What I Watched Today
(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Ava and Nicholas wake up in the shed. She asks what happened last night.

Monica asks Tracy and Michael why they’re at the hospital. Tracy says following Monica’s insane instructions and seeing the new doctor. Michael says he drove because Tracy is still frail from being sick.

Finn has Teddy in the examining room and asks for Felix’s assistance.

Julian tries to talk to Alexis, who isn’t having any. She tells him she posted bail. Ghost Carrrlos tells Julian it’s the perfect opportunity to get rid of her and to kill her now. Julian says if he’d been arrested, he probably would have had to stay in jail. He says he wishes he would have known about the arraignment, so he could have been supportive. Alexis says she wants nothing from him. Ugh! He repeats that everything he’s done has been for them, and both Alexis and I are tired of hearing it. She goes upstairs and Carrrlos tells Julian he’s losing his touch.

Sam tells Jason that Spinelli hacked into Nicholas’s computer, but Nicholas didn’t rent a car or leave any other trail. Jason wonders if he stole a car, but Sam says that’s not his style. Jason says, although he is with Ava.

Nicholas doesn’t see anyone around and thinks they might be looking elsewhere. Ava says last night was a blur, but Nicholas says nothing inappropriate happened. She spilled some liquor on herself and he gave her his shirt, but averted his eyes when she was changing. He says they really need to keep moving and he has to get out of England ASAP. Ava says he’d been planning on going to Amsterdam, but he says the location has changed now.

Monica tells Tracy her doctor is on another floor. Tracy suggests Monica escort her. Monica is wise that they don’t want her going into the examination room. Tracy steers her away and Michael goes into the room. Finn asks if Teddy usually drools so much. Sabrrrina says it started last night, but she thought he was cutting a tooth. She tells him all the countries they’ve gone through since Teddy was born and wonders if he got exposed to something. Yeah, jet lag. Finn asks if there’s anything else out of the ordinary. Obrecht comes flying in.

Obrecht tells Finn to get away from Teddy. Sabrrrina says they need him. Obrecht says he’s been suspended after being suspected of killing patients. She’s about to call security when Michael shoves her in a closet.

Alexis tells herself to keep it together. Julian tells Carrrlos to get out of his head, but Carrrlos says they’re a team. He says Alexis is a bigger threat than any of his enemies were. He says Julian needs to make it look like an accident; Alexis is already sick, just make her sicker. Alexis comes downstairs saying she has some kind of bug and Julian offers to make her tea. Her phone is dead and Julian takes it into the kitchen to charge it. Carrrlos asks what kind of poison he’s going to put in the tea.

Jason talks to the bartender and tells Sam that the town is smaller than small. If anyone had stolen a car, it would be common knowledge. Sam says maybe they should ask Hux and his girlfriend (oops! I thought he lived with his mother) for help, but Jason says they’re unreliable and he doesn’t think they’ll be seeing them again anyway.

Nicholas says if a reward is given, Ava will be the first one to turn him in. She says she hasn’t turned him in yet. He says now that they’re done with the Hux madness, she can go back home. She says no, she can’t.

Valerie asks Monica if everything is okay, and Tracy says Monica lost her balance and was just helping her. Monica concurs and thanks Valerie for her diligence. After Valerie leaves, Monica says Tracy is far from frail, and Tracy tells Monica what’s going on with Teddy.

Finn asks about Teddy’s diet. Sabrrrina gives him a food list, but Finn thinks they’re all okay. Sabrrrina says the nanny also fed him and Finn asks her to find out what. She makes the call and Valerie comes in, telling Finn to step away from the baby like she’s one of those car alarms that talks.

Ava tells Nicholas she has the original statue. She says she was dealing with a questionable piece, but the real one is in a safe place. Nicholas says they could have been killed and if she wants to risk her life, fine, but don’t risk his. She says he’s no angel, since Jason is being accused of his murder.

Jason tells Sam to call Spinelli about Amsterdam. Sam looks at her phone and tells him omg, her mother’s been arrested for Carrrlos’s murder.

Julian gives Alexis tea and crackers. He wonders if she can get off on a technicality. Alexis says no, and he asks what the strategy is. She lists all the things the DA has against her, while I admire her cool black coffee mug. Carrrlos watches as Alexis take a sip of tea.

