Broderick

I've been noticing that too. My own feeling is that the Plasma Ring storyline is a tool to reunite Ted & Nicole temporarily, just as I think the BRCA Gene storyline is about Naomi's (upcoming) pregnancy. Right now, the focus of the Plasma storyline is on cop, reporters, and couriers, and the BRCA storyline is about Anita's chemotherapy. But long-term, I think they're stories about something entirely different.

"I'm passing the phone to somebody thinks he can put on a cap and ain't nobody in Fairmont Crest gon' recognize him." 🤣

Yeah, I think there's a therapeutic plasma treatment that's sometimes administered along with chemotherapy. Pretty sure they're heading in that direction.

The show's main script editor (Susan Dansby) is extremely weak. Reading the dialogue aloud as she's editing (or even whispering the lines to herself as she reads them) should alert her that certain lines need to be purged entirely or, at the very least, a drastic rewrite to make them resemble real dialogue. That's been a problem from Day One. The first five episodes of the series were supposedly written by Michele Val Jean, and the dialogue was often atrocious. Obviously no one edited those episodes. And it's set a certain clumsy tone in the dialogue that Susan Dansby has never bothered to rectify even after a year. Do I enjoy the show? Yep. Does the dialogue need work? Yep.

I thought Peaches was still lying up there in Garland Memorial, where they allow folks to stay for months on end, like a boarding house.

I'm guessing the Plasma Storyline is heading in that very direction. I believe the story is designed to facilitate a reconciliation of some sort between Ted & Beautiful Nicole, and some sort of pregnancy issue with Naomi and Jacob. That seems to be what all the foreshadowing points towards. The rest of the "plasma talk" almost seems like intentional debris to muddy the waters of where they're actually heading.

The scene today between Anita & Bill highlights one of the show's major strengths: the central characters are VERY well-defined and are VERY well cast. Hard to believe a scene with that much depth occurred on a show that's barely one-year old.

Yeah, Hayley's house is intentionally the "Graceland" of Fairmont Crest. Most folks who tour Elvis Presley's Graceland walk in and say, "Yikes!!", but others think it's beautiful. Tastes vary.

They're probably BOTH plasma thieves, and we'll soon be rid of them both.

For me, that's the worst bungle (so far) on the entire show. We saw her get a million dollars. Presumably, she might now have received a second quarterly distribution of a million. At max, she's got access to 2 million dollars. With which she's paid cash for a mansion in an elite neighborhood, torn it down, and is building a monstrosity of a new mansion with a mote. And had a new building constructed for the country club. And funded 50% of a free clinic. And paid for Peach's medical stay. And paid for some random man's hospital bill. Even to a child, that's a ridiculous thing to believe.

My feeling is that Naomi is pregnant & doesn't even know it; Jacob will get kidnapped & Naomi will decide to have the baby (in spite of her BRCA gene) because she'll fear that Jacob is dead. He'll turn up alive, but the "operations manager" of the Free Clinic/Stolen Plasma Clinic (Derek) is the person who's dead instead of Jacob. Just a hunch based on who's been dropped to recurring status (Derek), who's unknowingly placed himself in the middle of the plasma racket (Derek), and who "found the baby" at the Mardi Gras party (Naomi) .

Tamara Tunie has been around the attractive Daphnee Duplaix far too much. Anita's impersonation of Nicole was spot-on. lol.

It'll be months (probably) before we get another Friday cliffhanger on a Friday. This was a Wednesday's episode. They've been running two days behind in 2026 because of a couple of preemptions. One was President's Day; the other was a day right after New Year's. I noticed it when the Valentine's episode (which should've aired the Friday before Valentine's) didn't appear on our screens till the following Tuesday. Then there was an episode with several references to Mardi Gras Tuesday. It aired the Thursday following Mardi Gras day, clearly 2 days past its scheduled airdate. Mona launched into a big discussion about the "beginning of Lent" on a Friday, when Lent had begun two days earlier. They intended for that episode to air on Ash Wednesday. They seem to be consistently running two days behind ever since New Year.

Appears to me, Angela Fairley has the potential to be another "win", like Alex Cheeks as Donnell. They both genuinely look as though they could be Doug and Vanessa's kids.

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