Some more movement on the Luke-Noah storyline on As the World Turns. They actually got two days in a row, which is unusual -- except during the big Branson location shoot/Cleo debacle, we've been seeing Luke, Noah and Maddie at best about once a week. This week, Noah confronted Luke, who's been avoiding him; Luke admitted that he likes Noah, that way. Noah handled that well, except that he went through a suspicious amount of "I'm not gay." But he was nice to Luke; I think we ended with the two of them agreeing to be good friends, because they're both very lonely. But then -- suspicious! -- Noah told his "girlfriend" (an appellation Maddie seems uncomfortable with, considering that they haven't actually really done much together, aside from work and of course that one-night stand in Branson) he's taking her on some big trip to the beach or something.
The Luke-Noah scenes continue to be well-written. It's weird, because overall, As the World Turns seems like a pretty dumb show: it's not funny or witty like it was when Hogan Sheffer was the head writer, or intricate and suspenseful, the way it was during the Doug Marland era. The non-Luke stuff is mostly a wasteland of people doing stupid things for stupid reasons.
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