3 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

Repeats next week

Should not be posted until after 5pm ET, per embargo rules, which @Errol asks that we follow. 👍🏻

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Liberty City

5 hours ago, CrazySexyQ said:

TD injects Bill with some needed alpha male energy, tempers it in a way that only a seasoned actor can. He's not a cartoon like Leslie or raging like Martin, which I appreciate.

Bill is my favorite male character on the show, despite being a jerk, and the dull pattern that he's in with Hayley.

Bill is also my favorite, though I am very fond of Andre, Smitty, Vernon and kooky Martin lol. (Izaiah could be great but is soft rn, Donnell is barely around and Joey I like as a villain but not some long-term investment.) Bill just has more dimension.

You can tell a segment of the audience responds to Big Bill too when he's in his element, like when he threatened Leslie last year. They like it. We can decry it if we want to but it's the same effect that accompanied Victor on Y&R, Sonny or Luke on GH in their prime. I wouldn't put Bill in that pantheon of course but it's the same kind of energy.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Vee

Smitty is looking like a snack today, and I love him in those slutty glasses.

2 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

We knew repeats were coming, because there aren't enough episodes contracted to fill 52 weeks.

That we did. I do wish they were more cohesive as the repeat blocks last year though.

1 hour ago, Broderick said:

I watched an interview with one of BTG's directors several months ago. Can't remember his name. He said it's his understanding that they can't burn through expensive new episodes during historically low-rated weeks. Not sure if I agree with that rationale for such a long disruption, but hey that's why TPTB make the big bucks and I don't!

That is some interesting tea and makes sense. Thank you.

2 hours ago, Broderick said:

I watched an interview with one of BTG's directors several months ago. Can't remember his name. He said it's his understanding that they can't burn through expensive new episodes during historically low-rated weeks. Not sure if I agree with that rationale for such a long disruption, but hey that's why TPTB make the big bucks and I don't!

Director Phideaux Xavier at 32:48

When did this area of the nurses' station become the Starbucks for hospital visitors? All of a sudden this has become the place to chat for visiting characters as well as hospital staff.

I do wish we didn't get empty cups that characters pretend to drink from all the time. The cups always look weightless.

More set hilarity. There's not enough going on around the nurses' station, but now it's also the physical therapy area. Too crowded? Not enough room to move? No problem!

Eva and Kat looked like they were in a nursing home racing for pudding.

Hayley is fixing to cut Bill's parachute if he gets up in that plane.

Leslie is far too needy and Eva was right to tell her no to moving back in.

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Should not be posted until after 5pm ET, per embargo rules, which @Errol asks that we follow. 👍🏻

HUH? What are you talking about? I cant post that the show will be airing reruns of OLD episodes next week? How the heck is that a spoiler?

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Cheap21

-- Today's show was kind of weird to me.

-- It was OK, and I did enjoy the beginning of Deanna's plot against Joey, but too much time was spent on Leslie talking about moving in with Eva.

-- This "Hayley Poisoning Bill" story needs to get moving. Is this stuff working or not???

-- Not a whole lot went on for [SPOILER ALERT] the last episode before a week of repeats. Not much of a cliffhanger.

Whatever the rationale for repeating for a whole week, it's just a week. 4th of July week at that.

I'm going to be out enjoying, but definitely anticipating for the show to return.

5 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

There must be something about the week of the 4th of the July that the show or the network feels the need not to run new episodes. Perhaps there is a noticeable lull in viewership at that time.

You hit the nail on the head.

A lot of people are out traveling or on the beach, etc.

2 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

Smitty is looking like a snack today, and I love him in those slutty glasses.

Need to buy his slutty glasses.

3 minutes ago, MontyB said:

You hit the nail on the head.

A lot of people are out traveling or on the beach, etc.

I remember the Fourth of July week being a ratings bonanza for soaps.

28 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I remember the Fourth of July week being a ratings bonanza for soaps.

If viewership levels during the last week of June were so bad, the other soaps would take a week off.

I just think it would be a better idea to take a day or two off here and there instead of skipping an entire week. People talk about momentum because it really is a thing, and GATES has ratings momentum right now, so this is strange.