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Lily's dress was fine but I was annoyed by the matchy colors with Damian's shirt. Audra's dress felt too familiar to me and sure enough, per Worn on TV she sported something similar in blue about a month ago. But what truly horrified me were Jack and Victor's suits. They were both in shades of gray, with white shirts and mauve neckties. Ugh. AFAIC those two should never be dressed alike unless they're at a wedding, a funeral, or a fancy ball.

Hmm, did Nikki put the idea of having another baby with Adam into Chelsea's head? I doubt Victor would value a new grandkid over revenge against the Abbotts. He can barely sort out all the heirs he already has. Gah, Billy, why are you still lying to Sally? You know you're going act an utter fool at the Dumas party. Don't make come over there and smack you. Big whoop, Chelsea. You think you've figured out who Dumas is? Everyone who cares in GC is about to find out anyway. Yawn. Dru would be the only person who would both surprise and impress me if she were revealed to be Dumas. Especially if Y&R brought back Victoria Rowell to reprise the role. But is there a lot of bad water under that bridge, behind the scenes between VR and certain cast members. Oy.

Nikki, maybe you need to be wondering why Victor remains obsessed with the Abbotts, but he can't remember your name. Stop apologizing for him to people like Chelsea who know better. I know Billy was only spitballing during his chat with Sally. However, if Dumas is indeed summoning the three elite GC families to his chateau in order to have them witness his public humiliation of Victor, I am here for it. Especially since Victor seems to think Dumas is his avenue to ending the Abbotts once and for all. Oops! Johnny is an Abbott by birth and a Newman by adoption. So Chelsea likening Johnny & Connor to Billy & Adam didn't work for me. I was surprised Nikki didn't argue the point. Aw yiss. Claire would find out what it's like to get with a man who has both superior equipment and skill, if my drift is caught.

Sally picking out her and Billy's outfits for the French Rivieria. Yes! Prepare to slay, queen. And, you too, um, queen consort. 😒 Good lord, Victor seemed about ready to fall into a coma when he slithered into Adam's office. Why does he always sit in a chair like his spine is made of Silly Putty? Billy confirmed today he has spoken to Dumas. So Dumas probably isn't Cane because Billy would've recognized Cane's Australian accent, no? Lily is such an overconfident idiot. I almost hope Damian and Holden clean Winters Inc. out but there are probably safeguards in place to keep them from doing too much damage. Heh.

@KLovestoShop, I'll have what you're having. 😵‍💫 Well they gotta give Holden something to do since apparently he can't leave GC. He must be bored out of his mind. Pretty sure France doesn't want her either. Maybe Neptune will take her.

Hi, Holden. 🥰 Don't you have a job now? You shouldn't have time to be lurking around Audra, again. Whatever, Holden was on Audra like butter on toast. Too bad the bread was stale, lol. According to Kyle, Claire can't go to the Aristotle Dumas bash because Cole is finally getting critical medical treatment. In Chicago. Shucks. Audra's path to Victor-mandated shenanigans just got cleared though. Schmoozer Damian gave Lily a book about the history of jazz. Ehh. IMO the best way to learn about jazz is listen to it, and watch one of the excellent documentaries about its development. PBS has several good ones. Is it remotely possible Victor arranged for Cole to get pneumonia in order to distract Claire? Seems like that's what Diane and Jack were lowkey suggesting to Kyle. 🤔 WTF did Audra do to Holden when they lived in L.A.? Her alluding to it shut him up with a quickness today. Holden couldn't get away from Audra fast enough, tee hee. Punch him, Holden! Damian disposed of you quicker than yesterday's coffee grounds. Or not. I'm thinking their fight in the middle of the coffeehouse might've been staged for Lily's benefit.

