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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.

Loved that choice straight out the gate! NPI

The opening titles gave me Dynasty reboot. The CC set is a nice one if it's going to be a center of action. I smiled for that young man, a lovely feather in his cap to have the first line of a new series.

Let's go!

I've never seen any of her episodes, but I read that Ellen Barber was a temporary recast for Dorian as well. Dorian had it HARD for ol' Joe Riley. Seeing episodes before and after Victor and Dorian's wedding with Eugenia's and then Dorian's portrait above the Llanfair library mantle make me so greedy for the episode where Viki made her grand entrance at the portrait unveiling.

So late to the party, currently devouring these late '70s episodes I hadn't realized @Vee was so kind to tag to my attention. Thank you! At the moment, I'm watching Mr. Angelino himself, Jordan Charney as Vinnie being all charming and romantic with his equal, Marilyn Chris as Wanda. Anna Craig just told Viki Riley to think of the end of the rainbow and I'm thinking of Peabo's theme. Seeing Ernest Graves and Gillian Spencer as Victor and Victoria was one thing I never thought I'd see beyond photos, and the same goes for Nancy Pinkerton and Shepperd Strudwick. And now George Reinholt playing the piano (for real!), iss teww mush!

@Jonathan et al, Susan Lucci's appearance in Hell's Kitchen that I mentioned a couple of months ago finally airs Thursday at 8 Eastern on FOX.

In this day and age of intimacy coordinators, I'm sure that Carson Boatman has given the OK. But if that m*********** slapped me ONE more time as the button of a scene, i would [!@#$%^&*] him up.

It's all good 😂 and I can see how my stream of consciousness post may have been perceived. My point is that I watch DOOL unapologetically, and my bf reluctantly watches along with me at times and he is far less forgiving. As for Leo, I'm no fan of the character, but from personal experience, I think it's inaccurate and unfair to draw judgments on attraction. There's someone for everyone, and there's no accounting for taste, whether we're talking personality or physical attributes, not to mention any number of "issues" a person may have. I don't find it unbelievable that Javi is attracted to Leo and vice versa. A bad or weird choice does not mean an unbelievable or unrealistic choice. It happens. I don't ķnow if the writers are drawing this storytelling from life, but frankly, this fast and furious brand of hooking up and "romance" happens all the time. People fall hard and jump in quickly, ride the good before they come to their senses and realize a relationship was just an invigorating fling.

Have any of you clocked all of the crossed arms? An Acting 101 no-no. When you're blocking off your solar plexus, your center, by crossing your arms, you're blocking off your gut vulnerability and connection to your scene partners, qualities that make for riveting acting. It's indicative of control, actors who are focused on the lines, acting from the head up, in their brains opposed to in their hearts. My boyfriend thinks the acting and writing on DAYS sucks across the board. All he sees is subpar acting and dialogue, and to me, it boiĺs down to the rush job machine of soaps today. They need more rehearsal.

Boatman needs to drop the habit/cliché of clearing his throat before every line. Thank you! They did the same story on All My Children. The thing is, they made no mention of her during the last Nancy/Craig/Chloe s/l, so for a newer viewer like me, she feels like a retcon.

What's Joy's history?

I just streamed 1:1 on Plex. An episode a day, I'll be through a year from now. I've never watched the show straight through, most of my viewing came from TNT reruns in the '90s from season 6 and beyond. I have such strong feels about the final scene of the show which I have viewed several times so watching the pilot had me welling up, particularly when Val ran on the beach. @Vee did you have a handy reference guide to watch Dallas and Knots in perfect sequence or did you do your own homework? 😂

Are y'all trolling or just completely out of touch? Here we have a spanking new soap on the precipice of untapped ground, aiming to illuminate and celebrate the long neglected, underappreciated, unrepresented black audience and black talent that the nation has to offer, and we're championing Chandler? Read the room. When they need a white boy, there's no shortage of options.

That was lovely, thanks for sharing. 😊 Reminds me of Elisabeth Shue's scene in Soapdish when she's finally recognized by fans while exciting the studio and at first reluctant decides to go ahead and take pictures and give autographs. I'm guessing this doesn't happen in Los Angeles, one of those New York soap things that's now a memory.

I am such a fan of Miss Cissy's, and the storied history of the Drinkards has captivated me for years. What a gifted family. I adore her Gospel-tinged covers like The Beatles' Yesterday, and her soprano obbligato in Aretha's Ain't No Way steals the track. She is one of those celebs I wish I could have met and hugged. I hope her final days were peaceful and painless, Lord knows she'd been through enough.

My friend and I are both off on Mondays, the only day we catch the show. She texted me last week, "What's going on with heart Faylor?" and I damn near choked.

I hope DH is having fun with Hattie because I am not. The meta stuff is too indulgent, it's fine for one special episode, an anniversary or something like that, but not protracted. Was RH the first soap to do a soap-within-a-soap storyline? That was 40 years ago. And then of course OLTL. The novelty is long gone. I think we all fell in love with soaps because they ARE soaps, not because they self-reference and spoof them. Notice that none of the BS (such fitting initials) material is taken seriously, Soapdish-like character names and OTT dialogue. I would be utterly taken by a character who actually was an actor and who delivered a devastatingly good performance as an actor playing an actor playing a character.

It's so funny that you mention LL because he's totally who nuTate reminds me of. I agree with those who say he's miscast. I think the first Tate's youthful earnestness was perfect for the role, I stood in his corner and felt that Holly didn't deserve him at all. Now I just don't care. I'm reminded of another glaring recast, Casey Diedrich to Billy Flynn. I just did not buy that they were the same person. But I've been able to accept that this is who Chad is now, even if it goes against every initial instinct of the character. Chad has been curiously aged and matured by BF, I don't see CD as the father of two who grieves a lost wife and who so effortlessly does not suffer Leo.

Capitol also did a lot of on location shooting for the primetime pilot, and while in the area, lots of B-roll was taped for subsequent episodes. Scenes and establishing shots of the characters' homes in the fictional Jeffersonia, VA were taped in Potomac, MD. And of course there were scenes taped on the actual Capitol steps, as well as in Georgetown. There were lots of car scenes in Capitol with B-roll of D.C. streets used extensively. I met Marj Dusay when I was in college and I asked her about Sloane and Trey's wedding at the Jefferson Memorial. She said, "No, we did that in the studio!" Looking at those episodes, it's clear that she was not one of the actors flown out to film on location, her scenes are clearly on a California set mocked up as the interior of the monument. Gated communities in the central Atlantic are McMansion enough that BTG wouldn't really need to film on location to establish Fairmont Estates. But D.C. is D.C., there's no getting around that for folks with attention to detail. For example, The Blacklist did scenes set on Metro that had locals aghast at the depiction of our train stations.

I'm thinking Prince George's County rather than Montgomery (my home). For decades, PG County had the highest concentration of wealthy blacks in America. Lots of DMV locals felt that one of PG's affluent suburbs would have been a better pick for a predominantly black Housewives franchise. On Capitol, most of the action took place in the fictional suburb, Jeffersonia. I don't mind if BTG makes up a place, uses a real location, or leaves it nebulous. "The gated community of Fairmont Estates in suburban Maryland" paints enough of a picture for me.

Dame Susan Victoria Lucci Huber will be dining in Hell's Kitchen on FOX this season. I gaysped when I saw her at the chef's table in the preview. @Jonathan