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March 26, 2021 – Yesterday’s GH Once Again, a Tribute, a Song, 2x the Congrats, Rejection, New Hills, Big Ring, Doubts, a Regret, Already, Two More, Prank This, Puppies, 10+4 = Quotes & So What

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

🏥 Apparently, that was the entire episode yesterday. The rerun thing must have been stuck on the ending to throw off the soap police looking to remove the videos. So here it is again, along with tomorrow’s preview.

General Hospital

Taggert wakes to see Jason in the cell across from him, and says he didn’t realize he had a roommate. He asks what Jason did this time.

Britt looks at her phone, and says, what the hell? We see an Invader headline that says, Morgan Arrested for Murder.

Olivia is praying the rosary at the hospital, when Sam brings her coffee. Sam says she’s had worse from the vending machine, but Olivia says the caffeine won’t do her nerves much good. Sam says Olivia has been up all night, and Olivia says, so has she. She guesses she’s just going to be worried about Dante for the rest of her life. Going after Peter with a gun; Dante never would have done it if he was in his right mind. Sam says that’s why she brought Dante to see Doc. Doc will make Dante better, and he can move on. Got it? Olivia says, got it.

Dante tells Anna she should go, but Anna says she’s kind of wired. It’s hard to believe, but she hasn’t pulled an all-nighter in some time. How’s he doing? He says, you tell me.

At Kelly’s, Sasha tells Michael that she’s glad they were able to squeeze in breakfast. She hasn’t seen him in forever. He says he’s had one fire to put out after another. Jason getting arrested last night didn’t make things any better. She asks if there’s anything she can do. Maxie told her Nina took a leave of absence, and she knows it’s technically Jax’s half of the company, but has it impacted Michael? He says, not from a business perspective, but he has to admit, Nina taking a break is the best thing for Wiley.

Sonny is sweeping the floor at the Tan-O when Nina comes in. He says he was wondering if he was going to see her again, or she was going to skip town. She says she couldn’t leave without coming by, especially since Phyllis and Lenny let her stay at their place. He asks if a good night’s sleep helped her decide what she’s going to do next, and she says, it would have, but she didn’t get much sleep last night.

On the phone, Carly says, Jason’s arraignment is coming up. How confident is Diane that she can get him off on bail?… Is she serious?… She knows Diane is going to do everything she can. She just wishes they had the name of the supposed witness. That would make all the difference.

As they walk to Kelly’s, Gladys says she’s glad Brando was able to come to breakfast. Too bad he has plans for lunch and dinner. He says, they’re not plans; they’re called work. He tells her, before they go in, they need to talk, and she asks, about what? and he says, about her being the one who got Jason arrested.

Jason tells Taggert that he’s been arrested for the murder of Franco Baldwin. Tagger asks how long Jason thinks it will take for Jason’s defense lawyer to get him out of this one, and Jason guesses they’ll find out. Taggert says, if history is any indication, Jason will see the light of day before he does.

Martin meets Laura at the MetroCourt, and says she sounded mysterious on the phone. Does she mind telling him what the occasion is? She says she noticed it was his birthday last week. Why didn’t he say something? He says he didn’t know he was supposed to. They are siblings, but the fact is, they barely know each other. She says she was hoping they could use the occasion to change that.

Olivia tells Sam that she knows Peter is bad news, and she truly hopes to God Peter pays for his crimes, especially what he did to Drew. Sam says, her too, and Olivia says she’s just grateful it wasn’t Dante wasn’t the one to handle him. She thanks Sam for showing up when she did, and getting through to her son. She just couldn’t go through this again. Sam says Olivia doesn’t have to thank her. She did what anyone would have done. Olivia says, since Dante has been home, Sam has been a really good friend to him. She tries her best, but it seems that Sam was exactly what was needed, and she’s so grateful for that.

Anna knows it’s been difficult for Dante rehashing all that, but she thinks he and Doc made progress last night. He says he definitely feels lighter. It’s weird though, not having control like that. He just kept hearing in his head, complete the mission; kill Peter. He was going to do it. She says, he didn’t though, and he says, that’s because Sam showed up and talked to him. It was like a fog was lifted. She says, at least he knows where the fog came from now. She’s so sorry for what Dr. Kirk did to him. He says, it’s over now, and she says, yeah, it’s over. Now he can get on with the rest of his life. He wonders what that looks like.

Jason says he wants Taggert to know, whatever is going on with him, Portia and Trina are still protected. Taggert says he didn’t think anything different. A guard comes in to get Taggert for his sentencing hearing, and Taggert tells Jason that Cyrus is still walking around while Jason is behind bars. Whatever he’s doing to get out, do it fast. The guard takes Taggert out.

Gladys tells Brando, what else is there to say? She saw Jason dispose of a gun, and told the police. She still can’t believe he’s responsible for such an awful murder, and Brando says, they don’t know that Jason is. Her coming forward is causing a lot of problems for Carly. She just lost her husband. Does Gladys remember her cousin Sonny? She says, God rest his soul, and he says, there are still a lot of questions regarding Franco’s death. She says, which is why she felt it was necessary that she come forward. Is this an interrogation? He says, no, and she says all she did was give the police the information. Why does he care anyway? The last she heard, Sonny kicked him to the curb. He has a new job now, with the head of the hospital no less. If he really thinks about it, she did him a favor. He asks, how? and she says, her doing her civic duty will only endear Brando more to his employer. Now can they go in? It’s cold out here.

Michael tells Sasha, he was thinking about Wiley, and his confusion about what Nina said to him; and Willow, and how hurt she’s been. She’s just trying to protect Wiley. Sasha says Michael is trying to make everything okay, and he says it should have occurred to him to get Willow’s opinion. She is Wiley’s mother, and absolutely has a say in everything that happens to him, especially something so pivotal as, if he can see one of his grandmothers or not. Gladys and Brando come in, and Gladys says, look at this. They’ve got themselves a family reunion.

Carly tells Diane to let her know what she finds out in discovery. Cyrus walks in, and Carly says she has to call Diane back. Cyrus says, good morning, Mrs. Corinthos, and she asks what he wants. He says, just to offer his sympathies. He saw on the news that Jason was arrested. She says, a misunderstanding. His lawyer will have him out in no time. Cyrus says he certainly hopes that’s the case, for her sake. He can’t imagine how difficult this must be so soon after her husband’s passing.

Sonny says, so what kept Nina up? Thinking about that woman she talked to? He gives her some coffee, and she says, yes. That, and wondering, is it her job or fate to balance the scales? He says he doesn’t believe much in fate, and she says, wasn’t it him who said last night that it was fate that brought them together? He says, that’s just a figure of speech. He thinks we make our own choices in life. Look at him. Lenny and Phyllis took him in, and put their necks on the line, so he wants to pay them back with any job they want. She says he’s done a lot of great things for them, and fate or not, he’s been a blessing. He says he doesn’t know about that, and she asks if he ever wonders about the choices that led him there. Like what kind of person he was. He says he has no way of knowing, and she asks, if there was a way for him to know, would he want to know?

Olivia sees Dante come out, and runs to him. She says, thank God, and hugs him. She asks if he’s okay, and he says he’s good. She asks, what happened? and he asks if Anna wants to do the honors. Anna says, it turns out a faction of the WSB went rogue. They enlisted Dr. Kirk to manipulate the psychological trauma Dante had experienced to use for their own end. To eliminate Peter. Olivia says, manipulate how? and Anna says, Dr. Kirk instilled triggers in Dante that he was acting on without realizing it. Olivia says, they’re gone now? and Anna says Doc believes he removed them. Dante says they’re going to do a couple of sessions a week, and Anna says, to make sure there aren’t any hidden triggers. Sam says she’s glad he’s okay, and he says he owes her big time. Sam says he doesn’t, but Dante and Olivia say he does. He says if she hadn’t shown up, Peter would be dead. He was going to do it; there was nothing clearer in his mind. The only thing that stopped him was her. Sam says she’s glad she was there, and he says, him too. Sam’s phone dings, and she steps away. Olivia asks Anna if Dante is safe and can go home, and Anna says, absolutely. Sam looks at the Invader headline, along with a text from Molly that says, did you see this?

The guard tells Jason that Dr. Westbourne is there to see him, and she brings her medical bag into Jason’s cell. He asks what she’s doing, and she tells him to shut up. She raises her voice, and says she’s following up on the head injury he suffered last summer; the one that requires him to be seen every month. She takes out a pen light, and tells him, follow it please. He says the guard can’t hear them, and she says, what the hell is going on? He was arrested for Franco’s murder? He says he didn’t kill Franco; Peter did. She says, Peter, as in her brother? and he says, Peter framed him. She says, he’s saying that like he’s telling her what he had for dinner last night. Is he forgetting how good Peter is at that? If he has, just ask her mother about her recent stint in Steinmaur. She’d be happy to give him all the details. He says he remembers, and she asks why he’s so relaxed right now. She makes sure the guard isn’t there, and says she’s been to prison. It’s no joyride. She’s sure he’ll survive, most likely, but it won’t be pleasant, for him or the people he’s leaving behind, like Carly and his kids. He tells her, just take a breath, and she says, no. He says, she doesn’t want to breathe? and she says, he doesn’t get to calm her down. She faked her way in there with this check-up thing. It’s her job to take care of him. He says, okay.

Sonny says, some days finding out who he is, is all he thinks about, and Nina asks, what about the other days? He says, he’s not sure he wants to find out the answer. It’s good there, and who knows? It might be the start of something big. Phyllis comes in, and says she didn’t expect to see Nina this early. Nina says she got a jump on the day, and Phyllis says, so this is goodbye? Nina says, yeah. She thinks it’s time they all got on with their lives.

Gladys hugs Michael, and says, it’s so good to see him again. She was so sorry to hear about his father. Brando made it clear she wasn’t welcome at Dev’s memorial, so she figured it was the same with Sonny’s, and Lord knows, she doesn’t want to upset Michael’s mother. Michael says, it’s very generous of her, and Sasha quietly asks if Brando told his mother not to come to his son’s funeral. He says, long story, and she says, I’ll bet. He asks if Michael has a second, and Michael says, sure. They step away, and Gladys says she and Sasha keep running into each other; first in Brando’s hospital room, and now here. She’s curious. How long have Sasha and Brando been… friendly?

Brando tells Michael, don’t react, just listen, and relay this information to whoever needs to know. His mother is the witness who accused Jason.

Martin tells Laura, he must confess, since his mother’s been in hiding, his birthday felt lonelier than usual this year. She takes it Jason didn’t tell Martin where he moved Florence, and Martin says he wants to keep it that way. The less he knows, the less Cyrus can pressure him into revealing it. She says, smart, but it must be difficult, and he says, right now, he would have been making plans to visit his mother for Easter. Lord, how that woman loves getting dressed up for church. Then she critiques her friends outfits. Did you see what she was wearing? Who does that woman think she is, the queen? Laura laughs, and he says, she’s something. He guesses he can’t risk visiting her this year. Laura suggests he spend the holiday with her and her family. She would have asked him sooner, but she assumed he had other relatives he wanted to spend it with… or children. He shakes his head, and she says, or a significant other? He just looks at her, and she says they really don’t know each other, do they? and he says, not yet.

Carly tells Cyrus, they both know what he can do with his condolences. Now is that all? He says, actually, no. With Jason indisposed, he’s not sure who he should be reaching out to in matters of business. Unless it’s always been her. She says, sorry? and he says, the more he gets to know her, the more he’s thinking she’s not just a passive bystander. Instead of being the grieving widow allowing Jason to run the organization, she’s been the power behind the throne. Maybe she’s the one he’s been dealing with all along. She says he mentioned business, and he says, it’s come to his attention that Jason called a meeting of the Five Families spaghetti sauce, presumably to discuss the power balance now that Sonny is gone. She says, and? and he says, and one has to worry what’s going to happen if Jason can’t make that meeting.

Phyllis says something I can’t understand, and Nina asks what she means. So apparently, I’m not the only one who needs clarity. Phyllis says, just some community issues. Nothing for Nina to worry about. Sonny says, the recession has been affecting local businesses. Add in vandalism and burglary, it’s tough. Nina asks if the repairs Phyllis has been doing aren’t an isolated incident, and Phyllis says, none of it has been serious or violent. Sonny thinks busted windows are violent, but Phyllis says, no one got hurt. It’s scaring people off, and the fewer businesses, the more people jump ship. Sonny says, it’s not good for the foot traffic at the Tan-O, and Nina says, she’s so sorry; that’s terrible. Phyllis says it’s a shame to see what’s happening to their little town, especially since it seems there’s nothing she can do about it. Sonny says, but Nina can.

Cyrus tells Carly, fear not. He plans to attend the meeting, and will be sure to communicate all is well on her end. But the other families can be unpredictable, especially if they smell blood in the water with Jason being indisposed. Carly’s phone rings, and she asks Michael, what’s up? Cyrus says, a son checking in with his mother; what a luxury. Michael says he just ran into Brando. The witness is Gladys. She asks if he’s sure, and he tells her, that’s what Brando said. There must be an angle. She thanks him, and Cyrus says, that was a quick phone call. She says, that’s what happens when people get to the point, and he asks if everything is all right. She says, it will be. It turns out Sonny’s cousin Gladys is the witness testifying against Jason. He asks if she means the nice woman he met at Mike’s funeral, and she says, yeah, and they both know Cyrus put her up to it.

Britt says, it still doesn’t feel like it’s computing, and Jason says, what? She says that he’s been arrested for something he didn’t do. Not just something – murder – and the person who did do it happens to be incredibly skilled at covering his tracks. He says he knows all this, and she says, of course (🍷) he does, because he’s Mr. Mob Guy who knows everything about everything, which is great when it comes to Jason’s territory and killing mobsters, but when it comes to Peter… She doesn’t even know how to say this. She went on the run with her father for a year, looking for any and every way out. When she tells him that Faison is a whole other level of crazy… He says, he should listen? but she says, no. Consider Peter was raised by that monster. He hated Faison’s guts, but that doesn’t change the fact that Peter learned everything Faison had to teach. All the lessons of espionage and manipulation and deceit. Does he see where she’s going with this? He says, tell him, and she says, Faison was a complete and utter psychopath who destroyed people’s lives for fun. And her brother – the person who framed Jason – learned at his knee. Maybe there needs to be a little more panic here, because life as he knows it is about to end.

Olivia tells Dante, if she’d known what that Kirk guy was doing to him in Geneva, she would have busted down the door and dragged Dante out herself. He says, and then what? and she says, none of this would have happened. Anna says, Kirk was conditioning Dante for months, and Dante says he doesn’t think there’s anything Olivia could have done. Olivia says there’s one thing she doesn’t get, and Dante says, just one thing? Olivia says, Kirk is dead. So he’s manipulating Dante from beyond the grave? Anna says, once the triggers are installed, they remain intact, so Kirk wouldn’t have to physically manipulate them. Olivia asks if Anna is sure Kirk wasn’t working with anyone else, and Anna says, there’s no evidence of that. Olivia says, at the end of the day, its done. It’s over with, and it’s all smooth sailing from here. Dante says, that’s the plan.

Martin tells Laura, he never started a family of his own, but don’t get him wrong. It’s not for lack of trying. Laura says, so he’s been there, and he says, several times. He’s paid enough alimony alone to fund a small country. After his third wife, he realized the problem just might be him. Laura says, it seems hard to believe, and he says he has a tendency to smooth talk his way out of… well, everything. He glosses over the underlying issues in the relationship. It’s funny. He just realized, in his effort to make his marriages different from his parents’ marriage, he created his own set of difficulties. She thought he got along with his parents, and he says he did, but there was tension in the house; they were always fighting about something. His father’s past transgressions… She says, or about Cyrus? Martin says he was the good son; the one they didn’t have to worry about. They were so traumatized by everything Cyrus put them through, there wasn’t much left over for him. They counted on him to take care of himself, so he did. She says she thinks she knows how he felt. From the other side, the sister she was raised with, Amy, was just the sweetest thing, but growing up, Laura was a lot. He says, it’s hard to imagine, and Laura says, Amy had to be twice as loud, and twice as gregarious just to get a little of the attention she was getting. Martin asks if she’s calling him gregarious, and she says she’s sure it was hard for Amy to live with her, just like it was hard for Martin to live with Cyrus. He says, they all have their challenges, but having people around who care about you makes those challenges a little easier to live with.

Sasha tells Gladys, Brando helped her through a rough time recently, and Gladys says she heard about Sasha’s rough time with drugs when Jackie interviewed her on GMA3. Sasha says, fortunately, she got the help she needed, in large part because of Gladys’s son. Gladys says, mm-hmm, and Brando and Michael come back in. Brando says he hopes they weren’t too long, and Gladys says they were just catching up. She suggests they grab themselves a table; she’s famished. Michael and Sasha go back to their table, and Sasha asks if everything is okay.

Cyrus says he doesn’t know what Carly is talking about. He barely knows this Gladys woman. She says, it all makes sense. He saw Jason was being brought in for questioning, and saw an opportunity. That’s why he’s there, going on and on about the Five Families salad dressing. He wanted her to know what was going on, so he could make her an offer she can’t refuse.

Britt says she and Jason were supposed to take down Cyrus together. What does he care if he goes to prison, and she’s left holding the bag? Don’t worry about her. She’s just risking her career, and life probably, while he’s safe and sound behind bars. He notices her hand shaking, and she says she knows she said prison is hellish, but if Cyrus finds out she’s been working against him, she’s going to wish she was in Pentenville. He takes her hand, and says she’s not as selfish as she wants people to think. She says, try her, and the guard comes back, saying, time to finish up. Jason has another visitor. It’s Sam.

Sonny says, Nina writes for a magazine, right? and she says she does. He asks why she doesn’t write an article on Nixon Falls. Tell people what’s going on there, and people will come there and spend money; it will tide people over. Phyllis says, it’s a wonderful idea, and asks if Nina thinks it’s possible. Nina says she’d love to help, but Crimson is a fashion magazine. He asks if she only writes about clothes, and not human interest, and she says, sometimes they do. He asks, what’s the problem? and she says she’s on a leave of absence. She has communication with her team, but the second in command is running the day to day business. She doesn’t think it would be appropriate for her to overrule their decisions, unless she was ready to go back to work. Phyllis says, of course (🍷). She completely understands. Nina’s been through a lot, and deserves some time off. She’ll grab Nina some water for her ride. Nina says, no, but Phyllis says, don’t be silly. They have plenty of bottles in the back. She leaves, and Sonny looks at Nina. Nina says, what? and he says he thinks she’s making a mistake.

Brook says Jason seems good; no lingering affects from the trauma. She leaves, and the guard locks the cell. He leaves, and Sam says, Molly told her Jason was arrested. She wanted to make sure everything was all right. He says he appreciates her checking up on him; he’s okay. She asks if he has a plan, and he says they’re working on it. She says she knows Peter killed Franco, and he says, but Peter is framing him, and they all know how good he is at that. Getting out of there isn’t going to be easy. Britt listens in.

