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WOW. What an improvement! I can honestly say the show is back in TOP FORM. Margaret DePriest... you are not the hack I thought you were. 

Main storyline - Dixie's child was kidnapped. Oh, poor Adam Jr! His first week out of the hospital and he is already in trouble. Now the problem is... absolutely everyone is a suspect.  

1. Sky - she hates her new baby brother and was thrown out of the house just hours before the act.

2. Palmer - anything sinister or bad... you can blame Palmer and you won't be incorrect.

3. Karen - she vowed revenge on Adam after he disposed of her services (lol). My current top suspect is this little fox. 

4. Sean - the guy wants money and was acting strange before the kidnapping. He gives me the creeps.

5. Adam HIMSELF - I could imagine Adam faking all of this in order to terrorize Dixie, get her declared unstable and take her child away. 

So MANY suspects... and it's probably none of them. We'll see. 

Another storyline I'm obsessed with - even though it is a bit wacky and eccentric - Erica's growing interest in Barney the creepy clown... who is enticing her, circling around her like a vulture. Who the hell is this? Don't tell me! I just hope Erica doesn't get hurt. She was in a plane crash just mere months ago. And bitten by a snake. Can my girl get a break in life? She was just beginning to enjoy life and making love to Jackson 5 times a day. Who wouldn't? 

Aaaaand last, but certainly not least... with the exception of the increasingly demonic hairstyle that Barbara has these days (making her appear like a Stephen King antagonist when she stands up with that Rosemary's baby-witchy hair silhouette), her storyline is getting increasingly dramatic. Parallel to her getting pregnant, Travis learned he has a brain tumor and will die if they don't operate. It is melodramatic, but GOOD melodramatic. Actually, my favorite storylines are always a little bit melodramatic. Like myself.

And for scraps... I am EVEN getting fond of Cecily and Niko... somehow. I like how they are drawn to each-other romantically, but can't break the barrier of best-friends, brother-sister dynamic. If Cecily doesn't raise her voice or scream - they are cute.

Oh, and I forgot the Marissa part... but I'll get to that in another post, because I have so much to say about it.

Overall - 11/10!

Favorite moment from the last few episodes - Skye's dramatic, drunken monologue at Adam Jr's Christening. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Just look at Palmer's face! He is so happy! That in Germany is called schadenfreude - when you feel happiness from people's misery. 

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Thanks for posting that @EricMontreal22!

What a fun read. As an very occasional AMC watcher, it was surprising that she only really alluded to the Kendall story and I don't think she mentioned SMG at all. Isn't that universally regarded as her best AMC story? I guess she really wanted that Kelly Ripa blurb.

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Isn't it wild.  I know that memoirs can be filled with scandalous info, but (despite her crazy introduction) I have no idea how she thought this would make it to print.

Given Washam's comments about McTavish and that she basically caused him to leave the writing team, I can't imagine he hired her, unless it was a case of buyer's regret.

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@Maxim Thanks. Robin Christopher reminding us of the struggles in playing drunk. I did laugh at the way she said "Cooneys" and "I HATE THAT BABY!" I also marvel at how good the set design and atmosphere still was at this time. It feels so claustrophobic, like you are losing air the longer you watch. 

I wonder if that priest was meant to have more story at the time. 

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The movie theatre set looked exactly like something out of Saved By the Bell.

You're forgetting Lysistrata the therapist who counselled Adam and Liza who I admit I found kinda funny, but then they tried to make her a thing and have her date Tad.

There were so many bad casting calls but Carlos (whose actor inexplicably won the reality contest America's Sexiest Man) gets my vote for the worst casting ever on AMC.

And Bianca's anorexia storyline was left over from Broderick's run...

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I always thought Scott Thompson Baker had great charisma. His character made a strong entrance and quickly became part of a major storyline, holding his own the entire time. He had incredible chemistry with Cady McClain and Teresa Blake (whatever happened to her?).

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Yeah one of the stupidest things I have ever done was ask Hal if he had read this.  I think he was a good soap writer and when I interviewed him he was so sharp in his insights about what made a good soap.  He also was friends with FMB which I'm sure didn't help his relationship with McT

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Noooo.  I still stand by how enjoyable a lot of McT's first stint at AMC was.  And even when she came back in the 2000s for a brief time the show felt like Pine Valley again.  I can't think of any good writing from Dena...

I also have loved reading your posts.  I have no idea who was being rude about them (either I can't see their posts or they've been removed) but I want to stress that it's not how most of us feel.

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Megan and Dena Higley both have done a ton of terrible work and both have atrocious personal reputations, but Higley has never had a fraction of the good let alone classic things Megan actually had a major hand in at AMC.

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He was part of the Sexiest Man reality competition they had (he's not in this video...)  And yes, I think he was with Simone.  Juan Pablo was his brother who was a better actor so basically seemed to replace him (still not the best story...)
 

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But not a bad seed.  I think both were killed off--though I admit I can't remember.

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