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A purely superficial comment/compliment, but DH looks fantastic. A beautiful woman in the vein of others of her generation who like EJ just said in the episode I'm currently watching, "... keep up the good work." Are the Greens coded or expressly Jewish?

Playing a great deal of catch-up... The anniversary segments brought me to tears. A testament to the power of Soap. Never watched DOOL in my youth, I'm relatively new to the show, but not unlike my emotional reaction the final episode of SFT, it only takes deeply felt and informed onscreen connections to sweepingly update and engage even the most casual viewer. I felt like I had been along for decades. The new Theo is simultaneously the best and the worst Theo. The best in terms of acting ability, while the worst in terms of affected acting choices. I feel like I am watching an actor at craft, rather than a human being. In more positive ways, he reminds me of a young Al Freeman, Jr. The new Rachel is excellent, particularly for her age. She out-performs several castmates to her senior.

Robin Strasser provided a rather delicious oral history of her return to the show on her much missed hotline. Growing weary of her time in L.A. pursuing primetime work, it was her friend and former castmate, Michael Zaslow, who suggested that she pursue the role of Alexandra Spaulding on GL, freshly vacated by Beverlee McKinsey. Robin took the meeting with JFP, where they discussed "youthening" the part, among other things. The deal was essentially done. Exiting the meeting, Robin encountered soap press on the street who asked why she was on CBS grounds. Robin remembered how she promised ABC to meet with them first if she ever planned a return to daytime. She took a meeting with Linda Gottlieb, who was admittedly unfamiliar with her work, but was informed of her popularity as Dorian which jived with her vision to use flashbacks of the Dorian/Viki relationship as the show's anniversary approached and archival footage of Robin and Erika could be used. Princi was unceremoniously let go.

Playing catch-up... on Monday, Anita mentioned artist Roy DeCarava. He was Robin Strasser's stepfather. Robin has shared how people on the streets would whisper as she walked with her mother, Anne, and Roy, assuming Roy was her biological father... how Robin's dark features favored her "father". Anne's mother sued for custody of Robin, not wanting her to be raised by a black man.

The first few years of Capitol dubbed in Italian are available on YT, as I'm sure many of you know. Thank God for technology, if you're so inclined to watch, add the auto English captions to follo along

Is Tomas intended to be stiff? If so, the actor is delivering. Made me smile to hear a reference from The Wire: "You come at the king, you best not miss." That's a quote from Omar (the late Michael K. Williams). I played his boyfriend for a few episodes. The scenes in the car with Jacob and Marcel gave me The Wire vibes.

Lawd, 2 1/2 thankfully boring episodes of DOOL played on my TV while I caught up with this thread. I vote that we stick with weeklies for now. Bouncing back and forth from dailies will scramble my brain, and monthlies will read like Crime and Punishment. I agree with others that Cady's character seems superfluous. She could easily be absorbed into Vanessa, and that's just what a judicious EP would do. It's still early, but if they keep her, she needs to be fleshed out and strongly countered to Vanessa in a way that makes her presence make sense and worth it. I get the need to start strong and burn through with spicy story to draw our attention and get us hooked early on, but I agree that Ted/Eva/Leslie is moving too fast. Honestly, I thought that Ted was going to make inappropriate workplace sexual overtures towards Eva and put her in a VERY uncomfortable (and intriguing for us audience) position for a number of weeks before he came face-to-face with Leslie. Even more intriguing if Eva found herself mutually attracted and it was ultimately revealed that he is not in fact her father. I'll give the dead horse a few more beats: the "middle-aged" set reads way too young to be having all these grown ass kids. Possible, sure; realistic, questionable; confusing, certainly.