Cyrus says, maybe Gladys’s eyesight isn’t what it used to be. She says she saw Jason with the gun used to kill Franco. Carly says, that’s right, and he says, perhaps on further reflection, she’ll realize she couldn’t possibly have seen Jason dispose of the weapon. Wouldn’t it be a relief if she were to suddenly recant her story? Just as it would be a relief if his mother was returned to him. Are they understanding each other? She says she thinks they do, and he says he looks forward to hearing from her.

Gladys says Sasha and Brando seem close, and he says, they’re just friends. She asks if that’s why he keeps stealing looks in Sasha’s direction. She’ll just say this. Does he think it’s wise to get involved with someone else in recovery? She thought that was a big no-no.

On the phone, Michael tells Willow where to find Wiley’s toy. He knows how cranky Wiley gets without Mr. Trunks. Sasha says, Mr. Trunks? and he says, it’s Wiley’s stuffed elephant, like we couldn’t guess that. She says, it doesn’t sound like Willow is holding a grudge about Nina, and he says he thinks she’s more disappointed than angry. She’s upset that he left her out, and he shouldn’t have. She says, if anyone knows he’s looking out for Wiley, it’s Willow, so don’t beat himself up. That said, when it’s time to register Wiley for preschool, consult Willow. He says he will, and she says she does feel sorry for Nina. Does it bother him that she said that? He says, no. He feels bad for her too. That’s why he and Willow brought Wiley to Crimson in the first place. He hopes it does work out someday. She asks if that’s why Nina left town, and he says Nina had to clear her head; she needs help. He hopes she gets it.

Sonny says he’s not a publisher, but Nina is the boss, right? She can pretty much print whatever she wants. She says he’s probably right, but he heard what Phyllis said. She’s been through a lot these past few months. She needs time to heal and recover. She needs time to… He says, balance the scales? She was wondering how to make the world right when she’s been wronged. Maybe she can help some people who’ve been good to her. Phyllis dropped everything to go to New York when Nina needed her. Maybe Nina can do the same.

Olivia tells Dante, she used to think the spy life was romantic, but from where she’s standing, the WSB seems like a disaster from top to bottom. Anna says she’s in no position to disagree, but she’d like to point out Robert. He spent his whole career with the WSB, and he’s really a good person. He’s not unique. There really are some good guys in the WSB. Olivia says she’ll take Anna’s word for it. She asks if Dante is ready to go, and he says there’s a shower and a nap with his name on it. He thanks Anna, and they leave. She makes a call, saying she needs to see someone, right away.

Phyllis comes back with the water, and asks Nina if three are enough. Nina says she changed her mind. She thinks she might stay a while. Mike is right. She could probably pull a few strings and get an article written about this place. Phyllis says, really? and Nina says, the next few issues are planned already, so it might not see print for a while, but she’d like to help out any way she can. Phyllis hugs Nina, and says it means the world to her, but is Nina sure she doesn’t mind putting off her trip? Nina asks, what difference do a few days make? and Sonny says, none.

Michael tells Sasha, he thinks their impulse is to be strong, and do things on their own. They tell themselves they can do this, but sometimes they need someone to guide them. Not tell them what to do, but help them figure a way out. Sasha agrees, and says it was nearly impossible for her to show up for her first counseling session. Everyone was telling her to go, but she was so humiliated and locked inside herself, it took everything in her. She knows it’s vastly different circumstances, but maybe Nina isn’t there yet. He hopes Nina gets there, and realizes the best thing for her and Wiley is for her to deal with this. Sasha hopes Nina gets there too.

Brando says Sasha’s recovery is none of Gladys’s business, and Gladys says Sasha told her personally. He says they’re just friends, and she says that’s not what it looks like to her. He tells her, look more closely. Sasha and Michael are clearly trying to work things out. She tells him, if he says so.

The waitress brings a chocolate cake with a candle to the table, and Laura says she wanted to celebrate Martin’s birthday. He thanks her, and says he’s truly touched. She says, have at it, and he blows out the candle. Cyrus comes by, and asks what Martin wished for.

Britt tells Sam, she knows they’re not each other’s biggest fans, but they have a common goal. Jason didn’t kill Franco. Sam says, what about Peter? Britt says they both know he did it, and Sam says, then he’s more dangerous to Maxie than they thought. Britt asks what they’re going to do about it.

Carly visits Jason, who’s very popular in jail. He asks if everything is okay, and she says, it will be. She’s getting him out of there. No matter what it takes.

On Monday, Trina asks Taggert to please tell her that he’s changing his plea, Cyrus has something to celebrate too, and Peter tells Elizabeth that he wants to take responsibility for Franco’s death.

✍🏻 Gracious Lady…

When I was around twelve, I wrote to Agnes Nixon about a OLTL storyline. She graciously took the time to write back to me, and I’ll always remember her for  that.

Soap Alums Reunite To Honor Agnes Nixon

🎶 Song For a Stepdad…

Cameron’s tribute to Franco.

Cameron’s Song For Franco — Watch and Download!

🎓🍼 Congratulations Are In Order…

In a year that ground much to a halt, there’s a graduate at the top of her class…

GH’s Sydney Mikayla Graduated in the Top of Her Class!

And a new mom.

Brook Lynn Is Pregnant on GH But Amanda Setton Already Gave Birth!

💩 And the POS Of the Week Award Goes To…

It’s Bunnygate all over again.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/25/shannon-beador-says-davids-wife-rejected-her-baby-gift/

The rebuttal, which is kind of confusing. I want to know how much $1400,00.00 [sic] is.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/26/david-beadors-wife-finally-opens-shannons-baby-gift/

🍸 Back To Beverly Hills…

Everything Andy knows…

https://www.eonline.com/news/1251111/andy-cohen-teases-fascinating-new-rhobh-season-amid-erika-jayne-divorce

Everything the tabloids know…

‘RHOBH’ Season 11: Everything We Know So Far

And Sutton stirs the sh*t. The best part? A picture of her in that crazy dress everyone but me hated.

‘RHOBH’ Season 11 Preview: Sutton Stracke Causing Drama for Erika Jayne, Source Says

💍 Yep, It’s Massive…

She might be a skinnygirl, but that is not a skinny ring.

https://people.com/style/bethenny-frankel-engagement-ring-photos-details/

🤔 Doubtful…

The continuing saga of Tinsley’s not-so-happy ending.

Tinsley Mortimer’s Friends Refute Scott Kluth’s Version of Their Split and Point to Evidence After His Reps Claim He Tried to Break Up With RHONY Alum For Months

🍾 If Wishes Were Horses…

This is the kind of thing that comes out when you’re Overserved.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/24/tori-spelling-wishes-shed-slept-with-ryan-seacrest-in-2000/

💔 Saying Goodbye…

And we’re not even through March.

https://www.essence.com/celebrity/remembering-stars-weve-lost-2021/

🎭 Double Farewell…

Two true legends. I loved Just Shoot Me, and The Goldbergs just won’t be the same.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/jessica-walter-george-segal-appreciation/2021/03/26/d7b77980-8e37-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html

🦧 No Foolin’…

Celebrities, they’re just like us. But with a bigger budget.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/24/celebrate-april-fools-with-a-roundup-of-celebrity-pranks/

🐶 Everybody’s Favorite…

Who doesn’t love puppies?

https://parade.com/1182831/jessicasager/top-10-puppy-names-2021/

🦜 Quotes of the Week

You try a case on the evidence. You can’t convict a man because you fear what he might become. – Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston), Your Honor

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement. – Criss Jami

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know. – The Wise Man (Scott Glenn), Sucker Punch

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Wayne Dyer

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor. – Stacey T. Hunt

The fact that she needs to teach you how to play Go Fish at 22 says all that needs to be said. – Todd Chrisley, Chrisley Knows Best

Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. – Princess Diana

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. – Criss Jami

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be. – Sanhita Baruah

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. – Emily Dickinson

I love being Amish, but I love the English money. – Ada Byler, Return to Amish

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself. – Roy T. Bennett

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss. – Anthony Liccione

The more uncomfortable it is, the more important it is to have the conversation about it. – Eric Nies, Real World NYC: Homecoming

🚶🏽‍♀️ Exiting Stage Left…

It’s here again. The weekend. Or what I call, switching jobs, and what some might call, just another day in paradise. Or not. But if not, make your own paradise, even if it’s only in your mind. And in any case, stay safe, stay appropriate, and stay doing the same for people who have dropped everything for you.

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March 24, 2021 – The Start Of a Beautiful Friendship, a Dinner Gone South & Late

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Nina says she’s not that blond woman Sonny has been dreaming about, but he says she seems so familiar. She says, there are a lot of blond women in the world, and she’s known a few memorable ones. He tells her, if she says so, and she says, hey, Mike. Everything is going to be okay. He goes in the back, and she makes a call to Carly. Nina says she has something very important to tell Carly, and Carly says she’s sure Nina does. She knows exactly what it is.

On the phone, Trina asks if someone can make it happen… Tonight?

Portia tells Curtis, that was pretty impressive. Cameron came in there to hire someone to kill Jason, and Curtis convinced him to channel his anger and grief into his music. Curtis says, it wasn’t him. That was Trina. She says, Trina chimed in, after Curtis told Cameron to use his grief, and turn it into something positive. Trina joins them, and says, Cameron is on his way home with his mom. He feels a lot better than when he came in here. She thanks Curtis.

Jordan goes to see Taggert in his cell. She says she checked the visitor’s log earlier, and saw Laura was there. Taggert says they were discussing how much time he could get for falsifying proof that put Cyrus away. Five years, if he’s lucky. She says, about that. There’s been a development. He should consider a not guilty plea.

Brook walks quickly into the hospital, and Maxie is by the reception area with Britt. Maxie says, Brook is back. And she’s pregnant. Brook says she’s right. When did that happen? Isn’t she going to ask who the baby daddy is? Maxie says she didn’t want to pry, and Brook says, since when? Maxie says, fine. Who’s the guy? and Brook says, let’s just say both their babies have fathers everyone hates.

At the MetroCourt, Valentin asks if Charlotte wants dessert. She asks if she can have a Shirley Temple, and he says, double cherries. He might get one too. They have something to celebrate. She asks what it is, and he says he’ll tell her when he gets back. On his way to the bar, he runs into Anna, who says she hasn’t seen him since Maxie’s (non) wedding. He says he’s been busy. He’s going to be a father again.

Lucas goes to the room where the Lamaze class is going to be, and Felix says he’s in the wrong room… unless he switched teams and got busy. Lucas says he heard Felix was covering the class for Epiphany, and he wanted to hang out, and see Felix in action. Felix says, really? Is that really why he’s there?

Maxie says Brook is having a baby with Valentin? Didn’t he steal her shares of ELQ, and take over her family’s company? Brook says, things happen. She heard about Lulu. She’s really sorry. Lulu deserves to be with her kids, not in a long-term care facility. She’s sure Maxie misses Lulu a lot, and Maxie says she does. She’s naming the baby Louise, and going to call her Lu after Lulu. Brook says, Lulu would love that. It’s crazy how their lives have changed in a few months; Lulu is gone, Maxie and Peter… She read what he did, and it sounds like he has a long list of bad acts. Does Maxie think he’ll still be in the baby’s life? Maxie says she hasn’t figured out that part yet. How about Brook and Valentin? She doesn’t see them living happily ever after. Brook says he’ll have some role in the baby’s life, but she hasn’t figured it out yet. Britt says if Brook is staying in Port Charles, she should have her medical records transferred to GH. She can help facilitate that. Who’s Brook’s obstetrician in Brooklyn? Brook says, someone in King’s County Hospital, and Britt asks if it’s Lenore Thompson; they went to medical school together. Brook says she’s never heard of Lenore. Maxie says if Brook is staying in Port Charles, she’s going to need a doctor. How about Britt?  

Anna says she didn’t know Brook and Valentin were involved. Hasn’t Brook been away? He says, it was one night before Brook left. Now she’s back and carrying his child. Anna asks if she should give condolences or congratulations, and he says, congratulations, absolutely. She says, Brook is going to let him be part of the baby’s life, even though he took her family’s business away? and he says she seems to be willing to let him. He’s going to break the news to Charlotte over a few Shirley Temples. How about Anna? Is she okay?

Trina says Curtis gave Cameron good advice. She should have taken it herself, instead of ripping into Curtis when she thought her dad was dead. Curtis says, sometimes the best way to fight grief is with anger. You can focus on something in front of you. He didn’t mind being her target. Portia says Curtis was trying to save Trina’s life; so was her dad when he pretended to be dead. Can she see the bigger picture now? Everybody was just trying to save her from Cyrus.

Taggert tells Jordan that Portia was trying to get him to plead not guilty, but if he’s set free, Cyrus is going to be out for revenge. The first one is going to be Trina. He needs to do his time, and protect Trina. She says, the situation has changed. Cyrus doesn’t have the power he used to. Taggert asks, what happened? and she says, they have leverage. He says, what kind? and she says, Renault’s mother. He says, Cyrus has a mother? She says, he does, a gracious woman who doesn’t appreciate her son’s crimes. She’s being well cared for, but since she’s been out of Cyrus’s reach, he’s been near paralyzed. He asks how the hell she kidnapped Cyrus’s mother.

Carly says, Ava told her that Nina is going to sue for the right to see Wiley. She’s telling Nina right now, it’s a bad idea to play games with her grandson. Nina tries to interrupt, saying, that’s not what… but Carly says if Nina pushes hard, they’ll push harder. Diane will destroy her. She’ll drag Nina’s sad history into evidence. Remember when she kidnapped Ava when she was in labor with Avery, and then told everyone Avery was her daughter? The judge is going to love that. Nina says, please stop, but Carly tells Nina to stop, before it’s too late. Nina had her chance, and she blew it. She needs to back off and give everybody time, especially Wiley. If she pushes this, and takes legal action, Nina will lose, and never get near Wiley again. I tell Nina, Carly is such an a-hole.

Jordan tells Taggert, she didn’t kidnap Cyrus’s mother. He asks, who did? and she says, they both know there are people outside law enforcement who need to keep Cyrus in check. He says, especially now that Sonny has passed, and she says, Cyrus knows, if he hurts Taggert or Trina, he’ll never see his mother again. He says, Cyrus loves his mother that much? and she says, he does. So change his plea before sentencing. Fight the charges against him. He asks if she thinks he has a chance, and she says, talk to his lawyer. She thinks, considering the damage Cyrus has done – the overdoses, the drug deaths, the violence – a jury will understand why he felt compelled to lock Cyrus up. He says, he broke the law, and she says, he put a dangerous man in prison. If he gets a sympathetic jury, he could be exonerated, and he’ll have a chance to repair his relationship with Trina.

Trina says she does understand why her father let her believe he was dead, and she thinks she can forgive him now. Portia hugs her, and says she’s so proud of Trina. Trina says she thinks she liked it when Portia was less proud. She’s got to go. Portia says, she has the quiz to study for, and Trina says she’s got a lot to learn. She leaves, and Curtis says he thinks Portia’s daughter just had a major breakthrough. Why does Portia look like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders? She says, all this talk about Trina forgiving her father. His sentencing is tomorrow. She could lose him all over again.

Anna tells Valentin, seeing Charlotte reminds her of Violet’s birthday party, and he says, the infamous snake in Ava’s purse. She laughs, and says, sorry. It’s not so funny, is it? He says, it is. He gets it, by the way. That day wasn’t just a celebration of Violet, but of Anna and Finn starting a family together. He takes it that she and Finn didn’t work out, and she says, no. Finn said he’d forgive her if she’d promise not to keep the truth from him anymore… Valentin says, and she couldn’t do that because the Bureau has too much on her. She says, yeah, but she can see Violet whenever she wants. The home she and Finn started together, she won’t get that back. Charlotte comes along, and hugs Anna, who says, look how tall she is. Charlotte asks how Violet is. She hasn’t seen Violet since Christmas. Violet was super excited about the wedding, and papa told her it didn’t happen. If Violet needs cheering up, they could always have a playdate.  

Brook tells Maxie, really? Does she think Brook wants to be treated by the woman who took her Aunt Monica’s job? Maxie guesses not, and Britt says she can recommend some excellent obstetricians working out of GH. Brook says, she’ll get back to Britt. She says, so Maxie and Peter are splitsville, and she has a baby on the way. How is Maxie doing? Maxie says she’s actually doing okay. Britt’s been a huge help, and is pinch-hitting for her in Lamaze class. Britt says Brook should join them. Why not ask Valentin  to be her birthing partner?

Lucas says he wants to see if Felix can keep his cool while teaching these moms-to-be how to breathe properly. Epiphany’s a hard act to follow. Felix thanks him for rubbing it in, and says he’ll do his best. Lucas says he’s sure Felix will be great, and when class is over, he’ll take Felix out for a drink to celebrate his survival.

Carly says it’s best if Wiley doesn’t see Nina. If Nina can accept that, great. If not, she can talk to Carly’s lawyer. Nina says, she actually doesn’t know what she’s going to do about Wiley. All she knows is she met this… Carly interrupts, saying, she has no doubt, but Nina needs to think about the consequences before she does anything drastic. Nina asks if Carly is finished, and Carly says, that depends. Do they have anything else discuss? Nina looks at Sonny putting away glasses, and says, there was another thing she wanted to talk, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Carly did this to herself. She just made her life more miserable than it had to be. Carly made her bed, and now she has to lie in it – alone. She hangs up, and Sonny comes over. He says, hey. Who got her so upset? She says, no one. No one important. Just a bitter widow.   

Curtis asks if there’s a chance Taggert could walk, but Portia says, Cyrus is still a threat. Taggert is determined to plead guilty, but at least Jordan is keeping him in jail so Cyrus can’t get to him. Curtis says, that’s one thing Jordan told the truth about. She asks if he’s seen Jordan lately, and he says he saw her today. Portia says, and? He says, and they’re in limbo. He can’t pretend and just go back to the way they were before the lies came out, but he can’t move on either. Portia says he must miss Jordan, and he says he misses the Jordan he thought he knew, but now he’s thinking he never knew her at all. He had an idea of who she was, and she let him believe that idea. He only saw one side of her, and there are many sides. From the choices Jordan has made to her priorities. He felt like he was with a stranger. Portia says, it makes perfect sense. When she was with Taggert, she was never sure which Taggert she was with. The Taggert who was her husband, the one who spent 90% of his time undercover, or the one who spent 10% of his time with her and Trina, but was always thinking about something else. None of which he shared with her.

Taggert tells Jordan, what if he goes to trial and is found guilty? He’ll serve more time than if he just manned up to what he did. She says he has a shot at going free. Isn’t it worth the risk for Trina? Taggert hears the door, and sees Trina. He asks if Jordan did this, and she says Trina called earlier, and asked to see him. Trina comes to the cell, and says Jordan gave her permission to see him. She heard his sentencing was tomorrow. Jordan says she’ll give them some privacy, and tells Taggert, think about what she said. Taggert says he’s sorry Trina has to see him like this, and she says, not as sorry as she is for the grief she gave him when she learned he was alive. He asks if this means she forgives him, and she says she wishes she could give him the biggest hug he’s ever had in his life. He takes her hands through the bars, and says, him too.

