What I Watched Today
(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)
General Hospital
And get this, they were supposed to be taking a break until after July 4th, but decided to squeak in one more. Pfft!
🏆 Close Enough…
Not exactly a sweep, but GH cleaned up pretty well at the Daytime Emmys. And bravo! to Jeff Kober for winning Outstanding Supporting Actor for the second time!
Behind-the-scenes.
🧛🏻♂️ And It Feels So Good…
I loved this show! It was so weird, and vampire Caleb was the best. Every once in a great while GH gives it a nod.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht – The Reunion
Andy welcomes us to the Season 3 Reunion, and thinks this is the first Reunion group that’s actually happy to see each other. He introduces Parsifal III’s Captain Glenn. Gary is next, sporting his detestable man bun, followed by Daisy, who’s in her London apartment. We find out Gary is also in Daisy’s apartment, and Daisy says, he literally arrived ten minutes ago. Andy says, the question is, when is he leaving? and Gary says he’s been there for a week. Daisy says, afterward, they’re having a celebratory drink, and he’ll be on his way. Colin is in Costa Rica; Marcos is in his car in L.A.’s Koreatown; Gabriela is in St. Thomas, the US Virgin Islands, which gives Andy major FOMO; and Kelsie is in San Diego. Andy introduces the crew members who are used to joining after everyone else, Scarlett and Barnaby. The closed captions say he’s a d*ck hand, and I’m sure that was on purpose, but wouldn’t necessarily be wrong had it been Gary. Andy says, it was a great season, and while we saw all sides of Ashley, we won’t be seeing her today, since she’s a no-show. I quickly Tweet that she’s a coward, and Tom says he spoke with her yesterday. She said she doesn’t need this in her life, and she’s not interested in taking part. I interpret this to mean, I’m a coward who can’t face what a sh*thead I am. Gary says, when you sign up, you know there’s going to be a Reunion, and Andy says, he sensed she wasn’t thrilled with how the show turned out. Marcos suggests she’s busy, and Daisy says, they’re all busy; cut the bloody bullsh*t. Andy says, just because you don’t show up, doesn’t mean we can’t talk about you, so diving in… He asks how Gary’s love life is, and Gary says, Daisy? Andy tells us, Gabriela is now dating deckhand Wes, and she says they met on Instagram. He was in St. Thomas, and she knew he had a boat. She asked if he planned to sail, and they fell in love. A viewer commends Colin on going public about girlfriend Silvia, and Colin says, they’ve decided to go their separate ways. D’oh! Andy tells us that Colin is back on the market, and I hope if Colin is still single next season, he doesn’t disappoint me by acting like Gary. Andy asks Scarlett, who was the most welcoming besides Gary and his magic tongue (yuk)? and Scarlett says, everyone was great, even though there was a lot of tension.
Andy says, Marcos pulled off a rare feat; he got along with the chief stew, and the guests loved his food. He rarely lost his cool, but he did lose a piece of his head. We revisit Marco’s season on Deck, and Andy says he assumes everyone is trying to hire Marcos now. Marcos says his life is crazy. He opened a restaurant in downtown L.A., a bar, then another L.A. restaurant in Koreatown. He also has a contract with UCLA, and he’s cooking for 1600 people. Andy says, he’s booked and blessed, and we flash back to Marcos’s accident. A viewer asks about guest Charles, who said he could get better food in a ballpark, and Marcos says, Charles was lucky they were on camera. Andy asks Colin which of Marcos’s meals most impressed him, and Colin says, the molecular gastronomy. He was there for most of it, and he’d never seen that before. A viewer asks for Gabriela to shine a light on her relationship with Marcos, and she says she thinks she just rubbed Marcos the wrong way from night one. They kept their distance from each other, and although they had a couple of great conversations where they connected, most of the time, they avoided one another; it was kind of awkward. Marcos agrees 100%, and Andy asks if Marcos apologized for throwing Daisy on Gabriela in the pool. Gabriela says, Daisy accidently kneed her in the face, but she doesn’t think Marcos knew. Andy asks if that’s why Gabriela got so upset, and Gabriela says she was kneed in the face, then hit in the head with a floatie, but she was laughing until Marcos said she was a problem. Andy asks if they sorted things out, and Marcos says, they’ve talked and it’s all good, but I’m not so sure from the look on Gabriela’s face. Andy asks if they’d work together again, and they agree that’s a no. He asks Glenn if Marcos is one of the best chefs he’s worked with, and Glenn says, he’s a legend. He pushes hard, but can hold it together; he’s an amazing chef. Andy asks about Marco’s dating life, and if it’s going down in his DMs, and Marcos says he doesn’t want to go there. But he does, and says he gets naked photos, marry me, and cook for me, and now he has to go cook. I assume not for one of the DMers.
