4 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

Deanna has Vanessa's number and keeps calling it.

Great to hear she's back again. It would have been a waste to have her pop in as brief as she did, move story, and vanish with her young Dru-acting self.

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

I know, right? And enjoy your visiting time!

Thanks!!

3 hours ago, MontyB said:

Haley's misdeeds may be coming back around to bite her in the ass.

Very. It's been delicious with it giving 90s DAYS self. lol.

I love that you got to watch it with your Mom, too. :)

-- Listening to Joey the Mobster rail against plastic surgery and doctors in general made me a Carlton fan for the first time. That whole rant was out of the blue ridiculous. Did he have liposuction that went bad?

-- Vanessa was so torn up over her meeting with Deanna that she dressed up like a whore for her Uptown date with Joey.

-- Vanessa, NO ONE buys your sadness over Doug's death or your story about when you started banging Joey. You can add all the hitches in your voice that you like -- no one believes you.

-- Glad to see Naomi put her foot on Hayley's neck. I hope it stays there. We've had months of Naomi being cordial and even friendly to Hayley, and it never made any sense.

-- I want the old Shanice back. I don't like all this self-doubt, and I don't like all this Nicole praise from her that makes her seem like an inferior replacement. If Shanice has been cheated on multiple times in the past, I don't want her to play victim here.

-- And Shanice, Ted did not tell you he loved you.

Instead of casting Jon Linstrom as a mobster they should’ve made Joey into a wealthy Alan Spaulding type, probably one that is on the board at Garland or one that funds lobbyists in DC.

The cancer material is still very good and largely very well-written and acted, a cut above anything else on the show, even if I am annoyed they played the beat of Anita wanting to give up and die only about 3 months into the story. That should've been held back for after some disastrous medical emergency in May sweeps, like at the long-delayed cotillion. It's too soon here.

Whoever is playing Dr. Monica is a keeper. Very tough, very authentic. If the Dupree relationships weren't still so new or sacrosanct I would argue she could be a potential temptation for Vernon further down the road.

They clearly want to keep Grayson viable, which pleases me. Jordi is doing very well and could play with many women, though he does have chemistry with Jen Jacob.

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Vanessa gurl,

10 minutes ago, Vee said:

Whoever is playing Dr. Monica is a keeper.

I expect no less from the woman who played the original voice for Storm on the X-MEN 90s cartoon.

6 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Vanessa gurl,

LMAO

4 hours ago, MontyB said:

Out of town visiting my Mom and we watched live. We were both gasping at Joey, loving Ted and Shanice, and thinking Haley's misdeeds may be coming back around to bite her in the ass.

The walls closing in on Hayley is my favorite story currently. So many people are on her radar now. Tomas, Kat, Joey, and now Naomi. Which one will the mask finally slip for and it looks like Lynette is about to throw a major wrench in the plans.

18 minutes ago, Vee said:

Whoever is playing Dr. Monica is a keeper. Very tough, very authentic. If the Dupree relationships weren't still so new or sacrosanct I would argue she could be a potential temptation for Vernon further down the road.

7 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

I expect no less from the woman who played the original voice for Storm on the X-MEN 90s cartoon.

Iona Morris has experience on a soap opera. She played Tamara Tunie's sister Fiona on As The World Turns BITD.

She is also the sister of the actor Phil Morris, who is probably best known for having played Jackie Chiles (Seinfeld) but for me and many other soap fans, we first saw him on The Young & The Restless as Tyrone Jackson (he and Stephanie E. Williams were really good together)

That conversation between Eva and Joey was not only unnecessary, it was deeply cringeworthy. Eva reeling off statistics about Black men to Joey as if he is the United Negro College Fund. SMH.

Speaking of Joey, I thought he just had contempt for Doug but maybe he has contempt for doctors in general? Or is it is Black men of a certain age or status-the ones he can't take responsibility for "making"?🙄🤨Vanessa just sitting there, making meaningless chitchat while Joey...to paraphrase the words of Niles Crane "assaults [the] profession like a drag queen at a tractor pull". But since Vanessa stood by and smirked while Joey made a cuckhold of her husband, I'm not surprised. 🤷🏾‍♀️

The hair and makeup people are slipping on this show. Eva's wig is at the 9-1-1 stage now- it's time for some braids or something else. And Nicole's makeup is so harsh now, I'm not sure if that's supposed to be part of Nicole's new image but yikes! Sometimes Vanessa's look is severe and sometimes she looks pretty good, maybe Nicole and Vanessa are trading off?

I still wish we got a chance to see Shanice date other people before getting so invested in a relationship and I don't like how the writing makes her look like she has low-self esteem and is downtrodden. Having her constantly comparing herself negatively to Nicole is definitely giving colorism energy. Whoever is writing this, either address the issue head on (written well, it actually could be an interesting side topic) or cut it out.