Valentin tells Charlotte that he’ll contact Violet’s dad, and arrange for a playdate. He needs two minutes with Anna, and then he’ll bring the Shirley Temples over. She says, then he’ll tell her what they’re celebrating? and he says le blah-blah-blah in French. Charlotte goes back to their table, and Valentin says he doesn’t want to bring Anna further down, but Britt told him that Maxie said Peter is showing up at the apartment all hours of the day and night, knocking on the doors and the windows. Maxie sends him away, but he comes back the next day, and does it all over again. It sounds obsessive. She says, it sounds like Faison. She tried talking to Peter, and appealing to his good side, but he doesn’t want to hear it. Valentin says he hired more security for Charlotte, and Anna says that’s one positive thing that came out of her and Finn breaking up. Violet is no longer vulnerable to Peter. He says he doesn’t hear the exact words, but he senses she’s blaming herself. She says she has good reason, and he says he’s been around the world, and found no cure for regret, but can offer her one thing. She says, okay, and he says he can spring for a Shirley Temple with double cherries. Does she want to join them? She laughs, and says, no, but thanks him for the offer. She’s waiting for someone, and thinks he and Charlotte should be alone when he breaks the news about her baby brother or sister. He says he misses Nina every day, but as long as there’s breath in his body, he can be a shoulder for her to cry on. She says they’re quite a pair. He nods, smiling.

Sonny pours Nina some wine, and says she can tell him it’s none of his business, but what did this widow do to get her so bent out of shape? Nina says she had a daughter. Her daughter was taken from her after she was born, and years later, came back into her life. But Nina didn’t learn she was her daughter until after she died. He says he’s sorry, and she says the woman she was talking to was there when her daughter died. She could have saved her, but she hesitated. Then the widow and Nina’s ex lied, and tried to cover up the truth. Sonny says, that’s damn awful, and Nina says, her daughter wasn’t perfect. She had problems, and hurt a lot of people. Sonny asks if Nina knows who raised her, and she says, sort of. Her adoptive mother died before her daughter knew her, and her adoptive father was terrible. If Nina had raised her daughter, she would have been a different person. She would have known what love was, and been able to give love. Sonny says, maybe, but you can’t get caught up in the what ifs. You just got to live in the moment.

Carly frowns, and Michael asks if it’s bad news. She says, Nina called, and he says, about Wiley? She says Ava told her that Nina is considering legal action for visitation rights. Michael asks if Nina has a shot, and she says, Martin said she might. Grandparents have rights in New York state. She’s sure Nina was calling to put her on notice. He says he imagines she took that well, and she says she may have been harsh, but told Nina the truth. If Nina comes after them, Diane will destroy her. He sits, and says he’s sure Nina loved hearing that. Carly says he has to understand, with Sonny gone, she has to fight harder for their family.   

Brook says she’s not there for Lamaze class, and even if she was, Valentin would be her last pick as a partner. She’ll read the book. Maxie asks why is Brook there, and Lucas comes out. Brook hugs him, and says she’s there to see Lucas. She was wondering if he wanted to grab a coffee – herbal tea for her – and catch up on the latest. He says he sees the latest. They definitely have to catch up. Maxie says, wait. Is she brilliant, or is she brilliant. Lucas can be Brook’s birthing coach. Brook says Maxie isn’t brilliant; she’s insensitive. Does she really think Lucas wants to help birth another baby after what happened with Wiley? Lucas says he’d like to think he’s capable of separating the two. He’d be honored to be her Lamaze partner. Maxie says, then it’s settled, and Brook says, but coffee… He says, coffee can wait. He was planning on sitting in on the class anyway. Now he’ll be a part of it. Maxie says, excellent, and drags Brook down the hall. Lucas and Britt follow them.  

Felix sees Lucas come in, and says Lucas couldn’t resist joining them. Lucas says he’s helping Brook as a friend, and Felix says, the more, the merrier. He thanks everyone for coming, and says they made a great choice to practice Lamaze for the birth of their babies. Peter runs in, and says sorry he’s late. The traffic was murder. Is that a joking choice of word?

Peter says Maxie forgot to remind him about the class, but fortunately, he had it on his calendar app. The class hasn’t started yet, right? Felix says it hasn’t, and Peter says, good. He wouldn’t want to miss anything. He goes over to Maxie, and says, remember when she gave birth to James? Of course (🍷) she remembers. That birth was a bit too memorable, but this time will be much better, he promises. Their little girl is going to have a perfect birthing experience. He thanks Britt for filling in, and says he’ll take it from there, but Britt says, no, he won’t.

Charlotte asks if Valentin is buying her another snake, but he says, this is better than a snake. She says, a playmate for Butterscotch? and he says, a playmate for her. Leo isn’t going to be her only sibling. She’s going to have a baby brother or sister. Charlotte says, what?!

Anna joins Jordan at a table, and Jordan says, before dinner, she wants to set the terms. Anna says, it sounds it sounds ominous, and Jordan says, no discussion of work. Anna says, and no discussion of men, but Jordan says, all she wants to talk about is men. She tells Anna to go first. What’s going on with her and Finn? Anna says, Finn and Violet moved out, and Jordan says she’s sorry. Anna says her old cases at the Bureau caught up with her. She can’t discuss them with Finn; they’re too dangerous. What about Jordan and Curtis? Jordan says Curtis won’t forgive her for lying to him about Taggert being alive. Anna says she’s obviously still in love with him, and Jordan says, in high school, she was in love with the captain of the football team. He was handsome and tall, and had a great smile. Anna asks if he was going out with the lead cheerleader, and Jordan says, oh yeah, and she was absolutely not one. But she would walk by his locker at least once a day, which was on the opposite side of the school, just to get a glimpse of him. Kind of sad. Anna says, so sad, and Jordan says, she asked her mom, when do you get old enough to get over guys? Her mom said, never. Anna says her mother was wise.

Portia tells Curtis, when she and Taggert first got married, she imagined they’d come home and tell each other about their days. She was really looking forward to that when they got engaged. Curtis says, that’s what couples do. They tell stories and share about their lives. She says, with Taggert, it wasn’t a two-way street. She didn’t even know who his DEA partners were, or what he was working on. He’d leave when he was on an undercover assignment, and be gone for days, sometimes weeks. When he came home, he’d be so distracted and distant, she could never get his full attention. Which is why she started to look for attention from someone else.

Taggert tells Trina, not that he’s complaining, but what changed her mind? She asks if he remembers Cameron. Unfortunately, his dad was murdered. Taggert says he’s sorry; Jordan didn’t tell him. She says he has enough to worry about. Seeing what Cameron is going through, made her realize that she should be glad he’s alive. She has no time to waste being mad. He thanks her, and says she wishes she’d seen him sooner, but Jordan wouldn’t let her. He says, Jordan isn’t responsible for that – he is. He didn’t want to see her.

Michael asks how angry Nina was when Carly laid into her, and Carly tells him, she said something strange. Nina said she’d made her bed, and now she has to lie in it – alone. Michael wonders what that means, but Carly doesn’t know. She says, she could hear glasses clinking in the background, like Nina was in a bar or restaurant. Maybe she was drunk. He says it sounds like Nina got to her, and she says, it wasn’t the words; it was how Nina said it, like a threat. It’s something Nelle would have said. I’m starting to think Carly needs to go to Ferncliff for real, since she’s just making things up now, and finding connections that aren’t there.

Sonny asks where the bitter widow comes in, and Nina says her daughter left behind an adorable little boy; he’s the love of her life. Sonny says, Wiley. He heard her on the phone. She says the woman she was talking to is his other grandmother. She’s trying to keep Nina away from Wiley. Sonny asks why someone would keep people who love each other apart?    

Felix escorts Peter out, and Peter says he has every right to be in that class. He’s the baby’s father. Felix asks if he should call security, but Britt says let her talk to Peter first. Felix goes back in, and Britt asks what the hell Peter is playing at. Maxie said she needed space, and he needs to back off. He asks if backing off includes not being part of his daughter’s birth, and she says that could be a real possibility if he doesn’t stop harassing Maxie. He says he’s trying to be a father to his unborn child, and she tells him, wake up. Stalking Maxie isn’t scoring him any points with her. If he wants to be back in Maxie’s life and in the baby’s life, listen carefully. Maxie is fragile, and she’s asking him for space. He needs to respect her feelings. Got it?

Maxie says, that was so embarrassing, and Brook says, Peter should be embarrassed for barging in like that. Lucas says he’ll get Maxie some water, and Brook goes with him. She says she didn’t see that coming, and Lucas says, Peter is a determined father-to-be, he’ll give him that. What about her baby’s father? Is he going to be part of the baby’s birth?

Charlotte says, a baby is really coming? and Valentin, isn’t that cause for celebration? Doesn’t she want to have a little brother or sister? She says, no. It’s impossible. He says she can teach them to love everything she loves. Horseback riding, ice skating; she’ll have somebody to share her cranberry scones with. She says those are her favorite things, and she’s not sharing them with anyone.   

Anna and Jordan place their orders, and Jordan asks what’s next for Anna. Anna says, the past is over. She has to keep moving forward, and find a way to help Maxie send off Peter. Jordan says she has all her available detectives looking for evidence that Peter tried to have Andre and Franco killed, and Anna says they’re talking about work. Jordan says, they can’t help themselves sometimes, but Maxie and the baby are too important not to discuss. Anna says, indeed. Robert is keeping her updated on the plane crash that killed Drew, and so far, there’s no concrete evidence linking Peter to the crash. Jordan says, or the assassination attempts. She can’t believe those are Peter’s only crimes. He has a pattern of covering up his wrongs, and the cover-up is usually worse than the crime. Anna asks Jordan to do her a favor. Look into Franco’s murder again. Jordan says, the case is practically airtight against Jason, and Anna says, yeah, but Peter is quite effective at framing someone.

Portia says she can’t apologize enough for not telling Curtis that she was married when they started seeing each other. He says, that was years ago, and they’ve talked about it. She says, they did, but things changed; they’re friends now, and in different placed in in their lives. She doesn’t want him to think she’d lie to him again. He says he appreciates that. She says she does have a confession to make. When they first met, it was just a physical attraction, but once she got to know him, he became more important to her happiness. She started to have real feelings for him. She couldn’t tell him the truth because she was afraid she’d lose him. Of course (🍷) when she did tell him the truth, that’s exactly what happened.

Trina guesses Taggert didn’t want to see her because he knew how mad she was at him, but he says, no. He understood why she was angry, but he knew if he saw her, he couldn’t keep his resolve to plead guilty. If he takes this to court, even if he gets freed, it will put her back in Cyrus’s sights. She says, he’s sacrificing his freedom for her? What sense does that make? Cyrus belongs in prison, not him. Where does this end? He says Jordan thinks there’s a way out. Trina says, what? and he says, to plead not guilty. She says, then do it, but he says he is guilty. She says he made up evidence against Cyrus for all the right reasons. She’ll stand up in front of the judge and jury, and tell them her father is a hero.

Michael tells Carly, Nina has struggled with mental health problems in the past, but he wouldn’t put her in the same category as Nelle. Carly says she wouldn’t have either, until today. It sounded like Nina was threatening her, which is all the more reason she shouldn’t be around Wiley. He says he told Willow about that, and Willow was surprised and hurt that he made the decision without talking to her. Carly says, there was no time to consult Willow. He made the right decision. Please don’t take it back.   

Nina tells Sonny, that’s a good question. She doesn’t know why someone would deliberately keep two people who love each other apart. She’s still trying to figure it out. He says maybe if the widow felt the way Nina does, she’d understand. Nina says, how so? and he says, if someone kept her from the person she loved, she might understand Nina’s pain.

Taggert says Trina knows how much he loves her, and she says, then fight the charges. Fight for his freedom. Do it for her, so she can hug him again.  

Curtis says he appreciates Portia coming clean. He feels guilty. He should been more understanding when Portia told him she was married. Instead, he walked away. She says she doesn’t want him to feel guilty. She just wanted to make sure he knew he could trust her now. He says he does, and she says she’s going; she has an early call. He tells her to wish Taggert good luck at his sentencing hearing, and she says she will.

Anna tells Jordan that Jason warned her about Peter, but she refused to listen. She’s not making that mistake again. Peter has far more reason to kill Franco than Jason did. Jordan tells her to come into the office, and they’ll talk about it. Anna says they’re going to order another drink, and Jordan says, and talk about their favorite topic. Anna says, themselves, and they laugh.

Valentin says Charlotte lets Rocco pet Butterscotch and play with her snake, and Charlotte says, one brother is enough. Besides he’s her mom’s son, not Valentin’s. He asks if she’s thinking that he’ll love the baby more than her, and she says, everyone loves babies. Nina would have loved her just ask much, but Nina doesn’t live with them anymore. He says he’ll never love anyone the way he loves her, and she asks if he promises. He says, cross his heart and hope to die.

Brook tells Lucas not to worry about her baby’s daddy. Even if they had a relationship, she wouldn’t want him anywhere near the birthing room. Lucas is the perfect person to help her. He says he’s honored, and she says, don’t be. Not until he hears what she has planned.

Britt and Felix come back to the class, and Maxie asks if Britt got rid of Peter. Britt says she did, but he can’t keep thinking he has a chance with Maxie. A, it’s not true; and B, he won’t give up. Maxie says she knows, and Britt says they have to figure out how to get Peter to back off permanently, without tipping him into outright obsession. Maxie says, don’t worry. She has a plan, and once her plan is set in motion, Peter won’t know what hit him.

Michael tells Carly, he hasn’t made a decision about Nina’s role in Wiley’s life. He has to discuss with Willow. Carly says, if he and Willow had heard the conversation just now, they’d be convinced. They’d know Nina isn’t a in a good place. She shouldn’t be near Wiley. Michael says, and if Nina decides to sue him and Willow for visitation rights? She says, they stop her. Whatever it takes.

Nina thanks Sonny, and says, sometimes she feels like she’s fighting windmills by herself. She appreciates his support. He says, maybe they were meant to meet. Like they say in the movies, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship. She says, it already is.

Tomorrow, Anna tells Dante to get on with the rest of his life, Brando says his mother is the eyewitness, and Cyrus asks if he and Carly understand each other.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Explaining last week’s drunken state, as well as throwing up in Bill’s Ferrari and the entryway, Jennifer said she’d needed to blow off steam. She didn’t want to think about the problems she had to go home to. She claimed she’d never gotten that drunk like that before, and I said, wait… What about Tequila Jen? She said, once you start seeing the room move, it’s your cue to stop. I’d say so.

Delores’s daughter Gabrielle was home from Tufts. Frankly, I’d forgotten Delores had a daughter. Delores said Gabby had been in vet school in the Caribbean, but had started attending Tufts due to the pandemic, bringing along six dogs. At least that’s how many I counted. She was home because Delores was receiving the Ambassador of Hope Award for the work she’d done with breast cancer. Frank Jr. said one of his earliest memories was of Gabby saying she wanted be a veterinarian, but she was so young, she couldn’t even pronounce it.

Teresa’s girls called Joe #1 in Italy, and he said he was coming out with the Rolls Royce of massagers. In her interview, Teresa explained that Joe was in the sex toy business, and had asked her to be a part of it. In what capacity, she didn’t say, and I don’t want to know. She said there was nothing wrong with sex toys, and they were paying the bills. I hear that. She said she’d gotten the house in the divorce, and Joe got nothing, since she’d paid off his debts. She told Joe that Melissa had planned a trip to the Jersey shore, where they’d be having celebration of her dad. In Teresa’s interview, she said she felt like an orphan, but she was happy about her parents being together again. This was one of the few times I had sympathy for her, but I knew she’d do something to negate that before the end of the episode. I was right.

Delores had David’s house covered in flowers – they were even hanging from the ceiling. She said, normally, the award was celebrated with a huge event, but because of the pandemic, it was being given to her in front of her family. Tonight, she was having friends over to celebrate. In Jennifer’s interview, she said she didn’t understand David and Delores’s relationship. Delores said she wasn’t moving in without a ring, but they were both there all the time. Now, there was a party for Delores, and he wasn’t staying. (He had to work.) When Jackie arrived, Delores told her that Teresa wasn’t coming, and Jackie said she didn’t want any negative energy. We flashed back to Jackie making arrangements to stay at Melissa’s house. The rest of the women arrived, sans Teresa, who was at the soccer tournament. Melissa filled Jackie in on Jennifer getting hammered at Teresa’s pool party. In Marge’s interview, she said seeing Jennifer drunk gave her flashbacks of her mother. She didn’t want Jennifer’s five kids to deal with that. Melissa asked why Delores didn’t live in David’s house, and Delores said she’d built a life in her own house and liked her freedom. In Melissa’s interview, she thought it was a coping mechanism on Delores’s part, but Delores said if she wanted to move in, she would. in Marge’s interview, she said Delores didn’t need to be taken care of by a man; that wasn’t what this was about. Delores said David was getting no benefit out of them being there, since he’d have to do the clean up later. She showed the women her award, and Melissa said helping people was where Delores shined. Melissa asked how many days a week Delores and David had sex, which was pretty intrusive, and in Delores’s interview, she said she was old school, and it was none of Melissa’s business. Melissa told everyone that Teresa wasn’t coming tonight, but they were going to do a party of life for her father-in-law at the shore. Jackie said she wasn’t giving any energy or life any more to her and Teresa’s argument.

Headed to the shore, and in the car with Delores, Frank, and Jennifer, Teresa said her divorce was being finalized after five years. In her interview, she said she and Juicy Joe had been together so long, it was crazy to think you could sign a paper and poof! your marriage is over. Teresa said no one could take Joe #1’s place, but she’d like to find someone. Delores was encouraging, and in Jennifer’s interview, she wondered how Delores could clearly see what Teresa deserved, but not what she deserved herself. Jackie said Evan was coming for day two. She wanted to make sure it wasn’t a sh*t show first. In the car, Jennifer said Bill claimed Joe #3 heard the rumor about Evan. Teresa felt it kind of validated what she’d said. In Frank’s interview, he said what happened at guy’s night, stayed at guy’s night. Teresa having information was like waiting for a bomb to go off. Teresa said she wasn’t doing round two of Lake George. I said, yeah, right. 

It always seems weird to me that when they talk about the Jersey shore on this show, they mean Tom’s River. I live at the shore, maybe twenty minutes from there, and don’t really consider it a shore town. Teresa said she hadn’t been to Delores’s house there since she was in her twenties, and we saw some cool old photos. Jackie was staying at Melissa’s house with Marge. Teresa got a call from realtor Chad that some people wanted to see her house, and she said she was going to have a heart attack. She showed the women texts from her daughters, saying it was time for a fresh start, but she’d always have them. In Delores’s interview, she said Teresa had been through a lot. She’d gone to jail, lost both her parents, and her husband had been deported. How much could a person take? She said Teresa had handled it with strength and grace, and not too many people could get through all that the way she did. She left out all the fits Teresa has pitched. With strength and grace of course.  