Andy tells us that Gary had a complicated web of boatmances; locking lips with four stews. We flash back to that, as well as the Ashley and Tom debacle. Andy asks Tom if it was Ashley’s tatas that drew him in, and gets a yes. Andy asks Daisy if she wishes she’d given Ashley some advice, but Daisy says she was shocked, and never would have predicted it. Next time, she’ll give everyone a warning. Andy asks if Colin has ever tried to stop Gary, or is it personal entertainment for him? Colin thinks the girls just flocked to Gary this season. He studied the show, and watched how Gary does it. He floods them with compliments, and they get weak in the knees. Gary says, they kissed him, and Daisy tells him, piss off. Gabriela says, not her, but Gary says he begs to differ. Kelsie says she’s the only smart one, and Andy asks if Daisy doesn’t remember them kissing. Daisy says she kissed everyone; it’s not that big a deal. Andy asks what Glenn’s reaction is to Gary and Daisy making out, and Glenn says he’s not surprised; there’s obviously something going on. Andy asks if Daisy regrets kissing Gary, and Gary takes out his earbuds. She says she did for a long time, but time passes, and they’re good friends. She wishes she remembered, since it looked great. She has no regrets.
A viewer asks what Gabriela thought of Ashley’s cringeworthy pursuit of Gary, and Gabriela says she thinks Gary likes a chase. He likes flirting and a chase, and Ashley came on too strong. Gary says, she’s correct, and another viewer says, even though Ashley was a real a-hole, it was no excuse for Tom to berate her and throw a drink at her. Tom agrees that you should never treat anyone like that, especially a woman. Although there was an element of comedy to it, he would take it back if he could. Daisy says, Tom was massively gaslit by Ashley and Gary, but Tom says he shouldn’t have been drinking the way he was. Andy asks how Tom was gaslit by Gary, and Daisy says, Gary told him it was just an innocent massage. Gary is old enough to know, there are no innocent massages. He was making fun of Tom, saying he was crazy; it was just an innocent massage. Tom thanks her for being supportive, and Gary says he didn’t see it the same way, but maybe he should think more. Tom says, when he and Ashley hooked up, it was because she wasn’t getting anywhere with Gary. She was so drunk, she was going to get what she wanted from someone; it didn’t matter who he was. He thinks she was just bored, but Daisy says she doesn’t agree. She thinks Ashley was making a point. Kelsie says she agrees with both of them. She thinks Ashley was jealous, but she’d also expressed that she could separate intimacy from a relationship. She threw Tom under the bus pretty fast when the boat was dragging. Gary says, what about Tom’s feelings? and Daisy says, that’s what she was saying about being gaslit. Jealousy is a nasty trait, and some handle it better than others. A viewer asks if Gabriela regrets kissing Gary, and why did she tell Daisy that she touched Gary’s weenie? Gabriela says she doesn’t regret having a good time, and her words came out like word vomit to Daisy; she had to tell someone. Daisy says she didn’t need to know, and everyone needs to stay away from Gary’s penis. Tom mentions that he has to watch this with his family.
Once again, Andy welcomes us back, even though we’re not the ones who went anywhere. He says, Kelsie has the distinction of being the only woman who didn’t kiss Gary, and asks if she feels left out. She says, no. She and Gary have an amazing relationship that’s strictly a friendship, and she wants to keep it that way. Andy announces that Mary from Wantagh has the million dollar question. No offense, but what do all the women see in Gary that makes them want to be with him? She’s sorry, but Colin is hotter. I couldn’t have said it better myself, and Andy asks them to tell him about the allure of Gary. He’s curious. He’s never met Gary in person. Gary says, Andy would fall head over heels for him, and Scarlett says, Gary was lighthearted, and she was drawn to how she felt with him. Daisy says, it was a win-win for Gary, since there was no competition. (Reminder: Colin was in a relationship during the season.) Andy asks how tall Gary is, and Gary says he gets asked that a lot. His IMDb says he’s 5’3”, but he’s 5’ 8”. Daisy says he compensates with his personality, and Gary insists he’s not short. Gabriela says, Gary has the confidence to flirt with everyone, and casts a wide net. Andy tells him that Daisy said he had a small weenie, and Daisy says she’s heard that a lot from multiple people… She’s joking. It was a low blow because she was pissed. He had small d*ck energy, and she was annoyed. The girls were fighting, she thought he was more to blame, and she was being mean. Andy asks, what about Gary’s weenie freaks her out, and she says, it’s been a lot of places. Gary wiggles his pinky, and she says, she needs to know where her car’s been; how many miles are on it. Andy says, Gary’s hook-up with Ashley got everyone talking. From many viewers’ perspectives, he was sexually assaulted. Gary says, to be honest, he and Ashley aren’t friends, but in her defense, he didn’t think anything of it. He thinks people are being harsh, and feels they should leave Ashley alone. Andy says, that’s not how it seemed, and if their situations were reversed, it would be quite serious. Gary says he understands that, but can’t stress enough to leave her alone. Daisy asks him to clarify that Ashley didn’t assault her, and Gary says, she didn’t. When fans reacted, he’d sent her a message apologizing, and telling her not to take anything too hard.
