[S.8 E.18 An Iconic Ending]

Gordon: I told you that you could seek outside relationships as long as you kept to certain rules and you broke all of them.

Mia: If I had your blessing, than what's the problem?

Girl, what? Follow the conversation.

 

[S.8 E.18 An Iconic Ending]

Ashley, you've got a husband who (allegedly) sexually assaulted a member of the production team and a friend who showed up at your place of work and started a physical altercation with your co-worker. While a person can't be held responsible for someone else's behavior, at a certain point you are the company that you keep. And you can drop this "I wasn't thinking of Candiace when I invited Deborah" business because no one's buying it.

[S13.E20: Reunion Part 3]

2 hours ago, bravofan27 said:

I'm thinking the only reason this season was so popular in ratings is because of the drama, tension, unknowns about Kyle and Maurico. I think people who wouldn't normally watch the show tuned in to see if they could pick up clues, get the gossip. Maybe, I mean, it wasn't to see what happened with Sutton and her horse or dating, and it certainly wasn't the drama with Dorit and PK. 

Don't underestimate the number of lapsed viewers who came back now that Rinna is gone. I gave up on the show a couple of seasons ago because I found her toxic to the point of being unwatchable (I would typically tune in for an episode mid-season to see if it had gotten any better and it never had) and I don't think I'm alone in that. This was the first full season I've watched in years.

I know there was a lot of chatter online about Kyle and Morgan, but it never seemed to reach "Scandoval" levels of heat where even places that wouldn't normally feature articles about the show were devoting space to it.

[S13.E20: Reunion Part 3]

Kyle needs to go. No cast member should be allowed to dictate the direction the way that she does, or decide to adopt a "rules for thee, but not for me" attitude like she has.

It's fine if you want to keep your personal life private if you aren't on a reality show about your life, but if you are then that's the job. She's not doing her job.

[S13.E19: Reunion Part 2]

How many times do you have to ask someone if you're boring them before it clicks that you are, in fact, boring?

As well, Dorit, do you really want to take a deep dive into why people have questions about what genuinely seems to be an insurance scam that PK is running? This is how you're going to end up being the next Housewife sent to prison.

[S13.E18: Reunion Part 1]

Dorit's a moron.

Annemarie's a dud.

Kyle's a mirage - even when it appears that she's giving something, it's so carefully curated that it's ultimately nothing.

Unless we're going to spend an hour on Sutton's horse next week, I see no reason for two more hours of reunion time.

[S.8 E.14 Sun's Out, Bun's Out]

15 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

Asking Karen how many men she has slept with in the past 5 years was like asking someone if they have stopped beating their wife. What was Robyn hoping the answer would be, like Karen was going to answer any number other than 1. Ray. 

Karen should've turned it around on her and said "Just Ray and Juan."

[Episode Discussion II: The TFGH]

38 minutes ago, Artsda said:

Michael said Sonny has nobody without him, Dex and Carly?  What?

Dante lives across the hall with his grandson. Avery and Ava lives with him.  Kristina, Donna, Avery. He's got friends like Alexis, Lois, Olivia , Laura, Anna.  He's got Brooklyn and he has a wife albeit estranged. But yes he's got nobody without the people who were going to send him to jail. 

What Michael meant was that he has nobody that matters without him and Carly. 

[S06.E16 : Adios Mexico!]

3 minutes ago, goofygirl said:

Welp, I think it's been proven 100% that our baby Lisa is a complete MORON!!

She's GOING for this Lenny- controlled building of a NEW HOUSE for Lisa and those poor kids.  Seriously.

I do not understand this house situation at all.  Him buying her a house, I could understand, as that could be accomplished relatively quickly and then everything is done and settled. Him building her a brand new house just drags this all out longer. It makes me suspicious that Lenny is planning one of two things:

1. He's going to delay the construction process or renege completely so that Lisa is forced to go to court to enforce that outstanding part of their settlement, getting drained financially in the process since she'd be paying legal costs and the costs of renting a place in the interim (assuming Jody isn't footing the bills).

2. He's going to build her a house that she isn't going to be able to afford to maintain so that he can have the pleasure of watching her fail and have to sell it.

[S06.E15 : Get Me OFF This Gondola!]

Has a housewife ever shredded an audience's sympathy faster than Lisa?

Yeah, Lenny's an ahole, but that marriage is starting to look like a case of similarities attracting.

[S13.E15: Ashing It Out]

33 minutes ago, ZettaK said:

Kyle needs to stop complaining about Mauricio being so busy... she doesn't have any fulfilling interests to occupy her time with. 

Kyle's hobbies are (1) working out, (2) Morgan Wade, and (3) using the show to unbalance the scales of power in her personal relationships by throwing someone close to her under the bus and making herself look like a victim. Complaining about Mauricio is her fulfilling interest this year. She's spent a lot of time constructing this narrative.

[Episode Discussion II: The TFGH]

6 hours ago, Cheyanne11 said:

Crimson, which will probably be renamed Carly's World any second

This made me laugh out loud. I'm now reimagining O Magazine covers with Carly in Oprah's place.