Melissa said you never knew what you were going to get with Teresa, and Jackie said she didn’t think Teresa was going to hold back. Delores thought it was going to be a bloodbath. Jennifer made sure her dad and kids had gotten to the airport on time for their flight to Turkey. She said her mother wouldn’t go because her dad was going. Jennifer said it bothered her that her mother was willing to sabotage her own happiness just because she was mad at her dad. When Teresa arrived, she gave out gift bags with humongous purple vibrators in them. Marge pointed out that they were kind of big, and not being able to resist, Teresa said she didn’t know if it would fit up Jackie’s ass, but Jackie could try. But she did say it with strength and grace. Jackie said she wasn’t doing this with Teresa, and Teresa said Jackie told her to stick her olive branch up her ass. Jackie said that was because she knew it wasn’t really an olive branch. She was included in a group text, and it was nothing personal. Jackie wondered why they couldn’t just agree not to be friends, and Delores said, how about them Mets? now that everything that had to be said was out of the way, that’s it. Teresa said it was out of her system, but Jackie didn’t believe Teresa was done. Me neither.  

Marge asked if Teresa was emotional over selling her house, and Teresa said a little. Her divorce was also being finalized today. She said Delores and Joe #2 should take back what they said; Joe #1 was a class act. We flashed back to the reunion where Joe #2 and Delores expressed concern about Joe #1 would try to take Teresa’s money in the divorce. In Joe #2’s interview, he said Juicy Joe was not always good to his sister, and he was there to protect her. Joe #1 had put an article out about him – we saw a quick headline about Juicy Joe shading Joe #2’s marriage – and Teresa said nothing. Teresa made everyone promise not to talk smack about Joe #1. Marge said Teresa was aggressive and had just made the guys uncomfortable. She was always yelling about something, and causing turmoil in the group. Teresa said Jennifer brought up what Joe #3 had said at boy’s night, that he’d heard the rumor about Evan. Now everyone was even more uncomfortable. Jennifer confirmed Bill claimed Joe #3 said he’d heard it in town, and Marge asked if Jennifer was there. Jennifer said, no, Bill told her, and Marge told her to shut up. There was some back and forth shut up’ing, and in Frank’s interview, he said he wasn’t going to throe his boy under the bus, or make the night go further south. Marge asked Joe #3 if he’d heard it, but he insisted he’d never said that. In Marge’s interview, she said Joe #3 heard the rumor from the blabbermouth across the table from him – i.e. Teresa. Jackie said she wasn’t giving this POS life, and Marge asked why Teresa was treating her this way. The best part was how, from the moment Teresa walked in, Melissa and Marge kept fussing over Jackie, and Jackie kept saying she didn’t give flying, and barely reacted. Jackie said Teresa treated everyone like sh*t, and Marge said Teresa did have her hair pulled. Melissa said Teresa had called her a stripper, and we flashed back to that, but no mention of the trashed sprinkle cookies was made. Now that I think of it, Sprinkle Cookies would be a great stripper name. Joe #2 told them to stop it, and Jackie suggested they drop it and be cordial. Teresa said Jackie wasn’t confident, and she liked to be around confident people, although I’ll be damned if I know how she was connecting that to anything. Jackie asked if Teresa had gotten her confidence in jail, and Teresa said she went to jail; big deal. She called Jackie a nasty bitch, got up, saying she didn’t want to be in the same room with Jackie, and everyone could go f*** themselves.

To be continued…

🌃 All Through the Night…

Desperate. For. Sleep. Meet you tomorrow for tea and what I keep hoping is the finale of Make It Stop Summer House. Until then, stay safe, stay making sound decisions, and stay not bothering to explain anything to Carly. She won’t listen anyway.

Mar20

March 19, 2021 – Cyrus Drops A Bombshell Through Peter, Liz’s 3 Sons, a Reunion, Brytni’s Five, Celebs O’Celebrating, a Villain’s Goodbye, Post Award Fashion, Not So Happily, Amish Now, an Adoption, VanderSpeaks, Double Septuple Quotes & World

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Sonny walks into the Tan-O, looking disheveled. Phyllis says he’s been gone all day. She was starting to worry. Where’d he disappear to? He says he’s sorry. He had something very important to take care of.

Carly knocks on Elizabeth’s door, but Elizabeth says, it’s not a good time. Carly says she’ll keep it brief, and Elizabeth lets her in. Carly asks if the kids are there, and Elizabeth says, no. Why? Carly says she doesn’t want them to hear and get upset, although they’re going to find out soon enough. Jason was arrested for Franco’s murder.

Finn moons over a picture of him and Anna, when Chase walks into his office. Chase asks if it’s a bad time, but Finn says, no; never. Chase says he knows he could have handled things better, and shouldn’t have stormed off after they got the results. Finn says, none of this is Chase’s fault. Chase doesn’t have to apologize or explain anything. He has a lot to process. Chase says, they both did, but Finn isn’t his brother. Finn is his biological father.

Cyrus says it seems Jackie has had a busy week, and plops down across from her at the MetroCourt. She says she doesn’t have time to play games. Get lost. Cyrus urges her to reconsider, when Robert puts his hand on Cyrus’s shoulder, and says he thinks Cyrus is sitting in his seat.

Olivia opens the door to Ned, who thanks her for having him over. He didn’t think he’d be hearing from her again so soon. She says, hear her out, and he says he just wants her to know how glad he is that they’re at least talking. He knows they have a lot to work through… She says, it’s not about them. She needs to talk to him about his daughter.

Outside Kelly’s, Nina tells Valentin that she needs to get out of Port Charles for a while. He asks, why? What happened? Talk to him. She tells him, don’t make it any harder. Just tell Charlotte that she loves her. He says he does, every night, and she says he’s a great father. She puts her hand on his cheek, and leaves. He runs into Brook on his way out, and asks when she got back to Port Charles. She says she just hit town, and he says it’s great to see her; they have a lot to catch up on. She says he has no idea.

At Kelly’s, Sam calls Spinelli. She says she needs him to find Maxie. She’s afraid Maxie is meeting with Peter… Maxie is with him? If she didn’t text Peter, then who did?

Dante stands by Nathan’s grave, and takes out his gun. Peter runs in, and asks, where’s Maxie? She texted him to meet her there. Dante says, Maxie didn’t text Peter. He did. Peter says, Dante texted him from Maxie’s phone? Why? Dante says it was the easiest way to get Peter there, and Peter asks why Dante wants him there. Dante aims his gun at Peter, and says, to complete the mission.

Chase says, when Finn opened the test results, he didn’t know what to expect. Part of him hoped it was just some horrible misunderstanding that the dad he grew up with wasn’t his actual father. But the DNA test results show otherwise. Finn says he hasn’t always had the best experience with test results from the lab at GH. With Chase’s permission, he’d like to run another paternity test with someone he knows at the lab at Mercy Hospital. Chase says it’s Finn’s call. Does he think the results will change? Finn says he doesn’t know, but thinks it’s worth exhausting all their options, just to eliminate any doubt. Chase says if it makes Finn feel better, and Finn says, if it’s any consolation, it blindsided him too. He believed in his heart, Chase was his brother, but dad will always be Chase’s father. It’s up to Chase. Maybe this doesn’t have to change their relationship. Chase says he can’t keep pretending Finn is his brother. Everything he counted on, everything he thought he knew about his family, is wrong. He thinks differently now, and doesn’t know how to deal with it. Finn says, him neither.

Valentin says he was almost going to call Brook the other day. They’ve had some positive strides at Deception, and he wondered if she wanted to be included. She says it’s sweet of him to think of her, but her voice hasn’t fully recovered yet, and it may never recover. He says he doesn’t know if he can offer her consolation for a lost singing career, but she’s very good, and very creative, and very good at thinking outside the box. She says, not everyone views those qualities in a positive light, and thanks him. He says he thinks she’d make a good manager, if she’s interested, and wants to put in the hours. She says she’d love to, but she has other plans at the moment. She turns to go, and he says, wait a minute. Is she avoiding him? She says, obviously she’s trying to, but it’s not working. She tells him that she might as well get this over with, and opens her coat. He laughs.

Olivia tells Ned that Brook is back in Port Charles, and he asks if she’s seen Brook. She says, Brook spent last night at the house, but she didn’t know anything about it, until she saw Brook this morning. He wonders why Brook wouldn’t call him, and Olivia says, she was probably trying to delay the reunion. She’s got some news. He asks, what kind of news? and Olivia tells him, it’s not her place to say. He says, this is Brook Lynn they’re talking about. The more advance warning, the better. She promises Brook isn’t in any jeopardy, but she thought them being under the same roof increased their chances of coming face to face. He says she’s still looking out for him, in spite of everything, and she asks if he thought she wouldn’t.

Phyllis asks if Sonny wants to talk about it, and he asks if the coffee is fresh. She says, it is, and she’ll be happy to pour him a cup, as soon as he assures her that he’s taking his medication. He says, like clockwork, and she says she’s sorry if she seems intrusive, but he’s still getting used to the prescription. When he’s gone all day, and shows up looking… exhausted… He says he appreciates her worrying, but it has nothing to do with his health. He didn’t get in any kind of trouble. He was playing poker, trying to win enough money to get his rings back.

Elizabeth tells Carly, she literally just got back from Franco’s memorial, and starts to open the door. Carly says, it must have been incredibly painful. Sonny’s was for her. Elizabeth closes the door again, and says she knows Carly has also suffered a devastating loss, but she doesn’t want to fight. Carly says, then let’s not fight. She knows Elizabeth wants justice for Franco, and she knows Jason is innocent. Elizabeth says, the police disagree, and Carly says, because they’re acting on bad information, some of which they got from Elizabeth. Elizabeth says her statement was accurate. She told them exactly what she saw the night Franco was shot. Franco was lying on the ground, and bleeding from his chest, from a gunshot wound, and Jason was kneeling over him. Carly asks if Jason had a gun, and Elizabeth says, Jason always has a gun. Carly asks if Elizabeth saw Jason with a gun, and Elizabeth says, no. Carly asks if it’s possible Jason found Franco lying there, and was kneeling beside Franco to check his pulse. Elizabeth says, no. Jason would never help Franco. Carly asks how Elizabeth knows that? How does she know what happened before she got there? Why is she so sure Jason is guilty?

Peter backs away from Dante, and asks what Dante is doing. Dante says, isolated spot, no witnesses. He doubts anyone will know Peter was there or wonder where he is, because he has no friends left anymore. Peter says he’s never done anything to Dante, but Dante says Peter is a threat to Maxie.

Valentin says, Brook is pregnant, and she says he’s very observant. He asks if he’s the father, and she says he cuts right to the chase. He says, yes or no? and she says they had a one-night stand that turned out to be more memorable than either of them expected. He asks why she didn’t tell him. He could have offered to help, offered support. She tells him to slow his roll. They had one night together and it was just for fun. She doesn’t want him bound to her or this baby. He says, it’s a little late for that. Assuming he’s the father, he has every bit as much responsibility as she does. He’s not letting her go through this by herself.   

Ned asks Olivia if there’s any way to make it right between them, but she says she can’t get into it now. He says, if not now, when? They’ve seen each other three times since it went down. She says she doesn’t know how to go forward, but if they’re able to put the marriage together, it won’t be the same marriage. He asks what she means, and she says, they’ve changed. She’s watched him become more cutthroat in business, especially where family members are concerned. Ned says he’s made some decisions he regrets, and Olivia says, it’s not a judgement. She’s not saying ambition is a bad thing. She’s just surprised ELQ became his prime focus in life. He asks how she’s changed, and she says she would hope he’s seen it for himself. When she gave up hope that Dante was coming home, she was devastated, but at the same time, it opened up her life in a way she never would have imagined. For the first time in years, she could see herself as her own person again; not just an appendage, or Dante and Leo’s mother, or… He says, or his wife. She says it gave her a chance to rediscover the Olivia who took big chances, who leaped before she looked. She got to see new parts of the world, and got in trouble. He says he can’t help but notice all this happened when she was with Robert.

Cyrus gets up, and Robert takes the seat. Robert says Cyrus is going to have to move along. He doesn’t want to be accused of loitering. Cyrus says he’s glad Jackie is speaking to her lawyers. She’ll be hearing from his soon, regarding his mother. He leaves, and Robert asks if she’s all right. She says Cyrus doesn’t intimidate her, and he says he’s not talking about Cyrus. She asks if he talked to Anna, and he says, Anna kind of filled in the gaps in that chaos of a wedding. She says, then he knows her secret. The secret she’s been keeping all these years. He says he’s not one to make a judgement call, but it’s too bad she went through it alone. She asks who would have been there to help? Gregory? Finn? Her son? Robert says, how about him? but she says he was halfway around the world when she got pregnant. She couldn’t call him long distance – remember long distance? And even if she’d reached out, what could he have done? Robert says he’d like to think he would have listened back then, but he can certainly listen now. In some ways, he feels closer to her than he ever did.  

Chase says, ever since he can remember, he wanted a relationship with his older brother. He finally got one, and now it’s gone. Finn isn’t who he thought at all. Finn says Chase is absolutely right. Their relationship can’t ever be the same, but maybe they can figure out how it can work now. Chase says, it’s not a bad idea, but even if they push past this awkwardness, how can he treat Finn as a dad and not betray the dad he knows?  

Peter tells Dante that he loves Maxie. Maxie is carrying his child. He would never hurt her. Dante says Maxie is better off without Peter, and Peter says Dante is suffering from PTSD, and not in his right mind. Dante says he has to complete the mission, and Peter asks who gave him the mission? Peter backs up and trips, falling to the ground. Dante stands over him with the gun, when Sam runs in, and says, stop!

Brook tells Valentin, it’s her pregnancy, and she doesn’t want him involved. She didn’t intend to make a child, but thanks him for his initial contribution. She’ll take it from here. He says her decisions about her body are her own, but when the baby is born, they’re his too. He wants a role in the baby’s life, and it’s not up for negotiation. She says, if he has any role in this child’s life, it will be on her terms. Now if he’ll excuse her… He says they’re not done, and she says she’ll call him.

Phyllis says she didn’t notice that Sonny’s rings were gone, and he says she’s had a few things on her mind. She says he sold them to buy his way into the game? and he says he pawned them. She says, then he used his winnings to save the Tan-O. He says he’s happy to do it, and she says she’s happy he did, but he didn’t have to give them everything. He should have kept something to buy his rings back. He says he didn’t think he needed to. He was going to play again, but the boys learned from their mistakes, and took it out on him. He barely broke even. She says she’s sorry, but he says she doesn’t need to be. That’s how the game is played. She says he can’t lose his rings. Besides his watch, they’re the only thing connecting him to his past.

Elizabeth tells Carly, Franco made a mistake, and asked Jason to kill him. That night, Franco was agitated. Carly asks, how agitated? but Elizabeth says she doesn’t know. Sam and Dante said Franco was at the MetroCourt looking for Jason, and Franco said to tell Jason, I’m still me. Does Carly know what that means? Carly says it sounds like Elizabeth does, and Elizabeth says, it means Franco knew he wasn’t a threat, and didn’t want Jason to kill him, but Jason didn’t care. He tracked Franco to the art studio, and shot him anyway. Carly says, if Jason had been responsible, there would be no evidence, and probably not even a body. Franco would have disappeared without a trace. Elizabeth says she’s sure that was what was supposed to happen, but then she showed up. Carly says, and she’s determined to blame Jason. Elizabeth says, Jason did it. She begged him not to. Franco had told her about their horrific deal, and she confronted Jason, telling him it was unnecessary, but he wouldn’t listen. He wouldn’t call it off. Carly says the reason why she knows Jason didn’t kill Franco is because Elizabeth knew. Jason would never put Elizabeth and Jake in that position, and Elizabeth knows that.

Sam tells Dante, stop; don’t do this. What’s going on? Peter tells her, call the police, but she says she’s not talking to him. She tells Dante, it’s her, Sam. What is he doing? Dante says Peter is a threat to Maxie and the baby. He has to protect them and keep them safe. Sam agrees Peter deserves to pay, but not like this. Dante says he has to complete the mission, and Sam asks if someone ordered him to kill Peter. Dante says, this is justice for Maxie and Drew, but Sam says justice is for Peter to be arrested, stand trial, and spend the rest of his life in prison. That’s what Peter deserves, not Dante. Don’t throw his life away because of Peter.

Sam tells Dante, think about it. Everyone loses if he pulls the trigger; his mom, his brothers, his son. Think about Rocco. Rocco needs a father, and Dante is all he has. Dante flashes back to holding baby Rocco, and Sam asks, isn’t Rocco more important than his mission? Dante lowers the gun, and she says, it’s okay, taking it from him. She tells Peter, he dodged a bullet. Get out. Peter says that crazy bastard tried to kill him. He’s not getting away with it. He leaves, and Dante asks where Peter is. Sam says, he’s gone; he took off running. Is Dante okay? He says, she stopped him, and she says, someone had to.

Sonny says, pawning his rings was the only way to buy into the game, and the only shot he had at getting the money they needed to hold on to the Tan-O. Phyllis asks, since when is it his job to save their business? and he says, is she kidding him? After everything they’ve done for him, he wants to repay them in a small way. She laughs, and says, small? They didn’t want to sell, but it might have been for the best. The closest thing they have to family are the strays she takes under her wing, like him and Elijah. She’d like to know the Tan-O is in good hands when they’re six feet under.

Carly tells Elizabeth, forget about the bargain and the circumstantial evidence. Think about the Jason she knows. He’d never hurt her or Jake by killing Franco. Elizabeth says, he knew the tumor was back, and was convinced Franco was a threat. In his mind, killing Franco was protecting them. Carly asks if that’s what was going through Elizabeth’s mind when she saw Jason, what shaped her perspective. Is it possible she saw what she expected to see? Think about it. Can’t she see Jason was just trying to help Franco, and not hurt him? Elizabeth asks if this is where Carly tells her to change her statement, and say she saw what she didn’t. She’s not perjuring herself. Carly says, someone already has that handled.

Olivia says, not this again. For the millionth time, nothing is going on between her and Robert. Ned is projecting his infidelities on her. He says, she’s right. His actions tore them apart, and he regrets it every minute of every day, but he’s starting to wonder if that’s why they can’t move past this, and the other problems in their marriage that they weren’t able to recognize until now. She says, such as? and he says she was a brilliant first lady of Port Charles, and an equally brilliant wife and mother. It never occurred to him that while he was relying on her to do everything she does to run the house, support the family, and stand by his side, he might also be holding her back, while maybe another man was allowing her to soar.

Brook walks into the Quartermaine mansion, and asks if Michael is still there. Ned comes out, and says, Brook. She says, hi, and he says, she’s … is that? She nods, and says, congratulations. He’s going to be a grandpa.  

Jackie tells Robert, if the last few days showed her anything, it’s that she has a lot of soul searching to do, and a lot to figure out. She’s a walking cliché; a professional success, but her personal life is a disaster. He thinks she’s exaggerating, but she says, especially where Gregory is concerned. He’s a good man. They loved each other, and she left his life in tatters. Robert says it sounds like she needs a friend.

Finn says, Gregory will always be the man who raised Chase. He wouldn’t change that if he could. He wonders where that leaves them, but Chase doesn’t know. He just thought it was fair to tell Finn what was going through his head. He owes Finn that much. Finn says, it means a lot that Chase came to see him, and that they’re still talking. Both of their phones ding. They look at their phones, and then look at each other.

