I'd been hearing good things about a tiny pocket of AMC known as Jake and Amanda, so I took a moment out of my OLTL catch-up to track down some scenes.
I had liked what little I saw of them back when I last checked in to the show for a day and a half during Tornado-fest 2008, and sure enough I do rather like them now. Even if the pregnancy story does have the ring of a copy-cat familiarity and sent me flashing back to the origins of Tad and Dixie, they have really lovely chemistry and it's about time Amanda had a proper story after all that time languishing on the back-burner. Also, it's nice, especially on this show, when unplanned chemistry is eventually played to when it appears instead of sticking with the original, bad, script.
However, it strikes me that nothing about giving this baby to Fauxliza can possibly be a good idea. Much as nothing about Fauxliza is a good idea except perhaps the way they have actually remembered the history with Colby's parentage and Jake. But that's not enough for me to entertain anything positive about this casting debacle.
Jake and Amanda, on the other hand, I give a thumbs up too.
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