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Crayons, lol. She probably steals them from Connor. On another soap forum someone posted that Chloe and Chelsea should be paying Society rent since they're using it for their office. They probably nurse one measly drink for hours too. Yeah, handing the fate of Marchetti to Chelsea is a winning move! 🙄

Not sure if the show was preempted everywhere today but I was able to watch it online at CBS.com. WTH, Phyllis? Worst incognito outfit ever. The gigantic hat and sunglasses will attract more attention because no one runs around GC dressed like that. Chelsea was doing her suburban Kabuki mask thing again today, with the extra pale face, dark eyeliner, and ruby lips. Hee. Surely Chelsea isn't still working on summer designs. By now the fall stuff should be in production and she should be starting on winter clothes. Gloria! Must be nice to have your choice of CEO jobs. Nepotism FTW, huh Kyle? I guess the next big party in the Gunky Parrot lobby will be the Marchetti relaunch to introduce Kyle as their new head honcho. Yawn. Sure hope Phyllis was using a burner phone because if not, Summer is an utter fool. But why was Phyllis lying about her location? She must assume Summer and Daniel don't communicate. Whee, our girl Gloria swans in and demonstrates a complete misread of the situation with Chloe and Chelsea. But of course she put her special Gloworm spin on it. I thought Allie's dress today was nicely ordinary, for her anyway. Plus the light purple color matched Grandpa Jack's tie. CHELSEA AS THE LEAD DESIGNER FOR MARCHETTI???!!!??? Has Summer been snorting peanut butter? Chelsea is flakey with a capital F and she will likely destroy the venerated Marchetti label. Nah, Summer, you need to mind your own beeswax. Phyllis, Diane, and Jack don't need you all up in their business. Stupid. Right, Red. You'll never run into anybody who might recognize you at the one coffeehouse everybody you know goes to. I can't. 🙄

But she seems to think she's a 21st century Rita Hayworth. Never will I ever be convinced the writers came up with that "caw, caw" thing, or that MS was directed to do it. I believe the reference originated on this forum; she or someone associated with her noticed it; and, the caw cawing was her impromptu attempt to thumb her nose at Phyllis being called a "rabid pterodactyl." Nice try, sweetie. 😏

Jill didn't know about Ashland's dirt? I thought it was public knowledge now. 🤔 Oh Jill, no. Taking Lily's side against your own child? Bad mommy! Yeah, that skirt on Summer today was nine kinds of wrong. She just doesn't have the body for such a look IMO. She has no waist, no hips, and for some reason pants and skirts sit high on her midriff. Not sure what vibe the wardrobe people are going for with her. Usually I like the ladies' blowouts but Nikki's wasn't working for me. Her outfit was "ladies who lunch" but her hair was "does this make me look younger?" Ehhh. Imani is shameless. In what universe is the COO of an international conglomerate supposed to be considered sexy? Even Nate knew better. Whoa, looks like Kyle's been working out. Check out those arms. 💪💪 Lauren's face was frozen again today, lol. Loved the dress though. Nate = easier to seek forgiveness than permission. Devon = stay in your lane before you get run over. Imani = go with your gut at all possible cost. Lily = but enough about me, how do you feel about me? What a mess. PR? Diane wants to make a career change into public relations but how would her own baggage not get in the way? Perhaps this is building up to her doing a public mea culpa and asking for forgiveness. However, I'm thinking it might be interesting if Diane went to work with Sally at Newman Media. They seem like they'd be simpatico as LA expats. Bonus points: Victor and Nikki would blow their stacks. I don't really watch DAYS but I had it on as background noise and noticed a character mentioned Juneteenth. Meanwhile, over on YR, the best they could do was have Lily, Devon, Nate, and Imani in the same room at the same time. Good job, CBS! 🙄😐

It was but she knew Margo didn't want Ed to lead the Mars mission. Molly set up a deliberate challenge of her job authority versus Margo's, and used Ed as a chess piece to do it. If Margo hadn't shut Molly down she'd be in a position of constantly having to worry how Molly would undermine her next. Plus Molly treated Margo (and Margo's staff) with barely-veiled contempt. She and her disrespectful behavior had to go. And her little dog too. Molly will likely follow Ed to Helios. She'll be fine.

Yes. Molly knew she doing an end run while Margo was out of town and assumed Margo wouldn't overturn what she did. She assumed wrong and paid the price.