Robert tells Jackie, most of his exes can attest that he was a lousy father, but a good friend. He’s offering himself in that capacity as of now. She thanks him, and says, it means more than he knows. He asks what she’s drinking, and she says, scotch, of course (🍷). He thinks he’ll join her, and her phone dings. She sees a headline in The Invader, asking, Who’s the Daddy? along with photos of her, Chase, Finn, and Gregory, and an article about the paternity test.

Ned says, a baby? and Brook asks if he’s disappointed. He says, never. He’s surprised, very surprised. Why didn’t she say anything? She says, for the same reason she left. She needed to find a way to prove herself on her own. He says he was incredibly unfair, but she says she was unfair to him too. Face it. They’re a lot alike, in both good and not so good ways. She needed time and distance to figure out her life. After her singing career stopped, everything changed. He asks if the baby’s father is in the picture, and she says, about that. He might want to sit down.

Jackie goes to Finn’s office, and he and Chase just look at her. She asks if they saw, and then guesses they did. Chase says, the article in The Invader? They saw it, along with most of Port Charles. She says she had no idea, and Finn says, another one for the tight security at GH. She says she’s going to have Peter’s head on a pike. I tell her, get in line, and Chase says she’s got to love the irony.

Carly tells Elizabeth, the witness claims they saw Jason put the gun in the garbage shoot. The PCPD retrieved the gun, and there were no prints on it, but the pegged it as the murder weapon. Elizabeth says, that proves Jason is guilty, but Carly says, think about the Jason she knows. He’d never panic, or get sloppy, or drop incriminating evidence in a garbage shoot where the victim was. Elizabeth says Jason didn’t expect her to show up, but Carly says, the witness lying; it’s a set up. Elizabeth can’t see it because she’s determined to blame Jason. (BTW, my bad yesterday for calling it a laundry shoot. To throw the gun in there would have been stupider than Jason being the one to throw it.)

Sonny asks if Phyllis and Lenny never had kids, and Phyllis says they had a baby girl a long time ago. She only lived a few days, but they loved her a lot. Losing her was terrible, indescribable. They wanted another child, but they were afraid, so they kept trying to put it off. They kept putting it off, and next thing they knew, too much time had passed. He says he’s sorry, and she says, don’t be. She and Lenny have a good life, besides, it left room in her heart for strays like him. Sonny says, a lot of people think she’s crazy for taking him in, and she says, everyone can keep their opinions to themselves. What about him? Does he think he has children out there?

Sam asks what Dante was thinking, going after Peter? He says he wasn’t, and Sam says Dante was going to shoot Peter, and Dante says he wasn’t thinking. In his head, he had to eliminate Peter. It was like he was outside himself, watching it happen. He holds his head, and says they told him he was better. He spent time in the Geneva facility, and they told him he was better. They told him that he’s recovered, but he’s not. He thinks he needs help; he’s scared. She takes his hand, and says, it’s okay. They’ll get him some help. He clutches her hand.

On the phone, Valentin tells Martin that he wants to meet. There have been unexpected developments that require Martin’s expertise.

Brook tells Ned, she crashed on Chase’s couch, but he’s completely in love with Willow. She flirted with Dustin, but it was nothing, and now she feels doubly guilty. He asks what she’s not telling him, and she says he already knows some of it. They had that hideous fight, and she was feeling reckless and misunderstood. She ended up commiserating with Valentin. He says, stop. Valentin is the father of the baby? She says, get it over with. Be as mad as he needs to. He says he’s not mad, and she says, disappointed. He says he’s not mad or disappointed. He’s thrilled to be a grandfather, and thrilled she’s going to be a mother. She says, but he’s less than thrilled about the father? He says he finds it concerning that Valentin, the man who orchestrated a hostile takeover, and manipulated their family to do it, is now tied to the same family through her baby. She says she gets it, but he has to trust her. She knows exactly what she’s doing.

Olivia sees Robert at the MetroCourt, and tells him that she and Ned are trying to talk, but it’s slow going. One step forward, six back. He says he’s sorry, and she says, her too. She wants to move forward, but she’s stuck. She can’t get past him having cheated. He says he had his suspicions at Thanksgiving when Ned and Alexis had their heads together. He should have said something then, but he didn’t want to make trouble, and figured she was smart enough to figure it out for herself. She thanks him, and he says, you’re welcome… for what? She says giving her credit for being as strong as she knows she is. He says he’s seen her as a spy. It was a game changer. She laughs, and he says, as it turns out, his table for two shrunk to a table for one. Does she care to join him? She says, sounds perfect.

Chase says Jackie’s whole career has been uncovering secrets. She says her gold standard is truth and integrity, but it’s secretly her own double-standard. Jackie suggests they talk, but Chase says he’s all talked out, and leaves. Jackie asks if Finn thinks Chase will ever forgive her, and he says he doesn’t know, but he’s entitled to feel what he wants to feel, including anger. She has to give him time. She says, this is exactly what she was afraid of when Finn wanted the DNA test; they’d have to brave a whole new world. But now that the whole world knows, are they any better off?

Cyrus says Peter seems worse for the wear, and Peter says, there’s a reason for that. Cyrus asks if he’d care to elaborate. Peter asks if he has Cyrus’s assurance that his witness will hold up, and Cyrus says, they will. Now Peter has kept his end of the bargain. Peter says he doesn’t blame Cyrus for wanting payback. He’s lucky Jackie had a family scandal waiting to be exposed. Cyrus remembers calling the lab and saying there’s a DNA test that’s of interest to him. Make sure the results show what he wants them to show. Cyrus tells Peter, since they’ve entered this mutually beneficial arrangement, he should know Cyrus makes his own luck.   

Sam brings Dante to the hospital, and asks the reception nurse to call Doc. It’s important. It’s about his son-in-law.  

Carly says, Elizabeth wanted Jason to forget Franco’s past. She wanted the tumor to be the cause of everything, and wanted Jason to forget and forgive the horrible things Franco did, but he wouldn’t. Elizabeth says, no, he wouldn’t, even when Franco turned his life around. Even when Franco helped Jake heal, and got Carly out of Ferncliff. Even when Franco married her, and made her happy. Jason hated Franco, and the first chance he got, Jason killed him. Carly says it doesn’t matter how bad Elizabeth needs to believe it; she’s wrong. But someone killed Franco, and as long as she clings to the lie that Jason did it, she’s helping whoever did, get away with it. She leaves, and Elizabeth closes the door.    

Sonny tells Phyllis, he doesn’t remember anyone, except in his dream. He doesn’t know what his life was before. He just hopes no one thinks he took off on them, but he doesn’t want to go there. Why worry about something he doesn’t have the answers to? She says he was out all night. Maybe he wants to grab a nap before they open. He says he thinks he’ll take her up on that. She laughs, and says, sweet dreams. He goes upstairs, and she hears the door. She says, sorry; they’re not open yet. Nina walks in, and says, surprise! Phyllis runs to her, and they hug.    

On Monday, Michael tells Chase that he knows what’s going on, Brook has a plan, and Nina tells Phyllis it was more complicated than she realized.

👨‍👨‍👦 In Case You’re Confused…

I just forget on a regular basis.

Who Are the Fathers of Liz’s Sons on GENERAL HOSPITAL?

🕍 Return To Carrington Manor…

I’d like to see her return to Port Charles already.

Emma Samms on DYNASTY Reunion

🤸🏾‍♀️ Fun With Brytni…

I miss her on GH, but it was nice to see her on HAHN.

Tuesday Fast Five With Brytni Sarpy

🍀 They’re Just O’Like Us…

If you consider it a real holiday.

See How Your Favorite Stars Celebrated St. Patrick’s Day!

💣 Bye To a Baddie…

In addition to his many characters, he twirled a moustache on GH.

Henry Darrow (1933–2021), “The High Chaparral” star

👠 After the Party’s Over…

The real fashion comes out.

https://www.eonline.com/photos/32420/inside-the-2021-grammys-after-party

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/15/best-grammys-2021-afterparty-fashion-beyonce-lizzo-more/

🐸 Not Again…

I thought Tinsley had finally gotten her fairytale ending, but her prince turned out to be a frog.

https://extratv.com/2021/03/18/tinsley-mortimer-and-scott-kluth-call-off-engagement/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/19/scott-kluth-attempted-to-break-up-with-tinsley-mortimer-for-months/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/18/tinsley-mortimers-pals-furious-scott-kluth-dumped-her-after-marriage-ultimatum/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/18/leah-mcsweeney-supports-tinsley-mortimer-amid-scott-kluth-breakup/

🐎 New Amish, Who Dis…?

Returning to those who returned.

https://www.distractify.com/p/where-is-original-return-to-amish-cast-now

https://www.distractify.com/p/abe-and-rebecca-return-to-amish-now

🐶 Lucky Dog…

And she’s lucky too. Rescue pups seem to know they’ve been rescued.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/17/awkwafina-adopts-a-shelter-puppy/

💋 LVP Speaks…

FYI, Vivica Fox and Trixie Mattel will be guests on Overserved.

https://extratv.com/2021/03/18/lisa-vanderpump-talks-tv-from-vanderpump-rules-and-rhobh-to-pooch-perfect-and-overserved/

🤖 Quotes of the Week

Until you’re impersonated, nothing about you is different. – Bette Davis

De Blasio just said, now is not the time for profiteering. Does that mean there is a time? – Me on Facebook 3/16/2020

It’s shady enough that you can have a picnic under it. – Dr. Phil

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

Maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. – Paulo Freire

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills

Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. – Dorothy Day

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand

When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. – Laurie Halse Anderson

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. – Roy T. Bennett

If you come back here again, I’ll beat your ass with a Kindle. – Wanda Sykes, Jexi

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire

👜 Packing It In…

We’re off to another weekend, and for some of us, it’s actually starting to feel like one. No matter what, change it up once a week, on whatever day you want it to be. And while you’re at it, stay safe, stay adding new things to the menu, and stay not having a family scandal ready to be exposed. Do it yourself.

Mar18

March 17, 2021 – Franco’s Legacy Is Displayed, Teresa Has a Pool Party, Some St. Patrick’s O’Tidbits & Pub

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

At the gallery, Nikolas says he followed Ava’s instructions to the letter. Everything is ready for Franco’s memorial. Nina says the guests should be arriving soon. Nina sees the display (which we don’t), and says, it’s inspiring. She thinks Franco would love this. Ava thanks her, and says she wishes Franco was there to see it. Nina says, her too. She’ll go open the doors. Nikolas asks how Ava is doing, and she says, okay.

Laura goes to Elizabeth’s house, and hugs her. Elizabeth says she didn’t expect to see Laura until the memorial. Why is she there so early? Laura says she wanted to make this day easier for Elizabeth. Please tell her what she can do to help. Elizabeth says they’re fine, as much as they can be under the circumstances. Laura says she knows Elizabeth has to be strong for her boys, but she’s there to take care of Elizabeth.

TJ sees Curtis at the hospital, and Curtis says, there he is, the newly domestic partnered, and on Valentine’s Day no less. How does he feel? TJ says he feels great. It’s funny. All they did was sign some papers, and nothing has changed, but it feels like the bond he and Molly share is deeper and more solid. Curtis asks why TJ thinks that is, but TJ has no idea. It’s not like he and Molly are suddenly more committed to each other. Curtis says he thinks they are. Saying you’re committed to spending the rest of your lives together, and putting it on record, says something. He’s saying that he’ll be there when times get rough, and whatever it is, they’ll stick it out. Jordan walks in.

Dante thanks Sam for meeting him at Kelly’s, and she says, of course (🍷). What’s going on? He says he ran into her mom yesterday, and they got to talking about her trial. He was honest with Alexis about the testimony he’d have to give. She says she doesn’t think he’ll have to worry about that, because there’s been a change in plans. Her mom told her and her sisters that she’s decided to plead guilty.

Carly stands near the great and mighty moss bowl, as Josslyn walks into the kitchen. Carly puts her coffee cup down, and Josslyn asks if there’s something wrong with it. Carly says, it’s just cold. She asks if Josslyn is ready for Franco’s memorial, and Josslyn says she is, but it’s going to be weird listening to people talk about how great Franco was. (Um… Doesn’t Cameron do that all the time?) Carly says, one of the many reasons she’s not going. How’s Cameron? Josslyn says, he’s hurting. He really loved Franco. Jason walks in, and Josslyn asks if Carly is upset that she’s going to the memorial.

Obrecht arrives at the gallery, and Nina says she’s so glad Obrecht came. Obrecht says, here she is, and asks if that’s all Nina has to say. Nina says, she’s so glad Obrecht was exonerated, and Obrecht says, indeed she was. Months ago. Yet no one believed her when she said she was innocent. But no matter. Peter has finally been unmasked as the villain he is. Nina says she’s truly sorry for assuming the worst, and Obrecht says, as she should be, but now is not the time to hold grudges. And today – Obrecht tears up – they are there to say goodbye to Franco.

Peter enters the cemetery, and goes over to Nathan’s grave. He says, hello, brother. Strange place for a meeting, he knows, but he didn’t pick the venue. Cyrus says, good morning, Mr. August, and Peter spins around, gun drawn. He says, good morning, Mr. Renault.

Trina walks in the gallery, and says, this is all Franco’s? Cool. She tells Ava that she’s never been to a memorial in a gallery before, and Ava says, at Trina’s age, she’s sorry Trina has been to as many memorials as she has. It’s a little unorthodox, but she and Elizabeth agreed Franco’s life should be celebrated there in the gallery. It’s going to be a surprise. Nikolas says, she doesn’t know? and Ava says, not yet. Trina says, Cameron is going to love it, and Nikolas says he’s sure Elizabeth will too. He puts his arm around Ava.

Obrecht says she can’t believe Nelle was Nina’s long lost daughter, and Nina says, it’s a shame she only knew about it after Nelle died. To think they knew each other all those years. They’d been in the same room so many times, and didn’t grasp… She had the idea that her daughter was out there, living this happy life. Then she learned, not only did she have a horrible life, it was too late for Nina to do anything about it. When the dust settled, not only did she miss out on her chance to be a mother to her daughter, she lost the man she loved. Obrecht touches Nina’s arm, and says, she never would have thought Heir Jax capable of such deception. In business, certainly, but not with someone he proposed to love. Nina says, that’s the thing. Above all else, Jax will protect the people he loves, right? But this time, he protected Carly, not her.  

Josslyn tells Carly and Jax that she just wants to make it clear to both of them, she’s going to this memorial not to celebrate Franco, but to support Cameron. Carly says she loves Josslyn for that, and memorials are more for the people still living than the people who have died. Josslyn asks if Sonny’s funeral helped Carly, and Carly says, yeah. It was important to acknowledge Sonny’s life, but also important to acknowledge that he’s gone. It helped. Josslyn asks if Carly is okay, and Carly says she is. Josslyn needs to get going. Josslyn leaves, and Carly asks what brings Jason by. Is something going on? He says, you tell me. What’s wrong?

Dante asks how Sam feels about her mother’s decision, and Sam says she doesn’t think pleading guilty is the right idea right now. When her mother attacked Dante… or Franco, and got Dante by accident, she was out of her mind. She was drunk, she was scared, and she thinks her mother should plead not guilty, and have a lawyer explain all those things. He says, trials are costly and time-consuming, and if Alexis is going to plead out, it favors the court. If she admits her guilt and shows remorse, the system will go easier on her. Sam asks how can he, of all people, have faith in the system, when Peter probably won’t be charged with Drew’s murder?

Cyrus asks if this is how Peter begins all his business meetings, and Peter says, only the ones in the graveyards. Cyrus laughs, and says, that’s fair, but if Peter shoots him, it will be the last thing he does. Look at his chest. Peter sees a red dot, and Cyrus says, there’s another one on the back of his head. Obviously he can’t see that, so Peter will have to take his word for it. He tells Peter, at this point, he should put the gun down. He just wants to talk. Peter asks if it’s about the Jackie Templeton article, but Cyrus says that’s not why they’re there. He’s already spoken to Jackie himself. Peter asks if there’s going to be a follow-up interview, or is her body in a metal foundry? Cyrus says, neither. He’s well aware that once something is made public, it can’t be undone. That’s the value in secrets, and why Peter has been working so hard to protect his.

Jordan sees TJ and Curtis, and says, it’s a nice surprise. She asks what they’re up to, and Curtis says he was taking TJ to lunch to celebrate his domestic partnership. Jordan says she was happy she got to be there, and TJ says he needed a ride. She even used the siren to make sure he got there before they were closed. Curtis says, of course (🍷) she did. She’s a secret romantic. Jordan says Curtis has more soul than she thought, and TJ says he’s confused. Are they back together? Jordan says, she meant… and Curtis says he was going to tell TJ the news over lunch. She says, sorry. Spoiler she guesses. TJ says, now that he knows there’s something to know, tell him. Curtis says he’s making big changes to his life.

Elizabeth tells Aiden that he looks handsome, and Scotty comes in wearing sunglasses. He tells them that they don’t have to send out a search party; he’s there. Aiden says, hi, grandpa, and Scotty tells him that he looks sharp. Laura says she’s glad he’s there, and he says he’s sorry he missed the breakfast. Elizabeth says there’s some left, and asks if he wants her to heat it up, but he says, sorry, he couldn’t eat. Laura says, no apology necessary. Everyone knows how hard the day is for him. He says, when he was putting on his suit, he remembered how Franco made fun of his pocket squares, saying they were dated. It made him crazy. Laura says Scotty is funny when he’s annoyed, and he says, Franco got a kick out of it. He thought of the memories when he found out Franco was his son, and couldn’t put a square in his pocket today. Laura says she’s sorry. She wishes there was something she could say or do to make it easier. He says, the fact that she’s there makes it much better, and they hug.

Jake says Cameron went over his speech with him, and Elizabeth says, Franco would be glad he was prepared. Jake asks if Aiden is going to say anything, but Elizabeth says he doesn’t have to. Franco knew Aiden loved him. Aiden says, Franco wasn’t good at baking, although he tried hard. What he was good at was being a dad.

Josslyn tells Nina that she’s so sorry. She knows Nina and Franco were close. Nina thanks her, and says they were. Josslyn says, for what it’s worth (🍷), she’s sorry that Nina and her dad broke up. She thought they were great together. Nina says, so did she, and Josslyn says she knows Nina finding out Nelle was her daughter was horrible… She didn’t mean it like that; she means the way Nina found out. Nina says, it was horrible, but she wants Josslyn to know that she doesn’t blame her for her father’s actions. Josslyn says Jax wasn’t trying to hurt Nina; he was trying to protect his family. Her mom and dad will always be family because of her. She says, it’s all coming out so wrong. She’s sorry. She didn’t mean to make Nina feel bad. Nina takes her hands, and tells Josslyn to promise never to say she’s sorry for being honest.

Cyrus says he’s been watching Peter closely for the past few days. Peter’s been busy since it turned out Anna’s not his mother, and Maxie kicked him to the curb. Peter says, Maxie will come around, and Cyrus says, as long as nothing else comes out. That’s where he can help. Peter asks why he should trust Cyrus, but Cyrus tells him, he never said trust. He simply wants to work together to solve a common problem.

