2 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

Another person to work at a clinic that has no set where we dont see the day to day drama that goes on there wtih the growing staff

I hope they're planning on showing that set in the near future.

I may have missed it, but has it been said where Peaches Evans is.

I thought Peaches was still lying up there in Garland Memorial, where they allow folks to stay for months on end, like a boarding house.

I'd trade out Tyrrell, Samantha, and June.. and instead feature Donnell and Deanna fully. Get some non Duprees some focus.

The scenes between Anita & Vernon are a painful watch but it is the one storyline that seems to be written with detail and any care. I think Tamara and Clifton are showing why they are deserving of the matriarch and patriarch of this show.

I don't have a problem with Samantha and Tyrell as a concept but it's getting harder and harder to overlook the fact that "Samantha" doesn't look her age, she looks older...noticeably, unavoidably older. At least the actor who portrays Tyrell could pass for 17, 18.

How much longer is this plasma ring storyline going to be with us? It is getting more and more ridiculous. And with Smitty trying to call the shots now? Is he a detective now? Are he and Jacob partners? Smitty, go home to your husband...if anything, you are drawing suspicion on Jacob at this point. And Jacob doesn't need any more ways to flop, he already has more than enough of his own accord. Again, I ask, what is the purpose of this entire story? Will Anita need a transfusion or something? Why should I care? Especially seeing that most of the action happens off screen.

Speaking of offscreen, some miracle will probably happen at the new clinic, but offscreen. And the clinic needs to get in line behind off screen Banneker University, which has been mentioned since the beginning and has no less than four characters who either work or attend school there, yet we still have yet to see one room inside that campus.

Dani asserting to Bill that her man is the man of the house, is a standout line and Karla delivered it deftly.

I honestly don't care about Vanessa and Temu Tony Soprano. The more Vanessa whimpers about her downtrodden existence as wife and mother (if she & Doug were really just roommates, there is this thing called a divorce, which would have at least left Doug with more dignity than he had right before his demise or thereafter), the more unseemly light Vanessa puts the whole of her existence in her marriage and life in. Just. Stop. It doesn't make Vanessa look any better in my eyes, so Vanessa, please cut the whining.

Hopefully Naomi uses her lawyerly training and doesn't let anything slip out about Jacob in front of the plasma ring street corner captain. But they make everyone on this show except Joey, look absolutely clueless.

-- The Anita/Vernon scenes were again really well done. Terrific acting.

-- I do hope we get a recovery before too many more months. I know it's played realistically, but we're facing a storyline where too many characters worry and cry about Anita all the time.

-- What kind of hair did they give June for today's show? Just no.

-- The Bill and Dani scenes offer proof that we need movement on the Hayley storyline. These "moments" between Dani and Bill are boring unless they lead to something.

-- The Vanessa/Joey love story continues to be a fail to me. The writers continually give her scenes to prop up her role as mother and to explain her cheating, but it's not working. I'm sick of her "I lost myself" crap when it's followed by "I did become a wealthy real estate mogul who dresses in designer clothes all the time." And her Prince Charming to save her is JOEY? The Golden Corral Casino Mobster???

-- Those fireplace flames shots at Joey's were hilarious.

-- Speaking of hilarious sets, there's that brick wall where Rashad/Jacob meets Smitty and the evil crew. What are Jacob and Smitty going to say if the bad guys see them talking in the corner of a brick buidling?

-- And would these plasma stealing thugs really resort to murdering someone who wanted out? And how do Jacob and Smitty find out who the main players are when all they do is stand on the corner of a brick building? This storyline is just badly, badly written.

With how much sh.it Vanessa talks about Doug they might as well have Joey tell her what he did so she can say oh well and can all move on.