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Now what didn't you all tell me my girl Kate from BELOW DECK winded up on TRAITORS US!!! Cuz and Shady Phae Phae tag-teaming this guy is hilarious!!! And Phae seems to be doing so much more on this than M2M. Hopefully, this is the one who goes up against Quad at the recently filmed reunion.

WHAT IN THE WORLD...!

Oooooooo SHADE!!! HEHE. And Boy will it be mess cuz SHANNON. A final word on Heather. I'm starting to disbelieve the 'trauma' of her friendship with Jen Shah. That she protected Jen for an entire year regarding the black eye. It's not that women can't have dysfunctional, manipulative friendships... of course they can. But I believe Heather wanted to propagate a mystery for SL purposes and it failed. She foolishly and selfishly threw Production under the bus to keep it going. The weird thing about her admission that she is "no longer Jen Shah's b!tch" at reunion was her on Tuesday's WWHL essentially fist-pumping and saying 'This one's for Jen.' Like we been saying for seasons, Cat. It's clear Heather has been playing a role. And her slip stay showing. That's why I thought it was telling the episode before the finale when Little Girl called her and she had that chilling meltdown with the producer. THAT was the REAL Heather I feel. And she's just like her BFF...she simply hides it better. Yeah, I think she managed to completely kill my love for her after Part 2 and I was giving her Terri Demarco eyes during Part 3. I don't even like her recently got bangs...and I LOVE bangs. But I will give her this...she IS consistent at reunions.

YEP.

RHOP I was just talking about how RHOM is a slow burn, but the cast, as individuals, are interesting enough to just carry on and give us the audience so much? RHOP is just SLOW. Yes, I'm caught up on them, but Lord Baby Jesus...how the mighty has fallen. At least with RHOM, the cast do not at all have to film with each other and there would still be things going on. Off the top of my head...Julia with her animals or doing something with Martina...Nicole with her (RIP) dad...Guerdy and her cancer...Lisa's aftermath of her divorce and new relationship aka her new normal...Adriana's music career. I could go on...and that's just INDIVIDUAL scenes. I looked at RHOP and ??? If I'm being honest, the only things that grabbed me in these last few episodes has been La Dame's event about SA and what it revealed about all the ladies...and SA is an issue with me so that resonated. Then you had Candiace's Mother Day event which gave us the glamour that has been missing on this show...and some fun shade. Messy Mia asking the hard questions we wanted to know while also dealing with her feelings toward Jacqueline who I loved last season. And speaking of seasons past...yes, I LOVED seeing Aunt Val again (though I missed her guns) and that Old Boi got a glow up from La Dame's spinoff. Besides all that...I got nothing. Most of my interest has been around La Dame and Messy Mia who are honestly putting in the work for me. And while it appears Candiace is putting in some work as well, we rarely see her life at the moment so good for her doing an event. Not to mention doing what's really needed on this show...ONE ON ONE SITDOWNS!!! I could say the same for Wendy...she's giving moments...cuz I too said the same thing about Gizelle and Ashley doing a clothing line...but outside of being the target...are we seeing anything? Yes, she does not have to interact with NeckHo, but at what cost? I mean are these ladies just going to skip the reunion this year? We haven't even gotten to the Muppet fight yet and it's all so...tired. LA DAME. Like I said, through this block of episodes, La Dame has been the bright point. She's friends with everyone...even NeckHo. She's staying that fence. But these ladies are proving that you can lead a horse to water, but you truly can't make them drink. And her and Ray are always a joy to watch. But that could be because I saw an older black couple out at the bar this week and they were just as adorable and in love as La Dame and Ray are. So adorable. I want a love like that. GIZELLE. She used some dangerous verbiage this past week and that's dangerous. She's trying to pull on Candiace what she pulled on Monique. Is she going to hire security again next? Cuz the WORST Candaice is going to do is read her a&& for DAYS. She was making it sound like her going to Surry County would be asking for Candiace to lunge at her. And given her background, she knows better aka what she's doing. ROBYN. JUAN'S ROOMMATE. Yep. Still not tired of her being dragged. I will give her this...at least she sat down alone with Candiace. And I hollered at Messy Mia questioning Juan in front of her. hehe. CANDIACE. YASSSSS, GIRL!!!! GIVE US GLAMOUR!!!! Cuz that event was beautiful and cute. And she sat down with Robyn. Gizelle's Shadow so good for her. ASHLEY. YAS, GIRL!! GIVE US NOTHING. Cuz really?? After a strong start this season...Ashley is just THERE. And now I'm just asking why. Look at Lisa...for better or worse...on RHOM and how she's dealing with (or not) her divorce. Ashley could be giving us more. And yet...here we are. NECKHO. MIA. hahahhahahahhahahahaha!!!! Say what you want, but she IS giving. Her with Robyn Hulk and Juan and the questioning of the hotel and the reactions. Her dealing with her feelings about SA and Jacqueline. And next week, her and La Dame get into it. And still the mystery of her, Gordon, and the loss of money. Not boring. Quirky for sure. WENDY. While her and Eddie are #couplegoals, what does one do with Wendy? It might have been nice if she had taken NeckHo's invite. However, I can understand why. However, it did feel like Wendy was withdrawing from things. I wondered if she was mad at Candiace for trying to get to know NeckHo so now she won't go Candiace's things? If so...uh oh. Because outside of La Dame, her family, and even Mia, who would she film with? Don't let Gizelle win. I hope they can find a groove soon cuz these last set of episodes were wildly uneven and worse...BORING.