Finally watched this on Netflix. Pacino's accent was laughable to me. What was that, German? Pennsylvania Dutch? Chicago? Guess even Scorsese can't make Al do his job better. For Hoffa I think I might've gone with Warren Beatty instead but perhaps he doesn't do acting roles anymore. I still don't understand why JFK and RFK went so hard on Hoffa and the mob. Was it something personal? Whatever, apparently the mob is indeed taking credit for JFK's assassination. So much for the CIA, the Russians/Cubans, or some U.S. military brass who were mad about the humiliating attempted hit on Castro. "You charge with a gun, with a knife you run." Joey Gallo was begging to get murked with that mouth of his. But wow, to kill him in front of his wife and kid? Yikes. Anna Paquin playing Frank's daughter was unexpected. Interesting casting. In even more interesting casting, the guy who played Tony Pro was a British actor. IMO his Italian accent was way more disciplined than whatever Pacino was trying to do. So if Hoffa hadn't been so stubborn and arrogant after he got out of prison he'd still be alive? Or at least not mysteriously "disappeared." Looked like Hoffa knew the jig was up but he thought Frank was going to help him. Not sure why Hoffa's son was brought into it though, unless they wanted to make sure he wouldn't seek revenge later. (Or cooperate with the feds' investigation.) Weird how Frank's daughter Peggy knew he did the Hoffa hit. She was always fond of Hoffa while she loathed Russ. I wondered if perhaps Russ had messed with her when she was a little girl but she didn't dare tell Frank for fear of what he might do. Hoffa was simply cremated? Where'd the story about his being dumped in Giants stadium's foundation come from? Frank outlived them all and took their secrets to the grave crypt. Okay. 🙁 Ditto comments upthread, I think Scorsese could've cut 30 - 45 minutes out without hurting the overall movie. I'm glad I didn't see it in a theater because I probably would've fallen asleep.

Loved Karen's pantsuit in the opening. I would wear that today. Geez, only Karen could come out of a disaster like Polaris and get paid for her troubles. Loved Ollie's little growl after Molly threw her hissy fit to Margo's staff. He was like, "And don't you forget it!" At first I thought Ed had major hip issues when he was limping. Did we ever find out why he was giving himself an injection in the first episode? Danny is nuts. Complete bananas. Cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Surely Karen's stuff wasn't that good. McCain wasn't going to be anybody's second-in-command anyway. Ditto comments upthread, Ellen getting in bed with extreme right Christians probably won't bode well if they find out what she's hiding. Maybe they'll learn about her husband instead and she can pretend to play the martyr. Danielle's Dooney & Burke shoulder bag. Check. Wardrobe details still on point. "Just say no" co-opted for Ellen's presidential campaign. Heh. Molly didn't think she could be fired for such flagrant insubordination? Good grief, someone's going to end up dead behind Danny's obsession with Karen. Or in jail. Ed likely isn't going to fit in at a place trying to run itself as a corporate democracy. Eventually he'll want everyone just to do what he says, including Dev. Maybe Karen will have to become the Ed Whisperer. Lol, was stalker Danny about to cry when he heard the latest Helios news? My favorite comment from reddit:

Tropic of Cancer as a primer on human sexuality? Yikes. Good thing T'Pring didn't read Ann Rice's Sleeping Beauty series. Was it me or did this episode need an unusual amount of exposition? That's usually not a good sign. When the call is coming from inside the house Enterprise. "You are failing to communicate effectively." T'Pring is great at deflecting blame. You can tell it bugs Spock but he won't call her on it because she always shames him for being half human.. Poor Nurse Chapel. She has definitely caught feelings for Spock and the fake kiss didn't help matters. I really don't like how passive-aggressive Spock is being about it. To me it's almost like he wants to provoke her into making a definite move on him. Yeah, this problem seems to be going around. The latest The Orville storyline depended on pretty much the same issue. One wouldn't think that in the future security protocols would become more lax, or at least easily evaded.

Meh, Traci might have been a bit oversensitive. I don't think calling someone "pumpkin" is considered an insult or even shade. Plus, John referring to Ashley as My Beauty was the height of irony given that she wasn't "his" at all. Of course that was no comfort to Traci at the time since no one knew yet about Ashley's true paternity, but John's intentions toward both of them was based in love. (And not fear that his children would surpass him in their accomplishments, as with the patriarch on the other side of town.)