Yuck, it's looking more and more like Mariah got extra friendly with the man who sidled up to her while she was sloshed. Sharon made sure to let Phyllis know she went to Nikki's birthday bash as Nick's date guest. And Nick just stood there between them with his thumb up his hiney. Gee, Mariah, if you want Tessa to stop pressuring you about your secret, perhaps you could stop bringing it up. Dang, that face Sharon made when she heard Phyllis had been invited to the Dumas party! It was textbook "bish whet?" Brava, SC. And IMO Phyllis looked like an even bigger fool acting like she knew exactly what he was talking about when he rattled off the full name of it.

Ian Ward!?!?! Gosh, Mariah, nobody wants to go there again, least of all, you. Enough about bad old history, what happened on your business trip with that guy in the bar? So Sharon isn't going to the big party in Nice because she's worried about Mariah. Now Nick is short a plus one. Batter up, Phyllis! Phyllis thought being called a shark by Daniel was an insult. Good thing the Shark Tank TV show is on ABC instead of CBS, lol. Sure, Phyllis, Aristotle Dumas will be begging you all right. Begging you to get off his junk. And then off his property. Bet this is where Nick will step in to offer himself as a reference. Didn't he lend Phyllis tens of millions of dollars to buy the hotel she used to run? I'm sure Dumas will be hella impressed. 😉

Aw geez, Daniel mentioned Danny. Here we go again with the aging wannabe rock star. 😒 What are the odds Mariah will tell Tessa what her big regretful mystery is by the end of this episode? I'm guessing somewhere between slim and none. Phyllis' was using her hair as a prop today. She was touching it and moving it around like she was trying to flirt with her own son. Ehhh. "How do you plan on leveraging something that doesn't exist?" Daniel out here asking the real questions. Go for the jugular, my guy. Isn't it odd how none of the invitees have wondered if it might be Tucker? He is someone who lives in France and has a connection to the three families invited to the soirée. <shrugs >

I don't know from Black Flag but I did notice Coop's son t-shirt for The Police 1981/82 tour. It was for their Ghost in the Machine album. I have the album but not the t-shirt, and I immediately envied the kid wearing it. Yeah, it was perfect. I've long loved that song, mainly because of Merry Clayton's collabo. However, it seems like every show or movie I've watched on Netflix or Amazon Prime lately uses it. Did the Rolling Stones recently sell their catalog? Ali may be bipolar be surely she has enough sense not to commit vandalism where there are likely security cameras. The graffiti may cause problems for Bruce with his wife but Ali would be in bigger trouble if the cops get involved. The season finale felt lukewarm to me. I know Coop is now addicted to thieving but taking a painting just because he hates his former boss? Meh. Jon Hamm was made for this role. I'm looking forward to Season 2 and I hope Coop gets a new car with a better trunk, lol.

Ditto sentiments expressed upthread: Good grief, Mariah. What would be worse to Tessa than cheating on her? Did you accidentally kill her sister? Out with it! Tessa's impromptu song. Okay. I don't think Billie Eilish has anything to worry about as far as competition from GC is concerned. Oooh, an ominous B&W flashback. So did Mariah have drinks with some geezer barfly and it turned into a drunken ONS? Or is she feeling extra guilty because it was a man? 😕 Enquiring minds want to...drop kick this storyline into Lake Winnebago. Not only that, they seem to be repeating scenes, just in different locations and/or different clothes. Mariah and Sharon had basically the same conversation a little over a month ago at the coffeehouse. Today the writers finally made a tiny bit of progress with it but the new details will probably be stuck on repeat for the next month. Yeesh.

Your GC day is off to a bad start when: a Xenomorph masquerading as a pterodactyl sneaks up on you and takes a noisy sniff of your neck. Geez what a lunatic Phyllis is. She's lucky Sally didn't elbow her in the chest, "accidentally." Apparently Victoria has never seen an ailing person before. Cole may be seriously ill but it's not as if he got sick all of a sudden. Calm down, Vikki. Nick talking tough about facing Aristotle Dumas eye-to-eye at the big bash. Yeah, we'll see about that, Nicholas. You're probably gonna have your hands full refereeing Sharon and Phyllis. WTF indeed. There's wide speculation Victor stuck a wording trick in the fine print, something like "5 million shares" instead of "5 million dollars." After Kyle gets set up by Audra and Claire's heart is broken (😒), Victor would end up owning a chunk of Jabot. Yikes.

