Members Soapsuds Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StepBack Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Playing catch up: Man JT Hawaii is awesome, I can't blame him for going there. But JT damn he's so pathetic. Thad has been phenomenal in his return. I wish him ALL THE BEST in his future career. He put all the other leading man to shame. I enjoyed the Girls Night Out. Lame that Mariah couldn't just say she was bisexual though. Amelia Heinle rocked her scenes today. I'm warming up to Kyle. Of course Victor has to have a younger woman too. Blah. Didn't care for any of that or Paul's giddiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antoyne Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 I rolled my eyes that threw yet another 30 year old at Victor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 This entire story is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roman Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 well, crap is crap no matter how you dress it up. loved this story until this. what is he thinking? AND HOW DOES NO ONE GO TO PRISON?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 I know many have been praising Amelia throughout the story (I’ve been more ambivalent), but today was the first time I was fully invested in her. Emmy No. 3 is pretty much hers for the taking. But yeah they’ve shoehorned these characters together to mimic BLL. In BLL, a bunch of women who have complicated relationships (and in the case of Madeline/Renata, actively hate each other) team up to take down “toxic masculinity,” and here we are. JT and Victoria’s dialogue felt natural, but the conversations between Nikki, Sharon, and Phyllis veered into the cringeworthy, especially Sharon, who was there to assuage the audience’s doubts about why a “strong woman” like Victoria would endure JT’s abuse. It was just so obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GMac Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Going by the actors and actresses performances alone the last 3 days, it has been great soap. Everyone has really brought it and it's been completely entertaining and watchable. The standout today was TL. He's going to be missed; there's no other young leading man like him on the show now and it's going to leave a hole come next week. He's been really impressive. His reasons for disliking Victor are understandable and the writers did a good job with dialogue not just today but the majority of the week. I will say that there are similarities to other stories on other shows, but hasn't that been the case for years? I remember when I first got hooked on GL - it was the only soap I watched. Then, I had an opportunity to catch SFT (which at one time came on right before GL) and remember thinking "gee - that story is like so-and-so on GL". Same when I started watching some earlier Y&R. Do we really expect the writers to come up with new, fresh stories for a genre that's been around for over 70 years??? Clearly, he ain't dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 For me, the imitation here just feels ham-fisted because it doesn’t feel that organic. It just feels like another instance of soap writers clumsily striving to replicate something on premium or streaming (like LML killing off John for the Six Feet Under knockoff). There’s just so much self-loathing among soap writers, it feels. Mal seems to admit as much in that SOD podcast. I get that soaps need to advance with the times, but sometimes I think they take the wrong lessons from primetime and forget why people would gravitate towards soaps in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antoyne Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 The chemistry between the actresses made the scenes yesterday work for me. GT and CG were both hoots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ponds Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Today's episode was just "WOW!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dax7000 Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Nikki kills AGAIN? No, that was not self defense. I get why she did it, but damn. JT's own horrible behavior aside, did he lie about how vile Victor is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GMac Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 No, he didn't. Victor's wrinkled up peen needs to fuckin die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 I made a joke about Nikki being the one to kill JT a month or two ago. Love that it actually went down that way. The woman is a straight up serial killer. Please register in order to view this content I agree. It''s pretty outlandish overall. I've seen worse and I've basically been desensitized over the years, but this is long term damage for little reward. If Victor is faking as some people suggest I will be even more disgusted. Why would he ever leave Victoria in jeopardy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GMac Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Long term damage? Really? I don't see that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted April 13, 2018 Members Share Posted April 13, 2018 Maybe you're right. In some ways the damage was done long ago. I'm just not very invested these days. Not when characters I've known for so long can just change on a dime. That didn't start with this story though. I won't deny that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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