[S06.E13 : Miami in Mexico]

2 hours ago, Emmeline said:

Why in the world would Lisa want Lenny to buy property, demolish the home and rebuild.  That could only result in a very lengthy battle and who could trust Lenny.  Get the cash settlement with child support and maintenance.  Normally the lawyers do the negotiating for you.  I just don’t understand this mess.

Lisa is dumb.

That's it. That's the explanation.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

"Crystal's at AnneMarie's mercy."

... Really, Kyle? Because it looked like AnneMarie was just standing there doing as little as everyone else and had no answer for what might be wrong with Crystal. This doesn't look like a "gotcha" at all.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

Child Bride??? Just keep digging your grave one microaggression at a time, Dorit.

 

2 minutes ago, ZettaK said:

I think Crystal was a little drank when she called AnneMarie a bitch.

I wish I could be that right about something when I'm drunk.

"She has nothing to talk about except for me" says the woman who has had nothing to talk about other than Sutton's esophagus until episode 13. Okey doke, 8.5.

[Episode Discussion II: The TFGH]

2 hours ago, Daisy said:

But they didn't apologize because why apologize when you're a Carly. 

"I'm sorry you're so stupid" is probably the closest a Carly would ever get to an apology.

[S04.E19: Reunion Part 3]

This "Burn Book" business is just embarrassing. Anytime a HW brings props, it's embarrassing.

I wish they had dealt with all the Monica stuff in the first two reunion episodes and then dismissed her so that there could have been a third episode without all the screaming.

[Episode Discussion II: The TFGH]

19 hours ago, statsgirl said:

Ned should never have given have given the proxy  back. He should have kept it as compensation for his pain and suffering for being   constantly unfairly attacked .

How could Ned have done that, though? A proxy, by its nature, is something that can only be exercised at the discretion of the person giving it and can always be revoked - which is why this was such a dumb thing for Ned to agree to in the first place. It was a "deal" that gave him nothing except the opportunity to be Charlie Brown to Michael's Lucy.

[S04.E18: Reunion Part 2]

Mary says that she's never said anything mean about Lisa and no one checks her on that when the season started with Lisa reading mean texts that Mary sent her? "You remind me of a witch"? Hello?

I hope this reunion is the last we see of Mary.

[S04.E18: Reunion Part 2]

1 hour ago, Stats Queen said:

Good lord, Andy seems to love Monica and is helping her with her sentences.

Ugh

He really does seem enamored with her. Admittedly I sometimes zone out during reunions, but I can't recall another reunion where he did so much handholding with a HW.

[S08.E09: Hard Conversations]

I don't know what Grace is thinking saying that Giselle could take a deer. They might look cute, but you wouldn't want to mess with one. If they feel threatened they're either coming at you antlers first, if they have them, or hooves first and you ain't winning unless you have a fire arm.

That said, Grace's assertion still wasn't as ridiculous as Juan's story about the woman and the hotel continues to be. I know that he and Robyn are committed to sticking with this story, but at this point just say "I don't want to talk about it anymore" instead of repeating this ridiculous tale of a random act of chivalry.

[Episode Discussion II: The TFGH]

8 hours ago, Daisy said:

Bobbie was having an affair with someone.. and BJ"s accident (and maxie's illness) kinda brought Bobbie and Tony back together (but then BJ's death killed Tony emotionally, and then he spiralled down into the man he basically was until he died). 

She was having an affair with Damian Smith. BJ's death didn't bring her and Tony back together, though, as the break up happened concurrently with her death. Because Tony couldn't catch a break, he found out about the affair the day of BJ's death when he caught Bobbie and Damian making out in a stairwell at the hospital. This happened just minutes before they found out about the accident.

It might have been the anniversary of BJ's death that brought them back together, as I recall that they were separated for quite some time following a nasty divorce battle. I remember watching it and thinking that despite the fact that Tony was the injured party, he was being a real bastard to Bobbie.

[“General Hospital: 60 Years Of Stars And Storytelling”]

12 hours ago, Lisa418722 said:

I realize that soaps don't have the budget they did in the 1980s and 1990s, but what happened to the writers?  Some storylines don't need a huge budget, just writers who know how to write.

I don't think it's just a budget issue or even necessarily an issue of today's writers not knowing how to write, as there are people writing soaps today who were writing in the 1990s and were very good at it (Michele Val Jean comes to mind, as one example). I think network interference and skittishness about doing anything daring or potentially controversial has essentially kneecapped daytime writing teams. That's why we see so many pregnancy storylines - because it's "safe" and guaranteed to get network approval.

[S08.E08: Painting Austin Red]

Juan's "doing laundry" and his Facetime isn't working? Hmmm...

[“General Hospital: 60 Years Of Stars And Storytelling”]

This was lame. How do you do a special about the history of General Hospital and not show clips from the Ice Princess story, Stone's death, BJ's death, Sonny and Brenda's epic first break up, the Jeff/Monica/Rick/Lesley story, or any clips of Audrey? How do you reference Alan and Lucy's wedding, but not show a clip from it? How do you leave all that out but make time for Donna Mills (don't care), Morgan Fairchild (don't care), and Stephen A. Smith (really don't care)?