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I've said it before: Hayley is King Magazine and Dani is Essence. Hayley's clothing choices fit with her being all about male attention and ego whereas Dani is fashion focused.

Epic slap. She was like "breathe, mutha[!@#$%^&*]a!"

Bill was side eyeing Hayley a few times, but he still fell for her ploy to get him to not stay in the hospital. Bill is such an idiot. No good wife insists that her husband go against doctors advice. Kat is once again making everything "The Kat Show". The character has taken an even more annoying turn lately. Anita and Dani's scenes were nice. Dani was the right daughter for Anita to share losing her hair with.

When Kat was running down Eva she reminded me of India on Guiding Light when she was talking to some lady about Reva. The scene is on YouTube. Kat is very elitist and that is what makes her so annoying.

It's nothing for the soap industry to worry about. For the time being viewers still enjoy seeing real people play characters and marvel at their unique talent. On top of that AI has many detractors and the actors unions plus writers unions would boycott platforms that promoted full on AI shows.

Vernon and Anita present so much of what a lot of soap matriarchs and patriarchs have lacked and that is actual lives like the younger characters have. Kat's angle makes no sense. She wanted Eva away from Tomas yet she is trying to ruin whatever relationship Eva could have with Izaiah. Chelsea is too immature for arelationship, especially one with someone who is grounded in reality. Randy keep warning Hayley to stop dosing Bill heavy but she won't listen. At this point it's less about the money and more about her hating him for still being into Dani. Her ego is crushed. Nicole having two men on the hook isn't going to be enough for her. I still think she's going to start calling Vanessa's escort service. It's giving potential Karen Wolek vibes except Nicole will be embarrassed for buying men instead of soliciting them.

Leslie saying "hehe" was hilarious. All of her delusions about Ted are not helped by Eva always carrying Ted's business back to her. Probably my favorite part of the episode was how Vernon let Bill know exactly where he stands. The use of the word "disappointed" was a good choice because it's the most painful thing children can hear from their parents at any age and since Bill sees Vernon as his father it really was effective. Kat striking up a conversation with Izaiah was all about her keeping friction going with Eva. Derek is doing the most and acting a little crazy, but Grayson is a bit shady. Derek might end up being a rescuer.

I'm not saying that old tropes are the way to go, but that's definitely what this particular story has drawn on. There have been different approaches to some things, though.

It is a soap so the characters are written to have wacky logic. Plenty of soaps have had couples reunite even though one or both of the duo did some messed up stuff to each other.

That's why I framed it as trying to build a triangle. Dani rescuing Bill from Hayley's clutches would have been a triumphant reunion and is probably what was planned. But now the writers seem to be trying to make that vision happen while maintaining Dani/Andre.

Clearly the writers intended for Andre to be a distraction for Dani and for Andre/Ashley to be a pairing, but that wasn't working with viewers and Andre/Dani was better received. Hayley's evil plan might have been intended to be Dani's route back to Bill, but Andre/Dani being well received through a wrench in that and now they are trying to establish a triangle.

Legally doctors and attorneys can't share with anyone spouses included. Journalists don't have legal parameters, but have to protect stories and sources. Leslie leaving dirty underwear in Ted's room was trifiling, but it's the sort of pettiness that she does that is actually funny. Kat was the neighborhood busybody today and for her to bother her ailing grandmother with her concerns about Nicole being out on barstools was selfish. Jacob or Smitty or both are going to get hurt. The foreshadowing is there.

The very obvious lull at the end of the year and Winterfest having no drama probably did cause viewers to drop off. January got back on track and the show achieved quite a bit of focus so hopefully that will help get the ratings up.

She hit him with the knowledge that she is the creator of "The Leslie Thomas Outreach Project" lol.

I think it was less about judgement and more about keeping Dani from ruining her marriage with Andre over residual feelings for Bill. And I think Vanessa's partial responsibility for Doug's death will be addressed when the truth finally comes out that Joey had him killed.

I know Chandler's got a restraining order. Anyway, this character is going to be on for only 20 episodes and it would take a lot more than that to whitewash the show.

So did Nicole get dressed up to pull up a barstool and wait for someone to pick her up? Considering that Kial just showed up it's clear that she wasn't waiting for him. She might be coping with all the cancer troubles and Ted moving on the wrong way. Kat's concern is notable since she's been established as being highly persceptive. Bill pretending to be sleep when Hayley arrived almost makes me want to route for her evil plan. He's just an all around jerk. The one time that Joey takes action on his own it is with someone who is pretty much non-threatening and easy to beat up. Chelsea is very emotionally unstable and shouldn't be in a relationship with anyone at this point. And her seeing doing drugs as a personality trait and being spontaneous is another big problem she has.

Nicole is going to start ordering escorts at some point. Vernon does entirely too much and it's annoying. Of course his clinginess to Anita has been evident for some time now this storyline has really brought it out. Kat wasn't rude to Shanice, but her tone was still superior and somewhat judgemental. Meanwhile her boyfriend has practically blackmailed himself into being partner which is very low grade and she doesn't even know it.

Love the ATWT comparison. When Anita collapsed a fade into the galactic 80s closing theme from ATWT would have fit perfectly.

When he met with Jan to talk I thought he was going to work his way up to seducing her as a way of getting revenge. He seemed a little disappointed when she said she was seeing someone and then pivoted towards telling Ashley's business. Jan is such a Derek cheerleader it was giving "then you marry him, Mama!".

That crimped, wavy hairstyle makes Leslie a little more menacing, IMO. Her craziness is a more dangerous Nikki Parker type of crazy (although Nikki was pretty nuts), but in some ways it seems like she enjoys arguing with Shanice more than she actually wants Ted. After all she has been having a good time with Marcel.

Smh at Tomas calling Nicole hot in front of Kat.

How classic is a fainting cliffhanger? So 70s/80s soap.

I didn't feel bad for Vanessa when they guy went off on her because she is long overdue for a chewing out even if it was from a random stranger. And Hayley sitting in the corner being entertained was everything. Nicole has no business being indignant that Ted is moving on. He granted her the divorce like she wanted and it's not like he didn't ask for another chance.

Had to catch up last night because I missed Tuesday and Wednesday. Leslie is playing a dangerous game over having her name on the clinic. Joey is not the one to play with and she's definitely going to overplay her hand. Nicole just might take advantage of Vanessa's escort service. She looked interested when she was staring at the card and was surprisingly approving of Vanessa running the service. With all that said, Nicole has no room to be bothered by Ted seeing Shanice since she wanted the divorce. Speaking of Shanice, her read of Anastasia was epic. Dani treated Andre different when they got home from the club after the Hamilton celebration. Something tells me that Dani is going to do something really stupid while Andre is away and it probably will involve Billy Goat. Hayley is increasingly pissed off and that hallucination seeing Dani makes me think that Dani will end up on his kill list. Leslie is definitely going to end up being blamed for whatever happens to Bill because she is so public about her disdain for him. Kat being angry at Ted loving his children equally is ridiculous (when he said "all my children" thought of AMC). She has to the right not to embrace Eva, but the notion that only her and Martin are entitled to the same sort of love is absurd. Chelsea is going to lose Madison messing around with drugs. Not sure if something bad will happen to Jacob on this undercover assignment but he definitely looked like he was in over his head after Elon explained the details.