P.J.

Was Rauch still there for the Beth/Lorelei story? La Zim scenery chewing in stereo surround sound? Lord love a duck.

"Reva's Amish Adventure!" playing now....ugh.

With our luck, they'd put up the last crappy five years, and that's it.

Yes, it's two separate incidents. Pharo's SA happened when she was around twelve. Reva got pregnant at 17, when she had sex with Billy. Mindy's mother had died, and Josh went off to college at Berkley. I've never heard a direct reference to the gap between Billy, Trish and Josh. But from the way Josh occasionally referenced their childhood (watching Billy in high school football games, while he ran up and down the sidelines for example), I'd say there's supposed to be at least six years between Billy and Josh. Reva's at least a year younger, since Josh was going to college and she got pregnant at 17. I can't stomach the scenes around Dylan's conception (Reva is just ticking me off in the present as she remembers the past and having concocted the rape story for Sarah's benefit), but I think she may be talking about how Josh didn't come back to Oklahoma the summer after his first year at college. One of the few references to Mindy's mother happens when Billy tells Phillip that he had gotten Mindy's mother pregnant and they'd had to get married. It sounded like that was during his college years. And IIRC, Blake had a minor car accident when she was chasing after Phillip. She was afraid he'd found out that Beth was alive, I think. Phillip was being gaslit that Beth was alive, and tried to convince Lillian to exhume Beth's grave to verify if her body was in it.

Maybe a basketball court set is too big an expense for that specific of a function, but a couple of shots of balls going through hoops, guys dribbling and bumping into each other until some blow up happened between Kial and Carlton doesn't seem that hard. Even the confrontation between Vanessa and Deanna was a let down to me. While Vanessa has gone on about Deanna for the past six months, that's not a substitute to seeing their relationship. I needed to see Deanna figure out that Vanessa was sleeping with Joey over more than three episodes. (or actually one) I just need the plot over Leslie's mansion to disappear. It's stupid.

IA. It would've been a lot more meaningful to see the animosity on the court between Kial and Carlton, not be told about it second hand. It's always too much build up and not enough follow through. The gala Winterfest was a HUGE disappointment. And while I get that it's hard to predict location shooting, a couple of outdoor scenes would make a huge difference.

No, I wasn't. My memories of SFT are few. If I ever did know, I'd forgotten. I probably shouldn't have been surprised, as plenty of broadway folk worked daytime too.

I definitely agree Rick and Liz had chemistry---but it was a gentler chemistry, not the raw edgy chem that SS had with him.

Truth. While she's grown in the role, deep emotion is not in her wheelhouse. For a moment I thought she was going to snot-cry, ala Kelley Meighan Hensley.

Mary Stuart sang?

I get your idea. It's just hard for me to buy into given how they started out. Maybe if Curlee had stayed, she could have built something like that.

It's not the theme, it's the arrangement or maybe I mean orchestration. The switch from the original to the synthesizer version makes it more "zippy" (for lack of a more technical term.) At least imo. I don't think they would've put Blake and AM back together had SS stayed. There was just too much bad history between them. While that true with a lot of couples, GL wasn't going to pin AM and Blake down with each other.

Thanks for the tag! I had never heard of this show. It's funny how different Eileen's voice was later. I would cringe whenever Lisa sang on the show. Don's voice is exactly what I thought it would be. GL used to have him sing at Christmas, but I hadn't heard him otherwise. (I guess GL didn't believe in having a lawyer moonlight as a lounge lizard. lol)

Patrician was the word I was trying to come up with, but couldn't. lol. Definitely with British aristocrat vibes. Baklava entrepreneur and resale shop owner. (lol sounds better than junk store owner..)

I think Hearst understood how to play a Spaulding from working with Bev. I would hope if she had still been there when RR was cast, he would've taken a cue from her and played it differently. I'm not sure I see a resemblance between Heast and Bernau, but I think Rick is talented enough to pull it off.