Y&R: Sally Sussman and Kay Alden OUT, Mal Young IN

[Soapsuds]

He said there are worst actors on Y&R that should be fired before GR. This was said after the news broke of GR being fired from the soap.

[Aback]

Well, he retweeted that...

[vetsoapfan]

 

It's true, if an indelicate comment to retweet.

[StepBack]

 

Even you know that's absurd, but great opening line to get people to (maybe) keep reading

[KMan101]

 

Exactly, it's completely absurd. Latham, MAB and Pratt were all far more destructive and we're still paying for their messes. Sally was just lackluster and boring but she didn't damage the show.

 

 

Hope he included himself in that

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[Taoboi]

Where now that the last day here and with certain storybeats changing (I'm looking at you Cane!) as I play catchup to Mal Young's first day...any final thoughts on SSM's run?

[cassadine1991]

She tried her best to try and repair TEN YEARS worth of damage and left the show in a much better state

[JONNYSBRO]

 

 

Oh please she destroyed the show with boredom and lets remember she wrote as she went along. The last 2 weeks have been better because Mal tweaked her crappy boring stuff. It actually moves.

[Y&R21395]

So she wrote as she went along without resorting to disaster plots, doppelgängers, contrived murder mysteries, baby switches, and go-nowhere cancer storylines? That’s pretty commendable

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[Soaplovers]

I think Sussman refocused the show, but she needed a strong co head writer to help with plot movement/direction given what she was going through in her personal life.  Her creation Generations took a long time to get going about a year or so... and her almost two year stint on Days had a lot of interesting stories.

 

Why not try this novel concept called  balance.

[Taoboi]

+ 1

THIS.

[JONNYSBRO]

 

 

If Sally had a Shelly Altman with her co head writing YR it might have been a success.

[Soapsuds]

She was already there with Pissant and sucked!

[Y&R21395]

Oh my freaking god, it’s not a mourning period. The show is still on the air. Sally’s success may not have come in numbers, and her tenure sure as hell was nothing mind-blowing, but it sure as hell restored some semblance of dignity that Y&R once had - something that nearly every regime over the last ten years stripped away piece by piece. We are never going to get the real Y&R back, but I was grateful to see a small reminder of what once was while it lasted.

 

Oh, and speaking of Shelly Altman and co., i’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t first acknowledge that I enjoyed their tenure of Y&R more than LML, MAB, Griffith and Pratt, but allow me to paraphrase something I heard on here once: Y&R on its worst day is still better than GH on its best day.

[Taoboi]

THIS.