The Anita scenes this week really were amazing. As far as I'm concerned, TT can take home back-to-back Emmys: for both seasons. The biopsy scenes in December were really strong, and she did so much else last year that was Emmy-worthy.
I have to admit, being thankfully ignorant about the side effects of cancer treatment, I initially thought this week's turn in Anita's story seemed like it was out of left field. But the sepsis development makes total sense, and I credit the show with educating the audience about the cascading health effects cancer and its treatments can have (while also serving up some powerful drama in the process).
That being said, the more "research" aka Googling I do about the plasma story, the less sense that one makes. My understanding is it's legal in the U.S. to for plasma, so I'm still struggling to understand what the crime is supposed to be. Is Grayson stealing plasma from the hospital lab, and potentially going to be doing the same at the clinic? Aside from the size of that bag, as has been pointed out, it apparently takes 90+ minutes to donate plasma. Wouldn't patients notice that their routine blood work is taking a lot longer than it should? Is Lia just so greedy that she doesn't want to pay enough for plasma to get a sufficient supply, or what?
While I am caught up on the show/board:
I have to agree 200% with these posts. The exposition-laden dialogue really is glaring, and remains my biggest issue with the show. I would be fine with a more leisurely pace if the slice of life scenes of characters talking to each other were at all lifelike. I could even swallow some plot holes - half the problem is having to hear characters explaining their flawed logic to each other in excruciating detail.
Agreed, this poisoning story should have climaxed in February sweeps, in much the same way you described.
I would argue this was the same problem with Dana/Leslie last year, and that's one reason why I cannot accept that Guza was any sort of lynchpin for plot/momentum. Our first introduction to Leslie was her trying to kill a complete stranger who had done nothing to her (I think that was the plan? At the very least, she had to be indifferent to whether Laura lived or died). Leslie should have grown even more desperate once she was already guilty of one attempted murder, and racked up a body count throughout the spring. And if you'd told me this time last year that the big end-of-summer cliffhanger was going to be be a kidnapping story, it would have seemed like a no-brainer to me: Leslie holding Nicole hostage after Ted continued to reject her.
That would have been way more compelling than the Allison business, not to mention the kind of material you should save for the most seasoned actresses who have proven experience with heavy material. Similarly, the plasma nonsense is a contrived but also redundant excuse for much of the same drama that they could have gotten organically by bringing the "Kill Bill" story to its logical conclusion. The plasma business also has the side effect of isolating some of the less experienced cast members and/or newcomers to the show, with only each other to play off.
And now we have not one but two dynamic but irredeemable villains played by breakout actresses whom this show essentially discovered. That is a remarkable problem for a daytime soap in 2026(!) to have, but also a shame because they're just spinning their wheels.
Again, I hate to complain so much when I started this with well-earned praise for Anita and TT. That is the only reason I caught up on the show and board in time to post this. I definitely agree that Michele Val Jean is indispensable to the show, and any suggestion otherwise is in bad faith - not to mention ridiculous.
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