AMC: Week Of July 15, 2013 Discussion

[Vee]

I don't blow them all in one day. It's not my fault you people have no self-control.

[EricMontreal22]

Last week I managed to space them out, but today I was badly hung over and needed the distraction

[Vee]

I will say OLTL had a humdinger of a first episode this week so far. Viki is losing Llanfair! Okay, she might not by the end of the episode, but Viki!

[cassadine1991]

It was so weird seeing the first episodes on OWN, especially considering everything that's happening now.. but whoa the Viki/Clint and David/Dorian confrontations were so powerful..

[alexisfan07]

Agreed!

I just saw Stevie Steel (Heather) in a Booking.com commercial while watching OLTL

[ellabelle]

My issue is not that Zach and Lea are together. In fact, I'd rather him be with her than with Kendall. My point was that I don't expect PP to grasp that it's perhaps inappropriate for the Miranda Centre to be auctioning off men as a fundraiser when PP wasted an educational opportunity to talk about human trafficking and instead filled air time with spread-legged strippers and lap dances and Zach and Lea playing with a naked virtual woman.

[LindaTNo1]

I totally agree with you. The writers are way off the mark with this aspect of the storyline. It could have been a wonderful and educational opportunity given the Cleveland OH story with the 3 girls and so now in the news. It is too bad that the writers decided to go the other way.

[marceline]

This was all taped before the story about the Cleveland hostages broke.

[LindaTNo1]

When I look at Jesse right now, I see Trayvon Martin. I see writers kicking a black man to the curb. I see writers downing a black man and not putting an AA in a positive light, which the AA community obviously needs desperately at this uncertain time in light of the Trayvon Martin case.

I don't know why Agnes Nixon, Ginger Smith and the writers would want to desecrate and humiliate the character of Jesse and make him into such a terrible person, which he was alot stronger and sure of himself in the beginning of his characters entrance on the canvas of Pine Valley.

I feel very badly for Darnell Williams because our country needs to see black men portrayed in a positive light and his character of Jesse Hubbard is not being given that opportunity at this time when our country needs much more better than what his character is at this time.

This is just bad timing and a bad time for his character to be going through what he is going through at this time. The writers could have done much better and what a great time for them to have written him in a positive light, especially due to the disturbing times we are living in today. It would give hope to the AA community to have good representation for their much needed benefit.

All comments welcomed, even the negative ones too.

[Cheap21]

Jesse Hubbard, a grown man being arrested for committing a crime and being called out on it is now being compared to an innocent teenaged Trayvon Martin being killed? Wow. No words....

[Steve]

Seriously? I'm glad I chose to ignore that poster so comments like that are blocked from my queue. This has nothing to do with an innocent, unarmed black kid being stalked and murdered by a crazy gun nut in Florida!

I will say that Jesse's story works for me because it's showing a black man as a human being with a history of lying to his wife. Yes, I remember Jesse & Angie back in the day when I was in high school and I know they were the first and possibly only black supercouple (at least the only one I can think of), but that doesn't mean they have to live happily ever after. I like how the writers are using Jesse's past and exploring the ramifications of his actions with Angie finally coming to terms with every lie he's told her. Currently, this is the most compelling story on AMC in my opinion.

[marceline]

You should be ashamed of yourself for this comment.

For you to invoke that poor child's name in this context is demented and sick.

[LindaTNo1]

I am saying if the writers had written him NOT committing a crime and NOT being called out on nothing to include not being honest with Angie. If the writers had taken his storyline in a different direction that what they have done right now.

If the writers wrote it in a more positive light instead of this writing and direction going on right now.

[Pine Charles]

Uh...

[AlexElizabeth]