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Lawd help me, I love this so much I want to take it to Crimson Lights and buy it a frappacappamochachino. Extra whip.

"Sweetheart." "Baby." "Sweet baby." "My darling." "My baby." Victor, her name is Nikki. (Nicole, if you're nasty. 😉) Gah, you clueless old coot. I have to cosign Devon's attitude toward Daniel wrt Lily despite the hypocrisy. AFAIC Daniel ain't sh!t. Somehow he's made it Lily's fault he can't break up with her immediately so he doesn't have to cheat on her. And there's Daniel's also ain't sh!t daddy. Yuck. Rock off, Danny. Phyllis vs. Diane in the GCAC lobby. One being totally catty and other acting completely delusional. Film at 11. Hey Daniel, if you're so worried about doing the right thing, maybe you could start by not putting your peen in Heather. Does it have a mind of its own and you can't control it? 🙄🙄🙄 Victor threatened to shut the dive bar down if they ever served Nikki another drink. Um, Victor, there are other bars, in GC, WI, the Upper Midwest, the USA, North America, and the world. Good luck with that plan. Game recognize game. Daniel saw right through Danny's b.s. excuses for trying to juggle Christine and Phyllis. And then Danny tapped right into Daniel's situation with Lily, Heather, and a side order of Lucy. Romalotti = messiness. Far be it from me to encourage violence against women but I think Danny is prolly gonna hafta kick Red in the 'nads to get her off him. Nikki using her whispery baby voice to beg Victor to allow Jack to be her AA sponsor. Aarrgghh!

Problem is, he still seems to think it's 40 years ago.

Hey, it's sleezeball Danny. Grinning at Christine like he hadn't tried to play her for a fool. 🤬 Aw, Audra, you put your cooch to work for no reason. Tucker has not fallen back under its spell. Nikki was so drunk she could barely speak or spell, but Jack expected her to text him a whole address. She can't even figure out how to block Unknown calls when she's sober. Jack and Victor moved from Jabot over to NE to have their discussion about Nikki. Huh? Was there something wrong with Jack's office? Apparently Ashley and Traci told their jet's pilot to keep the engine running. Utterly absurd that Traci flew to Paris and back to GC in less than 24 hours, simply to satisfy Ashley's whim. Yikes. Danny might want to ease up on the spray tan or whatever was going on with his face and hands. That plus his shoe polished hair gave him a desperately-trying-to seem-younger look to me. Tucker, sigh, you're running in circles. You can't keep trying different tactics to take on Jabot. The cosmetics business is Ashley's arena, not yours. I was surprised Traci confirmed Tucker's version of the bistro spat. So Jack and Victor were going to waste time arguing about Nikki while she was at the bar getting blackout drunk? WTH, especially since Victor knows Jordan might be on the loose nearby. Shut up, Jack. Nikki's drinking may be a long-term project for you but she might not have months or years to get sober. I can't understand why rehab isn't considered an option. OMG, Grandma Phyllis still doing her sultry siren routine even after Danny has told her to stop. She is pathetic. But Christine, hon, quit trying wrestle a pig. The pig likes it and you'll just get covered in slop. "Gauntlet thrown." Over Danny, the walking, talking bundle of toasted dough? GMAFB. 🙄

Hey y'all, did you know today (February 7) is Hug an Addict or Alcoholic Day? Per the linked article: Maybe Nikki just needs a hug or two. Preferably from someone other than the man who can't seem to call her by her name. (FYI: I'm not in agreement with defining addiction as something that can be cured. I prefer to see recovery from addiction as continuing effort, probably for the rest of the addict's life.)