A viewer asks Gary, who’s the better kisser? and he says, Colin. Andy asks if Scarlett bought it when Ashley said she wasn’t interested in Gary, and Scarlett said, Ashley told her that she was over it. We flash back to Ashley’s bullsh*t, and Scarlett says, from day one. Ashley made it clear she wasn’t interested, but she was hearing things from everyone. She was new, and she had no background. Daisy says, that’s why she was frustrated; it wasn’t jealousy. She was concerned because of what happened with Sydney and Ali. They weren’t going to admit they were jealous, so their outlet was to behave badly. When she saw Ashley getting drunk, she saw herself. She’d done all this, and jealousy makes people nasty; it’s not a good trait. Andy asks how Scarlett felt when she overheard Ashley saying, nobody’s special. We flash back to Ashley saying, nobody’s special and it’s hilarious to her, and Scarlett says, there was so much talking behind her back. She wishes she’d been talked to directly. Andy asks if she thinks Gary led Ashley on, but Scarlett doesn’t think so. Gabriela says she was told Gary would flirt with anything or anyone, but flirting doesn’t mean he’s leading someone on. He told Ashley that he wasn’t interested, so how was he leading her on? Kelsie disagrees, and Daisy says, you have to be careful who you flirt with. People have feelings, and some aren’t as strong as others. Gary protests, but she says, he was the grown-up in the situation, and he was flirting with someone not mature enough to handle it. Colin agrees, and Andy points out that in the Shag-Marry-Kill game, all the women chose him to marry. Colin wonders what that means, and Andy says he thinks it’s good, but Colin says, no one ever wants to bang him, just marry him. Andy says, they all wanted to kill Gary, and Daisy says, if they marry Colin, they get to bang him for the rest of their lives. Andy asks if Daisy’s three-year dry streak has ended, but she says, it was a joke. He asks what her reaction is to Gary saying she’d be a good shag, and she says she’d be a fabulous shag. A viewer asks why Gary was after Daisy this season, and Gary says, if you watch Season 2, you can see he’s always had a soft spot for her and was attracted to her, which is weird to say, since they’re in the same space. He thinks Daisy is gorgeous and a superstar. Andy asks Scarlett if she thinks Daisy has a thing for Gary, but Scarlett says, she thinks they have a great friendship, and love each other as it is. Andy asks who thinks Gary and Daisy will hook up tonight, and Gabriela thinks they should start now. Gary runs into the other room, and grabs Daisy, causing her wine glass to fall, spilling wine on her and smashing the glass. Gary says, love makes you do crazy things, and Andy says, they’re electric. Viewer Vonda asks when Gary is going to realize he’s in love with Daisy, and he says, perhaps there’s some truth in that. Daisy says, whatever, and Andy asks for a show hands from who thinks they should hook up, amending it to make love when everyone except Gary raises their hand. Gary raises his, and Andy says, Gary is optimistic, and in her apartment.
