Dr. No

Am I the only one who hates, hates, hates McKenzie Westmore as Dr. Sinclair? I could tolerate her on Passions...she's elegant and pretty and pleasant in interviews, but now that she is on AMC, she is showing how limited a range she has as an actress. Passions dialogue and scenes were fraught with so much unbelievablity and surreality that not much of the cast could pull off "good" acting...Juliet Mills, Taylor Anne Mountz, and Ben Masters (Tabitha, Kay #1, & Julian) are the only ones I can think of who truly could. As much as I liked McKenzie as Sheridan, she wasn't a terribly skilled actor, and she is still using the "Passions delivery" on AMC...still gasping and agonising her lines as if tackling such material as witchcraft, past friendships with Princess Diana, and houses being sucked into hell. I don't particularly care for Tamara Braun or her character, Reese, but she has seamlessly slid into the cast. McKenzie, conversely, sticks out as badly as when the show plucks people ripe off Broadway as day-players...the ones who still perform "50-rows deep" despite being on-camera. Both soap operas, of course, but Passions and AMC were polar opposites style-wise. A Passions actor on AMC is like Lucille Ball going on Ugly Betty...a comedienne going on a comedy, but comedy that is worlds apart. It'd be jarring and weird.