Contessa Donatella

I remember when they did the stupendously stupid thing of moving that swing set from Lassiter, PA to Bay City. I'm like WHAT?!!!

Sounds like me, but I prefer to be referred to as Contessa. We all know I can go a long time not paying attention to certain things. And, if I might add, hey there dude, you effed up pretty good this time and I think this was your last chance. So don't let the door hit you in your behind as you go BYE MOMMY!

No, flat out serious including the results of the image search. I guess this is what people are referring to when they talk about HD being unkind & the images people with newer, better pictures screens are seeing. But I could not abide that child you are also talking about. I haven't thought about her in so long. DARN.

That picture has been altered. Those moles are someone's idea of "added value". I just put it to a Bing Image Search for match & it gave me a ton of huge close-ups & not a single one of them has any mole or beauty mark on her face or neck. If you want the link just say so.

Aiyiyiyi!!! Thanks. See that now but what I thought I saw before, obviously, DAYS. These IV drugs I'm taking are killing me. My brain is negatively affected. Things don't taste right. I'm smelling things that are not there. Etc.

I've had Comments section censorship, too. I am guessing their mechanical sensors are very prudish & also judgmental. Tweaked tightly.

I don't think this is anything but a pause. I think there's a lot more of Liz/Lucky coming up ahead. Think of it as a classic fakeout. Edit to ADD: Well, crap. Ignore me. Outta there.

Now she used to be on the Directing rotation, so is this when she was off of it for awhile & now is back?

His current deal is up in September. I just bet the show wants him to stay on, for awhile.

C-sign!!! Seriously, these numbers it's time to have a cyber party! #3 10/12 last weeks

GH on Hulu, their Top 15 list, now for the second consecutive day ... #1.

From PKWaddle, ex-soap journo & fan & one known only to give good intel, in a post on my FB soap group: #1 Peacock shows 10 of the past 12 weeks DAYS in their TOP 3. #2 DAYS is now more ahead, currently at 10 months & 1 week.

Very true & also at least in the case of stand-out HWs, it is fraught with exhaustion & burnout.

I mean I really hope so. Still kinda amazed though that it would get by Standards & Practices. A pair that was talked about that I could see it was Jacob Young & that guy who kept changing what name he went by Someone Martines at least part of the time, but at any rate Jacob was playing Lucky & this other guy was playing Nikolas.

Excellent explication. That doing it in these two examples, is not like doing it in other similar genres or franchises, so one could easily postulate that the people who hire do not generally consider "newbies" but instead insist upon experienced people, which leads to rehiring rather than hiring from "outside" which is what your closed system is all about. When you think about it how many people can you name who did soaps who came from outside? I can only think of 3 HWs : Pete Lemay, Hogan Sheffer & Michael Malone. For EPs only 2: Wendy Riche & Linda Gottlieb

Remember when we used to talk about homoerotic subtext on GH? Like this Bromance? Sonny & Jason! I remain somewhat amazed that ABC used it as a promo https://www.instagram.com/p/DH3fKzjJyy4/

“We are powerful because we have survived.” — Audre Lorde Niagara Falls Lit for Pride

I recall someone suggesting that football coaches have the same kind of situation where people who are clearly NOT good at the job get rehired over & over. I don't begin to know enough about that sport to evaluate this as a truth or not. But, I do hate how much damage it has accounted for in soaps.

An unfortunately common refrain!

I'm almost positive that it was changed in the 80s.

As far as I know it's true that they wanted Judi all along & she wasn't available at first. And, it honestly doesn't matter to me. No preference. But thanks for the geography lesson. It defeats me.

Irna wanted to use cities around Chicago to represent the cities around Cincinnati, where P&G's international Headquarters are, so it was by intent. Here's the YT at 5:05:56

Robb, another fan confirms. He says Rachel was given a day pass for a funeral & instead went on the lam.

Agree to disagree. I like it. No doubt it's different. It's supposed to be. Is it dated? Yes, but then that's natural, it's from 1977. I think that reviewer needed to watch a few more episodes. It is clever but not precocious. The role reversal IMO works & well. The best thing I could advise anyone interested, is to try it for yourself, you can always quit it if you don't like it. As much of it as some of us were able to gain access to are up on the Internet Archive & also on my Rumble acct. If you need further directions, PM me.

Happy Pride 2025