Yeah, Phillip was doomed from the start. 😂 The selfishness of everyone involved--and I have to include Elizabeth, because only someone REALLY messed up would believe giving your 12 year old basically up for adoption would be a GOOD thing--was off the charts. One of the rare cases where Alan wasn't at the top of the list. One other beat Marland missed--Alan finding out the reason Jackie really married him. A guy with his ego would have FLIPPED OUT. Even though he was using her and much as she was using him (being married improved his chances of gaining custody) he probably believed she was crazy about him, at least in the beginning. I'm sorry, this was such a good story, regardless of believability, because of the complexity of the characters involved and the situation. Some of my favorite scenes are when Alan and Jackie were married. They were SO mismatched, both of them having no idea how to live together as a couple, both using each other, most of that staying in the subtext. Chris and Cindy played the heck out of those scenes. This is why it is so disappointing that we never got the reveals involving the characters who were chucked out prematurely. Carrie Mowery was no match for Cindy Pickett, but I still would have liked seeing Jackie having to face the chickens coming home to roost.
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