From during the break: 2/1, Thursday Nikki literally fell into Jack's arms. Clichés gonna cliché. Ehh, Tucker. I think rubbing it in via Ashley's voicemail about the Paris bistro spat was unnecessary and a bit cruel. Nikki drunk again. Yawn. But at least she assured Jack she's using a rideshare service to get around instead of driving herself. Lucy listening at the doorway to Heather and Daniel trying to define their rekindled relationship in Lily's absence. Grrr. I really need for that brat to stay out of grown folks business. And for the adults to stop making it so easy for her not to. Wah, wah, Heather. You can't always get what you want, when you want it. At least Daniel has a tiny bit of decency wrt Lily. Traci, stop standing there watching Ashley have a public meltdown. Help her, for goodness sake. Lol, the green-screened Paris street behind Ashley was laughable. TPTB are straight up blowing raspberries at us now. Buh, buh, buh, busted, Jack! Caught in the act of providing support to Nikki by Victor. DUN, DUN, DUUUUNNNNN!!!!

Kirsten Incorporated existed in the ether apparently but Sharon has her corporate offices in GC. At one point she mentioned having acquired office space but the audience has never seen it. Meanwhile, the company has satellite sites all over the world and Sharon has meetings with the KI staff via group video calls. The company seems to have something to do with IT, providing enterprise software and support services. Sharon has also spoken about having to learn the tech lingo.

Victor: I've been informed, evidence suggests that Jordan did not survive the fire at the prison. Victoria: so she's dead? The World: well yes, Vikki, that's usually what not surviving means. Gah, these dumb Newmans. Now Victor is having Nikki followed without her knowledge. If it weren't for the Jordan situation I'd be majorly annoyed by that. Even Nikki, a growna$$ woman, is entitled to her privacy Whaaaatttt? Why would someone in Lauren's social, financial, and professional position agree to work as a glorified assistant, even temporarily? You're goofy, Jack. Cole's voice seemed weird today to me, like he had marbles in his mouth and throat. Hope JEP's okay. He's usually so crisp and precise in his speech. Whoa, TGVN rolling up on a dive bar. Back in the day Victor would've thrown his fists at that busboy instead handing him a fist full of dollars. Adam baring his soul to Nick of all people about his relationship with Connor. Wow. Has Adam been replaced by alien body-snatchers? Yeah, Nick, all your kids have made huge mistakes, like when Christian let Connor lock him in the garage. Seriously, why did Nick and Adam not bring up Christian when they were commiserating about the trials of being a parent? Claire was looking bright-eyed for a change. I like that her recovery from decades of Jordan's abuse isn't being rushed. Nikki must not wear a distinctive "rich lady" perfume. Victor was within inches of where she was hiding in the dive bar and he didn't even detect her presence. Hmm. JG sure is mixing things up all of a sudden: Abby to join Devon at C/W; Lauren to temp at Newman Media; and, Tessa to run Society. Maybe Phyllis could become a GCAC bellhop. 😏

From during the break: 1/31, Wednesday Yeah, something about the schmoopiness between Diane and Jack annoys me too. Especially since it's currently at Kyle's expense. Oh noes, now Nikki has to run Newman Media without a COO, and while she's struggling with her sobriety! The Newmans are ridiculous when they act like Nikki is making a great sacrifice. She doesn't have to work, and could easily leave and go to rehab for her drinking. So Miss Audra thinks she's working Tucker but he's actually working her. Double double-cross. Ow, my head. Wow, Diane was getting territorial with her own son about her co-CEO promotion. Having his mommy's foot on his neck must be maddening for Kyle, and Diane remains completely oblivious. Nate was giving Audra good advice about not trying to outfox Tucker. She better listen to Nate because she's probably walking into a Tucker-sized trap. Didn't know what to make of Victor telling Nick he was concerned about Nick's lack of a romantic life. Guess Adam hasn't informed Victor that Sharon & Nick are fate. 🙄 I know Cole is the master of being unbothered but his lack of concern about Jordan having possibly escaped confinement was super odd to me. Here comes the February sweeps, and more of psycho Jordan's reign of terror. 🤮

It was canceled in 2023 but the ones with Judge Marilyn Milian are still being aired in syndication on an oldies channel. She has a new court show now.