BITD, my grandmother's brother made his way around the neighborhood if you get my drift, so I have elder cousins who are technically "half-siblings" (black people don't play that "half" ish), born within months of each other. I'm not judging Ted today on dipping his stick twenty years ago, a person can change a lot in that matter of time. I think it's a very interesting dynamic if Eva is Kat's (and Martin's) sister, and yet, I wouldn't be surprised if in the Maury of it all, Leslie is sadly mistaken and Eva's father is somebody else. Now please don't @ me with some, "All black people look alike!?" nonsense 😂 but the actors playing Andre and Jacob could play twins in a production of The Comedy of Errors. I can anticipate myself confusing these two down to their shape-ups in the early weeks of the show. Far be it from me, but I probably wouldn't have cast actors with such a resemblance. Unless... 🤪

Andre's diction is throwing off the closed captioning: "Nice pic."->"Nice pig."; "No lie there."->"No leather." 🤪

It's really a chore for me to post on this board. I don't know if it's because of the video ads or what, but it takes forever for the pages to properly load and they often end up crashing while I attempt to post. Particularly challenging to respond to posts. Also, my text often veers into non-English letter settings. Is there a SON app? Maybe that would make things run more smoothly for me, I don't know. It's just a little frustrating that it seems to take me several minutes to make a simple post.

I was a tween watching during this time and I absolutely detested the way Taylor repeatedly (and gleefully) referred to Terrence as Lucas Barnes' *BASTARD* son. Going back a little to the original actors playing Terrence and An-Li, I was similarly uncomfortable. I don't think the dialogue ever put a fine point on it, but at least I got the distinct impression that An-Li was very put off by the romantic advances of this black boy. And it wasn't this notion that her parents wouldn't approve, it was more like An-Li was just not into this dude and maybe I was projecting, but it certainly felt racial to me. I cringed as Terrence kept trying to make it happen. This all seemed to change with the recasts and of course they did end up romantically involved before An-Li ultimately broke Terrence's heart.

Cecily's return, working with Charlie at the detective agency, didn't pop as I recall. Rosa Nevin was a charismatic presence back in the Nico, Julie, Charlie Era, and as Eric alluded to, a classic example of recasts making characters feel like totally new people. I remember watching the He‐Man movie and my mother warmly spotting Charlie, her first and perhaps only reaction to the movie. The new Charlie who Erica dated was so different, and then Lawford... did we get another Charlie after him? I don't think so. By the way, AMC talk with you old familiar avatars is giving me the warm and fuzzies, much appreciated in these uncertain times.

The lovely Jill Larson was in the studio audience at Live! with Kelly & Mark this morning. K&M talked to her within the first three minutes of the show, a sweet exchange. In my market, the show reairs at 2:35am, check your local listings. I remember Kelly saying in a SOD interview back in the early '90s that she and Jill were dressing room buddies as they were both smokers at the time and stationed in the smoking section. Unheard of these days.

Yeah, this clip (I believe they showed it in a montage at OLTL's cancellation "party") is from an episode that is available to watch at the Paley Center. I viewed it several years ago when I was still living in New York. I'm fuzzy on the details, but Meredith had gone missing from the hospital. I'm not sure if it's still on YT, but there's audio of Gillian Spencer as Niki out there and it's a gem. Her Niki has a New Yorkese accent and she sort of punches her lines liķe Bugs Bunny.

Procter was a candlemaker, Gamble, a soap maker. Candles and soap were how P&G got its start.

Wow, now THIS takes me back. The first episode alone was packed with 'dos.

Remember the good old days!? Like you, life has changed so much for me, but I'm so glad that we got to share this moment in soap history together this afternoon. ♥

Welp. Let me go renew my Paramount+. I'm off on Mondays, so watching live on CBS was a treat. I'm in the Maryland 'burbs and our local news is doing a story about the show as I type. They had a sneak peek of the pilot in D.C. and interviewed some of the actors. They are saying that Fairmont Crest is in Prince George's County, as I guessed. For decades, the county with the largest concentration of wealthy blacks in the U.S.

* * * "DONE."

I have not been following BTG news and previews so I don't know who anyone is beyond the core four. I admit to being confused and it's fun connecting the dots.

Agreed. I'm sitting here waiting for some big juicy secret to drop the moment one of them leaves the apartment.

The sets are spacious and brightly lit. Karla and Daphnee with these grown ass kids making me feel hella old.

I immediately thought of Myrna/Clarissa/Baxter on Capitol, a best friendship destroyed by a man, which was also the inciting incident/major backstory of that show.

I don't know know why seeing Clifton Davis in this Rob's Diner/Ben's Chili Bowl set made me grin so hard. Takes me back to AMC when we had establishments like the Goal Post.

Yes, and a smidge clunky. No one IRL says "denizens", only soap journalists.