-- Giving Black characters a life-threatening diseases is not exactly denigrating those characters, at least not in these cases.

-- I'd accept an Olivia recast, but Josh Griffith wouldn't give her anything. She'd be used like Amy.

-- Absolute no to a Malcolm recast. It won't work any better than it did with DM when they cast against type thinking they could subvert expectations.

-- Stephanie's story about her husband Jerry and not contacting Malcolm was wonky, but all of this is much better than the other stories we've been tortured with.

-- Age alert: Shemar Moore is 55. Nathan Owens is 42. Both look great for their age, but Owens looks especially good.

-- The Crimson Lights lack of extras is a problem. The place always looks like it should be closing.

-- I enjoyed Cane taking down Phyllis today. So glad to hear him destroy her and tell her she did nothing to earn what she has.

-- Michelle Stafford is back to repeating her lines, sometimes a third time. Ugh.

-- Cane and Lily belong together. CK and BF have chemistry.

Stafford went to the Bart Simpson school of television acting: "Repetition is my job. My job. Repetiveness is my job."

Stephanie telling Malcolm, 'I heard you were dead, I grieved you and moved on, etc.' was kinda funny. VF deadpan delivery of such a soapy thing was spot-on.

I bet the lack of extras in CL had to do with SM/VF filming schedule because the GC Club scenes during the same days had plenty of extras. SM/VF have such presence that extras aren't worthy or necessary.

Even if the history was bent, both the Damian and Holden paternity stories are anchored by legacy Y&R characters. It's too bad SEM retired from acting, but VP has done a great job as Amy. I hope we see her soon. Since Tonya isn't coming back, Amy can serve as the de facto maternal figure the Winters clan.

I'm looking forward to the Winters clan finding out about Holden.

BF has made Cane a lot more interesting than I imagined. I do enjoy MS/BF bantering.

26 minutes ago, edgeofnik said:

I bet the lack of extras in CL had to do with SM/VF filming schedule because the GC Club scenes during the same days had plenty of extras. SM/VF have such presence that extras aren't worthy or necessary.

But this is an ongoing problem. CL is lucky if there's one customer and a staff member endlessly wiping tables.

Bringing back Amy was pointless as they decided to kill off her son. Now Nate and Holden can compare stories on finding out they have half siblings.

They would have been better recasting Olivia. Although in Josh's world she would have to give up medicine to become a businesswoman.

Just thinking how Josh is using illness as a plot device. Cole, Amy and now Malcolm.

54 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

-- Cane and Lily belong together. CK and BF have chemistry.

If only they hadn't saddled BF as Cane. Way too much story baggage. BF could have been a new character not weighed down by 3 unseen children, dead twin brother and sister, horrible parents, cheating behaviour, criminal connections etc.

4 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Does every CBS daytime soap now have to have a Black character facing a life-threatening disease?

They just can't WAIT to kill us off.