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What I will give Michelle Val Jean immense credit for is developing a situation that has viewers (validly) able to argue from different sides because the characters are not black and white. I rolled my eyes during the wedding fiasco. It was too campy and drawn out for my taste (but given who wrote the breakdown that tracks). The fall out was worth the show. I love that you had Anita clocking Dani for the insane behavior while simutaneously negating any role she (Anita) may have played in Dani's situation. Dani remains a (purposefully) taxing character who I'm sure I'll appreciate more in time. I thought Mosely's dialed back reaction after her conversation with Nicole was a nice contrast to the mania displayed earlier in the episode. 

I think what was effective about today's exposition, particularly in the scenes with Eva / Dana Leslie was that it was cloaked in mystery. We got enough nuggets of what was going on while not necessarily getting the entire picture.  By this point, Eva should know the lore; there's no reason to explore it in depth so the recap was logical. I wish more time had been presented on this story. Eva not realizing Leslie arranged the accident was a nice beat. @BetterForgotten pointed out during the casting stage that Eva was in the vein of Carly Roberts. I appreciate is Eva is deeply connected to her mother in Val Jean's version and is going after the father. It's the sorta twist that centers the female characters and avoids the rampant misogyny that was present in a lot of the mateiral I've seen from GH in that era and other eras, though I'm not as well versed as others here. 

The material on the elevator was an effective cliffhanger from Friday, but I just wasn't invested. The Uptown scenes with Derek and others all felt very terse and effectively just used to break up other stories, which is a shame because all those characters (Derek, Vanessa, Doug, Pamela) could use a bit more shading. 

Martin only caring about his image was an interesting shading. 

The conflict set up between Naomi and Jacob was interesting, but i would have loved to seen that beat played a little longer. I did appreciate that Chelsea's revelation didn't lead to everyone beating up on Chelsea, but I think this will continue to be an issue. I didn't think Chelsea making a video about having a family meeting was smart so this will continue to be a pattern. Dani owning the mess worked for me. 

Shanice that nurse is gold. The supporting cast is really strong. Reminds me of a combo between Amy Vining and Anne Milbauer. 

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On another show Chelsea would've livestreamed it just because it would be sort of reductive shock value, 'she's the social media girl and that's what they do.' The weird OOC Kristina recast Ron Carlivati introduced on GH, for example, would've done that in her brief reality show phase. I was pleased that it was instead an accident on Chelsea's part. Those do happen.

Per what dc said, I can potentially see a Carlivati influence in having Dani vamp for segment after segment holding the gun which is understandably not to some people's taste. But I also think that's (in addition to being typical soap) just what Dani's histrionic persona is and how she operates - demanding a stage for her drama. Nonetheless I think Karla killed it and Lynn Martin did a great job with the very arch but cutting dialogue. Some of which I imagine RC could have tossed in, having seen his breakdowns before.

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I dont like how it went down though bc the way it was set up, it ant be an accident. The phon was perched perfectly against her purse to capture everything. It was placed lik that and it dosnt make sense that she would do that after she got up. Why would she leave her phone there let alone angle it to record? Im wondering if there will be a twist that reeals she did it on purpose

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