Great to see John Abbott. He was a real patriarch who didn't protect his ego by playing his kids against each other. I liked Allie's booties. But goodness gracious, did she get dressed in the dark? Nothing about that outfit matched except the dreaded sparkles on her dress and bag. Bleh. OMG, as soon as they mentioned Danny Romalotti I was afraid they'd play Rock On. Thankfully, no. 🥵 Traci stays being a Pollyanna. Traci, hon, sometimes giving people "enough time" just lets them keep hurting you longer. Not everyone is safe to be allowed a second or third chance. Too bad--IMO--they chose to show a scene concerning Ashley's abortion but didn't dare mention the word. And didn't Ashley have to go ino a mental hospital for a while after that? Ehhh. A watch. Heh, Ashley was bought for cheap, even if it did have microscopic diamond chips on it. Victor probably had his secretary pick it up from Fenmores on her lunch break. Alrighty then, Brad Carlton. Fine AF. And boy did he get around. Were there any of the main woman characters he didn't sleep with? Even Nate's mommy Olivia got some, tee hee. Traci didn't bother to tell Allie that Colleen's heart is now in Noah's grandfather's chest. A fate worse than death. Yeah I said it, Victor. Come at me. 😏 Wait, Noah asked Allie to "hang out"? At what point does he come to the Abbott house to pick her up for a proper date? Grrr. Went in expecting Traci or Ashley to mention Theo when they were discussing Dina. Left disappointed, of course. 😒 All in all, I thought it was a decent retrospective. They even brought out Nadia's Theme at the end. 🏆

I noticed that too. Is it for a role or is he still having COVID-related issues? (In fact, I've picked up on several Hollywood actors looking thinner than usual lately. Maybe it's a trend right now?} I'd have no problem putting my money on "deliberately." Parts of SNL get run over by ads all the time in the metro PHX area by the local NBC station. Sometimes entire skits have been replaced and I've only found out from reading the PTV SNL forum. Jimmy Kimmel's show on ABC occasionally gets messed with by the local ABC station too, though recently I guess the claim was that it was a problem with the feed they were using. Sure, Jan. Not sure what's going on with Jon taking the summer off but he was just on the Today show this morning and he was featured fairly heavily. Perhaps he's looking for greener pastures, e.g., ones earlier in the day?

^^^Yeah, Allie's clothing has been kind of odd to me for a character who was living in LA most of her life. {Maybe she was friends with Hope Forrester, lol). There's this weird preppy vibe but with an eclectic twist. The actress is quite thin but I doubt they're going to put her in the kind of intentionally alluring stuff Sally or Imani wear. Still though, Allie's style is definitely puzzling. On a similar note, Diane's look doesn't read CA to me at all, especially with all the dark colors. She's got more of an East Coast, married into old money, socialite in mourning vibe, I think.

Several comments upthread mentioned this episode's similarity to the Twilight Zone. I had been thinking of this TZ episode: but on another TV show forum someone mentioned this one: Either way, pretty good inspiration IMO. I'd say most of the original TZ series still holds up 60 or so years later, and it is good fodder for more contemporary envisionings.

References to other Star Trek/Wars entities aside, right off the bat this episode read to me like The Orville meets The Twilight Zone. Or Black Mirror. (Ditto comments upthread, I was definitely waiting for an alien to appear outside the window of the airplane.) Wait, The Orville meets Dynasty? Oh come on. Fallon Carrington 2.0 showing up to spout a bunch of pseudo-philosophical nonsense took me right out of the show. (But according to reddit, Elizabeth Gillies and Seth are good friends and she's worked with him on several productions.) Seems to me the Orville's security systems must be lacking if a doppelgänger for one of the crew can walk right on board so easily.

