Desperado

I agree. It was also weird to have the announcement was followed by no preview scenes but fun Holiday music accompanying the year-end credits. RS was really rocking that weird NYE outfit but her makeup was more House of Horrors. I hope this is not how the visit of a legacy character ends, because that’s quite damning. They really milked that “Nina did it” thing. Never saw someone take so long to meet up w/ her SO on NYE.

The Joker is a very good way to describe his character, clothes included.

He was doing sex scenes with a superbly hot guy on DOOL 6 months ago, guess he kept the training up.

Hello, everyone! In the spirit of the Holidays I thought I should watch a few episodes. I loved CZ on ATWT but couldn’t master the courage to watch an imprisoned and now drunk (again!) Nikki. I would’ve preferred CZ as a recurrIng corporate mogul since Y&R can’t get over the corporate aspect which is rinse, repeat, boring with Tucker being the villain, again and Kyle being an annoying ping pong ball. At least she would’ve given the joint some much needed class. Speaking of rinse repeat, although I don’t mind Cricket, Danny is so cringe and Phyllis butting in… Yuck. It was nice to see Lauren and Michael (and the actor looking so healthy), although they looked quite orange on my screen - bed scenes require it apparently. I don’t know why I expected better of Christmas episodes. Wishing you all a wonderful New Year filled with health and laughter. P.S. In spite of being 100% sober, I mistakenly posted this text in the backstage thread - apologies for duplication, but double the wishes!

Hello, everyone! In the spirit of the Holidays I thought I should watch a few episodes. I loved CZ on ATWT but couldn’t master the courage to watch an imprisoned and now drunk (again!) Nikki. I would’ve preferred CZ as a recurrIng corporate mogul since Y&R can’t get over the corporate aspect which is rinse, repeat, boring with Tucker being the villain, again and Kyle being an annoying ping pong ball. At least she would’ve given the joint some much needed class. Speaking of rinse repeat, although I don’t mind Cricket, Danny is so cringe and Phyllis butting in… Yuck. It was nice to see Lauren and Michael (and the actor looking so healthy), although they looked quite orange on my screen - bed scenes require it apparently. I don’t know why I expected better of Christmas episodes. Wishing you all a wonderful New Year filled with health and laughter. ETA: Just realized I posted this in the wrong thread (facepalm). My apologies.

The priest is still alive, the Cyrus character can live another day! His advice to Nina wasn’t bad, even if it was completely self-serving. I hate the fact that Nina rambled on tried to tell Carly the truth and she reacted by acting sh*tty, a repetition of Nina trying to tell her Sonny was alive. Rinse, repeat. Yuck. Not sure why so many people had to head over to Wyndemere to… pick up a red glove. Ho, ho, ho. Disappointed in the Esmé dénouement. Ditch the other glove, E!

So Kristina and TJ will have a fully biological child and Molly… will not. I'm seeing a storyline coming and don't like it.

DOOL Christmas episodes have helped me during some very difficult times over the decades, and I appreciated the nostalgia of Friday’s episode, especially coming from eight longtime characters. Can’t find that anywhere else but in soaps these days. The tears at the end. 😭😭 Happy Holidays, everyone! 🎄

Damn. Jane Elliott even looks gorgeous with lighted Christmas antlers on her head. Poor KW having to utter a nonsense excuse about Mac not being there, knowing why JJY wasn’t on set. We’ll see on Tuesday what Silas Cyrus did with the priest. Will he be irredeemable or not? Mind you, listening to someone’s confession is very gross in itself. Happy Holidays everyone. Sparing special thoughts for anyone struggling through this time.

They had Stephanie sleep (maybe?) with Harris? WHY? It wasn’t sexy or anything, it wasn’t even on screen. Why? To get pregnant?! To have Ava go back to being a homicidal maniac from jealousy? Just yuck. I skipped all the heart wrenching scenes between Nicole and EJ. I hate this stolen baby story. SO. MUCH. and knew they would break my heart for nothing. I do like how supportive EJ is being, and used to almost enjoy Eric with Sloan and breaking the two couples up contributes to my storyline hatred.

The tree decorating as a trigger made perfect sense. Good job, show! Wonder if this means we’ll see Nik again.

It was also cringe to me to have Valenti (looking like a ghost and seeming to have concentration issues) acknowledge Sonia and a BTS person who died this year, but not TC, BM, or especially JZ. Robert Gossett saying his son passed this year, with Kristina Wagner (and Jack) also losing their son just over a year ago, the show has had so many terribly sad events. On another note, it was lovely to see Kelly Thiebaud looking gorgeous happy to be there, acknowledging a vet. I wasn’t a fan of how her ark ended, but Alley Mills looks fantastic and in a good place accepting her award. “A serial killer with a heart of gold” does sum up Heather pretty well 😂. (I would’ve liked to see her acknowledge Robin Mattson along with Valenti (and IIRC, he wasn’t the character creator at all, but that’s just me being picky.) Thinking of JJ York and hoping for his continued good health, the original clips of him and Felicia followed by a current scene of them together was lovely.

I don’t know where to put this because there’s no dedicated thread, but watching the Daytime Emmys and Stephen Nichols spoke a tribute to Tyler Christopher and 😭😭

I agree that LC looked super frail and I was very annoyed that her presence was linked to the the boring Finn plot instead of something more worthwhile. [If it was a request from LC to have scenes with JE/ME, than I take it back.

LIESL!!! Yesss! I hope the breakup doesn’t mean that we’ll never see her again. Love to have Jane Elliott back too but wish it would’ve started the JZ tribute. I guess instead, calls will be received by Carly at some point to highlight LW. Sigh…

I thought the same thing. As much as I love Jane Elliott, I’m not sure why we had scenes of her mourning Luke, outside of making it the reason why she’ll be a grinch to Olivia and Lois. And I’m a grinch to O&L too because man that was a boring convo. An essentially boring episode that felt like Dec. 23 when we have weeks to go before then, so weird. Its only redeeming quality is that Anna and Valentin, the world’s biggest doofus, are finally done. Suffering through Valentin’s ridiculous arguments was a pain though.

If it wasn’t for his illness, I could see Gregory and Diane giving it shot instead. WSB/Pikeman guy gave off creepy more than flirty today. I don’t want creepy. I want hot and mysterious and I’ll probably have to find it somewhere else…

Also Donny Osmond way back.

Quelle surprise. The show’s shenanigans made me salty and diminished my enjoyment but that’s on me.

Jason lip syncing… ah, this show.

This show has weird pacing. I really don’t think they had planned to have 3hrs from the get go.

I am quite over the tongue bath Val has been getting all season.

Alyson disappeared among the dancers at the end and there were too many lifts but f*ck those 9s and damn Harry in the background. 🤬🤬

Oh, Ariana. Pasha done you wrong, girl.

Now THAT was dancing! Woo hoo Jason!