Y&R Next Week Promo

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Y&R Thursday: Wars of Words and Planted Bugs

Vail Bloom delivers another great performance as she and Rafe duke it out in a war of words! Too bad it ended to soon. Rafe then goes and visits Adam and wants to help him "come out" since he and Heather are over. Sharon has to go to a psych facility or risk ten years in prison. Abby finds Adam's bugs, and yet again he gets out of it when Ashley thinks Estella, of course and Victor thinks Mary Jane! MJ calls Victor and wants money or she'll rat him out. When he refuses, she plants a note in JT's pocket to implicate Victor! Phyllis finds out about what Sharon stole, Sharon in turn calls Nick and says they need to talk.

Quote of the Day: (keep in mind this is ad-libbed): (Adam mocking Abby) - "See how pretty I look??...See how annoying you are?"

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Performer of the Week: Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki, Y&R)

It's kind of late for Performer of the Week, so I'll wrap this up kind of short.

Victor and Nikki flashbacks and re-thinking wedding decisions equals stellar performances from Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki, Y&R) and she has earned the Soaps-Now performer of the Week award for the week of August 3, 2009. Melody was superb, would have been her final scenes, and was terrific. Who ever thought we'd feel this way about an exit, and even happier to know what wasn't it! Great job, Mrs. Scott! Also her on-screen partner doing these scenes, Eric Braeden (Victor) is an honorable mention for his scenes during Zapato's funeral.

This week's honorable mentions include: OLTL's Brett Claywell (Kyle) for his scenes for the Kish kiss last week, and co-star Kassie DePaiva (Blair), who was crazy drunk during the double-weddings. Representing AMC we have Jamie Luner ("Turbo" Liza) who was great during her scenes with Marian. I think I said this before in an observation that some people don't Liza 2.0, just because she's not Marcy Walker, but give the chick a break! Also from AMC is Alicia Minshew (Kendall) who is a testament to all soap stars that you can serve it up even in storyline heck. Repping that Y&R this week are Daniel Goddard and Christel Khalil (Cane and Lily) who broke my heart when Cane brought Lily a lint roller for her hair when she stars chemo! I also had a note to add Jess Walton (Jill) to this list, I don't remember, but if I wrote it down it must have been good. I almost forgot, Vail freakin' Bloom was on point. Well mostly, I was feeling up and down. In my mind was mostly, why didn't Nina act this way with Phillip. Even if it could have been better, that's the best performance Bloom has served up...ever, and that may push Bloom into Y&R's female hustlers league. I think for her scenes with Billy. DAYS honors this week belong to Lauren Koslow and Bryan Datillo (Kate and Lucas) for when Lucas goes off on Kate and she breaks down as the Chloe's poisoning mess is going on. Some days with this storyline I go up and down.

Sorry I couldn't give a more in-depth analysis, but the POW was late as it was, and also hard to decide. Keep a look out for this week's best!

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Y&R Tomorrow Preview: Amber Rants

Seems as if Amber (Adrienne Frantz) is unsuccessful in her attempt to have Deacon (Sean Kanan) go down for framing Daniel, as the not-so-canny A.D.A Heather (Vail Bloom) chalks it up as an excuse for cheating on her boyfriend!

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Y&R Thursday Video Recap

Billy kicks Cane out of the trailer, then later tries to find him when Lily escapes out of the hospital and wants him! Mac promises to get Miss Kitty some milk. Adam and Heather do a horizontal tango right before Adam gives Rafe bad news. Only if Victor had came sooner to tell his son he knew he was gay



Clips courtesy of Partygirl045 and canelilyfan

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Is Y&R Trying to Secretly Recast?

SoapCentral and other soap insiders have been hinting at for weeks that a recast is shaping up at Y&R. Recently, some scripts for the character of Heather Stevens were being recycled and used for new audtions. At the beginning of the year, insiders were reporting that Vail Bloom (Heather) had been taken off contract, but a rep said that her options were picked up, only to other rumors that that was only for 13 weeks. Now word has it, in fact that Bloom may have indeed been demoted. A SoapCentral insiders says that the show doesn't want to indicate that the role is indeed being recast, and Soap Opera Digest says that the show says not to assume that they are recasting the no-nonsense lawyer. However, rumors are popping up that the recast is indeed Mackenzie Browning (Clementine Ford), who popped back up in town and may be outed because of disappointed fans. However a SoapCentral source dismisses that this is unlikely, but Internet poppings suggest that this is a secret way to cover-up the recasting of Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott). In other talks, Bloom landed a guest role on HBO's night show Entourage. We will keep you posted on these current happenings.

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Introducing Michael Muhney as Adam Wilson

Today was the day! The day in which the recast around the world would take place. Also arguably, in my opinion the most talked about and perhaps influential recast in daytime history. But that may be an overstatment. Adam 2.0 would become in effect as of June 25, 2009. Anyway, most of us had gotten used to Chris Engen and loved his portrayal of Adam Wilson, and stunned when he quit, for what ever those reasons may be. So my heart papitated when I heard Peter Bergman's voice in the background announcing the cast switch-up. Noticeably, I thought Michael Muhney's voice would be deeper, but when he first said "Ashley" I noticed that it wasn't. I also took in notice that it seems as if Muhney was sort of using Engen's interpretation of Adam in his acting. But don't think i'm not giving Muhney the benefit of the doubt. I was reading Daytime Confidential's comments on the recast today, and like another user said, I agree that Muhney doesn't have that boyish charm and demeanor like Engen, nor can anyone see Victor (Eric Braeden) jack up Muhney like he did Engen. Engen would be face to face with Heather (Vail Bloom) and Victor, but now he towers over both of them. But on a positive note, Muhney's version of Adam seems more sympathetic, and looks like the audience will sympathize with him, unlike the sarcasim and love-to-hate attitude Engen had (which we loved!). And Re-Re and Paul had the guy take off his shirt the first day on the job! He's not beating him but Muhney is sure competing with Engen in the looks department, being packed himself. I think Muhney put all he had in today's episode, and I like him, but at the end I was still being left grieving over the abrupt exit of Christopher Engen. So in the end, I give the recast a B- on it's first day, and Muhney a solid B. However, does that last hint of Friday's episode have you excited or what!?

Picture credits all to Daytime Confidential!

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