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Ted also stays at the hotel and Vernon is probably aware of that. As much as Ted wants to be back in Nicole's good graces he might feel obligated to tell if he saw Vernon coming out of a woman's room since keeping secrets got him in so much trouble before.

Vernon was spotted by the worst person possible. Leslie is definitely going to use that to her advantage somehow.

It would be better if Naomi was the one to save him and less predictable. She let Hayley into their lives and it would be fitting for her to doing the rescuing. I think it might happen that way because the writers have made it a point for Naomi to really know Hayley's personality. I went YouTube searching and found the scene with Janice Frame and Rachel Cory. That disturbed smile that she gives Rachel in the 3/14/1980 cliffhanger was insanely good acting on Christine Jones' part.

Leslie intimidating Laura reminded me of when Alex Olanov said something to scare the crap out of Addie on One Life to Live. It is so transparent that Leslie is about to get in trouble for what she did, but how it plays out will be interesting to see. Hayley slipped a bit by showing a little too much concern about Izaiah being a prospect for Ashley, but Bill is too clueless to pick up on that. And speaking for Izaiah, Leslie was quite interested in him so I'm wondering if she's going to be a Marian Colby. That would be hard to do from jail, though.

Derek doesn't seem all that broken up if he can kiss somebody so quickly. But he does match up with the firefighter better than he ever did with Ashley. Vernon is surely not cheating, but leaving his cuff links at her hotel was not a good look. Why were they even off?

Derek is the safe choice for Ashley which is why she was willing to marry him, although part of that was motivated by sympathy for his condition. Either way she should have just left him alone. Naomi is projecting her anger about her own situation into Ashley's and that is wrong. She's trying to make Ashley have an angry response of throwing Derek's things outside and that just isn't who Ashley is. And that nasty crack about hope she made to Derek was seriously annoying. Kat and Ted had a much needed talk. While I think Kat is being ridiculous thinking that Ted is putting Eva in front of her, I do think Kat was right to tell him about Eva's antics. Furthermore, it's way overdue that Ted had a conversation with Tomas. Tomas has played both of his daughters against each other and Ted needs to hold him to task.

Eva isn't even trying to monopolize Ted so I don't get what Kat's problem is. That "whatever it takes" line suggests that Kat is going to start scheming big time and end up looking like the villain.

Reflecting on how good it is to be alive and to never take each day for granted. A co-worker of mine was asked to leave work after yelling at a resident (I work in a retirement home) and yesterday he was arrested for attempted murder for stabbing his mother. Thankfully she is ok, but it's chilling that I worked with someone capable of doing such a thing.

It's not Kat's fault that Samantha listened in a conversation that she was not involved in or would have never been invited into. Martin was way out of line with Kat and very disrespectful. Taking ChelseaKat away from Samantha is only going to make things worse.

My mom has been mentioning this and it is not a great look for a mostly Black soap that is supposed to be elevating the Black experience on screen. It sort of defeats the purpose of having powerful Black characters if you're going to have a sleazy, low grade White character pulling their strings.

Ashley got her face cracked. Andre shut her down in a nice way, but nonetheless he was clear. The fact that she was so quick to text him after finding out the truth about Derek goes to show she was never that serious about Derek.

It's clear that Laura is being freed up from her unseen boyfriend so that she's available for someone else. Maybe Derek or Jabob, but time will tell if either of those happen. She was the chef. IMDb lists her a caterer.

Democrats tried to redistrict her out in 2022 by adding Park Slope (Living Single!) to her district, but a court blocked the map. Hochul might try to find a way around that though.

It was Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican elected to Congress from NYC. Same old tired talking points, so not much difference though.

Some Republican Congresswoman from New York actually said that Democrats learned a "hard lesson" tonight and another hack commentator said "well those are blue states and Democrats were always supposed to win".

Republicans got more embarrassed tonight in elections that Nicole Dupree Richardson at her anniversary party. And the NYC results aren't even in.

Joey is putting Vanessa in charge of escorts is just like a pimp putting his main hoe in charge of slapping around the streetwalkers to make sure they hand over all the cash. That aside, Vanessa knows that he killed Doug but just doesn't want to see it. Hayley has zero cares to give and her comments about Dani giving up everything for Bill were spot on.

Derek is doing his best to trap Ashley. Involving Naomi and Jacob was such an uncomfortable thing to do. Naomi and Jacob are talking in circles at the point. One of them has to make the decision to end the marriage because it is broken. Laura's presence along with Leslie and Eva having full circle moments tells me that Leslie's about to face some consequences. Vernon is most likely not cheating, but he shouldn't be going to a woman's hotel room, especially not Sharon's.

I had an aunt who let my cousin who was 13-14 years old bring her boyfriend (who was an adult lying about his age) into the apartment when she wasn't there just to avoid arguments. Long story short my cousin ended up with four children by her early 20s and later a drug problem. I don't see anything wrong with the storyline because I've seen what happens to teenagers when parents take too much of a "do what you want" attitude.

I wouldn't say this is why soaps are in decline, they have been in decline because of repetitive, plot driven writing. But overall the show has been setting up Samantha having some sort of conflict with her parents and this is just the culmination of it. I don't think it's some condemnation of sex, it's just a story to drive conflict.

Sometimes people who decided to have sex at a young age are against their teenagers doing it because it ended up being a poor choice for them. It's not treating sex as a sin or being too conservative to not allow your child to do whatever they choose to in your home. After all, it is the parents who have to deal with many of the consequences.

JD definitely needs a White wife for his presidential profile, but he's gotten started much sooner than he would have prefered. He's definitely slept with Erika Kirk because that hug and the breathless way she was speaking about him say that. That said, some of these marriages in politics are so arranged that Usha Vance may not even care.

Considering what type of person Nathan is it's clear that Samantha is making a poor choice. She's expecting to have an experience like Chelsea and Kat, but she's being set up to be used and talked about around school. Being talked about as a conquest is not a respectable way to be treated, especially if a person has led you to believe that they respect you. I cannot speak for others, but at 16 I know that I shouldn't have been having sex. Plus, Samantha showed her immaturity by throwing her aunt under the bus and insinuating that she told her to this.

Maybe I'm wishful thinking, but that looks like it could be Anna Maria Horsford in the scene where someone opens the door for Vernon.

Tyler Perry built his audience off of his plays and movies that drew a church audience who liked the message of overcoming trials. His TV shows are all about over the top drama and shock value. He is basically JER without the supernatural and magic elements. I do give him credit for getting the ball rolling on Black drama series becoming common place though.