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We've all been saying it in this thread for years and years. BH is super boring. This thread is generally flawless in predicting audience reactions and we've all known this day would come. At last! And there is the most glaring issue of all. Production allowed the women to showcase fake storylines in exchange for not covering their real life events. I really think the Morgan Wade thing damaged the show because Kyle's constant evasiveness over it drove audiences away when it became clear that Kyle is not sharing her real life. And likely never has. Zing! That's a great line. BH has never evolved. Their cast has been stale, and been allowed to be stale, for years. If the producers had any guts, they'd have fired Kyle and Erika, kept Garcelle, and hired two new women. Love her or loathe her, Dorit is the only one whose showing her life imploding and audiences who didn't like her in the past are now warming to her.

What's also mind blowing to me is the free flow of foreign money in the transaction proposed by Paramount. Are Americans really OK with foreign sovereign wealth funds and hostile foreign powers owning substantial media assets? Foreign ownership of media companies is commonly illegal in the Western world...yet it doesn't seem that Americans mind this.

Really enjoyed the scenes, as well as the follow up at the pub, great to see Kate back in a power suit. LK and SR have a nice easy chemistry .

The USA's antitrust laws are not being upheld and if the Ellisons gain control of Warner Bros. that would be as near a monopoly as anyone could get.

I will be tuning into my PVR to catch these scenes.

I agree. I thought it was very dull and the obsession with Garcelle (and Avi) shows these women have nothing going on and aren't willing to bring their own lives into focus for the audience to see. I will treat this season as my PVR show. I'll record it and watch when I'm doing laundry or the dishes. I can tell it will be a dull season with very little going on other than a few fights that nobody really cares aout.

100% - Reba plays Reba, and we love her for it, with each show having a very similar tone. She's extremely likeable and confident, so it's an easy sell.

POTOMAC Another banger of an episode all thanks to Stacey and Wendy. Firstly, the telephone call that Charisse clearly thought was going to be a hot moment and then...was nothing. Like everything Charisse touches, it turns to forgettable sand. K and Angel are flops. Ashley is bitter and as fake as the wig upon which she placed that unfortunate hat in her VT. I think Jassi could do well next season once her bridezilla moment has faded. I liked her scenes this episode and her husband was likeable, cooking away. It's really a shame that Wendy is having such a great season while the insurance fraud charges are pending. There was her mother prancing on her back deck talking about living off of Wendy's money, flaunting her Christian Dior bag, while Wendy's home gets renovated...all while the DMV police are figuring out what Pam Oliver and Eddy Hennessy were up to... Monique has really evolved. She was so calm while some of the women were trying to kick up a mess with Stacey. Even in the After Show she told Ashley she was wrong about 'screenshots' being used. She pointedly said that Stacey showed her all the text messages and that she'd been able to scroll, so they were obviously not screenshots. Gizelle feels a little bit outside the group this season, which I think will work to her advantage come reunion time and when she's finally back in touch with Karen.

Porsha knows how to raise interest before a season. Happy for her too. Robyn will never take accountability for why she was rightly dumped. The show hasn’t missed a beat without her.

Jess knocked it out of the park and within a decade of playing Jill, had two Emmys to her name. Another great choice. Carmen was wonderful as Iris. I'll also add Lauren Koslow as Kate on DAYS. She's coming up to her 30th anniversary on the show. There are definitely still people who love Deborah Adair's Kate, but for me, it's LK or nobody.

Definitely still viewing and cannot wait.

POTOMAC Great episode and Stacey could not be shaken...she is impervious to these women! It's incredible to witness. When she didn't hesitate to not only point her finger at Cookie (aka Broke Down Aretha Franklin) but then get closer to her...incredible. And THEN when K gave her all the ammo needed for the "you don't have a husband!" line...sensational. Angel did the Mention It All podcast and came across really well and very likeable. She is just a flop onscreen though. Speaking of which, it's really incredible to watch Wendy and Ashley talk about someone being inauthentic when we've got a fraudster and multi season divorce arc to behold... Finally, Monique was so smart and showed a lot of growth when she didn't take the bait about Stacey potentially dating her ex-husband. Another flop from K who just comes across more bitter and irrelevant each episode.

Wow, I had not thought of him, but that's an incredible run. The lawsuit he and Emily Daschenel had to file against Fox in 2019 for concealing profits has likely hurt their careers, but the settlement they reached after Fox appealed the $179 million judgment rendered in arbitration likely ensured that they're now very rich. And let's not forget the ill fated sitcom he endured with Faye Dunaway: It Had To Be You.

I could not imagine having someone like Mia in my life. I'd leave her in cells too!

Suzanne, may her memory be a blessing, probably had nothing good to say about that show given it was named by TV Guide as one of the 50 Worst Television Shows of all time...but it laid the groundwork for her comeback on Step by Step because Lorimar was the production company of both, and she had a very happy relationship with Lorimar and Miller-Boyett, who she tons of praise for. Patrick Duffy had an overall deal with Lorimar, so the moment Dallas was over, he was prepping for Step by Step. He is an incredibly well liked man and a solid actor, so he had a well deserved nearly 30 year run in primetime. That is the same for Locklear and Sullivan, both of whom are hard workers and very professional and well liked, and enjoyed such consistent careers in television. I personally really like Sheridan, and don't think what happened on Desperate Housewives was cool at all. She's worked since then with a number of networks, so there are clearly other people who agree. Loni Anderson was an actress who never managed to duplicate the success she enjoyed on WKRP in Cincinnati, which is really a shame because she was a skilled comedienne. In her last role, in a Lifetime TV movie, she proved she still had the comedic chops. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact she was beautiful and glamorous in her private and public image, so in the 80s they weren't casting someone who looked like her in a comedy. I think Morgan Fairchild is another actress who fits this category. She never had a big hit all her own. A 4 year run on Search for Tomorrow. Guest shots on Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, one episode on Dallas, then Flamingo Road, which only lasted two seasons, then Paper Dolls, which only lasted a season, then two years on Falcon Crest...it was like she could not find a permanent spot on a prime time soap. Then more guest shots (including an Emmy nomination for Murphy Brown), then Chandler's Mom on Friends, and really whatever she could do. She is so smart and has a good heart I'm sorry she never got the true success she deserved. I think a lot of it came down to her bravery in speaking about HIV/AIDS in the 80s and networks deemed her "too controversial"...bastards.