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I died once the Coconut Grove stripper arrived. He. was. terrible. And totally unable to read a room. The signs the women in the audience had—"We're proud of you, Daddy" especially cracked me up—were hilarious. I loved Parham and St. Clair's BFFs and really like this, too.

Don't you think that's right up the show's alley, though? I mean, we have I think a Jess/Harry hookup is inevitable.

Same here. I also like that though Matthias clearly doesn't like Walt, Matthias usually (if reluctantly) will allow Walt to do what he needs to do. But he makes Walt work for it. Hee.

I kind of rolled my eyes at that—it's a common dramatic trope. Oh, look, the big bads are trying to intimidate the poor scrappy underdogs. I also kind of wanted to slap Joe. WTF did he expect? He poked the bear, and the bear is fighting back.

A woman successfully fight back against her attacker? Ha!

Both Carly and Franco's preemptive strikes there were so bizarre. Lauren and Morgan are idiots, but I think they'd wonder why their parents knew before anyone else that Ava was dead. It's embarrassing to watch RoHo give absolutely nothing to his scene partners and play a scene in a totally different vein. What a jerk. There weren't any that I can recall... If anyone does, please tweet it to Ron.

Weren't the wires (or whatever they were) used in the ritual on his chest? He didn't seem to have any scars there.

That's the case for 99 percent of soap kids, IMO. The pregnancy is a plot point, and then when the kids are SORASed, they become plot points of their own.

MW looked good today. That color blue was spectacular on her, and the lippy was great. When I saw Franco drawing in the park, I wondered if he was going to be drawing creepy caricatures at Danny's birthday party. Sam has a wad of cash in her purse and doesn't notice it's missing? I liked Carly's WTF face when Ava said she was pregnant.

I honestly don't understand this. TeCa is an actor on a soap. Yes, the story cuts close to home, but would it be better for her to play out a story where she gives birth under the worst possible conditions? That's basically the only other option, and I can't imagine it would be any less painful to act out. (Maybe I'm just a person with no empathy and a piece of coal where her heart should be.) Of course, the best situation would be for fucking Ron Carlivati to understand that women are not defined by their uteri, but that doesn't seem to be an option.

Does shooting Carly in the head while she was giving birth to Morgan count? Sonny was aiming for Lorenzo, but we all know how terrible a shot Sonny is. That's also the origin of Bullet O' Love, btw. Sonny grabs women, pushes them around a bit, and physically intimidates them. He made Courtney's mother crawl on the floor while he threw money at her. Any time he says he'd never hurt a woman I just roll my eyes.

Rafe may be a cokehead, but he's not a MONSTER. I think it's also to show he's conflicted about Madeline. You know, layers. I write this with no snark whatsoever: Patrick and Sabrina don't really know each other. Ron did a terrible job of putting them together, Sabrina never lost her starry-eyed "my prince has come" ideas about Patrick, and JT played Patrick as someone who was basically bullied into marrying Sabrina. That's not much of a relationship any way you look at it. Argh, formatting issues. I tried.

One or both of those adjectives describes every man Liz has been with. LOL. That guy was awesome. We liked him better than at least half of the cast.

If that's the sort of thing they're going to use extras for, I can deal with never seeing any other patients. Ugh, that was awful. Not to mention, being Sonny's kid has brought physical harm to each and every one of them. Even the unborn ones. At least the Ric/Sam horror was consensual. I would like Alexis to keep a little more of an open mind when it comes to Ric being named the BIg Bad. She has every reason not to trust him, but think it through for one second. It's all way too convenient.

I've never seen a lower-sodium version of BTB, but NYC supermarkets are usually too small to have every option. I'll keep an eye out for it, though. Every bit helps.

Yep. Savi gave her the stink eye in season 1, too. I had to laugh when Kira was in bed with Harry wearing a sheer pink negligee over her sexy black underwear, and to make things "interesting," she takes off the negligee. Oh, network television standards. This happens with a character in the original British version, too. That was a horror, wasn't it? And her hair was just awful there. It cracked me up that she thought she was doing something really brave and all she did was lop off about three inches. Way to live dangerously, Savi. AM is pregnant again (it was announced in March). I'm not sure how far along she was while the series was shooting, but that's why she's holding a lot of big bags in front of herself and being parked behind counters. I didn't like Joss's outfit at the club—I had Carrie Bradshaw flashbacks. IOW, totally appropriate for a TV lawyer. Hee. Was April's artist dude really going barefoot in the woodworking studio? And April was wearing flip-flops? Good lord.

The anti-vacs lady was scary and infuriating."There's no such thing as herd immunity." Oh my fucking god. Even if her kids contracted one of those diseases, she'd find something else to blame. She's as dangerous as a loaded gun in the hand of an angry person, IMO. De Niro was so boring, especially for promoting what I gather was a true labor of love for him. I never expect him to be all that animated, but he didn't sell the picture atall.

I can't, not completely. Alexis has never totally trusted Ric, I get that. But Molly was right today: All of the proof that allowed Anna to arrest him was from Julian. And the way Alexis totally discounted Ric swearing on Molly's life was disappointing. I don't think Molly was too hard on Alexis. She cuts Sonny way more slack than she does Ric. Why she hasn't cut Sonny loose now that Kristina is out of the picture is beyond me. I was also surprised Molly wasn't as shrieky as I expected. Heh.

Sorry, renard! That was for LadyMustang65.

Patrick made it clear he would support the baby in every way he could; why does it matter what the baby's last name is? Drake is the baby's middle name, so it's not as if there's no acknowledgement. I don't know; there were an awful lot of remarks on how well the baby was doing. That's usually what happens before things go south. Three different chocolate fountains sounds AWESOME. Brad is a cranky old crab. Nina, Nina, Nina! [/Jan Brady] All we hear about is Nina. WE NEVER CARED. I like Britt and Nathan, too. They have a nice sibling vibe. I also like that she seems to have learned from her experiences. I'm sure it won't last, given that Ron is anti-development, but I'll enjoy it while I can.

TBH, I'm not sure we're supposed to hate Levi, at least not yet. We're supposed to think of him as the serene hippy who's helped Maxie regain her emotional balance, not the controlling asshole who's shutting down her life. Not that Ron cares, since Levi is just another cog in the plot-point machine.

Are we supposed to hate Rafe for going crazyballs or feel sorry for him because of his tragic childhood? He's blander than white bread no matter what, so I can't muster up any feelings for him. I hate the time devoted to him because there are so many other things that could be focused on, but the character himself is total dullsville.

The instant she spoke those words. Then it was over. He's had a lot of women he's loved. It has to be hard keeping track of all those names.

Silly renard, the night shift is their family! Which is yet another thudding cliché. Was a condition of getting this show on the air that they check off every possible cliché? I'm going to enjoy hate-watching this.

If De Niro's in the right mood, tonight will be fun. I find Gervais hit or miss, too; he and Jon sometimes get too insidery for me. Cruise always tries too hard, and that creeps me out. He so aggressively wants to be liked.