Y&R June 2019 Discussion Thread

[kalbir]

The new Adam looks like a little boy next to Michelle Stafford.

[John]

Adam should be Early 30's

MG is 31/32 he works fine and is selling it as Adam to me

[kalbir]

When adult Adam was introduced in 2008, his age was given as 27, so he would be 38 now. 

 

Victoria, Nick, Adam, Abby real time ages in 2019 are 37, 31, 24, 19 respectively, but inconsistent SORASing messed up the timelines. 

[John]

Right

Casting Muhney messed that up

He looked older than nick & Vicky

[ranger1rg]

Mark Grossman is great as Adam. I don’t give a crap about his age.

[John]

A to the M E N

[Khan]

First, we complained about Y&R casting Adams who look too old; now, we're complaining that they've cast one who looks too young?  What is this?  "Goldilocks and the Three Recasts"?

[dragonflies]

LMAO and actually Grossman is closest to age Adam should actually be without SORASing

[John]

CE & JH may have been older age wise but they looked fine. Muhney looked OLD from his start to finish . Mark looks like he could be EB's son and he is carrying the show  and just began over a month ago

[Winchester91]

Yet no one complained when Jamie Luner was parading around as Liza or Linsey Godfrey as Sarah. The sexist double standard needs to stop.  

[vetsoapfan]

 

Actually there were indeed protestations about both those actresses' age inappropriateness when they were cast as Liza and Sarah.

[Faulkner]

I was one of them with JL. It was absurd that she was a contemporary of Tad, Angie, and Jesse. She was 16 years younger than Darnell!

 

I watched the last few episodes of Y&R, just because I was curious about Stafford’s return. Mark Grossman is fine, but man, it’s The Adam Show. All roads lead to him, it seems. MG is playing a familiar character, yes, but he’s a new face, so I’m sure it’s jarring to some viewers to see him *that* much. 

 

Playing Phyllis is muscle memory for MS, so she eased back in. But I couldn’t help but hear her lines with GT’s delivery. Gina had evolved the role a lot, so this feels like a regression.

[John]

I never warmed to Jamie as Liza. Im liking Linsey as Sarah even though she is 30 and Sarah should be 10 years older

[Faulkner]

With Sarah, the character hadn’t been on the canvas for nearly 30 years and wasn’t as iconic as Liza, so they had carte blanche with re-imagining that role to an extent.

[John]

Exactly. Whereas with Liza recasting should have been taken more seriously

Marcy Walker-Jamie Luner EPIC FAIL

Marcy Walker to Catherine Hickland or even Kim Johnston Ulrich would have been a better route imo