Alexis goes to get her phone, which must charge miraculously quickly. Julian tells Carrrlos he’s not going to poison her. When she returns (phone fully charged), Julian tells Alexis he can’t accept he’s lost her. She says when he killed Carrrlos, he lost her and what kind of future can they have if she’s in prison? Julian says there has to be a reasonable doubt. She says they have the dagger and she has no alibi. She says if he lets her take the rap, he’s going to lose not just her, but his children.

Sam wonders why no one called her. She says there’s no way Alexis killed Carrrlos. Jason intimates that it must have been Julian, and maybe he needed to shut Carrrlos up. Sam believes he would kill, but not that he would let Alexis take the fall. She wonders if Alexis is covering for him, but Jason says it’s a life sentence. Sam says either Julian framed her or Alexis is out of her mind. Sam wants to get back home, but she tells Jason to stay there and finish what they started.

Nicholas says he was actually trying to frame Hayden; Jason was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He says Diane has gotten Jason acquitted before and will again. He made arrangements for a flight out while Ava was sleeping, and says he’ll send for Spencer when he can. Ava says Hux is going to come after her and she can’t afford to go home. Nicholas says to give Hux the real statue, but she says she has good reasons why she can’t.

Tracy says she knows Monica is on the warpath about Finn, but she trusts him. Valerie keeps telling Finn to move away and Michael tells her that Teddy needs him. They hear Obrecht banging around in the closet. Sabrrrina tells Finn that the nanny gave Teddy some yogurt that might have contained honeyy. She begs Valerie to let Finn treat Teddy and not to let her baby die.

Monica tells Tracy that she can’t turn her back on what’s happening, but the baby’s health is more important than rules and regulations. Finn thinks Teddy has botulism and Valerie asks what he needs to do. He tells her and says she can arrest him afterward. Obrecht objects, but Valerie says to let him do what he needs to. Obrecht says she’s abetting a crime, but Valerie says if Obrecht doesn’t leave, she’ll give her a citation for disobeying a police officer.

Alexis runs down the list of people who will hate Julian. She says he obviously doesn’t care and saving himself is more important. She goes to take a bath and Carrrlos says a slip in the tub is better than poison. In the tub, Alexis flashes back to being there with Julian. Carrrlos says Julian didn’t even blink when he killed him. Julian says he didn’t want to lose Alexis or their life together. Carrrlos says look how far they’ve fallen and she isn’t the woman he used to love. Julian says he drove her to this and he’s going to get her back. Carrrlos says go ahead, but see what happens. He says Julian already lost Alexis and now he’s going to lose his children.

Nicholas says he needs to disappear alone. He says she could solve her problems by giving Hux the real statue. She says traveling with him is better. She says if she goes back to Port Charles, she might let slip he’s not dead. She asks if he’s going to take her with him or risk that.

Jason says he can take care of things. Sam asks how he’s going to get Nicholas back to Port Charles if he finds him. He says he’ll call the police and it might be dicey for him, but in the end he’ll come home to her.

Alexis starts to get in the tub and Julian pushes her head under. I’m doubting this is real, but wonder who’s fantasy it is. Carrrlos’s? Speaking of which, I’m glad Jeffrey Vincent Parise is back on the show. GH must realize the acting treasure they have in him and he makes a much better ghost than Alan did. That was just sad.

Finn says Teddy will have to stay at the hospital for a while, and they need to run tests, but he should be fine. He thanks Felix and says he’ll take full responsibility and bear any consequences. Finn starts to leave and Tracy asks where he’s going. He says to jail and goes over to Valerie, who arrests him.

It was Julian’s fantasy. Carrrlos eggs him on. He says Julian will grieve for a while, but then he’ll be free. He’ll have his children and his life. Julian ponders this and heads upstairs.

Sam is at the airport, while Jason finds the shed Ava and Nicholas were in. He finds something that looks like a gold shower curtain ring. An earring?

In the tub, Alexis gets a text from Sam. She tells Sam she doesn’t need to come back. Julian enters the bathroom and stands behind her.

Tomorrow, Lulu asks Dante if he thinks Nicholas is still alive, Nicholas heads to Greece, and Alexis is startled by Julian.

