Nancy Drew

The power in the Amanda storyline should come in part from Fallon's damn near obsession with her father (and, truly, vice versa) and the idea of no longer being his only daughter. The Amanda SL would have been stronger on OG Dynasty if Pamela Sue Martin was still in the role. Elizabeth Gillies is more than capable of pulling that storyline off, but the writers don't seem invested in the Blake/Fallon relationship. Like, at all.

I don't get what's going on this season. I don't understand or like NewCristal, and don't find her engaging. I got that Blake was into OGCristal, but this girl? I don't even get why she's on the screen. It also seemed like Dynasty was setting up several interesting stories, maybe making Liam's (lets face it, adoptive) family into the rich, powerful Colbys but that storyline went nowhere. As painful as it was to read Shannon Lucio called an "older woman" I agree that it seemed like they were going to do something with her character (and she'd be a far more engaging romantic partner for Blake), and then crickets. I still think Liam is Adam, but there needs to be movement on that front. No one is apparently investigating who shot Cristal. Carrington-Atlantic is gone. So...where are the stakes? CA is gone, Cristal is gone, NuCristal is a snooze, Fallon isn't hiding any secrets, the Colbys and Carringtons have made up...I'm so confused as to what the game plan is.

She's way to young looking. She looks younger than Fallon. Seriously, cast a woman born in the 70s! Generation X doesn't exist on this show, and Michael is the only Xennial (although I think the actor is playing younger). I'm still team LiamIsAdam. I had no idea Shannon Lucio was going to be on Dynasty! Last week I kept thinking how much the actress playing Kirby looks like Shannon-which is appropriate, I guess, since both women played Alan Dale's daughters. I hope SL and Alan have at least one scene together.

Here's an article with more information. They must have stopped JUST before this article, or I wouldn't be old enough to remember. One of the most haunting memories of my childhood is my grandmother's best friend laid out on a blue silk canopy bed...dead. Patterson's was also in a super old house that was creepy enough without the beds. Some horror director should use that image, because it was just as awful as it sounds. http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-22/news/mn-6067_1_funerals Also, the kittens bothered the hell out of me.

I actually liked the end. The house might be evil, but these people's biggest problems were always themselves. Clara was so scarred by a stillborn daughter that she entombed her living daughter on the edge of Hill House, which eventually led to the girl's death. Her paranoia intersected with Olivia's, but in the end it was Olivia's mental illness that set the stage for the last, horrible night. Olivia kept giving her daughters coffins-literally in Shirl's case, in the form of a glove box for Theo and a button box for Nell. In some ways it was easier to blame ghosts, but Abigail was REAL and no one could see it. Nell was haunting herself. Did the house have an evil impact on everyone? It seemed like Hazel Hill lived and died a normal life, and like she had a daughter who did as well? I'd sign on to the watch the prequel, because I have lots of questions about the house pre-Cranes.

I thought the Season 2 premiere had interesting line that might setup the eventual reveal of Amanda. Steven said that Blake probably knocked someone up pre- or post-Alexis and therefore Blake would know how to deal with paying the mother off. Blake didn't disagree, he just told Steven what to do regarding the money.

The nicest funeral home in our city when I was a kid posed the bodies on a bed. I still haven't recovered. If some rando funeral director had tried to force me up to the bed I would have flipped out. The kittens did me in this episode.

The whole cast is really, really good. I somehow missed that Annabel Gish is in it. Even people I typically can't stand, like Elizabeth Reaser, are coming off really well. That said, the actresses playing Young and Adult Theo-McKenna Grace and Kate Siegel-are absolute standouts. Grace is especially fantastic.

I really enjoyed this episode. I usually DESPISE Elizabeth Reaser in everything she ever shows up in, but I think she's so, so good here. I also think Carla Gugino doesn't age. I'm even okay with the fact that this has basically nothing to do with the plot of Hill House as Jackson wrote it. It somehow feels like a Jackson story. What does anger me and make reluctant to totally sit back and enjoy it is that they made Steven the author of Hill House, and it looks like some of his plotline is lifted from Jackson's own experiences as a writer. That's maddening. Jackson's career was so shaped by her biological sex. To give that over to a male character is ridiculous. They could have easily given this story to Reaser's Shirley.

We see Monica with Jeff in the scene where the photogs are asking if they consider themselves Carringtons. I LIKE that Kirby has been remolded. Original Kirby was a drip, and there are already so many nice people on this show. We need some more spice. I am still 100% on the Liam is Adam train. In the original show, Fallon kissed and flirted with Adam before it was revealed he was her brother. Cool call back. And it sets up an interesting dynamic between the Van Kirks and Carringtons-instead of Adam being the poor relation/audience avatar he's even richer and more powerful than the Carringtons. Plus, right now, its like they are casting Liam and the Van Kirks to function how Jeff and the Colbys actually functioned in OG Dynasty, and that's distasteful and dismissive and makes this Jeff and these Colbys feel like tokenism instead of a driving part of the show. At least if Liam is Adam it changes up that dynamic. I HATED OG Blake but he drove story and was interesting. Last season, Blake ended up boring most of the time. Last night Blake was engaging and, well, screwable. Good change.

Back in the first episode Brianna told Vicki on the phone that she wanted to drive her car back, because she knew once they got back to the OC Vicki would want to get back to work and Brianna didn't want to get stuck without a car. Brianna even indicated that Vicki didn't have a car she could haul the boys around in.