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!