Again, I was able to watch today's preempted episode on CBS.com. Oy, I think nuSummer might want to leave the skintight leather pants to Sally. Just sayin'. 😼 Jill being snarkily receptive toward Diane was not the way I expected that reunion to go. Heh, Angelina Marchetti must be chugging the Amaretto Disaronno if she was willing to retire and trust Summer's vision for the future of her company. And then Summer thinks Kyle should be CEO. What does he know about the fashion business? Love how this show wants to keep giving the impression that the job of running any international company can be learned via OJT. Looks like Ashland's new penthouse is part of the palazzo set repurposed, with brighter colors. Oh, okay, Jill has no reason to resent Diane's presence because she wasn't one of the people incriminated in Diane's "murder." Jill's truth bombs can be more objective than say, Phyllis or Nikki's. Victoria said she wants to bring the fine arts into the digital age. Here come the NFTs! TPTB have yet to find a trend they weren't willing to jump on and present in a screwed up way. I'm with Jill. Diane is up to something more than merely getting reacquainted with Kyle. I don't even think bagging Jack is it. There has to be a big win looming because she could've stayed hidden in CA and avoided all the abuse and hostility. Gah, Summer, stay out of grown folks' business. You can't control your mommy, Kyle's mommy, or your FIL. Leave it be before you get burned unnecessarily. How afraid was I that Adam and Sally were going to christen Adam's new office by having office furniture sex? THIS MUCH. I doubt the couch in there has been cleaned since Victoria and OG Ashland got busy on it months ago, and who knows what's been on that desk. <shudder> 🤮🤮🤮☠️☠️☠️ Whoa, was that a "dream on, you POS" sneer Victoria gave Ashland when he was pouring more drinks? Dang, she is running a long con on him and I am here for it. 🤠 Stand back, world. TGVN has yet another top secret plan to destroy Ashland, once and for all. Sorry, Vic, nobody's buying any more of your bluster except Nikki.

Maybe Jabot should make a run at Revlon: Revlon files for bankruptcy From the article That sounds right up Jabot's alley, probably moreso than Marchetti. I could see Lily getting mixed up in it too since makeup has been her thing as well. The writers could change the name of the IRL company to Remlon or something. Yeah, that's the ticket! 😉

AFAIC, if Lily's over it let her get to steppin'. There's other fish in the sea. Frankly, Billy's starting to look a bit p-whipped to me anyway. Meanwhile, were they sort of chem testing him with Diane? Now that would be deliciously messy since Jack seems to be trying to figure out how he can make it okay for him to get closer to Diane again. 100%, Snaporaz.

Seeing how Jill and Jack have maintained their long friendship is one of the rare treats of this show IMO. Sally's dress was interesting. She looked to me like she was starring one of those 1930s sci fi movies as a fembot from the planet Hootchie Mama. It was a relatively conservative look--for her. 😼 Lily in a purple dress, and Billy and Nate wearing purple ties and pocket squares. Wonder if chosing the clothing color scheme was part of their big planning meetings because otherwise Devon didn't get the memo. The ship metaphor Devon used was a unfortunate choice, lol. I see a huge iceberg looming in the choppy waters C-W is sailing into. Plus, whoever heard of a ship made of two boats welded together and with a separate captain for each side? Chance doing a double-take when he saw Diane leaving was odd. I didn't realize he knew who she was. Huh, I thought Billy was in charge of the podcasts? Looked like he had no clue about the dozens of new ones Nate proudly announced. Omaha! Omaha! Omaha! 🏉🏉🏉 Victor told Lily and Devon Neil would've been proud of them, and Nikki stopped just short of saying the merger was what Kay would've wanted. Neil and Kay's corpses must be spinning like rotisserie chickens in fifth gear. 🤨 Whee, Adam looked he'd just creamed in his boxer briefs after daddy Vic delivered the big news about his promotion to NE CEO. Diane works Jack so easily. How can he not see through her? Imani might need to work on her flirting skills. She actually told a guy under the age of 70 he's "debonair." 🤡 Jill looking at Imani like, "I see you, sis. I was running this man-stealing game when you were still a twinkle in your daddy's eye." Imani redefines boldness. Oy, Billy's jaws were hella tight when he was hugging Lily there at the end! Looks like the news Adam dropped really got to him. Ill-advised, overly reactive counter-manuever coming in 3...2...1...

Wasn't Molly also dying? After the flash forward I was surprised to see she was even still alive, much less fully blind.

I would've agreed with this 100% until recently when Lily put Billy in a position of having to choose between her or his kids. Just because her kids are pretty much grown and she doesn't have to deal with Cane over them doesn't mean she can act like co-parenting is fantasy now. Billy has his issues but I think he's genuinely concerned for his kids' welfare in light of their mother bringing someone like Ashland closer into their lives. Lily can eff right off on how Billy chooses to handle it AFAIC. If Lily thinks Billy is really after Victoria again and she doesn't want to be the back pocket option, she can exercise her option to DTMFA.