From during the break: 1/30, Tuesday Am still surprised Victor doesn't let himself into Nikki's office to check up on her. Glad Tucker didn't fall for Audra's "I quit my job" lie. Aw, Nikki has to spare poor Victor's delicate fee-fees. Meanwhile, she has no problem yelling at Jack for not supporting her in the selfish way she demands to be supported. AFAIC she's awful and Jack is a simp for putting up with it. Nate's lying to Devon about his continuing friendship with Audra. Hmm. Now that he isn't dating anyone, Nick has all the time in the world for Christian. Bet Christian hardly knows how to act when his daddy treats him as a priority for a change. Sharon having CFT zoom meetings at night, from the coffeehouse. Even allowing for her having staff in other timezones, why was she not conducting business from her corporate office? Good thing Jack had already told Nikki about his chat with Victor. When Victor started griping to her about Jack nosing into private Newman family stuff, the foreknowledge helped her maintain her false face Quite a tongue bath Sharon got from Nick. So tired of Devon sh!tting on Tucker. Ugh. I can understand Victor not wanting to alarm Nikki but she should know Jordan may have escaped. Jordan is a danger specifically to Nikki.

So over JAJ and his 45 impression. I'd like to take that bit to the nearest wharf and drop it off one of the docks. Volvo. Also the medical term for hooha. Ayo Edebiri's sweetly sincere opening monologue: Hop on to it, nah! The Dune popcorn bucket: anything's a sex toy if you're shameless enough? Jennifer Lopez must have some of the best cosmetic surgeons in the business. I ain't mad at her. The live version of JLo's first song wasn't bad. I can't stand the radio version though; it's like pop music created by AI. She put most of her effort into the music video. WU: Whoa, Colin went in with that pile-up of actual conspiracy theories. Colin (El Diablo de Los Hamptons) was screwing his former housekeeper. Who knew? Besides his son CJ who also loves cocaine, that is. Yeah, no, I'm never getting on an elevator again. Elevator Town can miss me. I wonder if Jordin Sparks is aware Satan may appear as a hypnotist and make people sing one of her songs? The first thing I wondered during the second song was who was going to pop out from under JLo's gown, lol. And then how she dared to sing with her own voice on live TV. There was a clearly backing track but it seemed to be her hitting those notes. The court sketch seemed like a mashup of several of those daytime TV judge shows. People's Court is probably still one of the least trashy. Ayo was fantastic! She was solid on her lines or good at reading the cue cards, brought a lot energy, and was totally game to be silly. She can host again.

I don't think the matter is closed. It's been publicized that the young actor who plays Connor will be returning to the show in the near future. More opportunity for Chelsea and Adam to disagree about Connor, and for Billy to stick his nose in. I doubt either Adam or Victor will tolerate that for long.

I think elsewhere some viewers thought the photos were okay (maybe taken from Facebook or LinkedIn), but perhaps the stolen jewelry had been added so the prosecution could directly tie the pieces to victims. Seems to me that could've been done by Photoshop but maybe using AI is more seamless. Either way, one wonders whether Riley has that kind of technical skill.

From during the break: 1/29, Monday Heaven help me, I believe Summer and Chance make one gorgeous couple. Mopey Victor, drinking alone at Society while his wife is in her office struggling with a flask of vodka. What a disconnect. Chance knew the wine was a Vermentino and Summer tried not to act surprised. Aw, look at those two scions of great wealth comparing their elite knowledge of wine from the Old Country. Nikki wanted to banish Audra to London. For her, the entire North American continent and an ocean's not big enough to hold the two of them. Hilarious. Audra played Nikki perfectly to get herself fired so she could jump over to Glissade. She probably didn't expect the part about moving to another country though. Poor PB, solid on his lines and fully engaged in the scene, while EB was distracted by trying to read his parts off Victor's phone. Lettuce, peanut butter, and mayonnaise sandwiches. OMG, Chance, is that your homemade hangover cure? Bleh. 🤮🤮🤮🤮 Wonder who Jack thinks he can talk into going to work for Nikki? Nikki is a lot even when she's not in a panic over her drinking. Victor needs to figure out Nikki's pattern: she locks her office when she's boozing, and also when she's meeting behind his back with Jack about her boozing.

