2 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Let me echo everyone else's sentiments, that it's tons of fun to read your recaps/reactions and how much you're loving the show.  I'm not sure how many more consecutive episodes are up--I haven't checked on YT in years (partly because I know I don't have time to revisit it all right now, and the temptation is big) but you have years of good stuff to go.  (I did run across a Margaret DePriest episode recently and it wasn't bad... But you could tell she had the mandate to make the episode much more "action")

This makes me incredibly happy. I love that you guys are finding my overly excited ramblings "fun". I would have tried to make more structured reviews like I've started to do with AW, but AMC is not a show I can watch slowly. As soon as I start... I can't stop. And thank God Margaret DePriest did not last long as HW. She's not my cup of tea, although I don't know what she did with AMC.

🤣

Right now I'm in a binge again. Great karma for the bully Skye. She is in a coma. Ha! That's what happens when you act like a despicable bitch in soap operas. But I have to be honest... I preferred her awake... She is quite boring in a coma. But when you play with fire...Literally. That's what happens.

Silver is sinking more and more in her lies about the attack. Jeremy is starting not to believe her. Palmer is trying to scare Natalie in order for her to come and live with him... and is ringing her phone anonymously.

Barbara confronted Adam about his plan to axe her once she got the magazine up in the figures. It was nice seeing someone shut Adam up and Barbara did it marvelously.

I love all of it. 

Edited February 8Feb 8 by Maxim

@EricMontreal22 A lot of AMC was purged from Youtube, at least the full episodes, although some is back. There is or was a lot of '80s AMC on Archive.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tony-roberts-dead-woody-allen-annie-hall-1236130177/

Tony is listed as playing a doctor on the November 1, 1994 episode. Was it just a small part?

So, in the past 24 hours I have watched 3 episodes of China Beach, 2 episodes of 1988 AMC, celebrated my birthday,

Spoiler

found out GH is going to do the Nurses Ball again this year

& I'm due at a GH Jarly Zoom in an hour. This is entirely NOT usual for me! 

AMC 1-5-1988

The actor Todd McKee is familiar to me because he played the youngest Capwell son on Santa Barbara. Who is he right now on AMC? Today was mostly about Julie and Nina. Ross, of course has just had the biggest change, his first day in prison. Besides the guy who led him to his cell his only contact was meeting a prisoner/chaplain who knew he was in for rape & told him about a group that meets that is Sex Offenders. Ew & Ugh. Why do I need to get to know a rapist? Oh, yeah, because I'm a US soap fan.

Okay, Julie. Love Lauren Holly! Again, she looks so freakin' young! Now, I do not understand what the relationship is between her & Ellen. Nor do I know who her "real" mother is who lied about her biological father for years & years. It seemed to me that Julie & Ellen had just had a kind of coming back together & that Julie was all set & excited to be moving back (I think) into Ellen's house. So, yesterday they said "No more secrets between us, going forward." In that spirit today Ellen told Julie that her "real" father isn't actually dead & instead is Mark, Erica's brother & Ellen's lover. To say that Julie did not take this news well would be a huge understatement! First, she flat out refused to believe it. Once convinced, she's very upset about it to the point that now she's not going to move in at Ellen's. Mark came in & tried to talk to her but it did no good. After Julie left, Ellen & Mark reaffirmed their relationship, nuzzled, kissed, etc. Julie went & talked to her boyfriend, who looks familiar but I haven't figured out who he is yet. He says she belongs with him. 

The show began with Palmer on the phone, worried about Nina, who arrives just as he hangs up the phone. I guess the woman in the scene is Nina's mother. Nina is all upset because she's married both to Cliff & to Matt. She's concerned about her legal status. She loves Cliff, always has loved him, never stopped loving him. It was just inconvenient with his being dead & all, so Matt was there for her. She married him. She seems to regret it. She seems to think she never really loved him, maybe it was just gratitude & being lonely & grief-stricken over Cliff. Also she mentions a son she has with Cliff. Didn't see him & do not know his name. We did see both Matt & Cliff, no, not together. We'll come back to Nina.

Natalie! She has a meeting with a reporter. Her expectation is that it will be usual, regular, nice but it is definitely not. The reporter is rude, crude, aggressive, etc. 