For a second I thought Tessa was Summer. Same dishwater blonde hair, with a center part. Meanwhile, Sally's coiffure. Surely she couldn't have done all that elaborate twisting and braiding by herself. I didn't hate it though, at least not as much I detested her suit with the holes in the shoulders. Ehhh. Looked like Phyllis has gone blonde-ish too. It's okay, Red, no one was confusing you for Sally anyway. Hee! It probably was, given how cheap this show is now. The props person probably bought blank cards by the gross at Joann's going-out-of-business sale.

Good lord, more of Cole's phlegmy coughing. Who wants to see this? Bueller? Bueller? Nooooo!!!!! Amy's staying in GC. Bleh. IMO the Winters family is being double-teamed by her and Damian. This b.s. deal between Kyle and Victor. Who would pay millions of dollars to date someone, outside of a high-priced call girl situation? And Victor being willing to sell access to his granddaughter seems all kinds of disgusting to me. But of course dumb@$$ Kyle signed a piece of paper agreeing to the potential crime. Victor's smug look after Kyle accepted Victor's absurd contract and left. Hear tell, at that moment Satan down in Hades went, "Brrr. Did anyone feel that besides me?" Damian keeps acting cagey with Lily about his dating history. I'm still wondering if maybe Damian doesn't go for women but telling Lily would ruin the long con he likely has going. A doctor made a housecall to examine Cole. 'Twas a miracle! 🙄 Then he came up with the same armchair diagnosis as Victor. Claire will run right over to thank Grandpa Unlicensed Medical Expert, I bet. Look at Audra trying to nab herself an invite to the Aristotle Dumas bash so she can honeytrap Kyle. How is she going to explain to Nate why she was invited but he wasn't?

Does anyone know who did the opening credits for Your Friends and Neighbors? I'm struck by how sort of similar they are to the ones for the TV series, The Good Fight. Both shows' opening credits feature expensive things exploding in slow motion.

Nick actually told Phyllis to stay away from Dumas. Boy, bye. Have you met her before? Phyllis is going to try to take a spin on the Dumas joystick. (I'm thinking Red better get there before Lily does though. Just sayin'.) Poor Kyle. He actually believes his $5M chump change offer to Victor will work. Diane and Jack stared at Kyle like he'd sprung a second head. Gotta hate it when your prized child is such a disappointment, huh, Mr. & Mrs. Abbott? Yay, Sally is going to France with Billy! I expect her to be the best-dressed woman in the crowd. Slay, queen. Kyle doesn't act like it, does he? And frankly, Kyle also ought to be worried about what Claire might do to him if they ever have a bad breakup. Maybe that's what Victor is counting on with his ploy to use Audra as a honeytrap: Claire handles it like Jordan taught her. Yikes.

Diane and Jack noted how they're already going to be in Europe when it's time to go to the Dumas bash. Maybe Dumas isn't providing both transportation and lodging for his guests after all. I guess I misunderstood the invitation wording. 🤔 Phyllis was feeling snubbed after Nick has told her pretty everyone she knows was invited to the Dumas party but her. And Nick hasn't revealed to Phyllis yet who his date will be. Hee. Nick made a valid point: Chancellor is indeed privately owned. So why do the Newmans believe Dumas is going after it? Seems like needless concern to me. I don't think Nick is taking Phyllis seriously. Everything she says lately sounds insane. AFAIC Nick ought to be getting together with Summer and Daniel and arranging to have Phyllis committed.