The Real Housewives of the OC

Vicki is at the start of her apology tour, starting with Heather, who thinks she just talks in circles. Heather asks if Vicki had doubts about Brooks, and she says yes. Heather wonders why she didn’t come to any of them. Vicki asks why they even cared about Brooks’s health issues and Heather says because it was all bs. Vicki says Brooks lied to her too. Heather says she doesn’t care about what Brooks did, only Vicki’s part in the lie, and thinks Vicki should have conversations with everyone. In her interview, Heather says Vicki wants to just sweep everything under the rug, but it’s impossible with so many people being involved. She says Vicki can’t move on because the rest of them haven’t.

Dinner is still going on below deck. Tamra and Jeana discuss Vicki. Jeana thinks Tamra should meet her halfway. On the way home with Jeana, Vicki cries, saying she doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. In her interview, she says the women have lost respect and compassion for her. She tells Jeana she wants to be happy again.

Kelly puts the evil iodine on her daughter’s scraped up knees. Funny, we were just talking about that stuff the other day and if it still existed. She says the weirdest thing about being a mom is having a little being just like you. OMG – just the thought is frightening. Her husband, Michael, cashed out as CEO of a toy company, and now leads a life of leisure, which includes giving his 2 cents on daily parenting decisions. Their daughter says she doesn’t feel well and doesn’t want to go to school. Michael is thinking they should listen to her, but Kelly says she’s fine. Mom wins.

Terry is wiped out because they got home at midnight and he got up for surgery at 4 am. Heather wants family time and has made reservations for a week’s vacation. Daughter Max made it into the talent show. When Terry asks what his talent would be, one of the other kids suggests farting. Typical dad talent.

Tamra calls, thanking Heather for the party. She wonders what happened between her and Vicki. Heather says Vicki apologized, but they both think she’s only sorry she got caught. Well, we know that Vicki said that if she had it to do over again, she’d do the same thing. They briefly discuss Kelly, who Tamra thought was a little outspoken. Well, if that’s not the pot calling the kettle aggressive, I don’t know what is.

Tamra tells Ryan she saw Sarah with Ava, who’s now at “the fun age” and recognizing her grandma. Sarah and Ryan started having problems that would escalate to calling the cops, so they split up. Ryan lives in an apartment, while Sarah and Ava have the house that Tamra put the down payment on. Ryan says they fight over stupid stuff like Instagram and Facebook. How mature! Social media definitely fosters great parenting skills. In her interview, Tamra says she feels guilty because she was a single mom and wanted something more for Ryan.

It’s Valentine’s Day and Shannon and David go out for dinner. We go down Memory Lane about colonics, which is perfect dinner table talk. He gives her a necklace. She keeps saying “wow,” but I’m not sure if she likes it. Yep, in her interview, she says he picks out things she wouldn’t choose for herself, but they grow on her, and this one might take a while. She says she hopes one day to be in a place where she can say the affair he had was a blessing in disguise, but she’s not there yet. She is over it though. God bless them.

David brings up Vicki, and Shannon says she doesn’t like how Vicki isn’t taking responsibility and continues to lie. In her interview, she says forgiveness is one thing, but staying friends is another. She agrees with Heather that Vicki wants to just sweep things under the rug. That rug is getting crowded underneath.

Kelly, who doesn’t like a bunch of girls ganging up on one person, calls Vicki and asks her out to lunch. In her interview, she says that Meghan discouraged the friendship, but she’s a big girl and can make her own decisions. Is it possible we might have a grown-up on the show?

In her interview, Vicki says this year is about removing the negativity from her life and focusing on her business and family. She says the drama with Brooks took a toll on her and her company, which is like a third child to her. She’s having some kind of networking event. Her son is also involved; she wants the business to be her children’s legacy.

Vacation time! Heather, Terry and kids go to the beach, bypassing the amazing pool that I drool over. They’re sitting in one of those double-lounges with a canopy. Heather says Terry doesn’t realize how quickly time passes and hopes a successful vacation will spur him to spend more time with the family.

Tamra pulled something in her arm and gathers her icing supplies. Her competition is coming up and she doesn’t want any injuries. She asks if Eddie has talked to Ryan, and brings up the down payment. She says if you loan someone money, you shouldn’t expect it back. Huh? Eddie corrects that by saying an agreement is an agreement. Thank you. Tamra says she was brought up with family and Eddie was adopted, so they look at things differently, and he doesn’t understand why she wants to help Ryan. I think Eddie is wise and practical. Eddie tells her to stay out of Ryan’s business as he’s an adult. Yeah, what is he now, 45?

