Michael

Thanks, Errol! It's such a weird hitch. It's happening on my MacBook as well, but in both Safari and occasionally Chrome.

I'm having an almost identical issue as @Mona Kane Croft. Some ads jump in and change the entire layout of the page. The font goes from the usual sans-serif to Times New Roman and the page becomes unreadable.

She was dead-dead. And they'll just retcon it away by using Rolf or some nonsense that makes no sense in relation to what we saw onscreen. She was running the Spectator at the time of her death, though. Abby started working at the Spectator during the time jump and (minus times she was offscreen for mental illness and recasting) continued working there until her death. She was running it at that point, I believe. It was a pretty significant plot point.

That would make a lot of sense. They have to be careful about not appearing to fire writers for having gone on strike.

It's just bizarre to me. There's no way she wasn't a bit of a mouthpiece for him -- he was basically ghost-HW-ing the show before he got canned. And now isn't he SUING the show? It seems like such a weird conflict of interest that the intimate partner of someone perpetrating such acts is still "on the inside."

Sonja Alarr had never written a produced TV or film script in her life before her husband handed her that job. It's not like she's a writer with a ton of credits or like she had been working on another show for a long time. She lives with and is connected to the man. She only has a job because of him. She can go.

They also didn't really pause much between the last reunion and picking up the cameras for this season, right? Some of it could just be to take a damn break, which I'm sure the cast is asking for, too. They have some creative stuff to figure out, as well, but I'm not convinced the pause is any kind of catastrophe.

What great news to have him healthy enough to be back at work.

That's exactly how it is. They introduce these edgy/rebel/messy kids and within six months, they're hugging "Gran" and wanting a wedding and children. It's gotten especially back in the last decade or so. I wouldn't mind it so much if there were an arc to it, but it just... happens.

I'm angry we didn't see Paulina on the snowplow. If you're gonna do something this stupid, DO IT.

This is cool as hell. Just such insanely good news.

Did Liz SHOOT Marie?! Or am I mixing up my old stories?

Totally. It's actually pretty justified in the writing, or at least the setup, and I like that Sloan is tepid on having this thing she thought she wanted. It just drives me nuts that no one ever mentions what a LOSER Eric is!

Why exactly is Sloan, a beautiful, successful attorney in her 30s, so desperate to hang onto this unemployed convicted murderer who can't even pay a bill himself? I mean, I get that he's hot, but girl...

You guys have no idea how completely ridiculous this is about to be.

Who's down there in the green in the bottom left corner?

Totally. Nick, a character born offscreen to a mother who notably suffered from DID, is a much more plausible candidate to have a lost twin out there than a lot of the ones we've gotten...

They've even retconned how he looks. During his first episode, they intentionally had him run into Gabi, who didn't recognize him at all. So he didn't look like Nick and certainly wasn't identical to him. But more recently, they had Julie remark that he looked somewhat like Nick, or at least reminded her of Nick. That felt like someone (Alarr? The scab writers?) had decided to tie him to the Hortons after all. With the recent mentions of Tommy and Sandy, I kinda wonder if they're going to make him a cousin of Nick's through that line or something.

Yeah, it seems like he worked as a journalist under both names. So how did no one in the journalism community notice that Bobby Stein and Everett Lynch were the same guy? And the basic premise of the story still doesn't make sense: he ghosted Stephanie after this (alleged) accident, but he would've been married to Jada and left her prior to that... so the whole accident/ghosting thing kinda doesn't matter in the long run, unless he secretly went and started a THIRD life.

I somehow totally missed that! Interesting tidbit for sure.

In theory, yeah. They just never connected the logic in a way that worked for me. He knew Stefan was running drugs for Clyde, and the drugs would've come from them even if Tate had technically handed a pill to Holly, so it felt odd to me that EJ was wholly unconcerned with bringing down the people who were supplying drugs to teenagers instead of the men (whom he already loathed!) causing the entire epidemic we kept hearing about -- especially when the case against Tate looked pretty flimsy.

I thought Leo Howard did fine and was pretty natural on his first day. I liked JMM a lot, but he aired for, what, four months total? LH does read older -- like they could have cast him for the Johnny/Chanel age group, not as someone who's supposed to be 16-17. I still have no idea why EJ was so hellbent on prosecuting Tate, who at worst would've been the lowest-level offender (distributing small amounts, since he wasn't caught with any significant amount on him), when he knew Stefan -- the brother he despises -- was involved in high-level drug-running. Don't DAs usually want big convictions instead of small-time ones?!

Probably 2019 or so. Linsey Godfrey debuted in late 2018 as Sarah and they've referenced Neil a few times since, and they definitively established onscreen that he had passed away.

Agreed! I think she works as "Tate's mom" but she doesn't fully register as Theresa to me yet.

Leo and Chad discussed this in Thursday's episode.