Total AMC outsider here, but I caught a bit of Monday's AMC.

I thought it was pretty good.

This "Crash" story seems to be functioning as a real umbrella. Almost the whole canvas was brought together, around these three kids at the police station. It was intergenerational. The dialogue seemed less "hip and flip" than I'd heard in the past. The show looked pretty good (although that "key lighting" was a bit much for some scenes).

I'm not into it enough to lament the unlikeability of many of the characters and such not...but for a quick tune in, it seemed like a pretty balanced canvas.

My reference point for AMC is really late 70s/early 80s, and nothing will match that. But I'm comparing it to OLTL (which I have been watching more of), and I found AMC much more grounded and relatable.

I agree that this stroy is functioning as a real umbrella and I also thought Monday's episode was really good. I love how Amanda L Beall connects the scenes so the episodes have a good flow and I have never found her dialogue to be "hip and flip" as a certain poster keeps insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary (Hi, Sin!).

Not for me--Cassandra I'm a bit more mixed about but I overall like and her actions make sense to me. And I love Jesse--I think he's an example of the writers WRITING FOR his character--good and bad. Like arresting Cassandra--as her step father you could see that as an assholeish thing to do, but Jesse also wants to be the best at his job--anyway it makes sense to me. I like that he actually seems like a real cop in how he treats the law too. (ie not giving into AMC's by now cliched sense of vigilante justice)

I also still think Adam's fairly well written for--but a big part of that is David Canary just manages to make almost anything work. I dunno if likeable is the wright word for him, but he still largely (besides the proppin gup of him and Krystal's romance) feels liek the Adam I've alwasy known.

Mark OLTL is in a very non grounde dplace right now so it's hard to compare, but I think your assessment --of the ONE episode anyway--was pretty fair and owuld really actually agree. The show is still better to me than it was, say, last Fall but that's not sayign a whole lot--but I like how the kids' crash storyline has been written and played out (careful when you call it the "Crash" umbrella storyline though as that will make people think of last year's "umbrella" story...)

ITA that Jesse is behaving in character and he is bringing a more realistic attitude to law enforcement than AMC has had since McT's last stint where everyone got away with their crimes.

As far as likability goes, I still like Tad, Jake, Jesse, Angie, Adam, Erica and Jack.

I agree that this stroy is functioning as a real umbrella and I also thought Monday's episode was really good. I love how Amanda L Beall connects the scenes so the episodes have a good flow and I have never found her dialogue to be "hip and flip" as a certain poster keeps insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary (Hi, Sin!).

Despite evidence to the contrary? Never mind that long ass post I did several weeks back with actual "hip and flip" dialog I pulled from Beall written transcripts? Whatever. She's gone.

R. Sinclair's Agenda - 1

Steve's Beall Lover Agenda - BIG FAT ZERO!

Feel free to ride her coattails to Y&R. Beallzebub will need your unwaivering support since those fans are about as welcoming as a sack of spiked balls to the head when it comes to new writers. I can picture it now. Katherine about Jill: "It's about time I narc on that skank. I run this bitchtatorship!"