We saw Cliff with Doc Martin. 

Then, Cliff is at Palmer's, in the front room by himself. There's a 3-4 step down from the next room, or perhaps a hall. Cliff is looking slightly up watching Nina descend those few steps down to him. The look on his face is so full of love for her. They embrace but they do not kiss. She moves on into the room & they begin to talk. 

We saw Nina express that she never loved Matt & should not have married him & the scene dissolves to Matt's face. He's been daydreaming this, which does not speak well for his current frame of thought, at all! 

Checked my notes & I have said everything I have to say! I'm going to give today a 9/10. 

Got a bit of closing credits. Agnes Creator & Stephen Schneckel (sp?) EP.

 

15 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

So, in the past 24 hours I have watched 3 episodes of China Beach, 2 episodes of 1988 AMC, celebrated my birthday,

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found out GH is going to do the Nurses Ball again this year

& I'm due at a GH Jarly Zoom in an hour. This is entirely NOT usual for me! 

AMC 1-5-1988

The actor Todd McKee is familiar to me because he played the youngest Capwell son on Santa Barbara. Who is he right now on AMC? Today was mostly about Julie and Nina. Ross, of course has just had the biggest change, his first day in prison. Besides the guy who led him to his cell his only contact was meeting a prisoner/chaplain who knew he was in for rape & told him about a group that meets that is Sex Offenders. Ew & Ugh. Why do I need to get to know a rapist? Oh, yeah, because I'm a US soap fan.

Okay, Julie. Love Lauren Holly! Again, she looks so freakin' young! Now, I do not understand what the relationship is between her & Ellen. Nor do I know who her "real" mother is who lied about her biological father for years & years. It seemed to me that Julie & Ellen had just had a kind of coming back together & that Julie was all set & excited to be moving back (I think) into Ellen's house. So, yesterday they said "No more secrets between us, going forward." In that spirit today Ellen told Julie that her "real" father isn't actually dead & instead is Mark, Erica's brother & Ellen's lover. To say that Julie did not take this news well would be a huge understatement! First, she flat out refused to believe it. Once convinced, she's very upset about it to the point that now she's not going to move in at Ellen's. Mark came in & tried to talk to her but it did no good. After Julie left, Ellen & Mark reaffirmed their relationship, nuzzled, kissed, etc. Julie went & talked to her boyfriend, who looks familiar but I haven't figured out who he is yet. He says she belongs with him. 

The show began with Palmer on the phone, worried about Nina, who arrives just as he hangs up the phone. I guess the woman in the scene is Nina's mother. Nina is all upset because she's married both to Cliff & to Matt. She's concerned about her legal status. She loves Cliff, always has loved him, never stopped loving him. It was just inconvenient with his being dead & all, so Matt was there for her. She married him. She seems to regret it. She seems to think she never really loved him, maybe it was just gratitude & being lonely & grief-stricken over Cliff. Also she mentions a son she has with Cliff. Didn't see him & do not know his name. We did see both Matt & Cliff, no, not together. We'll come back to Nina.

Natalie! She has a meeting with a reporter. Her expectation is that it will be usual, regular, nice but it is definitely not. The reporter is rude, crude, aggressive, etc. 

We saw Cliff with Doc Martin. 

Then, Cliff is at Palmer's, in the front room by himself. There's a 3-4 step down from the next room, or perhaps a hall. Cliff is looking slightly up watching Nina descend those few steps down to him. The look on his face is so full of love for her. They embrace but they do not kiss. She moves on into the room & they begin to talk. 

We saw Nina express that she never loved Matt & should not have married him & the scene dissolves to Matt's face. He's been daydreaming this, which does not speak well for his current frame of thought, at all! 

Checked my notes & I have said everything I have to say! I'm going to give today a 9/10. 

Got a bit of closing credits. Agnes Creator & Stephen Schneckel (sp?) EP.

 

You know I love recaps like that and I especially love you have started rating the episodes the same way I do. I am giving myself props for inspiring you.❤️

I started watching from the January 9th, 1988 episode, so these few episodes from the beginning I skipped for some reason, I don't remember why. Maybe I just clicked on the 9th and couldn't stop watching. Who knows. 

