Bringonthedrama

I assume her nails looking good is a high priority for the holidays and Dex's memorial/funeral. Elizabeth is a great mom; she raised Cam to be kind-hearted and a gentleman. Joss certainly didn't deserve that farewell hug from him. I was surprised by the Tracy-Jason scene because they are so rarely scene partners. Isn't JE the last original cast member for the Quartermaine Family, who was there when SB was cast as teenage Jason approx. 30 years ago? Interesting to watch, although it also makes me sad that LC isn't well enough to be on-screen with them.

It's interesting to watch JE and SB together because they are so rarely scene partners. I think JE may be the one remaining original cast member playing a Quartermaine, who was there when SB was cast as teenage Jason. So - they've known each other for, what, 30 years? Tracy got one thing wrong, though. Jason did pretend to be someone he wasn't - when he was in the role of baby Michael's father keeping AJ away from his child. Elizabeth is a great mom; she raised Cameron to be a real gentleman. That hug and goodbye was much more than Josslyn deserves from him. I assume the sorta-secret of Nina and Drew's sexual relationship is going to blow up while he's spending Christmas with them at Nina's place.

We'll see what happens. Cam's time in Port Charles is limited but I think he's not just back for one episode. I want to see Cam visit with more loved ones, esp. Grandma Laura. Dex wasn't connected to Elizabeth; he was a patient at the hospital. She only knew him as a police officer and boyfriend of Joss, who happens to be Lucky and Aiden's cousin. I don't think that term can apply to Trina because nobody can prove Spencer is dead and I think Heather killed Rory when she was aiming for someone else. In Joss's case, Oscar had terminal cancer - no mystery there.

I LOVED the "Merry Christmas, Mom" and the mother-eldest son hug!!! It's so great to see Wiliam Lipton reprise the role of Cameron! (At least briefly) I was surprised to see Cam give Lucky a friendly hug. Zero animosity as he introduced Gretchen to "Lucky." (Yes Lucky, while you've missed your bio son's whole life so far, your eldest son who doesn't call you Dad really grew up, too.) I felt Elizabeth's pain, though, when he said they're spending Christmas with the gf's parents. Still, BHerbst did a great job with Elizabeth's "glow" as she watched her eldest and Gretchen with her youngest. It hit me in the feels to see/hear WL and JJ singing "The First Noel" together, while Elizabeth and Aiden watched in quiet adoration as WL/Cam played guitar. Loved seeing Elizabeth happy with her family (minus Jake) for an episode. Just when you think Drew can't sink any lower, he stalks Willow at a public event and says he'd be happy to come over to Nina's with Scout. Nice of him to decide to take his mourning daughter away from her real family for the holiday, without a thought. I got perverse pleasure seeing Cam look so happy with his family and new girlfriend, while Joss cried alone in her apartment ('til Trina came home) over the death of the guy she cheated on Cam with and dumped him for. Merry Christmas! All I can do is shake my head at both Carly and Nina.

She paid BLQ to break them up and then put more pressure on her when BLQ wasn't getting the desired results. BLQ made the choice to drug and try to rape her childhood friend. Carly never ordered her to rape him. Then BLQ went crying to Edward when her bad choices blew up in her face. There were lots of ways BLQ could have made money that didn't involve harming a guy she claimed was her friend. In the BLQ-nuLulu interaction, I thought BLQ was a massive hypocrite for being hostile about Lulu bringing up the past to her face. She's the one who recently told husband Chase about Lulu's teenage abortion and Tracy's support, without Tracy or Lulu's knowledge or consent.

