I hate to say this about my favorite soap, but it's been hurtin' since Adam and Brooke left town. For the first five months of the year, as Lorraine Broderick supervised the show's scripts in between head writers, ALL MY CHILDREN rocked. The show did everything it was supposed to do: brought back Jack and Brooke; celebrated the soap's 40th anniversary in an interesting and moving way, bringing back Hayley, Mateo, Maria and others in the process; offered a touching memorial to the late James Mitchell (and his character, Palmer) which also opened the door to a new generation of Cortlandt/Chandler feuding; and on and on. For a long-time viewer (since 1982), it was heaven.

I'm not usually a big fan of corporate storylines, but I'm enjoying the fighting within Forrester Creations on BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL, mainly because the plot isn't so much about the company, but about the characters' relationships.

I really like the idea of Gloria and Jeff owning Genoa City's hottest new club on Y&R. The terrible twosome are always fun to watch, but for too long they've been floating from one location to another — the Abbott mansion, the G.C.A.C., Phyllis's penthouse — and from one storyline to the next.

Has anyone else noticed this week's trend on ONE LIFE TO LIVE of characters unburdening their problems to completely random people? It started with Natalie, who as far as I can remember, is not friends with Gigi, telling the Rodi's waitress all about her pregnancy. Um, John is Gigi's boss, so if she doesn't want John to find out that she might be having his baby, maybe she should have gone elsewhere?