Y&R August 2020 Discussion Thread

[Fevuh]

When I read about the shows returning and not having hair or makeup people I don’t understand.   I understand because of Covid but how many years have these girls sat in the hair and makeup chair?  Do they not do their hair and makeup other than for the show and after all of these years they didn’t learn anything or pay attention how to do it themselves?  

[Gray Bunny]

 

 

Oof that was rough. I am just starting to play catchup on new episodes, and a couple eps in, I thought for sure her wig was going to fall off mid-scene, it looked so off center. 

 

It looks like a Saturday Night Live soap parody. 

[Faulkner]

So funny how people don’t give a flying fûck about the new episodes these soaps are putting out. The classic soap threads are poppin’.

[detroitpiston]

 

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They still have amazing chemistry 

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 the Amanda character still bores though

[FrenchFan]

The hotel stuff is boring to hell but I admit I love the Traci/Lily relationship. This is so natural they Traci be some sort of surrogate mother for Lily whose both parents are dead now. I really hope they develop that and make Lily likeable.

[Antoyne]

They really do. Making Amanda so damn boring though was a huge mistake.

[soapfan770]

+1. The hotel story is extremely pointless but I too enjoyed the Lily/Traci conservation. Also the scenes with Amanda & Elena weren’t too bad either.

 

Mark Grossman delivered as Adam remembered but again it’s pointless story. I almost forgot Theo & Lola were even on this show still LOL.

[lucaslesann23]

Soap she knows says Victoria flirts with theo

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[Taoboi]

While I admit that the classic thread definitely is popping, I have to kindly disagree. I found it interesting that ALL of last month's threads average threads were around 7 to 13 pages. Not some. ALL. 

 

Curiosity is definitely a nice moth and everyone went to the flame to see what they would do about social distancing.

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That said...it will be interesting to see if any of it holds up this time next month. 

 

I bet DAYS will. But the rest...?

[Faulkner]

Definitely there’s the curiosity factor, which was somewhat short-lived, especially for GH and B&B. I was just thinking there was a lot more discussion about Nikki’s wig than anything story-related, whereas every time you looked there was a new interesting discovery in the Y&R archive being dissected. The content on the current shows (with the exception of maybe DAYS, which is still showing eps shot before the new protocols) is just not engaging. It’s an ongoing trend that certainly preceded COVID. But these shows feel even more lifeless and sterile with everyone standing or sitting miles apart in odd geometric patterns. There’s no intimacy.