Carly tells Jason that she doesn’t want to talk about it; it’s stupid. Jason says, maybe, but it’s bothering her, so… She says, it’s her coffee. He says, her coffee? and she says she told him it was stupid. Sonny would make her the first cup every morning, and every morning it was perfect. She doesn’t know what he did or how he did it. She’s tried to make it like him, but she can’t. Whatever she does, it’s wrong. It’s not bad, but it’s not right. It doesn’t taste the way it’s supposed to taste; it tastes like the same coffee she has all day. Every time she takes a sip she’s reminded that the person who made the cup is missing, and he’s never coming back, and she’s sick of forcing herself to drink the wrong damn cup. She throws the mug across the room, and it shatters.

Elizabeth says, Aiden is so right. Franco was an amazing dad, and the memorial is the perfect place to tell everyone before they say goodbye. Aiden says he doesn’t know what to say, and Jake says, maybe if he reads his, Aiden will think of something. Aiden says, okay, and Jake reads, before Franco was his stepdad, Franco was his friend. They talked a lot, but a lot of the time, they didn’t need to. They could just draw. He misses Franco. He misses drawing with him, but he misses being Franco’s son even more. Elizabeth says, beautiful, and hugs him.

Obrecht asks if Nina is all right, and Nina says she’s okay. Josslyn is a wonderful young woman, but she shares her mother’s hate for Nelle. Obrecht says she can’t blame Josslyn. Perhaps Nelle’s life would have been different if she’d known Nina was her mother, but she didn’t. Nelle was treacherous and vindictive. Nina says she understands Nelle did terrible things and hurt a lot of people, but she didn’t deserve to die. Obrecht says, it’s not like Nelle was murdered. She was running from the law, and literally ran off a cliff. Nina says, but she could have been saved. Instead, she died alone like she spent her life. Obrecht says she had more than a passing familiarity with Nina’s daughter. She helped deliver Nelle’s baby. Nina says, she helped deliver Wiley? and Obrecht says she’d been arrested. She was on her way to another unlawful incarceration, when the van crashed, and she escaped into the woods. She came across Nelle in labor, and couldn’t leave her. Nina says, thank God Obrecht was there, or Wiley might not have survived. Obrecht says she’s happy that at least Nina will have a chance to know her grandson, but Nina says, not if Carly has anything to do with it.

Josslyn sees Trina, and says, thank God she’s there to save her from herself. She already put her foot in it with Nina. Trina asks, what happened? but Josslyn says it’s the last thing she wants to relive right now. Trina says she’s worried about Cameron. The last time they saw him, he was upset. Josslyn says, he was by his father grave, and Trina says Cameron needs them, and they have to do whatever it takes.

Obrecht agrees that Carly has Nina at a disadvantage, and Nina says she realized she needs a break. She’s sick of the lies and betrayal. She can’t do it anymore. Obrecht asks what she’s saying, and Nina says, it’s time for her to get out of Port Charles.

Curtis tells TJ, he bought a nightclub, and TJ says he thought Curtis loved being a P.I. Curtis says he did, but after a while he got tired of trading in secrets. He wants to start over, and do something positive. What’s more positive than bringing good vibes and good music to people? Jordan says she thinks it’s a good idea, and TJ says he does too, but he has to wrap his head around it; it’s a big adjustment. It’s not who he knows Curtis to be, but it’s totally who he is. It’s good to know, because so much is changing. Curtis says, lives change, and sometimes it can be good. Jordan says, it can be.

Sam tells Dante, Drew deserves justice, but she doesn’t think it’s going to happen. Dante asks, what’s the alternative? Vigilante justice? Sam says, Jason didn’t kill Franco, if that’s what he’s implying, and he says, it’s not, but Elizabeth thinks otherwise. Sam says she knows Elizabeth is wrong, and Dante asks, how? She says Jason told her that he didn’t do it, and she believes him.

Aiden asks what Cameron is going to say, and Cameron says, Franco saved his life, literally, and gave their family a new life. He’ll forever be grateful for that, and regrets giving Franco a hard time in the beginning. Jake says Cameron had to make sure Franco was good enough for their mom, and Elizabeth says, her brave boys; always protecting her. Scotty says, they were always up front, and Franco couldn’t have been happier when they accepted him into the family. Cameron wishes he knew that Franco knew that, and Aiden says, him too. That’s why he wants to say something. Elizabeth goes into the kitchen, and Laura follows her. Laura asks, what’s wrong? and Elizabeth says she hates that the boys have to defend Franco when he was taken so cruelly from them.

Cyrus says he can’t imagine Jason is pleased with the role Peter played in his brother’s death. Is Peter willing to look over his shoulder for the rest of Jason’s life, however short it might be? Peter asks what Cyrus thinks he can do about that? Cyrus says, they can do a lot.

Peter says he can see how it would benefit him, but what does Cyrus get out of it? Cyrus says, in the short term, he gets rid of a nuisance, and Peter says, and the long term? Cyrus says he’s sure Peter will be of use to him. Do they have a deal? Cyrus holds out his hand and smiles, and Peter takes it.

Jordan shows Curtis pictures from the commitment ceremony, and he says TJ and Molly look great together. TJ says he can’t wait to show Curtis his moves at the nightclub, and Curtis says he’s seen TJ’s moves, and can’t wait to see an improvement. Jordan’s phone rings, and Curtis says, work? She says, sorry. It was great bumping into them. Enjoy their lunch. She leaves, and TJ asks if Curtis is sure the changes he’s making are for the better.   

Obrecht says, Nina is leaving? Obrecht just got back, and will miss her. Nina says, it’s not for good. She just needs time away. Obrecht says, as long as she remembers Port Charles is her home, and Nina says, it doesn’t feel like it is right now. Obrecht says, it will again, and Nina says, maybe when she gets perspective on what happened.  

Nikolas tells Ava, a lot of people would rather celebrate Franco’s death than mourn him, and Ava says she thinks they should celebrate Franco. Remember the good he did, and the effort he made to redeem himself, and make amends for the wrongs he did. He asks if Ava thinks Franco did redeem himself, and she says she does, as much as possible. Despite Franco’s faults, there were people who loved him.

Elizabeth tells Laura, she thought it was her and Franco against the world. He tried to be a decent person, and for what? Jason killed him anyway. Laura says they don’t know that for sure, and Elizabeth says she saw Jason standing over Franco’s body. She thought Jason’s love for Jake would overcome his hate for Franco, but she was wrong. His hate won, and she’s going to make sure Jason pays.

While Carly cleans up the mess, she tells Jason, she not only destroyed her cup of coffee, now she destroyed her favorite mug. Why did he push her? She gets louder as she talks, and says, why did he make her confront her feelings? It’s not like he’s in touch with his feelings; he doesn’t even like to admit he has any. She has to be fine for her family. Why did he ask her what was wrong? Sonny is gone, and she’s grieving, but she has to function as a mom, and run the MetroCourt. She has no time to cry. Jason suggests she find the time, and she tells him, stop being calm and reasonable. She’s yelling at him; yell back! He says he knows she’s not mad at him. She’s mad at Sonny. She says he’s damn right.

Laura arrives at the memorial, and Obrecht asks her if Peter has been arrested yet, but Laura says she’s afraid not. Obrecht asks what she’s waiting for. Peter confessed. Everyone at his wedding disaster heard it. Laura says, he only confessed to Valentin. They only have Valentin’s word, and Peter swears he’s innocent. She’s sorry. She leaves, and Obrecht says she has nothing to be sorry for. It’s almost a relief. She’d much rather do it herself.

Laura tells Ava and Nikolas that Elizabeth and the boys are late, but they’ll be there soon. Nikolas asks how Elizabeth is doing, and Laura says, she’s staying strong for the boys, but she’s grieving. She’s positive Jason killed Franco. Nikolas asks if Laura thinks he did it, but she says, honestly, she’s not sure. He says if Elizabeth believes it, that’s good enough for him, but Laura says, there will be no justice if the wrong man is accused.

Carly tells Jason, Sonny left her, and she doesn’t know what happened, not really. She knows Sonny was on the bridge when it fell – Jason saw it – but then what? He drowned? Where is his body? In the water they dragged? There’s no sign of him. Was it in the water that blows through the marsh and out to sea? They don’t know, but the thought of Sonny and his body lost forever under the cold water is more than she can stand. Jason says he knows. It’s going to take time. He touches her shoulder, but she shrugs him off, saying, how much time? Sonny is gone, and everything is wrong. She’s up with Donna at all hours because Sonny isn’t there to sing her back to sleep. Avery is at Windymere instead of there at home where she belongs. All this time, it’s been on her to keep what family they have left together. Jason says she doesn’t have to do it by herself, but she says, yes she does. She has to keep it together, and be strong. Jason says he knows, and he knows she can, but she doesn’t have to do this alone. She cries, and he holds her. I tell them once again to get a room.

Sam doesn’t get it. Dante has faith in the system? He says he thinks ultimately there are enough good people working within the system to make it good. She asks when he became such a Pollyanna, and he tells her that’s his middle name; Dante Angelo Pollyanna Falconari. His phone rings, and he says, sorry, and steps away. It’s Obrecht, who tells him, they must meet at once. He asks, where?… He’ll be there. He tells Sam, sorry, he has to go. She says, work? and he says, hopefully a chance to do some good.

Aiden asks Scotty if his speech is okay, and Scotty says he makes speeches for a living, and thinks it’s top drawer. He guesses they can get going, and they get their coats on. Elizabeth hangs back. She looks into the living room, and remembers her relationship with Franco – becoming friends; her saying he was a good friend, even when everyone hated her; and him saying, everyone make mistakes; everyone needs a friend. She flashes back to him asking if she believes he’s changed, and her saying she does. She thinks about him planning a special evening, and showing the portrait he painted of her; saying she deserves to be with someone who treats her right, someone like him. She remembers him saying he promises to never intentionally hurt her, and their first kiss. She thinks about him being in the hospital, and telling him that they’ll face it together or not at all. She flashes back to them making it official, and Franco giving her a ring; Franco with the boys, baking with Aiden; and their jailhouse wedding ceremony, with Franco saying, till death do us part. She says, I love you too, and leaves. I’m more pissed off than sad, since I feel like Franco’s death is a rip-off.

Ava tells Nina, she got a text from Scotty. They’re on their way over, so she thinks people should take their seats. Nina says she knows Ava is going to get busier, and wants to make sure to say goodbye. Ava asks where Nina is going, and Nina says she needs a break. Ava says, from Carly? Wait; she’ll come with Nina. Nina says she needs breathing room to figure out who she is with Jax and Wiley. She’s going to leave after the memorial. Ava says, she’s coming back? and Nina says, yeah. Ava says she’d better. Believe it or not, she’s going to miss Nina. Nina says, believe it or not, she’s going to miss Ava too.  

TJ tells Curtis, forget he said anything. It’s none of his busines. Curtis says, it means a lot that TJ cares enough to speak out. As to whether the change is for the better, it’s too soon to know, but he’s hopeful. TJ says, him too. So does the club have a name? Curtis laughs, and says, not yet. Does TJ have a suggestion? TJ says he’ll have to see it first, then they’ll talk.

Dante stands at Nathan’s grave, when Obrecht shows up. He asks, what’s going on? and she says she’s made a decision. She has no interest in delayed gratification. It’s time to finally take care of Peter. At this rate, it’s going to be like Murder on the Orient Express, with everyone having a hand in it.

Sam looks up to see Peter, and tells him, keep walking. He says, no need for animosity, and she says she can agree. Once he’s behind bars, she won’t have to look at him again. He says he hates to disappoint her, but the bogus charges will never stick.

Jason asks if Carly is okay, and she says she had so much bottled up. She misses Sonny so much, and feels so bad. She’s so angry, and it’s not fair. Sonny didn’t want to be gone. Jason says, it doesn’t have to make sense, and she thanks him for being there. She doesn’t know what she’d do without him. He says he’s not going anywhere, and a guard says, sorry to interrupt. The Commissioner is here. Carly tells him to ask Jordan to come in. Jordan joins them, and Carly says, please, tell her there’s some good news, and Jordan isn’t bothering Jason with a million questions. Jordan says Jason is under arrest for the murder of Franco Baldwin.

Elizabeth thanks Ava for holding the memorial there, and Ava says, of course (🍷). Before they go in, she wants to give everyone chance to share their memories, but to her, it felt like Franco’s life couldn’t be summed up in words. She decided to show a collection she considers his greatest work.

They go in, and Elizabeth says, oh! Aiden says he doesn’t get it; Jake did that one. Elizabeth says, these were painted by the people Franco helped in art therapy at GH. Scotty says, it was his true legacy. Franco would be proud to see them hanging here. Cameron asks if Elizabeth is okay, and she smiles and nods. She says she can’t thank Ava enough. This is the Franco she loves. The kind and caring man she married, and wants the world to remember. Her Franco. We’re all sad.

Tomorrow, Olivia tells Brook that he can never know, Jax finds Nina, Obrecht tells Dante that they need a permanent solution, and Diane says it looks like Jason is in serious trouble.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Joe #2 and Melissa took the kids to their Tom’s River house, where they were celebrating Joe’s 46th birthday. Melissa told him that he was the only person who could get through to Teresa, and in Joe’s interview, he said Teresa had taken things way too far. It was time for her to step up and do the right thing. Melissa and Joe had lunch with Melissa’s sisters and their husbands (one of which is a Joe #4012), and Teresa, who informed us that eating pineapple or peaches would make you taste sweeter, before ordering a vodka and pineapple. I dunno if that’s true, but I’ve read that if you feed dogs pineapple, they’re less likely to eat poopies. True story. The group teased Teresa about liking pool boy Tony, and Teresa screeched she was having a midweek pool party. Joe wanted Teresa to invite Jackie, and own her part in what went wrong. He said he thought Jackie had given a sincere apology at Evan’s birthday part two, but Teresa suggested he tell Jackie to stop being a crybaby. He told Teresa that it was his birthday wish, and Teresa had Melissa send out a group text invite, including Jackie. She told Melissa to invite Michelle too, and Joe asked if that wasn’t the crazy bitch who said he owed her husband money. Teresa told him that she’d informed Michelle that she wouldn’t sell the house until Jon made good with Joe.  

In Paramus, Jennifer, her sister, and dad discussed a trip to Turkey. There was concern Jennifer’s mom would want to go, but she couldn’t be included in the same trip as her dad, because she continually fought with him. In Jennifer’s interview, she said she was just trying to keep the peace, and wished her mom could see that she loved her parents equally.

David didn’t believe Delores was ever moving in with him, even after he’d built the house to her specifications. She said when the house was finished, they were supposed to get engaged. When she didn’t get a ring, she thought he was pushing her away. They made a pact to spend more time together.

Marge wanted Joe #3 to hurry up with the house, since it was filled with boxes and plastic tubs of stuff. Marge was on a diet because she was going to be shooting her book cover, and had a meeting with ghostwriter Emily. She told Emily, she got Joe to do more when she was his girlfriend. Well, of course. I’ll have what Marge is having though. She looks fabulous. She told Emily that she had let men in power manipulate her when she was younger, because she was intimidated, and her mother’s self-worth hinged on being attractive to men. Marge came from instability, and thought first husband Jan was stable, marrying him at a young age. Her relationship with Joe #3 was the first nurturing, healthy adult relationship she’d had. In her interview, she said Joe was the culmination of everything she wanted in a relationship. She told Emily that she wasn’t sure how Joe was going to like the book, and Emily said people feeling that way was to be expected, but she thought they were off to a good start.

Joe #1, aka Juicy Joe, signed the divorce papers, and Teresa said it was the easiest divorce in the world. In her interview, she said, despite what everyone had been thinking about Joe coming after her money, she knew he’d do the right thing because of their daughters.

Everyone got ready for the pool party, and Marge told Joe #3 that his red shorts would bring out the pimento in the olives. Melissa said she didn’t want any man fights, and when Delores told Frank about Teresa inviting Michelle and Jon, Frank asked if Delores had ever seen Joe #2 lose his temper. We flashed back to the Joe versus Joe take-down at the christening. Jackie and Evan didn’t show, so the point was moot. Melissa said when she’d told Jackie that Teresa was extending an olive branch, she said Teresa could put the branch up her ass. Why Melissa relayed those exact words to Teresa, I’ll never know, because that prompted Teresa to say Jackie could shove it up her husband’s ass. Then maybe he wouldn’t cheat. Nice. Marge said Jackie was upset, and the invitation should have been more personal; not in a group text. Melissa said she just wanted to get to a place where Teresa and Jackie could be in the same room. Delores said she was getting an award for Breast Cancer Awareness; she’d done some PSAs and helped raise money for it. She was getting the Ambassador of Hope Award, and was inviting everyone over afterward. Teresa said she was going to be out of town for a soccer tournament, and Marge said the issue was really going to drag TF out.

When Michelle and Jon showed up, Joe #2 called Jon over, and Marge said, this could get really ugly really fast, and Melissa said it stressed her when men had conversations. IMO, it’s a lot less likely for it to result in a fistfight if it’s the men. Joe told Jon that he’d heard stuff Jon’s been saying (I’ve heard things…), and Jon was saying Joe owed him tens of thousands of dollars. Jon said they were partners on the deal, but Joe said the event was called Grow with Gorga. Jon asked why Joe thought he’d send $20K worth of vendor memberships for nothing in return, and Joe said to ride his coattails. Not to be left out, Melissa called Michelle over, and wanted to know why Michelle complained to Jennifer about Joe at Jackie’s party, but never said anything to her. Michelle said she hadn’t thought it was a big deal, but Melissa called it a schmear fest. Michelle said it was true. In the men’s department, Joe told Jon that had there been money involved, it would have been done up front. Jon said he thought they had a handshake deal, and were going to split the proceeds if the event worked out, then do more of them. Joe said he meant going forward, which sounded shady to me, but whatever. Michelle told Melissa, it had nothing to do with them, but Delores said Michelle shouldn’t have been talking about it at the party. Michelle agreed that it hadn’t been the right atmosphere, and apologized, but said again that it was between the husbands. She’d told Jon to talk to Joe, and that was happening. Jon suggested he and Joe squash their beef, but he also wanted Joe to allow his wife to sell Teresa’s house. Joe told Jon to say he didn’t mean anything by it (really, he said that), and Jon said it had been a miscommunication – code for, I did nothing wrong. Jon said next time, they’d do it in writing, and they shook hands. Michelle said, if they were good, there was no reason for her and Melissa not to be good, and Teresa encouraged everyone to have shots.

Bill came late, followed by pool boy Tony. Joe #2 eyeballed Tony flirting with Teresa, and in his interview, he said Tony was his best friend. He’d known Tony since he was five, but he didn’t want Tony near his sister. He was a dirty, dirty dog. Jennifer got very drunk early on, and when Bill asked how many shots she’d had, she slurred that she had tequila drinks. Teresa wanted everyone in the pool – which turned out to be the women and Tony – and they played tequila pong using a raft float. Marge wondered why Jennifer was drinking so much, as Jennifer totally missed her mouth trying to drink from a bottle of water. In Marge’s interview, she said she was all about a good time, but it wasn’t the first time she’d seen Tequila Jennifer. We flashed back to a few times, and Marge said this was falling into serious drinking issue problem. She was worried about Jennifer. Marge told Jennifer that it was time to go home, and Jennifer fell over.  

