Contessa Donatella
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1 hour ago, mikelyons said:Yes.
Natalie Minardi Slater, Kay Alden's protege, is one of the fired writers. Josh was driven Y&R into the ground and I fear this is the final nail in its coffin.
Is Sara Bibel one of them? Msgd with Sara. She is looking for a job. She tweeted a great msg to the fans.
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27 minutes ago, janea4old said:
I am startled to read recaps that Ryan actually died? Can this be true?
I am very much afraid that it's true. But then I can't watch the show till tonight on Hulu, ... so what do I know?!! I'll tell you what I know. I don't want them to kill off Ryan. I could offer up some substitutes. Kill Cody Bell. Kill Mason.
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17 hours ago, janea4old said:
My impression had been this:
Esme *was* the hook at the beginning. At some point Heather jumped in and took over (without Esme's knowledge). Heather killed at least one person when Esme had an observable alibi, as a way to draw suspicion away from Esme. Meanwhile Esme got pregnant and couldn't do it anymore anyhow.I like this better than the hook they're leaving us hanging from.
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This seems a little after the fact but I think it just took its time making its way from one place to another and it seems quite special.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-732312
It's Diane Neal's tribute to Richard Belzer.
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25 minutes ago, chrisml said:
I'm not shocked by anything producers or writers say about rape on soaps. The soaps are full of rationales for rapists--icky considering that women were the target demographic. However, I was shocked it came from Calhoun and not Farren Phelps who seemed to thrive on violence against women.
Sometimes writers get "tarred with the brush" when they're not really in favor of violence against women. The Dobsons certainly weren't either in favor of it or irresponsibly using it when they did the marital rape story on GL. They closely studied the Gloria Rideout rape & trial in Oregon. Pat Falken Smith is an example but not on GL. And, Donna Swajeski is another example, also not on GL.
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On 8/19/2021 at 2:31 AM, Taoboi said:
Works for me.
I can't figure y'all out. Do you just want pictures or do you want stuff like this here, too?
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/zach-tinker-on-his-days-exit/
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5 minutes ago, carolineg said:
The execution just fails more often than not. I really think if Days could figure out how to edit/pace stories correctly it would seem so much better. It feels like a shoestring budget show while GH still feels like a real production with money.
More agreement, plain & simple.
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4 minutes ago, Joseph said:
It's OK, now I have something to look forward to watch on GH, I thought the Sprina Kiss was all I should care About on yesterday's Episode!
Okay, so to set up what you just watched. Heather taunted Ava with the idea that Ryan had done even more than she knew to her & damaged her life in his extreme obsession with her & when she had Ava sufficiently wound up, she gave Ava her gun, the gun Ryan had left her with to hold Ava & Felicia prisoner till he returned. She told Ava that this was her chance to finally settle the obsession once & for all. Ava immediately left the room & showed up in the clearing in the woods. Esme, whose water had broken & who was having contractions, got away from Ryan while he was paying full attention to Ava, who shot him. Later, Esme reappeared in the living room at Wyndemere, running straight into Laura's arms. Heather had told Felicia that she could go. Mac & company had shown up at Wyndemere & at the end Felicia was going back to the mainland with Austin, on an ER stretcher, and Heather was in cuffs with a cop right beside her.
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8 hours ago, janea4old said:
liked that Nicole was a mentor to Allie when young adult Allie first arrived on canvas.
I liked that, too, and I have hated that they let Challie be so isolated that neither of them had anyone to talk to but Johnny or Alex. Allie needed to have Nicole to talk to in the past months & I thought we should see Allie talk to Nicole before leaving for New Zealand. But, very apparently the show did not keep up with that relationship. A pity.
Nicole was good again today as a thinking human being, not just a bed warmer. Finally EJ is going to get onto Stefan drugging him & then it will really hit the fan.
The show, in the Salem dimension, was good again today. We had the brothers, Eric & Brady, communicating again & today taking action, which they must have planned on yesterday's show. I'm not sure why they decided to tackle both the Rolf problem & the Stefan problem but it's welcome action.
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11 hours ago, victoria foxton said:
That is well said. But, it is a bigger issue than just this storyline. Liz's story, they didn't know what they were doing upfront & then made decisions & then changed those decisions & made other decisions. Nina & missing daughter/daughters, same thing only played out over a longer period of time. Now, not deciding ahead of time who the serial killer is, making it up as you go along. This is the kind of mistake a young inexperienced HW or team would make. They should know better! It's incredibly stupid and there's no excuse for it.
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7 hours ago, j swift said:
I was shocked reading GL's producer Robert Calhoun response was that Holly and Roger remembered things differently, but Roger was not "unprovoked."
I was shocked & appalled when I learned that Calhoun had said that. I thought he said, "not entirely unprovoked" though, which is a wee bit different but just as bad. I can only imagine how furious MG must have been.
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Y&R Fires Entire Breakdown Writing Staff
in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2021 - 2023)
Most of the time in his career Harding "Pete" Lemay was HW & Breakdown Writer & Daily Script Writer, all, a one man show, and, among other things, he burned out. And, Josh Griffith is no Pete Lemay.