Of course the first guy they took into custody wasn't the perp. 🙄 Seems like the murdered woman's mother knew her daughter was into something iffy. Just like in the previous episode, I don't understand why people going to sex parties would agree to being filmed while they're there. Or why the event management wouldn't delete the surveillance video immediately afterward unless they wanted to have blackmail material. The crime analyst has a kinky side apparently. Murder wasn't enough of a felony for the perp, he had to be robbing his victims too, thus increasing his chances of getting caught. Yeesh. That's Lt. Dixon to you, Ms. Defense Attorney. The defense was able to get a copy of Riley's notes? Did they have to subpoena them because I didn't realize those were public record. The prosecution appeared to have been caught off guard when Riley was confronted with what he had written in the past. Are we to understand that Riley overcame his previous lack of concern about the Black victims and went to their families to get those photos of them wearing the stolen jewelry? (On reddit some think the photos may have been created by AI. The previous episode opened the door for it when Jack wasn't concerned by video evidence which may have been altered by a potential suspect using AI.)

Adam spoke of taking his jet to visit Connor "up there." Huh? Is Connor in Canada? Or the Arctic Circle? I thought his school was within a reasonable driving distance from GC. Look at Sharon doing her business mogul thing. You go, Boss Lady. 😏 Uh oh, Nate. Looks like Audra's kissed and made up with Tucker. Literally. Bet you could use some peanut butter to go with that jelly. I'm starting to doubt Tucker did pay off the Paris waiter to lie to Ashley. Something about the matter still seems off to me though. Sharon mentioned her corporate office to Devon and Nate. Guess it's in Never-Never Land. The audience's chances of seeing CEO Sharon working anywhere other than the coffeehouse/GCAC/Society are likely close to zero. Wait, did Devon basically tell Nate not to associate with Audra? This guy. 😱 Eh, Audra, not sure you want to cast yourself to Tucker as the alt-Ashley. Forbidden fruit tends to develop an extra allure. Okay, there might be a custody battle brewing between Chelsea and Adam. IMO Chelsea shouldn't be trying to manage Adam's relationship with his son. Shut up, Billy. you're not entitled to pass judgment on Adam's ability to parent his son just because you're dating Connor's mommy. I think Traci may need to dial whatever the French version of 9-1-1 is. Ashley was quickly leaving objective reality, and she won't listen to anyone not saying what she wants to hear. Missed you all so much! Ditto comments, upthread, I have a whole new respect for Nikki's flask. At least it gives her some satisfaction, unlike obsessively clicking on the link for these forums over the past week. 🥴🥴🥴🥴

First! Longest week ever...

Ugh, now comes all the talk about whether Taylor will perform at the Super Bowl. I hope she has enough class not to step into Usher's spotlight during halftime. Okay, Detroit Lions, don't let me down.

Going to an ATM at 2 a.m. to withdraw a visible stack of bills is probably not smart to do anywhere, especially Manhattan. "G Ticket." Seriously? Refusing--without your attorney present--to say where you were at a certain time is grounds to be taken into custody. Learn something new every day. The lifestyle party looked lame. Why would they film it if it was supposed to be private and hush hush? Oh no, Eva became sentient and killed Evan! Darned AI. 😉 EVA looked like a casino security room. Wonder if L&O borrowed that set from FBI? It looked similar but the set on FBI is usually brightly-lit. I think back in the day the role of James Sawyer might've been played by Fisher Stevens. He had the "up to something he knows you won't understand" look down pat.

^^^I guess both Tucker and Ashley are international celebrities so of course the Paris cafe crew will remember them from months ago. 🙄 Yeah, my bet is that Tucker already paid everyone off and absconded with any security footage.