Vicki meets Kelly for lunch. She says she has whoop-it-up radar and thinks Kelly is a whoop-it-up girl. They make small talk and discuss their astrology signs. Vicki tells her that she’s trying to get her joy back after the break-up with Brooks. She talks about Briana moving back and that Briana has been sick with an autoimmune disease for the past five years. She asks how the boat party was for Kelly and Kelly says it was fun, but she thought Shannon kind of ignored her.

Meghan is having the kitchen remodeled and talks about how Jimmy tells her they’re spending too much and then wants to tear out the floors or rewire the electrical system. Kelly, Shannon and Tamra come by wearing hardhats. Meghan says they’re going to break the ice with Kelly by breaking up her kitchen. Shannon starts the wall demolishing. I have flashbacks about when my house was flooded during Hurricane Sandy.

With the kids at day camp, Heather and Terry have a romantic meal on their hotel veranda, served by the included butler. They discuss the new house. In his interview, Terry says he’s having the time of his life with his work, and feels guilty for not feeling as guilty as he should for not spending enough time with his kids.

At Meghan’s, the girls have red Solo cup drinks and Kelly brings up her lunch with Vicki. She feels that they were kind of mean to Vicki at the party and Vicki is hurt. She says Shannon was especially standoffish. Both Tamra and Shannon open and close their mouths like a couple of fish. Meghan asks if Vicki said anything about any of them. Kelly says no and she doesn’t think Vicki wants to, but Meghan doesn’t believe it. Tamra says she has a long history with Vicki and explains about how she didn’t like Brooks and Vicki was constantly praising him and making her look bad. Kelly asks if Vicki got involved in their relationships and Tamra says yes, telling her about Simon. Funny she should bring that up, because at the time the roles were reversed – Vicki was right and Tamra didn’t listen. In her interview, Kelly says she’s been ganged up on and her first instinct is to protect someone who’s in the same position. She asks Tamra more about Simon and finds out that Tamra hasn’t seen her daughter in two years. Tamra starts to cry and in her interview, Kelly says they just met, but everyone hates her now.

Tamra talks about kids taking sides in divorce and how she wanted Simon to work with her, but he refused. Kelly says she was married to a similar personality, and remarried him. She says they were separated for two years and it was a nightmare because he wouldn’t let her file for divorce. She decided that it was easier to stay married. Shannon asks if she’s in love with Michael and Kelly says he’s a really nice guy, but he can be a narcissist. He did a 730 psychiatric evaluation, whatever that is, and they found out he has narcissistic personality disorder, for which there is no cure. It gets pretty quiet after this bomb drop.

Next time, Briana gets to the OC, Meghan wills herself to be pregnant, and Tamra stirs things up between Heather and Kelly.

Southern Charm – Reunion Part One

I’m hating on that squinty-eyed, fake smiley Landon already. I do like her earrings though.

We start off by Thomas telling us that his parents think him being on the show is worse than him being in prison. One of Shep’s bars had a fire and Shep’s drinking habits are discussed. He talks about Bailey and how when a relationship gets to the moment it must be defined, he doesn’t want to define anything, but doesn’t want to disappoint anyone either. Andy talks about Kathryn and Shep having a moment at one time, and they both say it was casual.

Someone tweets that Shep is denigrating to women, but I don’t agree. Next, his work ethic is questioned. Geez, the last person I expected to see picked on right out of the gate was Shep. While he is a serial dater, he seems like a pretty decent human.

Moving on to Cameran. Zzzz… Andy asks why she didn’t invite Thomas and Kathryn to her dinner party. Hmm… Thomas’s dinner party should answer that question. Cameran says she’s not interested in drama. Quite a few people on social media think Cameran is a snotty mean girl. Cameran says she takes up for Kathryn all the time, and if I’d been drinking something, I would have choked. She says Kathryn has never done anything to her, but she’s not going to fake a friendship. Craig is like, what did you have to lose by going to coffee? Cameran tells Kathryn that nothing has changed from a year ago and Kathryn tells her she doesn’t know anything that’s going on between her and Thomas.