Bill asked Jennifer if she was okay, and told her they had to go home. He picked her up in his arms, and carried her, which was really sweet. Before he got to the car, Joe #2 and Joe #3 came out to help, and Jennifer laughed her ass off. They got her in the car, and she said, so embarrassing, but they told her, we all do it. Then we flashed back to Bill doing it. Joe #3 said Jennifer must have done 40 effing shots, and Joe #2 told Bill to be ready to pull over. As they went down the driveway, it sounded like maybe he didn’t have time for that.  

Next time, Jennifer tells Delores that Joe #3 fueled the rumor fire, Marge and Jen get into it, and Teresa tells everyone to go f*** themselves before storming off. In other words, same old. Minus the Solo cup.

🍀 O’Something For St. Patrick’s Day…

Everything you need to know about the o’holiday.

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📺 Goodnight, Chet…

Calling it a night. Almost. Like Vanessa Williams, I have work to do, but I’ll meet you tomorrow for tea at that God awful House I can’t look away from like it’s a bad accident. Until then, stay safe, stay taking care of your corner of the world, and stay not bottling up your emotions so much, you end up smashing your favorite mug.

Mar17

March 16, 2021 – Fatherly Advice From Beyond the Grave, Meet Zander, a Return, Tiffany’s Birthday, Window Of Convenience, a Tradition & Zooming

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

The week continues with me missing the beginning, so here’s what happened before it had my full concentration. Alexis called someone for backup, and her daughters arrived, asking what the emergency was. Alexis said she was changing her plea to guilty, which didn’t go over too big with the Davis girls. Valentin rang the doorbell, and Molly told him it wasn’t a good time, but Alexis said she wanted to see him. At Kelly’s, Trina and Josslyn looked at the social media posts about Franco’s funeral, and hoped Cameron was ignoring them. They decided to put flowers on Sonny and Dev’s graves. Already at the cemetery, Cameron saw his biological father’s gravestone, and listed all the bad things that had happened to him, saying that if Zander had been there, it might have been different. Zander appeared and said he got it; it was all his fault. Sasha went to see Brando in his hospital room, where he was getting dressed. She told him the nurses had been talking about the hot guy who was checking out against the doctor’s advice. She helped him with a button he’d missed, but Cyrus interrupted. Maxie told Peter that Sam would be back soon, but he doubted it, since he’d seen her leaving with the boxes. She wanted him to unlock the door and give her back the key, but he said she was safer with him around. Michael saw that Brook was pregnant, but she avoided the subject, and told him how heartbroken she was to hear about Sonny. She said she would have come back, but she figured Michael had Willow… or Sasha. And then…

Zander says it’s good see Cameron. He can only imagine what Cameron’s mom told him. Cameron says she almost never mentions him. He was her best friend’s boyfriend, something happened, they left town, and he got Cameron’s mom pregnant. Then, he died. He read about Zander’s death online at a site on suicide by cop. He was surrounded by police, saw no way out, and pulled an imaginary gun. He knew the police would have no choice but to shoot him. He’s got to say, as father figures go, Zander went in style. Zander says, and he’s to blame for everything wrong in Cameron’s life. Cameron says, when he was seven, he fell off his bike, and got ten stitches. Maybe it is Zander’s fault. Maybe if he’d been there to teach Cameron how to ride a bike, it wouldn’t have happened. Zander says, maybe he can still teach Cameron something, but Cameron says, one problem; he’s dead. Zander says, true, but Cameron isn’t. Is he really throwing away his future because today hurts so bad? Cameron asks why he cares. He had his chance to be a dad, and blew it. Zander says he’s still Cameron’s dad, and always will be, whether Cameron likes it or not. Cameron should take the opportunity to from his mistakes.

Cyrus says, so it’s true. Brando is being released. He asks if Brando is ready to leave. His job has been on hold since his unfortunate accident, and still needs his attention. Brando says he wasn’t sure he had a job to come back to, and Cyrus asks who Brando thinks is paying his medical bills. Brando says he’s grateful, but Cyrus says, there’s no need for gratitude; benefits are part of the job. Sasha asks if the job benefits include getting shot, when Gladys comes in. She asks, where’s her boy? and runs to Brando, hugging him. She says, if something had happened to her boy, she could never forgive herself – or anyone else.

Michael tells Brook, some things have changed since she’s been gone. He and Willow had their marriage annulled, but Willow is living in the gatehouse so she can be close to Wiley. Brook says she’s glad Nelle’s plan to abduct Wiley was stopped, and he says, thanks to her. Any update on her voice? She says, let it suffice to say she won’t be singing any duets with Taylor Swift any time soon. But she’s alive, which is more than she can say for Julian. Michael says, he was on the bridge with Sonny, but only Julian’s body was recovered. She asks how Lucas is handing it, and he says, it hit Lucas harder than Lucas wanted it to, but he thinks Lucas has moved on. Lucas sees Wiley, which is good for both of them. She guesses that was his idea, and he says, there can’t be too many people to love Wiley. She says she can think of one more. Sonny was someone she thought would always be there. They hug.

Alexis says she wants Valentin to stay, and asks for Molly’s take on her plea. Molly says just because she’s in law school doesn’t mean she’s an expert, and Kristina says she works at the DA’s office, but Molly says that doesn’t mean she has privileged information. Alexis says she just wants Molly’s legal opinion, and Molly says, it hasn’t changed. If Alexis pleads not guilty, even if she’s not acquitted, the sentence should be lenient; maybe a combination of rehab and community service. Alexis says, and if she pleads guilty? Molly says, she’ll be sent to Pentenville.  

Maxie says she knows what she told Peter at the hospital wasn’t easy to hear, but she hasn’t changed her mind. If anything, she’s more certain they have no future together. He says they have to, for their family and daughter. She says she’s thinking about their daughter. She knows no matter what else he’s done, he loves their daughter. He says he does. That’s why they have to provide a healthy, happy home. He’s not suggesting rushing back into a wedding. They can take time to work things out. Maybe go to couples counseling. She says she doesn’t think couples counseling is the answer. He killed Drew. He says, hearsay from unreliable sources like Valentin and Obrecht. They have no proof. The past is dead. He killed it. She asks, how exactly did he do that?

Zander tells Cameron, he made mistakes. He made bad choices, and now his time was wasted. He did a few good things – Cameron is one of them – but in the end, his bad choices won. They dragged him down like a riptide, and pulled him under, but it’s not too late for Cameron to make good choices. Cameron says he’s a senior in high school. Now Zander is giving him fatherly advice? It’s too late, doesn’t he think? Zander says Cameron sounds like him. For him, it was a bluff because he was hurting, and didn’t know how to express it. Cameron insists he’s not hurting; he’s mad. Zander says, Cameron is right to be mad as hell. He feels hopeless, and like it will never end, but he can’t give in. Cameron says, like him? but Zander says they’re not talking about him; they’re talking about Cameron. If Cameron doesn’t want to do it for himself, do it for those who need him, and give him a purpose. He’s seen Cameron with Jake and Aiden. He puts his hands on Cameron’s shoulders and says, he has so much potential. Don’t follow his example. Don’t give in to negative impulses and anger. Cameron says, easy for him to say, and Zander tells Cameron that he was hurting, and wanted the world to hurt with him. Cameron has a chance he never did. Franco turned out to be a great father. Cameron was safe and loved. Don’t make a lie out of everything Franco did for him. It’s his choice.

Brando asks when Gladys got to town, and she says, actually, she’s been there a few days. She was working up the nerve to see him. Things didn’t end on the best note. She says hello to Cyrus, and says, it’s good to see him. She hopes in the future, Cyrus takes better care of her son. Cyrus assures her that Brando is in good hands, and Gladys says she and Sasha met at Sonny’s house at Christmastime. Sasha was with Michael. Sasha says, they broke up, and Gladys says she bets Sasha couldn’t stand his pushy mother. She can’t say she blames Sasha. Brando says, sorry about his mother, but Sasha says, it’s okay. It’s not easy for her to see her son in the hospital. She’ll leave them alone. Cyrus says he’ll join her, and they leave. Brando closes the door, and says, okay. Now they’re alone. What is she doing there, and what’s in it for her?

Brook tells Michael, the last time she spoke to Granny, she said Ned and Olivia hadn’t reconciled, despite her best efforts. He asks if Tracy told her how far she went, and Brook shakes her head. He says, Tracy framed Alexis for drunk driving, thinking she’d go to rehab, and wouldn’t be able to talk about her and Ned’s one-night stand. Brook guesses it backfired, and Olivia found out. That’s why her dad wanted her to come back. Michael says, and Tracy went back to Europe. That leaves him with the question, who’s the father? She says, the answer is, none of his business. 

Molly says, Alexis injured Dante, and almost killed him. They’re not going to give her a slap on the wrist. Kristina says, Franco was just shot. Someone else thought he was dangerous too. Alexis says they’re talking about her. She did it because she was drunk, and never would have done it if she’d been sober. She won’t get sober unless she faces what she’s done. Kristina says, if Dante can forgive her, maybe the jury can, but Alexis says, it’s a disease, not an excuse. She asks what Valentin thinks, and he says he thinks she’s a fighter. She asks if he thinks she should plead not guilty, and he says, not if she wants to take responsibility. If she wants that, she’ll have to plead guilty.   

Peter tells Maxie that he was talking symbolically. The past died when he turned his back on Anna and her lies. The past died when he found out Valentin wasn’t his true friend. For better or worse, he’s the son of Alex Marick and Cesar Faison. Faison was Nathan’s father too, and Maxie loved him with all her heart. Maxie almost smiles, remembering Nathan, and says, he’s right. This doesn’t have anything to do with DNA or what name Peter uses. It’s about the man Peter is. He says, exactly, and starting today, everything he does is for her and their daughter. The bond between the three of them can’t be broken. She says he already broke it, with his lies and his actions. He was never honest with her, but she’s going to be honest with him. He’s going to have no part in her life or this baby’s.

Cameron tells Zander that he’s the very definition of too little too late. Where was he when Cameron was afraid of the dark? When he needed someone to check under the bed and look in the closet, and promise no monsters were there? Where was he when Cameron’s dog died? Where was he when Cameron messed up, and had to face a judge, and got community service? Where was he when Cameron’s heart got broken, when he was kidnapped, or lost his best friend to cancer?

Peter says Maxie doesn’t know what she’s saying. They got into her head. Spinelli and Robert have been gunning for him since he got to town. Valentin and Anna are just the latest. Don’t listen to them. He understands why Mac is important to Maxie, since her father abandoned her, and she was deprived of a father’s love. Would she do the same with their child? She says she’s going to do her best for their child, and he says, of course (🍷) she will. She’s loving and generous, and also smart. She knows better than to try and keep him from his child. She asks if he’s  threatening her, and he says she’s been lied to by people she loves and trusts. He’s trying to give her time to recover from the shock. When she’s healed, her natural goodness will give her the clarity to see through the lies, and everything will be as it was meant to be… as they’re meant to be.

Michael says, it’s not like Brook can hide until the baby comes. What if he arranges a family dinner? She can tell everyone at once. She says her immediate plans are up in the air, but who would he invite? He says, Ned would want to be there, and maybe he and Olivia could make it through a full dinner if they don’t have to focus on themselves. Monica and Willow; maybe Valentin. She asks if he’s kidding her. That crazy guy tricked her into selling her stock, and took ELQ away from Michael. He asks if that’s why she waited until Valentin left before she said hello, but she says she didn’t know he was there. He says, then she missed the part where Valentin offered to give him back control of the company if he’d let Nina spend time with Wiley. She says, did he really? He actually has a heart. Who knew?

Molly asks Alexis to help her understand. If she pleads guilty, she’ll be sent to prison, and somehow free herself of addiction? Kristina says, it makes no sense. If Alexis needs help, go to rehab. Alexis says Dante told her that demons follow you wherever you go, and Valentin says, unless you face them. Alexis says she’s tired. Tired of running. She needs to confront what she did, and not just one thing, all of it. She tells Kristina and Molly, it’s the only way she’s going to survive.

Gladys says, Brando got shot. Of course (🍷) she’s there. How could he doubt her intentions? He says he knows her, so save the lecture. He already knows she told Cyrus that Dev wasn’t Sonny’s cousin, but a refugee Sonny was shielding. She says she doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Poor Dev. She couldn’t have loved him more if he’d been her own grandson. To think he was killed in a blast… It’s surreal. Now her son was almost gone. He says, let that be a lesson to her. The closer you get to Cyrus, the more dangerous life gets.

Cyrus asks if Sasha has time for coffee; his treat. And he’s not talking the diesel fuel from the vending machine. He has an espresso maker in his office. She says the last time she accepted his hospitality, she ended up in the hospital, and he says, as she wishes. She tells him, wait. She’s not minimizing who he is, or the things he sells, but no one put a gun to her head. She has no one to blame but herself. He asks if it’s her talking, or her counseling, and she says she’s quoting her counselor, but she believes she’s responsible for her choices.

Zander says he should been there. Instead, he gave up. He gave up on himself, life, everything. In one moment, he threw away everything. Now Cameron is at his own fork in the road, and it’s time for him to choose. If he chooses wrong, he knows what they’ll say; like father, like son. Trina and Josslyn show up, and Trina reads the gravestone, Alexander Smith. Josslyn says, Cameron’s biological father. He used to be called Zander, right? Cameron says, right. He was just here.

Cameron repeats, he was just here, and Trina says, who? Cameron says, it doesn’t matter. He left, just like everyone else. Josslyn says, that’s not true. She and Trina are there. That counts, right? He asks who the flowers are for, and Josslyn says, they’re for Dev and Sonny’s graves. Cameron says, typical. Someone else gets the flowers and the girl. Trina asks what he’s talking about, and Josslyn says, no offense, but has he been drinking? He says he wishes he had that as an excuse. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt so much.

Gladys says, if anyone is close to Cyrus, it’s him. What does he do for Cyrus? Anything his mother should know about? He says he’s a driver; it’s just a job. And if she doesn’t mind, he’d like to get out, and get back to earning his pay. She says he’s so conscientiousness, but she’s not letting him do anything until he recovers. He asks how she’s going to monitor him from Bridgeport, and she says she’s sticking around to make sure her baby boy is okay.

Sasha says, sometimes she can’t figure Cyrus out. It seems like he has genuine concern for Brando. He says he’s not the only one, and she says, Brando has been a good friend, and she appreciates Cyrus looking out for him. It makes him seem almost human. Cyrus says she’d be surprised how human he is, and she says she knows exactly what he is.

Michael tells Brook, of course (🍷) he wants the company back, but his duty is to his son’s interests first. He’s not trading Wiley’s emotional well-being for stock. She says, whatever the case, she’s tired and wants to lie down. She asks him to get her suitcase from the car; she has no energy to talk to anyone else about the latest developments. He says she’s going to have to talk to the baby’s father, and she says, no offense, but he had a baby with a psychopath, and he’s offering her advice? Back off. He says he’s trying to make her understand it’s imperative she tells the truth, and she tells him to handle the suitcase; she’ll handle the rest. He says, Valentin is the baby’s father, isn’t he?   

Kristina says, what’s it to Valentin if her mom goes to prison? Molly says she agrees with Kristina. She tells Alexis that it sounds brave and noble to take responsibility for her actions, but Pentenville isn’t equipped with the kind of rehab Alexis needs. Alexis says she doubts she’ll be the only one drinking. There’s probably an AA meeting, and if there isn’t, she’ll start one. Sam says, prison isn’t rehab. If she goes to Pentenville, she’ll have no support system. Is she ready for that?

Maxie tells Peter that she wants to believe there’s light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not a freight train coming at her. He says, the light she sees is real. Their love and their family is real. Maxie says, he was right. She just needs time to figure out where they go from here. He tells her to take all the time she needs. He thinks he’ll hold on to the key in the meantime. He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if something happened to her, James, or the baby. She looks at him stone-faced. Um… can’t she just change the locks?

Trina says, okay. They went to Dev and Sonny’s graves. Josslyn says, now they can take Cameron home, but he says, actually, he’s not going home. One thing he learned tonight is that he doesn’t need anybody. Josslyn says he’s not the only one who lost someone. Unfortunately, there’s plenty of grief to go around. Quit feeling sorry for himself. He says, she’s right. He’s just another loser. We see Zander watching, and Cameron says, like father, like son. Trina hopes the pity party is over soon. For the record, she and Josslyn don’t hang out with losers. He’ll have to accept they’re amazing friends, and he’s lucky to have them. Cameron says, right, the luckiest, and smiles. Zander watches.

Gladys comes back out, and tells Sasha that Brando is asking to see her. Sasha goes to see Brando, and Cyrus asks how Gladys likes her accommodations. She says she’d prefer an upgrade to the MetroCourt. It’s the least he could do in exchange for her looking out for his interests.

Brando is packing when Sasha comes in. She asks if he needs a ride, but he says his mother insists on taking him home. She says his mother is talking to Cyrus, and he says, hopefully, she’s just passing through. His advice, keep her distance. She tells him, don’t worry. She has no intention of letting anyone too close.

Michael tells Brook, don’t deny it. He knows she spent the night with Valentin before she left Port Charles. She admits Valentin is the father, and Michael asks when she’s going to tell him. She says, it’s complicated, and she might not tell him. Michael says, the man can do the math, and she says, if she deceives him though, there will be fewer heartbreaks. Michael says, he didn’t say that, she did Still, playing with Valentin Cassadine is playing a dangerous game.

Kristina and Molly tell Alexis that they love her, give her a hug, and leave. Sam asks Valentin if he’s leaving too, and he says he’d like to stick around and discuss options if it’s okay with Alexis. Alexis says it is, and Sam asks if she’s sure about that. Alexis says yes, Sam tells Alexis that she loves her, and leaves. Alexis tells Valentin, this is getting to be a habit. He says if she wants him to leave, say the word. She says, milk and sugar? and he says, two sugars.

Maxie says, maybe there still is a place for Peter in her life, with her and the baby. He says, that’s more like it. He smiles and leaves, and she calls a locksmith. Not really, but she should. She puts the chain lock on the door, and tells the baby, one thing I’ll never share, sweetheart, is you. Never ever.

Tomorrow, Laura asks how she can help, Sam tells Dante there’s been a change in plans, Peter asks Cyrus what’s in it for him, and Elizabeth says she’s going to make sure Jason pays.

👔 Cameron’s Bio-Dad…

If you need a refresher course, like I did.