RHOM Well, I'm happy to report that I'm up to this week's episode. It really has been a good season. And going by that seating chart for this year's reunion, it appears that the season will be shifting like the telenovela it is until the very end. How else can you explain how this set of episodes that I've been watching has gone from a potential Marysol takedown season to another season of Las Cubas coming for Doctor Nicole. Adriana, Adriana, Adriana. Yes, I know she's been nothing, but messy, but how can I not love her. And how is she just a FOH with this messiness. The Confessional giving the dark-haired beauty I love so well. And aiming at Alexia in it. And bringing back Ana to finish Marysol off...who has been having a bad season IMHO with Julia after her...genius. Sadly, it is exposing the growing rift between Adriana and Julia...which I'm sad to see. I'm such a sucker for friendship break-ups. Especially when they are great friends so it has been sad to watch. Meanwhile....Looooord Lisa. She is becoming one of the other three main storylines moving into second half of the season. We were all happy to see that she found a great guy in Jody, but she is really not dealing with the Lenny aftermath well AT ALL. I loved that her friends are trying for tough love, but it appeared to be backfired horribly. That said...her gathering Alexia...ALEXIA???...I fell out. Who would have thought little Lisa would have done that seasons ago? I was shocked and I have to admit...also impressed. And that brings me to the last of the main storylines...Guerdy and her cancer. Oh my God, I had tears watching her deal with her morality and how her kids are dealing with it. Along with her and her dealing with interacting with the ladies. Her 'I can't' during Lisa gathering Alexia said so much. There's nothing like potential death to make you see life differently and the ladies are quite self-absorbed at times. So her meltdown that she had to do more surgery and they STILL tried to make it about them...was too much. It might be a slow burn season in a different way from Season 4 and 5, but unlike RHOP, just about every cast member (and their FOHs) have something interesting enough to make a person watch. Boring where? How are the ladies looking? ALEXIA. I giggled at her having a meltdown and STILL taking Nicole's gift. Lord...you cannot hate her for having taste. lol. That said...the drama with her continues. Her having to move out and still wanting to live beyond (?) her means was hilarious. And the fact that Ana is the one who has her tea, and Adriana was using that to get some digs in...her tale is FAR from over...storm out or not. LARSA. Not much to say. Though I love Adriana clocking her with Kim K every chance she gets. NICOLE. Storm Out Counter??? HAHAHAAHAHAHA!!! I cannot believe that they are trying to ice her out again. Do I feel she knew about Ana? Not the history. They only started to talk...after last year's reunion? But I know she will be just fine. I was more interested in the fact she has TWO unknown siblings. Oh, her family life is the interesting drama that keeps giving. JULIA. It's been coming for a while in little ways, but the rift between Julia and Adriana definitely felt real. And the fact that Adriana FINALLY confessed and Las Cubas are still going after Nicole...bad form. Still...it said something that Julia stood up for herself with them and stood up for Nicole. She has grown so much. LISA. Ooooo at the bad turn that Lisa is going. She had the majority of the audience on her side. Now? She has been too about Lenny. I can understand she's been through a lot and she can be deluded, but she has been winning with a great guy who loves her kids like Jody, but she has to let Lenny go. Now the lifestyle? Well...she has to accept it or use it as a drive to be better. The fact her friends have to tough love her should be a clue. But...NOPE. Her delusion is giving realness on one hand and funny moments on the other cuz...driving the housekeeper's car? smh lol. GUERDY. Oh, lord...my heart. Me and cancer feel a way so watching her deal with it just...WOW. And Lord, I wish I had a guy like Russell. I love that she is giving us realness. Her talking to her kids. Her trying to soldier on. Her seeing how pettiness the ladies are being. It definitely puts things in perspective. It could also introduce a new thread to the group events with someone who is over the pettiness or self-centeredness. ADRIANA. Yes, I knew she was messy. Love her anyway. MARYSOL. Dare! Even Alexia threw her under the bus for Julia before the tough love intervention for Lisa. She has been getting it rough so far. However, it's back to attacking Nicole. Le sigh. Can't wait to sit through the next set of episodes.

