On 1/14/2026 at 7:42 PM, Khan said:

the Lechowicks couldn't cast for [!@#$%^&*].

That, plus budget mode.

15 hours ago, kalbir said:

That, plus budget mode.

You ain't kiddin', lol!

KL never had the best looking sets or wardrobe - that honor, of course, goes to DYNASTY - but episodes from the late '80's and early '90's can be depressing to watch, as everything gets doused in pastels to make up for the fact that they're cutting costs.

Edited Thursday at 05:49 PM5 days by Khan

Onto "The Unraveling" -- It's interesting that the writers had Gary tell Val about his wanting to marry Jill before the two ladies actually have had a scene together. I mean, Val knows who Jill is, and back in Season Seven, Jill watched Val confront Gary about giving Empire Valley to the twins. I suppose Jill and Val could have interacted off camera at some point (like that party in Season Seven where Abby came clean-ish to everybody), but now I'm seriously wondering just when Jill and Val's first on camera interaction is. If it's not until "Noises Everywhere," I'm going to be annoyed.

Today in other annoyances: Who spells it "Petie" rather than "Petey"?

On 1/21/2026 at 9:38 PM, kalbir said:

That, plus budget mode.

By this point, even when they cast actors who presumably cost some coin (like Peter Reckell fresh off his biggest DAYS run or Sam Behrens not long after his well-received GH run) the show did a terrible job with them.

51 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

By this point, even when they cast actors who presumably cost some coin [...] the show did a terrible job with them.

True. Simply put, the Lechowicks never wrote from character. They were more concerned with being unpredictable.

Edited Saturday at 03:33 AM4 days by Khan

1 hour ago, Khan said:

True. Simply put, the Lechowicks never wrote from character. They were more concerned with being unpredictable.

And that often made no sense...Reckell was set up to fail with that awful accent alone, although lacking chemistry with Nicolette Sheridan didn't help.

(admittedly I think Bill Devane was the only one who had chemistry with her)

5 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

And that often made no sense...Reckell was set up to fail with that awful accent alone, although lacking chemistry with Nicolette Sheridan didn't help.

I felt the same way about Sam Behrens (minus the accent, of course). It was bad enough that he was a charm-free actor whose character would've been deadly dull if not for the fact that he was a vicious psychopath. He also shared zero chemistry with Joan Van Ark, making Val's insistence that she loved Danny more than she loved either Gary or Ben even more ridiculous than it sounded already.

12 minutes ago, Khan said:

I felt the same way about Sam Behrens (minus the accent, of course). It was bad enough that he was a charm-free actor whose character would've been deadly dull if not for the fact that he was a vicious psychopath. He also shared zero chemistry with Joan Van Ark, making Val's insistence that she loved Danny more than she loved either Gary or Ben even more ridiculous than it sounded already.

I guess the plan all along was for him to be a psycho, so at least they had a plan, but Behrens wasn't very good as the nice guy or the bad guy. The story did make Val look incredibly stupid and managed to be ugly and dull at the same time, while dragging on for what felt like years. To me it's a much worse story than the brain tumor story, which is also bad, but at least doesn't run long and has a camp element.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I guess the plan all along was for him to be a psycho, so at least they had a plan,

Well, that, and, of course, stalling Gary and Val's reunion for yet another season, lol.

This week's guest ... Teri Austin.

"You were right, Abby. The first Mrs. Ewing never goes away."

It just amazes me how much Donna Mills still looks like herself, especially in comparison to JVA and Michele Lee. Whoever her plastic surgeon is, they are a genius and they deserve every penny they've earned and then some.

I know they weren't on KL, but I hope Ana-Alicia and Susan Sullivan will appear on this someday. They (and, of course, Jane Wyman) were the only reasons I even bothered with FC, lol.

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1 hour ago, Khan said:

"You were right, Abby. The first Mrs. Ewing never goes away."

It just amazes me how much Donna Mills still looks like herself, especially in comparison to JVA and Michele Lee. Whoever her plastic surgeon is, they are a genius and they deserve every penny they've earned and then some.

I know they weren't on KL, but I hope Ana-Alicia and Susan Sullivan will appear on this someday. They (and, of course, Jane Wyman) were the only reasons I even bothered with FC, lol.

I hadn't been watching these so just got my first look at Joan. Worried for her...

I've been keeping up with Donna's Instagram - she's very active, or whoever runs her page is. She's been promoting the anniversary of The Eyes Have It, with a drag queen doing their makeup similar to her (a nice way to pay tribute but I was annoyed that they used organ music to represent '80s soaps), and she also shared a story that Ryan Murphy made everyone in the makeup department watch the video before she guest starred on one of his shows.

Edited 21 minutes ago21 min by DRW50