG for staying above 1.7m viewers again!

Look at the whole "Three Musketeers" thing with Larry, Linda and Patrick post-Dallas. While it's nice they had a good friendship going, it's obvious they effectively - consciously or not - locked others out. As you I get the feeling it was just hard for newcomers in general to penetrate (teehee) that particular group, though I'm sure Dack being openly gay and a bit flamboyant didn't help smooth things over. Victoria has always been portrayed as putting herself on the outside of that group, but part of me wonders how true that is. She comes across as quite reserved and I'm sure Larry and Patrick "playing pranks" got to her more than one time on set. I know it'd get to me.

To be fair, aside from some tit and ass shots, the early episodes of Chances aren't really "racy". I think "Home and Away with tits" sums it up - if anything it's kind of jarring to go from kind of wholesome family drama to a shot of Jeremy Sims ass getting out of a pool.

I put on the first few episodes and in all honesty, I can see why this bombed. There's really nothing remarkable about it and the theme is hilariously mismatched with the "sexy" tone they're trying to go with. It's obvious that someone pitched this like "a soap for the 90s - sexy, hot and hip" but then those are just buzzwords. It's not exactly bad or the worst soap I've seen, just very unremarkable.

Spin-offs only really work when they're not just an extension of the mothership. Early on it just seemed like Port Charles was General Hospital Pt II, so essentially an attempt at a 30 minute extension without directly tagging it onto the mothership (as AW had shown, that experiment didn't end up well). You could argue something like The Bold and the Beautiful is a de facto spin-off from The Young and the Resless, even down to similarish names. But still different enough to be interesting to be separate entities.

Yeah, I 110% believe Lisa on this. There's been stories about RKK from both DOOL and Another World. I don't think it's a coincidence he got the boot once Kristian Alfonso got back - she definitively would've had the power to get him fired pronto. It's a shame from a story perspective, because as I said it took away any question who Bo would end up with. But of course, his abusive ass deserved to get booted. It's just a shame it didn't happen earlier to maybe establish something between Lisa and Peter Reckell before Kristian made her comeback as Hope.

They definitively could play a bit with perspectives on these small sets instead of having the background lead directly out to a balcony (which is never used anyway). Then again, I suspect the reason they do these "box" apartment sets is because they're just easier to redress and re-use which they obviously have to do (ironically, I think Beyond the Gates have the opposite issue where they've done somewhat unique living spaces, but it makes them harder to re-dress for other purposes).

They didn't even save money on Ana Alicia's firing - she was infamously contracted for 22 episodes as Melissa Agretti, so got paid for those and then when the show started bombing they had her sign another contract to appear as doppelgänger Sam, essentially giving her double salary for five episodes. It's the absolute dumbest move the show ever did - even if they wanted to write her off at the end of season eight, it could've been a season long storyline and help usher in the rest of the Agretti clan.

Yeah, the only time Billie / Bo had any momentum was with Lisa and RKK. After that it was just obvious who he'd end up with.

You know, I do give them credit for trying considering their budget is at "steal pocket change from the actors" level.

Indeed lol. My dad says that turtle necks are his best friend as he grows older. I don't tend to think Constance has had much done, except for I'm sure a good dermatologist. She's styling herself very well.

And to be fair to Liza, this is a woman who infamously feuded with a 16 year old SMG, who strikes me as incredibly professional. I'm sure there's a lot to unpack in their mother / daughter relationship.

They're really not doing good at DAYS are they? Waste.

Try frying your brain by watching his shows (if you can call them that) back-to-back. Veronica, the character, is everything I hate about him. As is "Colby". For some reason The Haves and the Have Nots live rent free in my brain, yet there's no one occupying it because there's no real characters in his soaps, which is a hard feat to beat.

Isn't it fascinatin how you can have a sentence in your head and then you can't let it go until you say it? Anyway here's mine: TYLER PERRY GET SOME GOD DAMN THERAPY FOR YOUR ISSUES That felt good.

I have so many thoughts about "The Haves and the Have Nots", however I'll keep it to myself...

Sorry but:

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?