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If a photo was needed as a verbal aid to illustrate anti-chemistry, it would be one of Adam and Chelsea. Throw them in that Munster Mansion decorated with cast-offs from doctors waiting rooms across America, sitting across from each other at that stupid chess table and I'm surprised they both weren't immeshed in a toxic cloud of methane gas every time they opened their mouths to rehash their equally deadly reasons for falling back in love. The Night of the Living Dead had more romance than those two do.

I had the son of a cousin pull that. Most of our large extended family believed it, even though in retrospect, he wasn't covering his tracks very well. I was close with his mother and flew out to see him. One of my brothers never believed it, always thought he was faking. For the rest of us, though, we couldn't imagine anyone making up something like that, especially since we had several family members who were facing similar circumstances in real life. When he finally had to fess up,turned out he'd gotten in deep with gambling, spent the mortgage, stolen money intended for to help with his illness, etc. Most people cut him off after that, but not all of us, not even his wife who he essentially made homeless. We went the forgiveness route until he tried to pull the same crap again. As far as I know, he's still doing just fine, at least medically. Irredeemable.

This is Salem. Unforgivable crimes don't exist. If they did, virtually none of the characters currently onscreen or off would ever appear or be mentioned. I'd take Jen Lilley's Theresa back in a heartbeat, no questions asked.

It seems on point for the WSB. They've always seemed to me to be on par with the PCPD, just with better trench coats. Maybe they really want Joss so they can have a ready supply of those fabulous BLT's?

We should only be so lucky.

Mother Blake seems to have a pretty well-stocked kitchen for a woman hiding out for the past two+ decades, doesn't she? She also must have discovered Oxy-clean somehow, since her all white wardrobe always seems spanking clean in the midst of all that dust and discarded furniture. You'd think that with all the time on her hands she might have tidied up the place. I bet the first thing Ava does once she's freed is run straight to the bathroom. As silly as all this is, it's at least a change from watching Old Man Tate romance that pain in the ass Holly, or Johnny and Chanel struggle through trying to make us care that they're jumping right from being told they have a slight delay in getting pregnant into adopting a baby. Get a dog.

I have feelings for Drew, too. Mine involve a comfy chair, a box of wine and a woodchipper. Brooklyn and Chase aren't exactly a compelling couple, are they? Also, does he always present as dumb as a post? He's pretty but I wouldn't want to try and read by the wattage powering that brain. Any chance Lulu might relapse into the coma again? It would be especially nice for her to do a Brigadoon and only wake up for a day every hundred years.

I fully agree with you on this part. Billy used her, despicably. Agree to disagree on HK's qualities or lack thereof, though.

Or Willow, Sasha, and Joss?

Well, Who else would she call?

So they even took D-ummer away from us, too?!? We lost Der Butt Biscuit to "Billy" and apparently we've also lost D-ummer to "Summer". Some things just must be challenged.

That's because we hate midwives here. It's either full or no wives, none of this wishy washy mid stuff. It's part of the secret handshake and all. And now I've let the cat out of the bag. (If the cat was a midwife, it'd never make it out of the bag, I promise)

Wouldn't that be wonderful? It would go a long way towards redeeming Reverend Ward.

Really? Hmmm. It's the opposite for me. All I could ever see Hunter King heading would have been an Afrin Nasal Spray commercial or a Looney Toons bio on the life and times of Daisy Duck. The Road Not Taken and all that, you know...... Remember that Summer also had a bet with Kyle that she could get Billy into bed? The only ones who got snookered were we unfortunate viewers who had to see that train wreck. Not Super Girl's finest hour, or Billy's finest three minutes.

Much of the show is a slog for me me right now, but EJ and Belle make me sit up and take notice. And laugh. And enjoy the chemistry they share with each other. I don't think I've seen Dan's EJ have much romantic chemistry with anyone since he started and while I always enjoy MM's Belle, she sure didn't have much with BB. Dan's EJ, along with Steve and Kayla, Kate, JJ and occasional sparks from a few others keep me watching. As for the odious OllieBen Necktie Killer, he should have been dissolved in one of Dr. Rolf's formulas instead of becoming just the most lovable serial killer in all of Salem Town. Besides all the murders, he also destroyed the adult Ciara pretty much beyond repair. Ron C.s cutsey reuse of the actor as Alex Kiriakis is a big fat failure on many levels IMO. Instead of taking his shirt off, I wish Show made him wear a parka, a couple of bags over his head and a gag to muffle his voice. What Steve and Kayla have done to deserve being stuck with this bonehead as a possible son-in-law is beyond me.

