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I've watched dumb soaps. I've watched nonsensical soaps. I've watched insulting soaps. But I have never in my life seen a soap this BORING.

 

How is the energy on this show so LOW?  There's this weird dullness to literally every scene. Static shot to static shot. And all of the dialogue is so mindnumbingly rote. Hillary is talking to Mariah and Phyllis about finding out she has a dead twin sister and you'd think they were talking about...well, I don't want to insult the weather like that.

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It’s just a flat, flat show in every definition of the word lol. Even scenes that could build into something (like Nikki accosting Lily at Chancellor—shades of how she treated Dru) just land with a thud. And the same conversations keep happening (Lola/Theo, Abby/Chance).

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I wonder if the writers know the disservice they are doing to breast cancer victims.  Sharon has had chemo, radiation and a lumpectomy but is still wearing low-cut tops and has every strand of her long hair.  How realistic is that?

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