Andy moves on to Tom, who almost puked on his boss on night one. However, that wasn’t his rock bottom, and things got much worse, We flash back to the anchor dragging because Tom wasn’t paying attention; Colin saying in his interview, that it’s 100 times worse than hitting the dock; and Glenn saying he knows Tom wasn’t purposely negligent, but he has to let him go. Andy asks if the make-out session with Ashley was worth it, but Tom says, it was literally 30 seconds. He says, of course he understands it’s his fault, but at the time, he went into self-defense mode. Now that he’s had the time to look back, he’s spoken to everyone, and takes full responsibility. Andy asks what Glenn’s reaction to Tom and Ashley’s canoodling was, and Glenn says he figured it was something like that. He thinks if Tom had been less defensive, it might have gone differently, but he knew there had to be a major distraction; you can feel the conditions change when anchor is being dragged. Andy asks if after Tom puked the first night, Glenn questioned not having his own captain’s quarters, and Glenn says he would love that, but they don’t have enough cabins. He wasn’t upset about it, and was glad Tom had the good sense to cut himself off before it became an issue. Andy asks if being a man down was better than Tom staying, and Glenn says he couldn’t keep Tom on, thinking it might happen again. How would he answer to the insurance company, his boss, and the guests if it happened a second time. He can’t take a chance like that. Andy asks Barnaby if he thinks Tom deserved the boot, and Barnaby says, you can’t stay on the same boat after that; you’ve got to be cut and start again. Andy asks the deckhands if Gary is a good manager despite his drinking and messy hook-ups. He wonders if that made them look differently at Gary, and Kelsie says, Gary is sensitive, but fun. She learned to adapt to his moods. It’s not always fair, but she’s used to doing it in a male dominated industry, and Gary is a very hard worker, and Barnaby says he feels like they’re friends who work together, and Gary tells him what to do. If Gary was busting him all day, it wouldn’t be the same. Glenn says, there’s off the clock and on the clock. When the crew is on, they’re professional, and when they’re off, they have fun, and he sees all of it. He thinks Gary does an amazing job of running the deck. Andy asks what Gary’s response is to Tom saying he was set up for failure, and we flash back to that. Gary says, it blew him away. He was shocked, and had to reflect on himself. Tom says, at the time, he was acting on emotions, and didn’t want to admit he messed up. But he’s grown and understands that he didn’t take responsibility’ Gary wasn’t setting him up. He was immature, and didn’t realize he had some growing up to do, and has to learn from his mistakes.
Andy says, Gabriela traded healing at sea for personal healing on land, and we flash back to the asshat that is Ashley. Andy asks what annoyed Gabriela the most about her, and Gabriela says, Ashley didn’t learn from or take direction from her. He asks Daisy why she made Gabriela second stew, and if she regrets it. Daisy says, it was mainly her age, since age gives more life experience. She has no regrets, but she’s learned that to some people a title means something. She’s not competitive, and doesn’t care as long as she gets paid and has fun (a woman after my own heart). Gary wonders if they needed titles, but Ashley was still under Gabriela and was deliberately disobedient. He wouldn’t have deckhand under him like that. Andy asks if Daisy thinks the relationship with Ashley was one reason for Gabriela’s departure, and Daisy says, she wasn’t involved with that, but thinks it’s a small element to the vast scale of what was happening. Gabriela thanks Gary for his support, and says, it was a one-sided competition with Ashley. Gabriela wasn’t competing; she was just trying to do her job. Ashley undermined her and poisoned her well of feelings. She felt justified in leaving after seeing how intense Ashley’s hate campaign was. She had no clue, and then saw Ashley tried to do the same thing to Scarlett, and felt validated. She’s not imagining things or making it up when she sees Ashley tried to do it to someone else. Andy asks if Daisy saw anything on the show that made her feel differently, and Daisy says she’s a strong woman with strong opinions. She was never influenced by Ashley, and only saw it all after she watched the show. Post-show, she was more disappointed in Ashley, but Ashley had never spoken badly about Gabriela to her. She was fine with how Gabriela was managing, and told Ashley to suck it up and get over it. Andy asks Gabriela, if Ashley hadn’t been targeting her, would she have left?
Gabriela says she doesn’t think the experience she had was good, and thinks it was because of Ashley. Gabriela’s down points were exhausting and toxic, but she thinks she could have stuck it out if she hadn’t had someone stepping on her toes the entire time. Glenn agrees, and thinks Gabriela was a great second stew. You have to be a good follower before you can be a leader. He thinks Ashley messed herself up, and had an effect on Gabriela. A viewer asks Glenn if he thought Ashley was stirring the pot or was justified, and he says, she may have had some valid complaints, but she was stirring the pot. Daisy chose Gabriela as second stew, and Ashley desperately trying to move up did her no favors. Barnaby wonders why the stews can’t be like the deckhands, and the deckhands have a virtual group hug. Andy asks if Ashley being made lead stew surprised Gabriela, but Gabriela says, Ashley had been there long enough to know the boat. Gary says, it was to shut her up, but Daisy says, she worked hard and deserved it. Scarlett says she did need direction, which Ashley gave her, and Andy asks why Daisy waited until the end. Again, Gary says, to shut her up, and Daisy says, the work was there. All she needs is someone to rely on who will get the job done, and Ashley was amazing with the wedding. She didn’t like the pettiness, hooking up, and getting sh*tfaced. She gets sh*tfaced, but she’s hilarious, while Ashley was just annoying. She needed Ashley to work well with Scarlett, and genuinely felt that she was learning. She felt straight away that Ashley hated Scarlett, but by the end, she felt they were fine. Andy asks how Scarlett felt to hear Ashley say, Scarlett having no experience gave her life. That actually sounds pretty sad, but Scarlett says she was shocked. Ashley seemed unhappy about a lot of things when she was coming in, but her lack of experience probably did give Ashley life, and she’s happy if that’s what Ashley needed. Gary says he was angry when Ashley told the guests that they’d kissed. He thinks she has learning to do if this is the career path she wants. The last thing guests want to hear is crew drama. Andy says he loves hearing crew drama on a cruise, and if I went on a cruise, I would too.