You all said that Anna had been turned into a tearful, whiny bad cop and yesterday I saw it far too clearly. Show is setting her up with JASON????? She's been reduced to emotional dumpster diving? How COULD they? Losing the respect of her fellow officers is the last thing she should be worried about.

There's nothing charming left about Victor, not that I've seen, in a long time. His family continue to show reverence towards this petulant, unpleasant, unkind man, mostly because his family fear his vindictiveness and even more likely, fear he'll turn off the money spigot. But none that excuses Michael putting up with the disrespect Victor shows him. He surely doesn't need the money but seems to need Victor treating him like crap. It's tedious to watch. I might be sitting at a table for one, but I really enjoyed the teasing Diane and Kyle put Jack through, along with his good-natured response to it. There was a lot of affection and lightness in those scenes which I much appreciated. As for Beyond the Gates, I haven't seen any commercials for it but I have been watching the pre-launch segments on the show, done, I think by Entertainment Tonight and available to watch on Paramount Plus. I like what I see so far. And I'd watch Tamara Tunie and Clifton Davis read their grocery lists! It sure looks like the network has put some money into the show. The segment I watched today said they have 27 different sets. I'm definitely going to give it a shot.

Tate and Rachel are brother and sister through Brady, so that would make Tate's child a nephew or niece to Rachel. Johnny's mother Sami and Tate's mother Theresa are first cousins since Sami's father Roman and Theresa's mother Kim are brother and sister. There's also Sami's stepbrother relationship to Brady. Now my head hurts.

I'm unclear on more than a few things, but this one is a headbanger. So both Sasha and Willow are determined not to let "the Quartermaines" run their lives and take their children. But what Quartermaines? Edward, Alan, AJ, Emily and various other Quartermaines are dead, so who do they mean, other than Traci? Surely not Monica, and I can't imagine Ned or Olivia care all that much, so who? So to get away from the evil, controlling Quartermaines, even though the guy that fathered their children is himself a Quartermaine, they run for protection to ..... Drew Quartermaine and his brother Jason?? Tis a puzzle. As is any writer thinking having the trials of poor Willow now involved a towed car. Quelle dommage!

I'm with Jack. Update, fine, I guess. At least get rid of those silly wizards holding glass orbs - Dungeons and Dragons decor, at best. And those wing chairs. But, my taste, I love the bookcase/armoire by the dining room entrance, the clutter of loved objects, some of the old pictures on the wall and generally the look and feel of the place. Ditto with the dining room. Those curtains gotta go and maybe lighten the color but don't get rid of the table and chairs. That look comes naturally to the Abbott home, unlike Victor's fake recreation of a home burned down and long gone. I remember the "redecoration" of the Chancellor Mansion after Kay died and Billy moved in. The outcry from the fans ended that pretty fast. But even so, the place ended up looking pretty cheap IMO. Hopefully Show will stick with Diane's taste in redecorating being as good as her own personal style is. Remember Tucker tried to give it to her but Audra declined. Then she got Victor to back her as her "silent" partner and he took it over. Then, he fired her and Kyle, stripped it down for parts and Jack bought those parts secretly for pennies on the dollar.

Classic case of Failure to Launch. It's the poor parents I feel most sorry for.

NinjaPenguins, you are ON FIRE today! I'm warming myself this cold winter's (NOT that knucklehead family) morning with the beauty of your prose and, of course, those journals dear Nick published in!!

I would think that the Newman Enterprises HR department is every bit as competent as that Newman crack (as in 'on it') Security team, so Claire probably gave them some 888 area code number to Jordan's phone and she did the verification. Higher education to the Newmans means auditing a few night classes at Baraboo Clown College and not even completing those. And yes, I DID get a glimpse at Nick's resume. He majored in Squirting corsage therapy and timing his farts to a flugelhorn. He ACED it, thankyouverymuch!

Doesn't Jens Sidwell - at least his Port Charles energy - remind anyone else of Barney? He's so ..... bubbly. I can totally see him singing an updated version of the Barney song. I hate you, You hate me, We're a muderous family. Seems to me that Noted Bigot Natalia really missed her chance.

I started to feel the exact same way about Allie during that storyline.