I've been holding off my opinion on this week, because I've been catching up, but didn't want to add some of my critiques until I got through the whole week.
Firstly, the Cotillion dresses, choreography, decor, and family scenes were exceptional and just beautiful legacy soap.
I hate this three to a table thing that they do at these big events. I'm not sure if this is for visual purposes to create the illusion of a fuller space or if it is for filming purposes, but it just looks weird to me and always takes me out of the fantasy.
The juxtaposition of the lively, celebratory Cotillion with the darker more ominous sting was brilliant. I loved how they played these along each other.
The fallout...Derek is dead. While I did feel sad, I won't lie and say I was a fan of the chatacter. I did start liking Derek a lot more once he was away from Ashley and I felt he would have been great as a secondary character and should have continued on. I feel like there were other deaths that would have had a greater impact. Heck, I would have gone for Jacob ending up in a coma after he saw the Impaler and being the only one to know the identity.
The consequences? Derek is dead. Okay. He was such a minor character at this point and the ramifications already seem to be fizzling out on that. Ashley seems to be the only one extremely distraught by all of it - even Jan was at work and not with her daughter which was weird IMO.
I was hoping that this Plasma Ring story would have been over by the end of May, but it seems like we will still focus on this Impaler. Lord, just make it stop.
The Cotillion needed more drama...and my goodness does this show love to prop up the Duprees and give them everything. It would have been more fitting if Samantha didn't win Platinum Deb, but maybe she ends up recognized by her peers as Miss Congeniality. They were really pushing the idea that she was warm and looked out for the other girls. Would have also been more entertaining to see Francesca be stripped of her deb role because of her grandmother's less than graceful behavior towards Samantha and her mother. We could have seen Samantha give Francesa grace and show that she is not her glamma. Either way, it wasn't spicy enough for me - it was too Winterfest and nothing of real consequence occurred, besides Naughty Nikky running off.
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