Not often. Last few days have been great and sunny. Yep. Nice ones, too.

Exactly! I was on the pier journaling and that was EXACTLY what I came across yesterday. Not to mention bulges. hehe.

And now everyone is discovering it again due to Jonathan Groff and (especially) Murray B's growing popularity over the last decade. Not to mention all the buzz surrounding ALL THE STRANGERS.

Don't get me started on the aggressive businessmen in town for conference with their tight dress pants on. I might just step out tonight...hehe...

But still...

Lord Baby Jesus! That AI is getting waaaaaaaaaay too good. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thank you for the reminder.

I totally agree. re: Audra. It's been fascinating seeing all these layers coming off of her. Like she seems to genuinely respect Nikki, but is having flashback to her father and his drinking. She genuinely seems to be hot for teacher a la Tucker, but she is NO ONE's doormat when it comes to him now which I felt she was at first. And you can STILL see she has feelings for him, but she ain't stupid and sees he still loves Ashley. Meanwhile, all that is on her face and body language and yet it's hidden as well. And her vixen scene with Nate just reminds me of how she was when she met him in her first scenes, but her and Nate had turned into more mentor/confidante in the last year. So...ANOTHER case of Hot for Teacher. And all that going on and you can still see her screws turning in her head, giving an old school schemer. I'm happy to see Diane a little bit more, but I'm curious to see where it goes. I'm also curious to see where things go with Cole as well. I've wanted him back for years if only to break up the Victoria/Billy marry-go-round. But I don't know where he can go off the top of my head.