They showed the Nikki retrospective on my local station but I was able to watch the current episode at CBS.com. On the dress front, I liked Imani's the best, though I preferred the color of Lily's dress if not the style or the dreaded sparkly fabric. Jill! Yay! Good to see her again. 🥳 Okay, sounds like the writers sent Jill in to do damage control. While she reinforced the fact that she still owns the company, she also emphasized how it is more of family affair since the key players are all related in some way. She did not, however, use the word "legacy." Thank you, MWTs. Then Lily started yapping. I darn near shoved my fist in my mouth to keep from screaming when I knew she would say C-W was "their" legacy. But she didn't! Hallelujah! Of course, it sounded like she expected to be working there for the rest of her life and I don't think that's realistic, for her or for Devon and Nate. This is not a Jabot or NE situation, despite Lily's presumption. Giancarlo. Sigh. The actor could barely get his lines out. I was hoping for so much more but I guess he was only meant to be a plot device to help move Imani and Nate's storyline. Holy moley, what was Nikki wearing? I have no words for that monstrosity. The colors, the fabric, the shape. All a total fashion don't. Victor almost incurred my wrath with his little congrats and pep talk to Lily and Devon. He mentioned Neil and Kay but at least he avoided declaring the merger of CI and HWG to be what they would've wanted. KMN. 🙄 Nice of Chance to demur ever so kindly on Jill's offer for him to join the "family" business, although I'd still argue it's more of his birthright than Lily's. He's probably better off staying away from the looming clusterfcuk to develop when C-W C-suite starts eating itself. Lol, wonder if Giancarlo had any idea how much pressure he was under to distract Imani from Nate? Poor guy. 🤠 Nikki, shut up. How many second and third chances have you been given after the mistakes you've made? Get a hobby, hon; one other than threatening Diane. I think Diane is full of it though. She only went to the Gamey Peapod to invite trouble. Looked to me like she even got her hair did for the occasion. All hail GC's premier instigator! Is Imani trying to get Nate in trouble? What's her angle in encouraging him to defy Devon and Lily with his PR speech? Nate better hope Devon doesn't go off and break his other hand. Or one of his legs. 😏

How did Albert find Barry out in wilds? Was that Barry's known dumping ground or did Albert follow him? Wow, Gene sold Barry out to save his career. By doing probably the best acting performance of his life. Cristobal and Hank are both going to have serious PTSD now. Hopefully it won't wreck their relationship and they'll find a way to support each other. They better get out Bolivia ASAP though since Hank just killed the head of a major drug cartel. When does season four start? My favorite comment from reddit about that last moment between Hank and Cristobal: Guess Barry (or Fuches) better call Saul, lol.

I don't recall how JFK and RFK fared in this alternate reality but it seems to me both Hart and Clinton sort of positioned themselves as the heir to the Kennedy throne but without the baggage associated with the name. They both had that JFK swagger to some extent, IMO. But unless the alternate reality versions of Hart or Clinton painted themselves differently, it seemed to me Hart would've eliminated the basis for Clinton's run after two terms in office. Gore would've made more sense to me. Unless Ellen gets publicly outed I suspect she's going to win the election.

If alternate reality Gary Hart won two POTUS terms it's doubtful to me there would've been a Bill Clinton. Hart must've loved watching this. Not a fan of "aged" Joel Kinneman. The actress playing his wife was a funny surprise. She has a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful where she plays a relatively staid doctor and the opposite of a party animal. So is Molly fully blind now? She's got a seeing eye dog now who appears to be of the same gruff temperament as she. This show is still on point with the women's wardrobes. I recognized Margo's vintage Etienne Aigner shoulder bag right away. Someone should've snatched the mic away from Danny's brother Jimmy. What a pointlessly miserable wedding toast. That first dance song! OMG, Danny! A bit of a gut punch for Karen, lol. And the poor bride likely had no clue of the song's significance to her new husband. Wow, what a cascade of failure. Were there no redundancies or failsafes built in at all? Over on reddit they've been calling Polaris the space Motel 6. So now Danny will be the new hero and Karen will owe him big time. Gee, wonder how he might want to collect on the debt? 😏 Now this is how you open a third season. Ditto comments upthread, I thought sure they were getting ready to wipe out a chunk of the cast like FAM's version of the Red Wedding.