Guiding Light Discussion Thread

13 hours ago, P.J. said:

Judi's Beth is like a saccharine version of ATWT's Lily Snyder or Y&R's Cricket. There's a moment I wound up running into over and over during my rewatch of Josh's accident, during Beth and Lujack's beach story, where Judi is literally running around like a hyperactive chipmunk....and I wonder what I ever saw in Beth.

What helped Judi was her sincerity - I think she has always been one of the "purest" actresses on soaps, even when the character is poor (like whatever DAYS has done with her for decades now). Beth was not much of a character in her own right, but it was probably her best daytime role (I don't think she was ever the right choice for Paulina on AW). Any time I see her work from back then I can understand why she became so popular, especially since the only other ingenue who had sort of had that spark in recent years had been Kirsten Vigard, and the show suffocated that with Kelly and then dumped her.

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