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Nah, not a smear campaign at all. I think she deserves the Emmy for the scenes involving John's death. You are absolutely right that Deidre carried the show for decades. There's no denying that. There's also no denying that she has had, and continues to have, problems with some of her colleagues and she is not good at covering her disdain for them when onscreen.

And let's not forget that Maggie wasn't even onscreen for John's funeral, but in the following episode she and Sarah talked all about the funeral as if both had been there. It's pretty clear to me that Kristian and Deidre do not get along either. If Deidre Hall thinks she is on the same level as Susan Lucci, that is a case of delusion that even Dr. Marlena Evans herself could not solve. I remember years ago she and Susan and Eric Braeden presented at the Emmys. Tension! When Kristian left a few years ago, she gave an exit interview to Soap Opera Digest and named every single member of the cast, except Deidre Hall, in thanking them for their friendship over the years. The omission was glaring. The body language was so tense and stiffly turned away from Suzanne. She didn't meet her eye line once. Suzanne acted just fine. Her "Don't go, Marlena" sounded sincere. To me, it's a one sided feud.

Mark-Francis is about to become an icon internationally. He's already well known in the UK to @Cat and me.

Show me a television project of SMG that has been a hit since Buffy ended in which she's been the lead? There haven't been any. And I like SMG, but the facts are the facts.

Once you see it, you'll see the implication is correct... ;)

Correct. SMG can use all the help she can get.

Totally agree. What Meredith tried to do, and failed I might add, was absolutely disgusting.

Oh good to know, another cast I won’t be watching.

Just finished watching it - I enjoyed it. A very light mystery that adapts an Agatha Christie storytelling trope. Given the budget was very low, something like $1 million USD, it looks quite good. That's the upside of location shooting in a very old Czech mansion. Joan has more charisma than the rest of the cast combined. Her eyes light up and the camera loves her. She's still got it. The British actors, Simon Cotton and Toby-Alexander Smith, were very good and certainly deserving of good careers on UK television. Nadia Bjorlin was fine but a bit stilted. The pleasant surprise is India Thain, who is the granddaughter of Joan's late sister, the great Jackie Collins. Obviously a nepo-baby hire courtesy of her great aunt Joan. However, she is very natural on camera and a better actress than Bjorlin. The false note is Jacob Young. He is such a ham they might as well have glazed him and baked him for 3 hours on low. His line readings are really off. He's also let himself go in a very unfortunate way. He's got long hair he's put in a man bun while also sporting a significant amount of extra weight. He looks rough. He was a co-director so might have been haggard from working behind the scenes.

Dame Joan was Queen of the B Movies in the 1970s - she did Empire of the Ants after all - the scriptwriter is a friend of hers. Her next movie, The Duchess and I, is decidedly more high profile.

What about Bobbie v. Lucy?

Yes, I will be watching on Friday night!

Carson and Raven are good actors and their characters have been good for the show. I'm surprised they are being let go. I agree that Carson would be an easy recast for RJ on B&B @dragonflies The other two...I have not enjoyed.

Completely agree and that's the fun of it for me. Angel has been a flop all season and this trip continues that trend. The difference, however, is she's making Gizelle and Ashley miserable this time, so I'm here for it. That's my take: I find this funny to watch. One thing I note about Angel's house: the principal rooms (kitchen, living room etc) all felt on the small side. The other thing was that firepit with her husband's friends...and that one particular guy smoking a cigar. They were all basically rude to the rest of the ladies.

POTOMAC I don't even care that Angel has organized a flop of a house that doesn't have running water because she's made Ashley and Gizelle miserable and for that I salute her. Ashley really is sour, especially in her VT's where she's wearing a wig with a hat on top. Gizelle is such a control freak about wanting to be top dog on this show. If she just relaxed she'd come across so much better. Stacey continues to really make me laugh. Monique is putting her own stuff on Angel's marriage and I don't see the parallels. What I observed with Angel and her husband is the dynamic where the spouses check in with each other to make sure things are OK. That's called communication. BH I got through this week's episode. Take it from me, this season is dry and the only thing going on is Dorit's divorce and she's letting it all hang out. Sutton remains insufferable, but she appears to have had some really good work done on her face and looks great. Jennifer Tilly remains hilarious. Kathy remains an interesting facet. Other than that, there's nothing going on. The new girl, Amanda, is a total flop.

I agree with you. The production dropped every storyline that wasn't about the women ganging up on Meredith. Is that the deal they cut with them or did production not have any faith in what the women could bring? Maybe both?

I agree that the season steadily declined after a strong start. However, but for the pile up on her, what did Meredith bring to the season? In my view, exactly nothing. She has nothing going on and hasn't for at least a season or two. I think it may be time to 'pause' Meredith. It was like production decided to make piling on Meredith the A storyline for the season and it did not work at all. There is no reason for it and it felt illogical and incredibly forced. The finale felt very produced and inauthentic. The producers need to realize you can't catch lightning in a bottle and it would have been far better to have a real, pleasant conclusion to the season, than the crap we just endured in the final episode. Heather's role is a problem. She cannot continue to be production's helper. We should have seen her creating the documentary series that's aired on Bravo concurrently. She also comes off really sanctimonious and I don't think anyone enjoys that. We also saw nothing of Whitney rebuilding her business, dealing with the financial fallout, the tension with Justin. None of it. The storyline about Lisa's lawsuits and money was also dropped. We never got anything on Bronwyn and the criminal issue in her past. She at least contributed the implosion of her marriage to the odious Todd. Mary is great for reactions, but she had a lack of storyline on her own. Angie still has life left in her and Britani had no issues letting it all hang out with her dysfunctional Osmond relationshit and her terrible behaviour with her daughters.

And when AW was cancelled it was announced on the evening news.

Yes, the Brady Pub is most definitely an Irish pub and the use of country western, especially the twangy crap they use, is bizarre and often ruins the tone of a scene.

Is Khalil leaving the show?

I certainly do. If he's in this show, Bravo fans are not ready. He is totally original.

Just a hunch on my part, but I expect the CTV Drama Channel to be rebranded into something else or shuttered imminently given it has nothing original airing and the branding is not reliant on a third party licensing deal, unlike the E! channel. Bell Media has been trimming its content offerings and channels for some time now to run leaner. For years it had many specialty channels that it has let go of over the last decade plus.

I sure would - Jill screaming "She killed my Philip!" is still great all these later - thank you!

I cannot agree more! Finally, Angel's tagline about hell having no fury like an Angel scorned makes sense. She delighted in giving Gizelle and Ashley a taste of the hazing they've put her through. It blows me away that Gizelle and Ashley can be so bewildered at Angel's revenge on them. Don't they realize they've been totally and utterly shitty to her? At Monique's event, Ashley was sure sucking in her cheeks hard to try and give off haughty frustration. She just comes across like a total arsehole. She really is a piece of work.

I watched all three parts today and I think it basically summed up the issues with Mary's church that came out a few years ago. None of that was a surprise to me. What did surprise me was the audio recordings of the man who was Lisa's friend and claimed to have had an affair with Mary and mortgaged his house for her. Now that was a smoking gun. Robert Sr. came across as the real villain of the piece. From his marriage to Mary's grandmother, to how he treated those boys who lived with her, to how he got together with Mary after she'd been ex-communicated by the grandmother, while still married to another man...I can see why he doesn't want to appear on RHSLC. I don't think this documentary will make a dent in Mary's popularity or return for next season.