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Agreed. I'm hoping we are proven wrong this time...

They've cast Keegan Allen as Walker's gay brother, which pleasantly surprised me. I like the description of their family backstory/dynamic and hope they use it a lot instead of making him a background character.

You can start watching episodes now! I guess the Feb. 27th date is for all the interactive stuff. How thrilling to have a soap streaming like this and 2.99 a month is very reasonable!

I'm really excited to listen to Black Diamond (great title). Hope it's a good album. She said it'll be out before her tour ends, so it seems sometime between now and August!

That music really was phenomenal. And the suit/look looks promising.

There's been occasional discussion of this. It's generally considered a nice touch on Bell's part indicating several things such as the complex social status of the characters, their social bubbles/friends, and a general feeling of a large town with a community that doesn't constantly interact. Plus, it was really special when there was cross-over. I think what the show "lacked" in character interactions it more than made up with in a sense of place, setting, social structure, and largeness of the fictional Genoa City.

So exciting!

Apparently, they cut a DYNASTY Dominique/Alexis spoof:

I thought I was the only one who watched a show on a weekly basis with breaks between seasons! I am doing that for the big 80s soaps (well, DALLAS, DYNASTY, and KNOTS LANDING and to a lesser extent, FALCON CREST) and with BH 90210 and MP, although 7 seasons of MP have taken me longer than 7 years due to some of the lows. I wanted to recreate the experience and make them last. I agree the shows stay with you for so long and that's why I've stalled with the last few episodes of Season 7. I don't want it to end. I've been watching KL for 13 years... I can't even imagine what it'd be like to not have any new episodes left! Loving your write-ups. I've been wanting to go back to early MP to rediscover it and this doesn't help!

So far have binged Seasons 4 to 6 of DALLAS during a bingewatch. Let's see how long it lasts. Oh my Gosh, I could cry for you. What a journey you are going on!

lol thanks! I've seen up to the hostage episode. I've heard about the turnaround midway through or something, so I'm excited to see what that's all about.

So Season 13 started decently enough but quickly slowed down in pace and interest just 5 or 6 episodes in. While I like the idea of Tidal Energy and Anne and Benny, things are excruciatingly slow and it doesn't feel like a lot happens. I think the last time I felt this way with the show was somewhere in the second half of Season 7. Linda's murder was a shock. I did not expect her to be disposed of that way. Not sure where I thought the Brian Johnston stuff was going but I thought him taking Karen, Mack, Jason, and Meg hostage was decent. Poor Jason -- first he's comatose, then he disappears for episodes on end, then he gets shot. I am SO relieved though because I thought they'd kill him off. Not sure I really care what the show is trying to do with Claudia's nightmares. She set her own son up to be arrested and directly led to his death. I feel no emotional connection to her anymore, she's kinda dead to me. Pierce and Paige have ZERO chemistry and I hate that he was introduced immediately as Paige's existing love. Not to mention, other than a decent body, Pierce is a bit cryptkeeper-y. At least Marcia Cross showing up and being seemingly psycho shows promise.... I have no idea if it's going to happen but I suspect Greg may want Meg back. The show has definitely waited a long time to pull the trigger on that.

OK you just killed me with the last 3 Hotnesses... LOL

Faves from last week!

I would subscribe to Peacock in a second if that were to happen. The thought of seeing the Bell years/70s of this show...

Very pleasantly surprised by "Song for my Mother", the Season 5 episode that pretty much follows David and Donna to Portland and has no appearance by Brandon, Kelly, Steve, Andrea, Jesse, or the older adults. Brian Austin Green's been looking 5 years younger forever but, damn, all of a sudden he grew into his looks. He also did the best work he's ever done with looking for his mother and finding out she is bipolar. The whole thing was done pretty well for BH. Then, you have Dylan looking into past lives and I'm not sure about that!

Whoa! Thrilling news!

Whoa, you weren't kidding. Great episode all around and I was not expecting Todd to kill both himself and Angela. Those shots of their bodies were quite scary -- never thought they'd do something like that!

I'm a few episodes behind on the uploads but just saw Ridge discovering Angela and Stephanie/Eric paying them off. It was a good episode. Of course, it doesn't really make sense why Ridge would just leave to go to a diner. Even in complete shock, he's the type to stay, demand answers, and bulldoze his way through the whole thing. We should've seen his actual exit onscreen but it may have been a half-hour episode limitation or a desire from TPTB not to demand too much from Moss.... Stephanie threatening to kill Angela and reading Todd for filth was fun!

Taylor came with the VOCALS for this one! Wonderful and cool that she wrote this with Andrew Lloyd Webber. I really wanted this to be good but it's a no for me. The new lyrics are cringeworthy (highlights what a great storyteller Taylor is, so I hope she didn't have a part in these) and Shawn Mendes manages to sound both underwhelming and like he's trying too hard at the same time. The "look in my eyes, they will tell you the truth" part is the absolute WORST. How dare he come in during the best part of the song with that? Ew.

They shoulda grabbed the opportunity to do a continuation of the show. Good payday for something destined to fail, though.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, the other, Targaryen prequel, has been given a 10-episode order.

The Naomi Watts prequel will not proceed.

Wow, I NEVER thought I'd be reading a headline like this: Jared Padalecki reportedly arrested in Texas for assault and intoxication. I hope this is some kind of misunderstanding or there is a good explanation. Also, I can't help it -- sounds like something straight out of Walker, Texas Ranger

I think it was pretty clear the showrunners no longer understood or even liked Krystle. Following the steep decline in quality starting in Season 3, one of the characters to suffer the most was Krystle. I'm pretty sure Esther referred to her as "boring" at some point. Rita, therefore, was a great opportunity to have Linda Evans but make her "interesting" versus a boring housewife.