P.J.

Horrible cliffhanger. Just full of WTF scenes. Bitchy zingers are great for twitter hits and watercooler talk, but they're undercut by lengthy, BORING scenes that in the end don't mean a damn thing. Sure, Veronica telling off Candace works in theory, but what's the point, when her ultimatum means nothing? The pacing needs to drastically improve. I can't believe they cut away from Wyatt thirty seconds after he entered the house muttering about killing someone, to that LONG, anticlimactic, rambling Jeffrey is gay reveal. Good grief, Veronica's explanation about her abortion/subsequent miscarriages/miracle baby she doesn't want to be gay went on longer than Jeffrey in what should have been a defining moment in HIS life. There was only one mildly surprising twist. Otherwise it was 39 and a half minutes of rehashing what we already knew.

I really wish they had stuck with Danny Markle....to have avoided RH's version of Paul at all costs would have been priceless!

aahhh, memories. That's a wonderful picture of Jack with Emma. That must be the Cinderella ball, ie, where Carly shows up dressed as Miss Kitty and Jack hauls her off to jail for slapping Nikki. Back in the day when everyone got dressed up and "events" consisted of more than five regulars and three nameless extras.

Why does Wyatt need to prove Jeffrey made a pass at him? Veronica has already seen Jeffrey being too attached to Wyatt. The entire bracelet episode. The panicked "he's not listening to me" phone call. Veronica knows Jeffrey "is" gay (at least as much as he can express, suiting up in neon-edged prom from the '70's jackets and such). Veronica's not stupid, she'd grill Wyatt and realize he wasn't lying in about 2 seconds. But you have a point---this would be a much better story if Wyatt realized Jeffrey was gay and simply used it as blackmail to get what he wanted.

Wyatt telling V her son is gay is one thing----telling her Jeff propositioned him is another. All Wyatt wants is Jeffrey to keep his horny ass out of Wyatt's personal life. So I say Wyatt wins either way. Jeff is only telling Mommy 'cause Wyatt's forced his hand. I don't know---it looks like Katherine is on Wyatt's side. That's a win. I will say TP can sell his show. I hadn't seen the after-show-promo before now. It's too bad he can't live up to his own hype.

I don't think Wyatt has to have Jeffrey on tape; the threat of going to Veronica is more than enough to get whatever he wants. Veronica already knows---but hearing that Jeff is propositioning his patient/rehab client/whatever the hell Wyatt is to him---will make Jeff's life a living hell. I want to like the Katherine/Jim showdown---but it was so repetitive and long---Jim must have asked/told/harassed her to go to talk to Amanda 15 times----that it kills the momentum for me. It's great that Katherine knows all about Seline and keeps her employed to make her miserable---but then again, what makes Kat think Jim GAS if his "sin" is staring him in the face every day? I get that Katherine is so emotionally scarred that she literally doesn't trust her friends or family to GAS about her now that she's sick---but WHAT THE HELL is wrong with these people that neither Jim or Amanda can look at her in her bed all day long and think something's wrong? Not to mention she's missing one or more boobs? TP really needs an editor. Between Jim harassing Kat about talking to Amanda and Veronica lecturing David on his "graceful" lies, I wanted to puncture my eardrums. Candace could have shown up in more than two scenes if each of those points had been made ONCE and ONLY once.

IA, the Jeffrey/Wyatt "friendship" is a bunch of BS. And frankly, I don't consider Wyatt smart enough to try and trap Jeff by pretending to return his feelings either. It's a good thing AOC doesn't read the negativity on boards, 'cause then he'd know he sucks. GAWD, the writing on this show...Veronica's speech to Benny was dramatic but ridiculous, since I don't think I've as much as seen a butterfly tat on him, and he acts as "gansta" as a puppy cowering underneath a bed in a thunderstorm. Then there's Wyatt's convenient "sensitive" piano playing YEARS after "the church took the singing out of me". It's sad when one of the smartest moves by a character is something totally normal, ie, Wyatt leaving a bitchy message on his wannabe girlfriends' phone. I don't get Amanda, but there's something weird about the way Jim kept calling her "baby". I did love Candace's "tell her 9 is the new 1. as in I'll be someone's new 1 asap." Of course, she and Jim will probably be bangin' again next week.

Yeah, it's crystal clear Perry writes and directs---there's no change of tempo or emotional depth. I have no clue about Perry's training in either, but it feels like a high school production. And I hate making a character stupid simply to further the plot. There's no reason in hell Wyatt's girlfriend should have or would have reacted to Jeffrey in that simple, trusting manner---yet she did. I wonder if AMC and OLTL airing aren't drawing in some new viewers. I've never looked---is his new comedy making good numbers as well?

I wouldn't think so. If she did, it was one of the best. Unlike other shows where half the 50+ actresses look like caricatures of themselves, our divas (EF, Kathy, MM, Liz, and Colleen) aged gracefully.

Well, what kind of "rehabilitation clinic" is run by a lawyer three years out of lawyering and her son, who doesn't seem to have an ounce of professionalism or training for that matter, in the first place? I don't any sympathy for Jeffrey either when it comes to Wyatt. It seems he's gone psycho for someone with a great bod, but who otherwise treats him like [!@#$%^&*]. I do have sympathy when it comes to Veronica. She's clearly telling her only child that he's not worthy of her love.

