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I love it, too, Victor. I love it, too. 

 

That Kyle vs Diane that morphed into Diane vs Jack was good and vicious. And everyone brought their A game. Team Diane on that btw. What was the point of bringing Susan Walters back and not use her...now Abbott Matriarch or not? She's been on FIRE. As has PB. But I hope the last part of this scene is the two of them working to get Kyle back in the fold. 

 

I forgot to mention it...but I do believe MS has been bringing it this week and looking hot, too. Her losing Lily's job. Her worrying about Daniel. Her in Mama mode. 

 

And I did like seeing this next turn in the Sharon storyline from the Daniel side of it. And the complication of Chance being the cop in charge of it makes that more messy for his relationship with Summer...which I've been very glad to see get some focus due to Sharon. 

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The Phyllis flashback episode was really an example of how much Stafford’s ego, laziness, and ticks really overcame her over the years. She still had her ticks back in the 90’s to be totally honest, but there used to be a genuine sincerity there that hasn’t existed since like 2005.

I stand by Stafford doing her best work in 2000-2004. She really seemed to try back then to make Phyllis a complete character and give her acting some nuance. 

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Phyllis’s hypocrisy and being a nutcase herself makes her even more unsympathetic when she makes comments about the mental stability of other characters like Sharon and Diane. Like Carly on GH, we’re just supposed to “accept” it because this character is somehow deemed as a “chosen one” by TPTB. 
 

Even with crap, ruinous writing, I still somehow have a soft spot for Sharon that I can no longer have with Phyllis. I totally think that’s because of the acting…

 

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Same. When I first saw episodes of Y&R and kept track going up, I remember Alex Donnelley as Diane and her fights with MTS Nikki were legendary. So I could never get behind SW in her first stint.

 

But decades later (and many acting jobs later), SW came back, and I LOVED that she was channeling a LOT of AD's Diane when Diane made it back to Genoa City after being revealed to be alive. And no more obvious than her first scenes with MTS Nikki...I was in awe. You would think she had been possessed by AD because she had the body language, the dialogue, and inflictions in her voice down. And I've been liking her ever since.

 

And I do like that for the most part, her return has been progressively organic and she has been making it her own version of Diane. Then this mess with Kyle started. Ugh. But I'm happy that she is being used because she had become background most of this year. 

 

She definitely has become oh so watchable and consistently, too. Outside of EB, I don't think I've been invested completely in someone as soon as they come on screen when I'm watching other than Eileen Davidson. 

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