Timely cold open with an NFL pre-game show sketch. Let's go, Ravens! We have to keep Travis Kelce's girlfriend from singing at the Super Bowl. 😏 SNL isn't live in all timezones though. Some areas west of the Mississippi only get the west coast feed which often has been altered from the original live production in NYC. Whee, the cold open ended great with that overwrought Fast & Furious song. And did we know before now that JAJ could sing? Ditto comments upthread, Dakota Johnson looked different. I wouldn't have recognized her without context. Hope she's okay. Meh, Justin Timberlake. Because Justin's presence means his desperate-for-attention pal Jimmy Fallon has an excuse to show up too. Bone-in salad. There's a visual. She a ho, Corey Dervitch! I miss the trashy Maury show, even if most of it was probably staged. And there it, the old Bee Gees thing. An exercise in JF and JT pretending like they're trying not to break. Unfortunately their singing voices were no longer up to the task. Dang that fight between the PDD guys and Dakota was brutal! Nepo babies went savage, and the hits just kept coming. (Dakota's actually a nepo grandbaby. Tippi Hedren is a Hollywood classic.) Big Dumb Cups. The Ugg version tastes like foot! That wasn't the new song from JT which premiered wide last week. I kinda liked Sanctified. JT usually does better when he leaves the boy band sound behind. He's too old for that now. WU: Didn't they do a maternity prom dress joke last week? Godzilla prequel, Oppenheimer. Perfect. Asian don't raisin? Never heard that one before. Another Saltburn spoiler. SNL doesn't seem to like that movie. The looted from Ghana joke tho. Ehh, biting on the Jonas Brothers. Not a good look, JT. (Is it possible JT thinks Nick Jonas "stole" his style so Selfish is a lowkey retort?) Devon does a fantastic imitation of Kenan's lispy character. Maybe Kenan has taken Devon under his wing. Quite a crowded stage during the sign-off. Oh look, it's the noted transphobic comic. Dakota was okay, with kind of an affected low-energy vibe. Not the worst host this season.

Grandbaby Romalotti will be the apple of Grandpa Paul's eye:

Nasty and Temporarily Not Drunk Nikki vs. Cool as a Cucumber Diane, with purses ready to swing. Let's go! Nate and Tucker eyeballing each other like the showdown at the O.K. Corral. Let's go! Jack's right, Ashley. Tucker is taking a comfy vacation in your head, on your tab, and you're letting him. I don't get why Audra let Tucker in her room if she's supposed to be done with him. Ehh, Nikki, you might not want to overplay your hand with Diane. She's holding all the high cards. Hey, it's Esther. Schmoopy Tucker vs Mopey Tucker. Nope and nope. Audra is not for you, my guy. Let it go. And I hope you're playing her with this Glissade thing. TMW you roll up on yet another of your baby mama's exes. Cole continues to be totally unbothered by any potential messiness with Vikki's past or present. Okay. There it is. Diane just wanted to let Nikki know about her promotion to Jabot co-CEO. Stay sassy, Diane, lol. Seems to me Ashley could hire a local PI to find out what went down during the Paris bistro spat, and what the waitstaff saw. She doesn't need to take a private jet over there. Bad carbon footprint, Ash. Oh, Jack, stop acting brand new. You know Ashley's cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Tucker is simply her latest excuse to go bonkers. All you can do is be there for her when she falls apart. Again. Claire's therapist has a name now. Dr. Henberg better be ready for the bad stuff that can come with dealing with a Newman. Re the previews: Jordan escaped? Good grief. AFAIC Victor should put a hit out on her and be done with it. 🙄🙄🙄

Yeah, it does seem like Heather's been around forever but according to her bio at Soap Central she was born in 1979, which would make her 45. But apparently in 2014 Paul and Nikki commented that Heather was born 30 years ago, which would make her 40. Per IMDb the actress (Vail Bloom) is 42. So if Heather is early to mid-40ish, she's still in the range of being able to get pregnant. The question might be why it's never happened in all these years of Heather being on the show. She's been sexually active with several men, including Daniel, Adam, Chance, and the guy back in Portugal. Maybe she's due for a "surprise" baby.