FFS, Claire is a member of one of the wealthiest families on the planet. Why did she have to stay up all night tending to Cole? He should be in the frigging hospital, not in a hotel room! Billy stopped in Crimson Lights for a cup of black coffee. Apparently GC doesn't have any convenience stores, or Billy and Sally don't have a basic coffee machine at home. Sure. Oy, Sally. That was a lot of leopard print you had on today. Or was it cheetah? 😸 I find it uncomfortable to watch sometimes. It's not clear whether it's Phyllis' PTSD or MS upstaging her scene partners. Either way, enough already.

All this.^^^ It was ridiculous, especially given how most of the viewers probably remember the COVID pandemic. Anyhoo, Dr. Victor Newman decided Cole only has pneumonia so not to worry about his coughing all over a relatively small room of people. But I was today years old when I learned there are multiple varieties of pneumonia which may or may not be contagious. So now some number of the party attendees may be infected but not know yet. And many of them are on their way to be held captive in a French chateau by some nutbag billionaire. What world is this?

Adam used the term "knives out" when he spoke of Victor vs. the Abbotts. Gee, a reference to the hit movie sequel where a special group of people are invited to a murder mystery game on a private island. Subtle much, JG? Right, Victor. Devon should be congratulated for always putting the Newmans ahead of the Winters. To TGVN, "family first" means his family first. 🤬 Jack gave a lovely final toast to Nikki. She beamed while Victor looked like he was going to explode, tee hee. How dare Jack say Victor's wife's name, and in public too!?!??!! I'm still trying to figure out why they made such a big deal about it at all. Was it a milestone birthday for Nikki? 60th? 65th?

"Competitive billionaire posturing." Whoa, look at Sharon with her fancy schmancy therapy talk. Maybe she was feeling a tad jealous because she didn't get an invite to the Dumas soirée. Kyle basically offered to put a price of $5M on Claire's head. Hmm, I'm pretty sure human trafficking is illegal in the US. Well, at least Victor could use the money to pay off Audra. Ditto comments upthread, why the heck wasn't anyone calling 9-1-1 for Cole? He obviously needed more than over-the-counter cough syrup or cold medicine. So stupid. Lol, Sharon's gonna set a world record for number of times being held hostage in the space of a year. Nick should invite her bestie Phyllis too.

Of course Victor saw through Kyle's ploy. As if a mere sappy toast would touch Victor's cold heart. Chelsea and Adam snarking. Yawn. Instead of tapdancing on Kyle's grave, I think Chelsea needed to dump a bottle of Dawn on her head. Sort of like that commercial about the baby ducks rescued from an oil spill. 😼 Cole, 🎶Every party needs a pooper; that's why they invited you. Party pooper!🎶 You should've stayed away, Patient Zero. Pietro should've had to pay for the "honor" because he's going to be using stories about that party to get future jobs. Gah, dude, act like you been there before.

The Y&R costume designer, Mandi Line, is apparently quite proud of the outfits she picked for Nikki's birthday party. She made a music video using 50 Cents' song, "In Da Club," which shows the actors stylin' and profilin' in their costumes. Ms. Line also appears in the video, including a moment where she's wearing Nikki's gold gown. The video is on the costumer's Instagram page, here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKTAEB2Sdcn/?utm_source=iig_web_copy_link I still say to Ms. Line: YOU'RE DOING TOO MUCH! But TPTB must but happy wth her work since the soap forum world has had tons to say about Y&R's clothes lately. Bad publicity is better than none, huh?

Beth Maitland probably wishes she could forget it. That storyline Ied to Cane's exit, allegedly due to the actor's barely veiled displeasure at having Cane in romantic scenes with Traci.

Similar but no, it was "The Most Dangerous Game", based on a short story. The original movie has been remade a zillion times, and now there are even reality TV shows using the same basic premise. (But without murders, natch.) Re Dame Agatha, I remember the first time I read And Then There Were None. I was stunned at how perfect it was, with not one superfluous word, or an exposition dump to make up for poor plotting. It's said to be one of the best-selling novels of all time. JG in his wildest dreams couldn't write something so brilliant.