I'm interested to see if you feel the same way I do about the future episodes. Again - to me the show was likeable, but not amazing till Erica gives birth to Bianca mid February. Then it gets times and times more dynamic and interesting. And all of the stories pick up pace. 

 

3 minutes ago, Maxim said:

You know I love recaps like that and I especially love you have started rating the episodes the same way I do. I am giving myself props for inspiring you.❤️

You are totally due those props! I am like a US soap, a copycat! (Although copycatting is a part of sociological org theory for most US businesses, not just soaps!)

Just now, Contessa Donatella said:

You are totally due those props! I am like a US soap, a copycat! (Although copycatting is a part of sociological org theory for most US businesses, not just soaps!)

I just feel sad that we won't be watching the same episodes at the same time and comparing notes. Because of my binge-watching that is not slowing down... I'm afraid. But I'm sure you are going to be focusing on different things than me. You know me, give me am emotionally unstable woman full of jealousy and a conniving antagonist, and I'm good to go.  

3 minutes ago, Maxim said:

I just feel sad that we won't be watching the same episodes at the same time and comparing notes. Because of my binge-watching that is not slowing down... I'm afraid. But I'm sure you are going to be focusing on different things than me. You know me, give me am emotionally unstable woman full of jealousy and a conniving antagonist, and I'm good to go.  

There would be no way I could keep pace with you! So, not going to try!!! 

I'm up to April 25.

Silver has gone berserk. I love that this character that just 80 episodes ago I thought was a boring mouse... has completely surprised me. And I find this incredibly realistic - life has shown me - it's always these bland, boring people (on first impression) that snap in the end. Silver has been swallowing her anger and frustration for so long, this has been building up for so long, that it was mean to... explode. 

Pamela The Viper is doing everything she can to get Travis's attention and sadly and disappointingly it seems that he is responding. I can't wait till Erica finds out who her husband's partner is - a shadow figure from decades ago. We all pay for our past.  

Speaking of Erica - she is touring with her circus in New York and trying to pitch that "Ruin-Natalie's life idea" unaware that while she is so focused on ruining Natalie... her own private life is at risk. Love the irony.

The show is on FIRE.

Edited February 9Feb 9 by Maxim

9 minutes ago, Maxim said:

I'm up to April 25.

Silver has gone berserk. I love that this character that just 80 episodes ago I thought was a boring mouse... has completely surprised me. And I find this incredibly realistic - life has shown me - it's always these bland, boring people (on first impression) that snap in the end. Silver has been swallowing her anger and frustration for so long, this has been building up for so long, that it was mean to... explode. 

Pamela The Viper is doing everything she can to get Travis's attention and sadly and disappointingly it seems that he is responding. I can't wait till Erica finds out who her husband's partner is - a shadow figure from decades ago. We all pay for our past.  

Speaking of Erica - she is touring with her circus in New York and trying to pitch that "Ruin-Natalie's life idea" unaware that while she is so focused on ruining Natalie... her own private life is at risk. Love the irony.

The show is on FIRE.

?/10?

 

 

19 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

?/10?

@MaximWho is that?

1 hour ago, Maxim said:

Wow. she's mesmerizing!  so much acting in 30 seconds of facial expression.
  I gather that's the character Silver Kane?  Not a character I remember well.
But how could I have forgotten this scene? Maybe it's an episode I never saw.

This must be the same actress today:
https://www.bravenewworldrep.org/claire-beckman

Edited February 9Feb 9 by janea4old

28 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

@MaximWho is that?

Silver Kane. 

15 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Wow. she's mesmerizing!  so much acting in 30 seconds of facial expression.
  I gather that's the character Silver Kane?  Not a character I remember well.
But how could I have forgotten this scene? Maybe it's an episode I never saw.

This must be the same actress today:
https://www.bravenewworldrep.org/claire-beckman

Yes, she is absolutely mesmerizing. The biggest surprise of 1988. 

😍

4 minutes ago, Maxim said:

Silver Kane. 

Yes, she is absolutely mesmerizing. The biggest surprise of 1988. 

😍

Can't wait to meet her. Is she like Erica? Is she like Mona?