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LMAO! Obviously the final sabotage job comes into play when CBS announces “Don’t forget to a catch an all new B&B episode following @fter Midnight next on most of these CBS stations!”

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I've complained non-stop about Y&R lately, but this week was pretty good, and Friday was a good cliffhanger.

-- The family scenes (like Friday's with Jack, Diane, Traci, and Kyle) are well-written with natural and real performances.

-- At least the kidnapping is over.

-- Looking at next week's previews, I worry the Alan plot will be rushed. Josh Griffith is bad at a lot of things, including playing the beats. There has to be something between his 3-week story arcs and the old days when Bill Bell took 3 years to finish a story.

-- I've been bored with Adam and Chelsea, but yesterday's scenes worked. They had some depth, and I felt movement in their relationship.

-- I am so tired of being teased with a possible Sharon and Nick reunification. If you're not going to go there, don't mention it. Seems like a sick joke to those of us who want them together and "know" they should be together.

If you're writing Nick as someone with a deep understanding of what they have together, then don't have him lead Sharon on before telling her they're better off as friends. It's cruel to her and cruel to the audience.

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RIP Mr. Hauser, and may God be with his loved ones.

(So, if Y&R ever were to bring back Greg, even for one day, they'd have to go to Brian Kerwin or Howard McGillin.)

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If there has been one good thing about the past few years it is that the show finally got the character on the right track. It helped that AH had chemistry with Burgi, Newman, and Peck while also finally letting AH relish in iciness/bitchiness instead of romantic heroine. 
 

Imagine if the show had not wasted her for a whole decade drooling over Billy…

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Agreed. Y&R is the least interesting soap on the air right now. How it remains #1 is a testament to audience loyalty.

I'm surprised she lasted this long. At this point I would like to see Amelia and Heather Tom swap roles. Amelia can pull off a kind and timid character like B&B's Katie, we need Heather's boldness back in Victoria.

I can accept the Jess Walton and Peter Bergman recasts but I have never felt Amelia Heinle as Victoria.

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I haven't been a fan, but she's grown on me to the point I think I would have found her fine if she hadn't had big shoes to fill.

She does have some memorable moments:

Everything with Billy Miller.

JT abuse storyline.

Her reaction to learning Clair/Eve was alive was great.

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Leave it to Billy to make the kidnapping all about him. smh. Not that Giggly Heffa was much better. 

 

Okay start to the week. The suspense with Tracy and Alan was crazy. And that last scene with them made me wonder if...dare I say...did the wrong twin die after all? Things to make you go hmmm.

 

My apologies for if this sounds harsh, but given that JG always does a dark tale before he winds up exiting a show...was this episode a sign? Because the whole kidnapping was all a SAW rip-off. And now characters are talking about life and how important it is. It would be one thing if this was a way to see Sharon and Phyllis spin off into new interesting directions, but since I don't see that happening...hunni want is this?

 

I was happy to see Chance, Nick and Sharon talking, and even the Giggly Heffa with her kids. But it was just kinda...THERE. Outside of Tracy. 

I wouldn't mind that at all. I love him.

 

Very. AH is at her best when they allow Victoria to be an icy bitca. It's a shame they wasted so many of her years with her as romantic heroine though she had chemistry with the actors mentioned. 

 

 

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I have never seen the "Saw movie", so I didn't know about the Phyllis/Sharon kidnapping being similar to that, and had to look it up. 
Very interesting.
That reminds me that JG wrote for Tobin Bell on DAYS, for a short arc that aired in March 2016, so yeah JG is into Saw.

On DAYS, JG's horror character Yo Ling was a villainous spy, played by actor Tobin Bell. (Tobin Bell played the villain in SAW.)  Yo Ling claimed to be John Black's biological father.

In 2023 Carlivati retconned it that decades earlier, Yo Ling's younger self had switched places with Dick Van Dyke's character's younger self, so Dick Van Dyke's character was the real Timothy - the real biological father of John Black.
(one of the few decent ideas that Carlivati had).

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