In fact, AL's BLQ and Dante flat out told JMB's Lulu that they never dated and certainly never had sex, despite both families in Bensonhurst trying to push them to be an adorable couple. They just weren't into each other. I saw the clip recently on Social Media. You're not alone here. Not only did BLQ show zero grace, empathy, remorse, etc. (IIRC she never apologized to Lulu for drugging Dante and trying to have sex with him) she is conveniently forgetting that she was a bitch to Lulu when Lulu signed the divorce papers and Lulu started seeing Dustin. I remember a line from BLQ implying that Lulu was a disloyal wife, giving up on her marriage to a great guy. I can believe that Lulu is surprised BLQ didn't pursue a relationship with Dante while she was in a coma. I think BLQ is nervous and afraid of Lulu sharing details with Chase about when she tried to break up Lulu and Dante esp. because that could bring to the light this hinted long ago "secret" she wants to keep buried. BLQ feels she has a perfect family life now and she wants to keep it that way. BLQ keeping secrets is not Lulu's fault.

She was the first to comfort him one-on-one. Jason broke the news of Sam's death to Danny and Scout; he comforted the two of them together. Since then, Jason and Danny have only been alone together on-screen in the cemetery after Sam's funeral. Danny called him out on fighting with Drew and thus upsetting Scout because she could see her dad's face was wounded. As far as I know, Gregory is the only one who ever got a bench and that's because he was a professor/academic and a writer. I believe the intent was that benches are for conversations and deep thoughts.

After they left, Carly told Michael "possession is 9/10s of the law" (or whatever the percentage is in the saying) and "Willow has possession!" She was yelling at him that Willow is strategizing right now and he needs to do the same immediately with Diane.

Beautiful Tracy and Lulu reunion! JE showing Tracy's emotion over a moment "I prayed for" was really well done! NuLulu dear, plenty of people were smarter than Luke Spencer. It was good to see both Nina and Willow stand up to Carly and Carly not get her way when Michael agreed to the sleepover at Grandma Nina's. Nice of Carly to flat-out call Michael and Willow's children "possessions." I liked Michael calling his mother out on his own fears when she pulled her stunts when he and Morgan were kids. It was shocking to see Carly show some shred of remorse over her past. Really enjoying seeing Lucky being Elizabeth's devoted "wing man." It's refreshing to see them build a friendship/possibly more, as adults. Elizabeth, Dex didn't have "loved ones" except for Joss. He had police colleagues. He was never developed to have actual friendships let alone a family. Great to see Mac and Felicia, even if only in a supportive role to Anna. Nice of Carly to be so wrapped up in fighting her 30-something son's battles for him that she misses all attempts to reach her regarding the news of her daughter's boyfriend's sudden death. Josslyn, Dr. Britt Westbourne saved your life, not Dex. That's how she died. And how exactly was Dex "selfless"? Previews: Ric is telling Elizabeth to stay away from the hospital? I can't ...

Carly is nothing if not a raging hypocrite. She has had Willow on a pedestal since she married Michael to "save Wiley from Nelle" and since then has expected her to be devoted to Michael because "he gave you a family" and was with her through the cancer. Carly expects uncompromising loyalty and devotion to her family. Remember what she did to Lulu - her own cousin by blood - when she felt Lulu had "betrayed" Michael through her relationship with Dante. So now that she knows Willow has been unfaithful to her precious spawn, W&A are "Michael's kids" instead of "your/their children." I rolled my eyes because you would think Carly was stopping a nanny and accusing her of kidnapping.

