there's no "cliffhanger" and the next day they can all go back to lying to, hating and backstabbing each other.

Michael, I hate to correct you, but that's not The Bold and the Beautiful that you're watching.  It's Congress on C-Span.

Gerard

Having episodes coincide with air dates, when some episodes cover just one day, has always been a problem with all soaps.  They deal with it by ignoring it.  On an episode of The Golden Girls, Blanche makes reference to the daily comic-strip soap-opera Apartment 3-G.  Dorothy states she hadn't read it since 1961.  Blanche replies:  "Well let me get you caught up with today's strip.  It's later that same day..."

Gerard

Eliot:  "Mr. Stoddard, pull yourself together.  Just take the suit back to Sears and tell them it had lousy stitching.  You still have the receipt, don't you?"

Gerard

Since the series was suppose to be aligned with current dates, Victoria arrived in late June (the 27th, to be exact).

Gerard

Barnabas:  "Holy-moly!  Those commercials are right!  Even after being exposed to a monster,  the watches take a lickin' and keep on tickin'!"

Gerard

Todd:  "I don't care what you say.  These are the ninety-sixties, not the twenty-tens.  I'm gonna spank your dupa like it's no tomorrow.  Megan, stop fighting and get me a belt, or else I'll use it on you, too.  There's no Opah - not yet."

Gerard

It was one of the reasons, Michael C.  I thought it was fantastic to meld the characters of Maggie and Vicki.  The back-story of Maggie being haunted by the ghost of Josette (who was reincarnated into her) was, to me, brilliant.  I also loved setting it back to the early 70's, when the OS ended.  It was fun and nostalgic.  And as I stated before, Barnabas dealing (with a great deal of fumbling) with 20th century culture and technology was far more realistic than all other previous adaptations, from the OS to '91 and '04.  You've been out of the grave for - what? - two days (or nights) and you can completely comprehend things like fashion, cars and the latest TV hit?  Angelique hanging around, "reinventing" herself as her own descendants, was also imaginative.  The movie kept the love/hate/lust relationship between the two.  Was it a perfect film?  Heavens, no.  But, again to me, it was a wonderful tribute to the OS, much better than the other two remakes.  I could nit-pick the failures of them (and I have).  I can nit-pick the failures of the film.  We can all nit-pick the failures of the OS (and we all have).  But I loved the movie.  I'm grateful Depp/Burton were so appreciative of this classic series to place it on the big screen.  They did their homework.  Unfortunately, Curtis - whom we all appreciate for his work - didn't.  Trying to turn the OS into some updated Count Yorga would've been a disaster.

Gerard