Andy asks if Barnaby really taught Barrack Obama how to surf, and Barnaby says, Obama came to a private island where he was working. It was amazing. Andy asks Glenn if he bought Erika’s public apology or does he think the skimpy tip was an intentional slight. Glenn says he thinks she had a gripe from the prior season, and it was on purpose; there was nothing wrong with the food. Daisy completely agrees. She doesn’t know if they even know what planet they’re on. Andy asks if she still has the necklace Cyndi gave her, we flash back to that, Daisy says, no, and I wonder if she put it on eBay. Andy asks who Barnaby’s favorite guests were, but he says he can’t even remember any of their names or anything about them. Andy asks how Gabriela felt, being the most diverse person in the crew, and she says, anyone who works in an industry that’s not very diverse would understand. Being on the show was a good way for people to see there’s room for them in the industry. It’s uncomfortable not to feel anyone understands you or you have support. She’s never worked under a Black captain before, and it’s a proud feeling. Lead by example, and work hard. Do the course, and you can do it too. Andy asks if there’s anyone Glenn wouldn’t rehire, and if this was his favorite crew. Glenn says, without the anchor dragging incident, he’d work with Tom, and he was very impressed with Barnaby and Scarlett coming in at the end. They did an amazing job, despite Scarlett being new on the job, and dealing with the politics of Ashley and Gary. He loves them all. Scarlett thanks Glenn, and he says he knows it wasn’t easy, and he wouldn’t want to work with Ashley again.
Andy asks who’s still in yachting, and Colin says he got a catamaran; he’s sailing around the world. Everyone else is still in boating, except for Barnaby, who took his tip money and built a business converting Land Rovers to Tesla electric power. Go Barnaby.
Andy says it’s time to officially end the season, but since Gary and Daisy are under one roof in the UK, he’ll have to follow up.
The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girl’s Trip, Ex-Wives Club
Bravo had a sneak peek of the show tonight, and while I doubt I’ll have the time to watch this on Peacock, I’m sure it will eventually find its way to Bravo, where I’ll no doubt partake of yet another guilty pleasure. I hate half the cast, but it’s an eclectic mix, and who doesn’t love Bluestone Manor, fish room and all? Okay, maybe Vicki. The flashbacks were fun, and Vicki was already bitching about being back in the franchise she didn’t want to leave.
My quick take on the cast…
Dorinda: I love her, and love how she takes hostessing so seriously. Eva: I don’t know her. Literally, not like Mariah Carey doesn’t know Jennifer Lopez. Phaedra: I feel like I shouldn’t like her, shady as she is, but I do. She has a fabulous way with words. Taylor: I’ve always felt badly about her situation, being married to that awful husband, and then him committing suicide, but it looks like she’s blossoming now. She’s remarried, stands up for herself, and even gained some weight. She was scary skinny by the end of her run. Brandi: She makes me want to throw up. I can’t stand her, and hate that she’s still profiting from the franchise. Tamra: Ditto, but she has the added anti-bonus of being a fake Christian. Vicki: Ugh. While she’s had her good moments, she’s always been bossy and entitled. She just can’t understand why she was let go. Um… no one cares anymore. Jill: Thirsty AF. It makes me uncomfortable when a woman embarrasses herself like that. Which is why I don’t watch The Bachelor/Bachelorette shows.
https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/rhugt-who-is-in-the-cast-of-season-2-ex-wives-club
🏰 Another Perspective…
Eva weighs in on the latest Girls Trip.
⛺️ Folding My Tent…
Check in tomorrow. I think there will be soap, and Beverly Hills, where there’s a new villain in town. Until then, stay safe, stay being a safe place for others to be real, and stay not being jealous. Jealousy makes people nasty and it’s not a good trait.
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