Well, I have no doubt Craig talked her into marrying him...naïve girls are easily manipulated after all.

Bets married Craig because Nick begged her to stay away from Steve on his deathbed. Aww...I loved Ryan's Betsy at the time. It's 30 years of spazzy Meg Ryan that's worn on me. Though to be honest the last movie I really liked her in was Addicted to Love.

I thought it was surprisingly good too. It just points out how bad some of the writing is, since the first half of the eppy was devoted to Jeffrey's hissy fit of EPIC proportions---which was cringeworthy beyond belief. Even Amanda seemed almost life-like.

Knowing Marland planned everything a year in advance, I'm sure something was sketched out about Caleb and Angel's relationship. But Caleb and Angel both came on during the writer's strike (June and Aug of 88 according to SOC) so whether the abortion was truly Marland's creation, I don't know. The strike didn't end until August.

O.M.G.....Laura Bell Bundy just got cast in Anger Management. Girl must have huge stones. I hope she's got a clause in her contract that guarantees her getting paid if Sheen goes apeshit on her too.

Rebhorn...that's it. I don't think they purposely cast him on ATWT to play a child molester. I think they introduced the Langes during the writers' strike in '88. Then when Jon Hensley wanted to return in '90, they wrote both he and Angel back in. Nowadays they would have simply divorced off-screen (or the off-screen marriage never would have been referenced again). Marland then wrote Angel's backstory.

I wouldn't think Ziva leaving would affect it one way or another. The show's numbers have gone up with IMO, a decline in quality since Bellsario was forced out. If anything, Tim, Ducky, Palmer and Abby would all benefit from more attention once Ziva's gone.

Dylan Bruce is going to guest on Arrow.

^^^I think you must be referring to some David/Jim scene. But they're friends, not servant/master, although David spends 99 percent of his time doing Jim's unpleasant tasks. Yeah, I guess Perry's implying that Wyatt and Amanda were abused together---at least this week. It seems odd to me that Kathryn seemed so guilty about what happened to Wyatt without mentioning that that's what also triggered Amanda's damage. It's too bad that whatever Perry writes will seem so laughably preposterous---abuse and incest are serious matters. BTW, am I the only one who thinks the actress who plays Amanda looks biracial? I fully expect one day Katherine's going to go off on Jim about how she spent years passing off one of his bastards as their child. As bad as the plotting is---I loved the scene where Katherine explained that her father's money bought Jim everything and she sure wasn't going to let him and his whores live it up when she was gone, and she sure didn't trust her will would be executed if Jim could find a way around it.

Yeah, the reveal that Angel wasn't trying to kill Lily and was being abused by her father---classic. Every time I see the actor who played her father (and I'm blanking on the name, but he's still a popular character actor and he also played GL's Bradley Rains) I still get a moment of queasiness. 'Cause the guy is always a weasel. Jon didn't lose his hair, but for whatever reason, he got this cut that was the opposite of hot----I call it "old man hair".

Back when Holden was hot.....

I don't expect to either. I put together two tidbits----Katherine's guilt and a church camp. (I also have some vague recollection of Wyatt saying something about not liking/going to church, but I could totally be imagining that). If Katherine's guilt was just over how Wyatt became an addict, I wouldn't see why that would have to be connected to a church camp. Re Wyatt's addiction---we're supposed to believe he's made it through the toughest part of rehab. Remember, he's only back in rehab to cover Jim's moving money out of Katherine's accounts to pay off Candace's blackmail. I think we're supposed to be more interested in why Wyatt turned to drugs, than if he's struggling with his addiction. In fact, it looks as if he might trade in one addiction for another, if his looking up porn sites is more than a plot device to find out Candace is a call girl. I could be wrong, and it wouldn't bother me. But again, the writing runs from a to b.

The writing's not that deep. Katherine moaned about the "one week" that changed Wyatt forever, when she let down her guard and sent him off to church camp.

I think all that's gone on with Wyatt is that we found out he was abused as a child. I did love Katherine going off on Candace---finally someone shut her down and shut her up. Though I had to laugh...if there's 9 that she knows about---there's probably twice that more that she doesn't. I loved the David/Hanna scene. I LOVE Peter Parros, and that was the first real opportunity he's had to sink his teeth into a scene. Uh, did Prof. imply that Candace is a pimp? Madam?

I agree---some ideas there are good. But they're so weighed down under bad acting and self-congratulatory backslapping by TP for being the sole creator of this "masterpiece" that it's lost. That rape was icky---and it should be---but because TP-the-writer filled the scene with useless chatter and TP-the-director doesn't ever subscribe to the "less is more" school of thought, and the actor is apparently jonesing for the free hamburger that comes with his salary, it comes off more like comedy. All TP needed to show was the prof calmly redressing, looking around the room, one smirky remark about her living with Candace and him nonchalantly asking if she wanted to get take out to get the idea: this guy assumes Amanda's playing a role on her back to get a decent grade.