We move on to Cameran not wanting kids. She says a lot of women have been supportive. Kathryn says it is something to put a lot of thought into. She doesn’t regret it, but it changes your life.

Andy asks how the new Craig is doing. Shep says a girlfriend is the only discernible difference from the old Craig, but Craig says he also stopped drinking liquor. He sticks to wine or beer (smh). They talk about the promise ring he gave Naomie and the competitiveness between Craig and Shep. Somehow, Shep gets into a story about playing whiffleball on mushrooms in Chicago and going to jail. He says an old lady at the police station told him he should be nice to Craig and he realized where the tide of public opinion was going.

It turns out that Craig never finished his thesis and isn’t allowed to take the bar. Technically, he graduated, but never got a diploma. Shep is annoyed that they put together all kinds of paperwork, and Craig lied about it. Apparently, there’s some solution on the horizon, but we’ll see if he actually takes the test.

Airhead Landon is up next. We flash back to her non-meetings about her website or whatever it was she was pretending to work on. And then the Shep fail. Andy wonders what the blip with that. Shep says it was flattering, but he hates emotion. Craig says they got together at one time, but she said no, and he said Shep said he was done. Shep says they hooked up a little, but it was nothing serious.

Shep gets asked about bringing Landon’s friend as his date to the Founder’s Ball. He says Landon needs to get used to seeing him with a date and Landon acts like it’s cool, but we know it’s not. The subject of Shep’s birthday party gets brought up. Landon says she regrets lying to Shep about not inviting Kathryn. She apologizes to the both of them. Kathryn asks why, and Landon says their previous encounter hadn’t ended on a good note.

We move to Thomas and Landon, who went on a trip originally planned for Kathryn and Thomas. This degenerates pretty quickly, with Landon being really insulting to Kathryn and Kathryn saying Landon doesn’t even know her.

Then there’s the Whitney thing. Whitney still insists it was a one-night stand, but Kathryn says it was longer and she stayed at his house. We flash back to all her stuff being there and he makes up some other reason. She seems to have some pretty detailed and clear memories, and from the look on Whitney’s face and his body language, she’s telling the truth. She says she’s not trying to be mean, just honest.

We flash back to Craig’s inopportune bringing up the subject in the first place. Andy says Whitney was emotional and irrational, but Whitney blames Shep introducing him to moonshine earlier in the evening. Kathryn, btw, has a fabulous outfit on. Some sort of modern Victoriana. Shep brings up Kathryn getting in Whitney’s face during a night of drinking on Jekyll Island, suggesting that might be why Whitney is so hostile. He says he doesn’t agree with Kathryn’s ostracization, but he doesn’t think Whitney was ever in love with her. Craig corrects him, saying he thought Whitney just “had feelings for her.” There’s something that needs to be defined.

Andy congratulates Thomas and Kathryn on baby Julien. He has a theory that the baby was conceived after the last reunion and wonders if baby number three will happen tonight. Kathryn balks and says maybe someone else is up for the challenge (i.e. Landon). Andy brings up Patricia calling them morons. Kathryn says she was in love with Thomas and if people find it moronic, she feels sorry that they don’t know what love is.

After Julien was born, Kathryn thought she and Thomas would marry, but they ended up breaking up. A viewer wonders about Thomas leading Kathryn on and talking about having a third baby. They both say having baby Julien gave them baby fever. Thomas says reality set in later about their incompatibility.

We flash back to the question of baby Julien’s paternity. Kathryn is disgusted and sick of it being questioned. Landon says something about how she would never be questioned and Kathryn tells her until she has a child, shut up. Ha-ha! Andy asks Whitney why Patricia doesn’t like Kathryn, and he says after her “drug fueled” tirade on Jekyll Island, his mother just didn’t like her. Kathryn says she takes anti-depressants and believes she’s being penalized for being the unwed mother of two. Hey, at least they have the same baby daddy.

Thomas and Kathryn have been having a Twitter fight, but Thomas claims he wants it to stop and wants them to co-parent peacefully. Kathryn says that’s a lie and this is an act for the show. She says if she was ever a gold-digger, it was fool’s gold. She accuses Thomas of being on drugs and Landon accuses her of the same, saying there’s paperwork to prove it. Kathryn walks off.

Next time, Dinner party talk, Kathryn comes back, and Jennifer joins the group.