Generally I agree that when you exchange vows with someone, are married for however long and have kids, cheating is a serious betrayal. In this case, Willow married Michael the first time as a legal maneuver to keep bio mother Nelle from getting custody of Wiley. They agreed she would legally adopt Wiley. She did so and ended the marriage and then she married Chase - but cheated on him with Michael. Then she and Chase ended their marriage and she went to play house with Michael and Wiley. She then got pregnant with Amelia. She re-married Michael after Amelia was born, while she had cancer. This all happened over a few years. Their relationship was built on mutual love for his baby/the baby she thought was hers and never really went deeper than that. He gave her a family/a group with whom to belong when she felt alone after breaking up with Chase. That's it. On the other hand, Cameron and Joss had been close friends since childhood. They started dating in the summer in their late teens. Cam had put all his love and trust in her. She then developed the hots for Dex, making out with him and being deliberately distant/evasive with Cam. She had sex with Dex on New Year's Eve, then went to Cam and basically said well it's been over for me I just haven't found the time to dump you until now. Bye. She left and ran into Dex's arms. From then on she's been so obsessed with screwing around with Dex that she acted like her decade plus of friendship and romantic relationship with Cam never meant anything to her. So that's why I think Joss's cheating was so egregious. Also, after promising to tell Trina everything, she refused to ever talk about the relationship or the circumstances of breaking up with him. I agree that her hypocrisy is in-character. I think that is Sasha's internal guilt/turmoil at play, that she doesn't want to face. First, it was her idea to stage the "cheating" with Chase, so that Willow and Michael could marry guilt-free to "save Wiley from Nelle." That moment launched this years-long Michael-Willow ick fest. Now, she's pregnant from a ONS with Michael and feeling scared about her future. She figures, Michael wouldn't have walked into that bar and sat down next to me jealous and miserable, had it not been for Willow kissing Drew. Now Willow went and actually had sex with Drew on the playroom floor, thereby committing adultery against Michael whom Sasha thinks is such a great guy and was a wonderful boyfriend to her in the past. She saw him as the perfect husband to Willow and father to the kids until *Willow* screwed it up by developing feelings for Drew. Also, Sasha and Willow have not really been close friends for at least a year. Sasha was an advocate for Nina in their friendship, and not around very much when Willow had cancer. I don't recall Willow being there to comfort and support Sasha when baby Liam died. I think Willow and Sasha giggled once over Sasha spending more time with Cody but never actually discussed Sasha having real feelings for him. I am under the impression that Sasha and Maxie are much closer than Sasha and Willow ever were.

I thought this episode was a double dose of karma for Willow cheating on Chase with Michael, and Joss cheating on Cameron with Dex. Humiliation in front of their family in a cheating scandal after they unapologetically screwed over Chase, who got to see the show and is now happily married. Joss has her boyfriend taken away from her permanently a couple weeks before the 2-year anniversary of her unapologetically cheating on her previous best friend-boyfriend with this current boyfriend (who was waiting outside to comfort her after she broke Cam's heart). And Trina still doesn't know that Joss cheated on Cam. Meanwhile Cameron is off in California having a great new life and I thought Elizabeth had mentioned a while ago that he has a girlfriend there. Well, Carly certainly raised her children to take after her.

I think the writers were vaguely referencing Thanksgiving when (during the Lulu/Rocco/Dante reunion scenes) Dante told Rocco to make mom a turkey sandwich. Honestly, I would be okay with Kristina gloating about the break up to TJ's face instead of to Alexis. He was such an unrepentant asshole to her throughout the pregnancy that he kind of deserves to hear "I was right" from her. I don't know if it's the actor or the writing (probably both) but I feel like he was way more invested in hating/putting down Kristina than he ever was in actually becoming a father. Drew really is the WORST. Honorable mention goes to BLQ for telling him to keep her mother's name out of his mouth when he started attacking Ned about his past. He really was a smug and unapologetic asshole through all of it. WK was so awesome in this episode with Ned calling out Drew while Michael silently sulked. And JE was the second VIP. Loved how Tracy said "ugly" to Drew and stood by Ned's side to tell Drew even his father wouldn't have done something this low. Shut UP, Gio. And Trina, you know nothing about Drew. But leaving the party to go flirt with Kai is a really weird reaction to seeing a video of her best friend's SIL having sex with her best friend's brother's uncle. I really liked Dante saying Lulu is only a danger to herself, lol. The Dante-nuLulu scenes at Wyndemere were great! And Bye, Dex. Am I supposed to feel sorry for Joss? I don't. I feel sorry for Elizabeth.

During the Christmas tree shopping scenes at Rice Plaza, Gio said something to Joss, Dex and Trina like, "You're all coming to the Quartermaines' party, right?"

Well, not Sasha or Monica or any of the kids. We'll get to see more of the video and the reactions from BLQ + Chase, Joss-Trina- Gio, Tracy, Ned, Carly, Nina, Willow, Drew etc. in the tomorrow/Friday episode. Carly confronts Drew and BLQ and Chase are discussing Michael and Willow in the previews.