So thanks to the lovely storm we had out here on the west coast (with some tomorrow), I finally got to sit down to watch Bobbie's funeral episodes. My eyes, without question, stayed watered throughout. I even passed a few things because I would start to loss my composure. When news broke JZ had passed, I knew I was going to be a mess. I remembered Bobbie all the way back to when I was a little kid. And my mother really loved her soaps then. So when I was ever out of store, I always asked how her 'redhead' was doing. Long before I became an on-again/off-again soap viewer. And while I did not liked what Guza (or JFP) did to the character, it was nice since the 50th anniversary, that writers kept finding things for Bobbie to do. And I almost wished that I've been watching regularly when she mixed it up with Nelle. In any case, yeah, I knew this was going to hurt. I gasped as soon as Ryan Crane came into frame. He did such a great job. And he looked so haunted. And goodness knows that town needs Lucas around. And there was a line reading that he gave at the funeral when Carly came in after running into Liz that resonated with me so deeply that I went to crying. I loved Laura's speech. I Loved Scott's and his reaction. I always liked him and Bobbie together because I felt she always saw him in a way that even Laura did not see sometimes. I wished Lucky was there as a pallbearer as well as Nik, but I had to suspend my belief a bit. And then the mini-adventure. I admit that I did not like it. At first. It felt out of place...only for the purpose to reveal itself as it went along. True that was something within Bobbie's character and she would do something like that. And the idea of Carly/Felicia together was inspired. Also inspired was the set-up for the twist/reveal. The way Maxie kept getting a vibe from the reporter that she couldn't explain. I thought...was Bobbie writing a memoir? Then I thought did Bobbie have a whole other family no one knew about cuz redhead? I even thought the reporter was a stand-in for Bobbie. A spirit. Little did I know, that was BJ...all grown up. So...family for Bobbie...Yes. I was not around for the original story...but have finally seen clips over the last few years. And even an on-again/off-again GH viewer knew the tale of BJ and Maxie's heart. It's on a lot of saddest (but well-written) GH stories list. A touchstone. Because it did shape Bobbie's life. Even Carly and Felicia's talk about when Carly came to town was a touchstone that shaped Bobbie's life. Which reminds me...there was a scene where LW had a look and an inflection in her voice that echoed SJB's Carly that really stood out for me. I just can't recall the scene at the moment, but LW did beautiful throughout the last few weeks. I thought it was clever the writers (on their way out) found the original BJ, brought the character back in spirit, and then a domino effect of Felicia, Maxie, and Lucas realizing who she was all at the same time. And KW's inflection on that phone call totally called back to that scene when she said BJ's heart. I also loved all the interview she got from other characters with flashback. I definitely have loved over the last few years how Kelly's has appeared more because I have so many memories growing up of it and I love it is still in the Spencer family. So I am glad in a way it's going to be around a little while longer. So...good job. IMHO.

Thank you for that. Same. Playing catch-up and it just seems so obvious more now than ever.

1-26 I think outside of the Heather/Daniel/Lily of it all and anything involving Audra, I was bored with this week. And Devon and Abby already picked up on something between Heather and Daniel? Is this going to be one of those things where Lily finds out off-screen? I half expected her to walk in on them in bed to be honest. Definitely OVER Tucker, Ashley, and the gaslighting. I love seeing Tracy back for it, but that's all I got. Move it along. So Nikki's sponsor DID fall off the wagon. Haha. And now Jack is entering that story. Hopefully with Lauren still around for a bit since she says she feels guilty for being in the know. And I always live for Nikki vs Diane.

1-25 Well...I was here for Li vs Poppy. It was nice to see some fire out of Poppy...something I usually see only with Li while Poppy comes across as more meek even though she's a wildflower. Their scenes were giving me memories of old school Y&R and Olivia/Dru. So I didn't mind that at all. It was funny to see the comedy of errors with RJ/Luna/Bill/Poppy and the beachhouse. it was something different with a nice cameo from Deacon/Sheila. I guess my question is...so was that Wyatt's exit scene? Because that was decent given how they just have characters just up and vanish...only to get a line months later after they have already left. Meanwhile, Eric's recovery is slowly in the background. But not forgotten which I like. Lots going on. If they only keep it going.

LMAO!!! Perhaps it's because it's been more...hmmm...CLEAR over the last half year among everyone else. And the cold weather here has brought out everyone in their 'no undie' wearing sweatpants.

Given how the creators were all about being real...and all the hints throughout the show and it being a scene in the movie...I felt like Dom/Patrick was a good tease. MB and JG definitely had good chemistry. IKR!! Good and messy (but real) drama. It might be up there with Joey/Pacey on DAWSON CREEK in that it really could have upset the fanbases who were already evenly divided between Pat/Richie and Pat/Kevin.

Wow.

Have we never discuss how bubbles distract me as easily as a straight man with breasts?

So it begins... I was at least hoping in February for a story, but cool.

What could happen next? Happy February Sweeps!!!! DISCUSS!!!

Dare I say it...February Sweeps...or Sleeps? Discuss!!!