Zander Smith on GENERAL HOSPITAL — Everything You Need to Know

🥾 Same Zander, Different Day…

I wonder if it felt like going home.

https://www.tvinsider.com/990371/chad-brannon-zander-returns-to-general-hospital-first-look/

🐎 I caught a little of The Real Housewives of Dallas, and the women did some kind of meditation exercise with D’Andra’s shaman. Kameron and Kary reacted the same way I would. While everyone else was going, ohm-m-m, they could barely contain their laughter. Kary had a birthday party for Tiffany, which included a weird wall, where hands came out of small windows to hand them glasses of wine. I have to mention that D’Andra wears expensive headbands. I’ve noticed them on her before, and I can’t remember the brand, but I checked them out once. I couldn’t see paying $40 for a headband, when I can get one for a fraction of that at Ulta. It’s not a tiara for God’s sake. Tiffany was thrilled, since she never had a birthday party while growing up. She received a boiled egg per tradition – symbolizing wishes for a good year ahead – and a red envelope containing $20. Since the alcohol was flowing, she got sappy, telling the women that she’d just wanted to fit in. They said they’d thought she was the cool one. Me too. In her interview, she said it felt good to be part of this messed up group. I guess her bar is set pretty low. Everyone got really drunk, and Brandi fell off a swing, but she didn’t let it slow her down any. D’Andra ended up pitching a fit at Mama Dee over why she’d changed her last name to her stepfather’s. While D’Andra said it was because he’d taken care of her, Mama Dee said it was because D’Andra thought the name could open doors for her. It got pretty nasty. Brandi and Tiffany tried to comfort D’Andra, who also fell off the swing along with Tiffany, while Brandi managed to stay standing. I have no idea if a good time was had by all, or anybody really.

Next time, D’Andra defends the practice of meditation, and calls Brandi a cafeteria Christian.

🍷 Windows Of Wine…

Everything old is new again. They literally came in handy then and now.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/plague-wine-windows-italy

🥚 Birthday Egg…

Why Tiffany got that egg, and some other interesting traditions.

https://russian13chinesefoodsuperstitions.wordpress.com/author/angelazhu96/

🚴‍♀️ No Moss Gathering Here…

While tomorrow brings Teresa and tea, for now, it’s time for me to roll. Until we and the Jersey Wives meet, stay safe, stay classy, and stay off the swing at Kary’s parties.

Mar13

March 12, 2021 – Chase Learns the Truth, Brook’s Coming Back, Holly On Reserve, About Terry, New Shahs, Jen Strikes Again, Kenya’s Queries, Ten Biggest, On OWN, the Fallen Mighty, a Birthday, Not Twelve Quotes & Creeping

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Sonny knocks on a back door and asks for Bob. He says he’s Mike, and Drummond said he had a seat at table for him. Bob tells him to come in, and introduces Tom and Dave. He asks how Sonny knows Drummond, and Sonny says Drummond handled some business for him. He tosses some money on the table, and says, this should be enough, right? Bob says, it’s a start. He hopes Sonny’s got more to lose. Sonny laughs.

Chase asks, what the hell is going on? and Finn tells Jackie, please don’t. She says she’s sorry, but she doesn’t want what happened to Anna and Peter to happen to them. One thing that doesn’t change is that she’s Chase’s mother, and she needs to make the call. Chase says, call about what? and she says he needs to know the truth… about everything. Finn says, now is not the time, and Gregory says the three of them need to discuss it first. Chase says, Hello? He’s right there. What truth does he need to know? Finn asks Chase to give them a chance to talk in private, but Chase asks Jackie, what truth are they keeping from him? Jackie says, she should have told him the truth when he was old enough to understand. Finn says, we. We should have told the truth. He hopes when the dust settles, Chase can forgive them.

While Michael is on the phone, Willow comes in. When he’s done, he asks if she’s okay. He and Wiley thought they’d see her at breakfast, and she says she had an early class. She’s sorry she ran out on him last night. He says he gets that she was upset, and she says she had time to think about it; it’s all she thought about. She knows Wiley loves her, and sees her as his mom. He was just repeating what Nina told him about Nelle. Michael says he knew it was a possibility, but was hoping Nina wouldn’t go there; that she’d realize Wiley is too young to understand. Willow says she was caught off-guard, and didn’t want Wiley to know how much she was hurt. He says she wasn’t at the gatehouse. Where did she go? She says she went to see Chase.

Jason comes into the Quartermaine mansion, and Danny runs to him, hugging him. He asks if Danny was hanging out with Rocco, and Danny says, they got hungry. He came down to get snacks. Jason says he’s a good man, and Danny asks when they’re going to hang out. He misses Jason.

On the phone, Nina says she’s sure Elizabeth will appreciate them planning Franco’s memorial service. It’s one less thing for Elizabeth to deal with. (I dunno if Elizabeth would feel that way about the memorial service. It’s kind of personal.) Nina tells them, if there’s anything she can do to help, let her know. Franco was important to her. They’ll talk later. Nina looks sad, and Valentin comes in. He asks if it’s a bad time, and she says she just found out about Franco’s death. He says he’s sorry, and he’s there in case she needs a shoulder to cry on. She thanks him, but says she’d prefer not to cry. She’s been doing that a lot lately. Give her some good news. How was Maxie and Peter’s wedding? Don’t skip any details. He says she doesn’t know; there was no wedding. She asks, what happened? and he says, Maxie learned who Peter truly is.

Anna is on the phone with Frisco, and says she knows. She’d never let Peter hurt Maxie… She knows, heartbreak is hard enough… She did only see what she wanted to, and she regrets that… She will… Frisco? She realizes Frisco has hung up, and she goes to Peter’s office. He’s at his desk, and she says she wasn’t sure if she’d find him there. He asks if she thought he would run and hide.

Anna asks if Peter can lower his guard so they can talk, and he says, that depends. She appointed herself judge, jury, and found him guilty of crimes he didn’t commit. Did she come to be executioner as well? She says she doesn’t want to kill him; she wants to give him a message… from his father.

Jason says he misses Danny too. He’s been working a lot. Is Danny making sure his sister is staying out of trouble? Danny says Scout is fine, but mom isn’t. Jason asks what he means, and Danny says, sometimes she cries in her room at night. She doesn’t think he hears, but he does. She’s crying about Jason. Please come home. Jason says he wishes he could, but Danny’s mom… It’s just not fair. They make plans as a family, and they’ve got to cancel them. Danny says he doesn’t mind, honest. Jason says he thinks Danny’s friends are going to get angry if he doesn’t bring the snacks, and Danny hugs him again. He says he loves Jason, and Jason says he loves him too.   

Willow says it hurt her to hear Wiley say she’s not his mommy, but it was very clear he didn’t know what he was saying. He says, but Nina did, and Willow says, the fact that Nina dumped her emotional baggage on that little boy… In that moment, she wanted to punch Nina, but she knew it would be a bad example for Wiley. Michael says, a very bad example, and Willow says, it’s more than just what Nina told Wiley, and what Wiley said to her about not being his real mom. Michael says, it made her think about the child she lost, and she says, you never stop grieving. One day, she’ll have to tell Wiley how he came into her life, but she hopes she can make him understand he’s not a replacement. Each of her boys holds a special place in her heart. She’ll have to find the right words to tell him. He says, it won’t be long. They’ll tell him together.

Chase asks Gregory to tell him what’s going on, and Gregory says he just found out. They intended on telling him. Chase says he’s going to lose it if Gregory doesn’t talk to him. Someone talk. Finn says, he and Jackie slept together.

Sonny says the guys are good. He didn’t know they’d give him a run for his money. Dave says he’s out, and Bob asks if Sonny wants out too, but Sonny says, not as long as he has a few dollars left. He’s in. He displays his cards.

Finn tells Chase, he’s sorry. He didn’t know how to say it. Chase says, Finn slept with his mother? How could he do that to their dad and Anna? Jackie says, it was years ago, before Chase was born. It was one time. Finn says, they slept together the night before Jackie and Gregory were married, and Jackie says, they didn’t intend to. Chase says, wow. Really. Finn says that’s why he disappeared for so long. He was angry at himself, and ashamed. Jackie says Finn wasn’t walking down the aisle to pledge his love to someone else, and Chase asks, why not break it off? She says she loved Gregory, and Finn says, it was his fault. Chase says Finn told him that he didn’t want a brother, and Finn says he didn’t know how to process it; he was afraid. Chase says, of what? and Gregory says, Jackie’s turn. Tell Chase the truth, all of it, or he will. Jackie says Chase was born a few months shy of their first wedding anniversary. She doesn’t believe it’s the case, but there’s a chance… Chase says, Finn could be his father.

Nina tells Valentin, Maxie must be a wreck. She should never have let Maxie excuse her from the wedding. She should have been there. He says she couldn’t have helped. She couldn’t have minimized Maxie’s suffering more than the rest of them. She says they were right to expose Peter’s lies. He says, Maxie had to know, didn’t she? Nina knows he feels guilty, but tells him, whatever Peter did as an adult, Valentin delivered Peter as a baby to Faison. She knows him, and knows he’ll never forgive himself. He says, never. If he’d left Peter as an innocent baby with his adoptive parents, Peter wouldn’t be the threat he is today.

Peter says Anna thinks she’s going to manipulate him by bringing up his father. Give it her best shot. She tells him that he said something in the hospital that she’ll never forget; the past is dead now, and all we have is the future. Faison said something similar to her when he returned to Port Charles. He urged her to let the past go, and plan a future with him, much as Peter is trying to do with Maxie. He says, like thousands of other people who are trying to start over. The sentiment isn’t unique. She says, Faison could no sooner let go of the past than Peter. He was chasing a fantasy that turned into a dangerous obsession. Don’t end up like his father. He has to let Maxie go.   

Bob has taken Dave’s place at the card game, and Sonny folds. Tom calls, and displays his cards. Sonny says, full house; not bad. Bob says he’s got nothing. They continue to play. Tom raises, Sonny folds, and Bob calls. Sonny says Tom is on fire, but Bob says he’s even hotter, and displays his cards. Tom says he’s out, and Bob asks what about Sonny? Is he feeling confident, or is he cashing in? Sonny says, call him crazy, but he’s feeling confident. Bob says, his kind of guy. They play some more, and Bob says Sonny is running low on chips. Sonny says, he was saving something for a rainy day, but maybe he’ll make enough for a filet mignon instead of a hamburger tonight. Bob says, you never know, and Sonny puts the rest in the pot. They keep playing, and Sonny has a lot of chips now. Bob pushes his chips forward, and says he’s all in. Sonny takes another card, and puts his chips in. He calls, and Bob says, four of a kind. He starts to reach for the chips, but Sonny guesses it’s his turn. He displays his cards, and says, a royal flush. You don’t see this too often. Tom and Dave leave, saying they’ll see him around. Bob asks what kind of a game Sonny is playing. The kind where he acts dumb, and makes Bob out to be a fool. Sonny says, it’s a game, Bob. Sometimes Lady Luck is with you; sometimes she’s in somebody else’s lap. Bob says he doesn’t think so, and stands up. He doesn’t think Lady Luck has anything to do with this at all.

Valentin tells Nina, he turned Peter over to Faison, which means all of Peter’s crimes can be directly linked to him. She says he can’t hold himself solely responsible. He did what he could. He befriended Peter as a little boy, and tried to ward off Faison’s influence. He says, it was too little too late. Peter was already on the path to ruin. Peter followed Faison’s example, working closely with Valentin’s mother, Helena Cassadine, planning the kidnapping of Jason, plotting Drew’s death… Nina says, Valentin loves Peter. When we love someone, we want to believe the best in them. He needs to focus on the good that came out of it. He stopped Maxie from marrying Peter. He protected her. He says he and Anna had hoped Peter would be brought to justice, and she says she thought he’d said it would be impossible to prove. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Peter of any crimes. He says, it’s highly unlikely that Peter will be in custody any time soon, but the longer he’s free, the more danger Peter is in. He’s a target for anyone who wants revenge.

Jason walks into the living room, seeing Michael and Willow. He says, sorry, but Willow says, no problem. It’s Wiley’s nap time anyway. She gets up, and Jason says if she sees Danny in the kitchen, make sure he’s getting snacks for three, not thirty, and she says she’s on it. She thanks Michael, and leaves. Michael asks what’s on Jason’s mind, and Jason says he had to give Monica bad news, and asks Michael to keep an eye on her. Michael asks if it’s something he should know, and Jason says, of course (🍷) he’s denying it, but Peter admitted he’s responsible for Drew’s death. Michael asks if it was confirmed that Drew’s plane was sabotaged, and Jason says, yeah. Michael asks how Monica took it, and Jason says, she’s calm on the surface, but he knows she’s hurting. She was close to Drew, and worked to get Drew in the family. Michael asks, how about Maxie; is she safe? Jason says he doesn’t think Peter would hurt Maxie physically, but the emotional damage has been done.

Anna says she gets that Peter is angry at her, but he has to think of Maxie, and do what’s best for her. He says he does; every moment of every day. The difference is, he knows he’s not chasing a woman who lied and conned her way into his head like Anna did his father. Anna says she didn’t do that, and he says they all know the obsession Faison had with her, but she’s as much of a liar as he was. Who’s to say she wasn’t obsessed with him? She says, that’s not true, and he says she lied about his mother. She was very good at it too. Let’s say she’s right. Faison did everything in his power to coerce Anna to be with him. Maxie was with Peter by choice. She embraced him with an open heart, of her own free will. Anna says, then he needs to reciprocate that love, and do what’s best for Maxie and the baby. He says, confess? Turn himself in? He’d spend the rest of his life in prison. He’d lose Maxie. She says he already has, and he asks if she’s looked in the mirror. She’s so concerned with him ending up like Faison, when she and Faison are one in the same.

Jackie tells Chase, we don’t know for certain, and he says, we? Finn was in on this? He knew he could be Chase’s father? Jackie says she told Finn that Gregory was his father. Period. No room for doubt. Chase asks, when? and she says when Chase was year old, and Finn paid them a visit. He had his suspicions, but she put them to rest. Chase says she’s lying; they didn’t know for sure. She says she knows in her heart that Chase is her and Gregory’s child. Chase says, and Finn believed her? Finn is suspicious of everyone. There’s no way he can see Finn letting this go… but he didn’t. He may have waited a bunch of years, but the DNA test he didn’t want to talk about, the lab results were about him, weren’t they?

Elijah walks in the Tan-O, and Lenny thanks him for coming. Elijah says he brought the contracts. The quicker it’s done, the quicker they can move on. They’ve both been nothing but good to him, and as difficult as it seems, it will work out for them in the long run. Sonny comes in, looking a little disheveled, and Phyllis asks, what happened? but he says he’s fine. He asks if everything is okay, and she says, it will be. Lenny says they decided to sell the Tan-O, and Phyllis says, Elijah brought the contracts. Elijah says they just need signatures, and Sonny says he’s sure they won’t mind waiting. There’s something that needs to be settled.

Elijah says, wait? This is important. Sonny says, so is this. It’s about time he paid his tab. He puts a stack of cash on the table, and says he hasn’t paid them a dime. There’s extra for the incredible meals Phyllis made for him. Lenny asks, what’s this? and Phyllis says, they couldn’t possibly… Sonny says, possibly what? Let him pay his bill? Phyllis says they had no intention of charging him, and even they did, this is far more then food and the room is worth. Sonny says he’s also paying the next six months in advance. He puts down another stack of bills, and Phyllis says, it’s very generous. Sonny says he loves the Tan-O, and he loves his landlords. He wants to make arrangements for the future. Phyllis says, but… and Lenny says, but nothing. Sonny has himself a deal. He’s sorry to waste Elijah’s time, but the Tan-O’s not for sale after all. Elijah says if it’s what they want, he’s happy for them. He tells Sonny, now he has the place locked down for the next six months. Elijah is curious though. Where did he get the money?   

Anna tells Peter, she’s nothing like Faison, and he says, she lies, she manipulates, she tries to pressure people into being who she wants them to be. She made her high standards and expectations clear, but for the record, he doesn’t want to be perfect. She says, he wants to be loved, but he’s incapable of that until he faces the truth about himself. He says he has, and what he realized is being good Peter was exhausting. He should have known Alex was his mother all along because she knew him; she knew his soul. She says Alex gave him up; she rejected him. He says, she accepted him. They spoke the same language. For the first time, he could relax and be himself, instead of jumping through hoops of fire to impress Anna. Admit it. Anna knew he wasn’t her son, and deep down, she was relieved.

Jason tells Michael, he wanted to be the one to tell Monica about Drew, and he wanted to see Michael to find out if he had any questions about Franco. Michael asks, why would he have questions about Franco? and Jason says he thought Michael’s mom would have told him. Michael says she left a message asking him to call back, but he hasn’t. What’s going on? Jason says, Franco is dead. Somebody shot him. Michael said he’d come to accept Franco’s freedom, and that he’d changed, although he applauded Franco’s death a thousand times. Willow comes back, and asks, what’s wrong? Michael says, Franco Baldwin was killed, and Jason says he was the one who found Franco. Michael asks if Jason has any idea who’s responsible, but Jason says, not yet. Michael assumes the list of suspects is pretty long, and Jason says, the cops are looking into it. Hopefully, they find who’s responsible so Elizabeth and her sons can have closure. Michael asks, since when does Jason have faith in the cops? and Jason tells him, he said hopefully. If not, someone else will have to find the killer.

Valentin tells Nina that he didn’t mean to turn this into a vent session about Peter. He’s there as her friend and wants to support her. Franco meant something to her, didn’t he? and she says he did. As Valentin knows, Franco told her that he didn’t want a family, but she did. Neither one of them would budge, so he ended up marrying Elizabeth and inherited three sons. Valentin says, and that hurt her, but she says, whatever she felt then, it doesn’t matter now. Franco loved the boys, and they brought out a warmth and kindness in him that Franco didn’t know he had. Valentin says he’s sorry Nina didn’t get the family she wanted, but she has Charlotte and Wiley. She says she has Charlotte thanks to him. Wiley, she’s not so sure. He says she was so optimistic when they talked last; what happened? She says, Carly and Michael decided she shouldn’t be allowed to see Wiley.   

Michael asks if Wiley enjoyed his snack, and Willow says she thinks he’s enjoying hanging out with Rocco, Leo, and Danny. They’re so sweet, playing little kid games with him. Michael says, they’re good kids, all of them, and asks if Wiley said anything else about… She says, not being his mommy? No. They’ll still have to talk to him, but she doesn’t know when it will be the right time. He says, as long as it’s them and no one else. That’s why he thinks it’s best that Nina isn’t around Wiley for a while. She says, he changed his mind? and he says, maybe Nina didn’t deliberately mean to confuse Wiley, but she did, and Willow was hurt in the process. The animosity between Nina and his mom isn’t healthy for Wiley. Willow says they already opened the door for Nina to see Wiley, and he says, that was before she brought up Nelle to Wiley without running it by them. Willow is Wiley’s mom, not Nelle. She tells him, they can’t just make what Nina said go away, which is why they’ll talk to Wiley. Michael says, that’s why he thinks it’s best to create some distance between Nina and Wiley. He already told Nina that she can’t see him right now. Willow asks if they shouldn’t have made that decision together.

Valentin says Nina told Wiley that Willow’s not his real mommy? No wonder Michael and Carly are upset. Nina says, the thing is, she actually thinks Willow is a wonderful mom. She loves Wiley, but Wiley’s relationship to Nelle was going to come sooner or later. She was just acting responsibly; being honest. She didn’t mean to hurt Willow. He says, they’re talking about Miss Tate, Charlotte’s elementary school teacher. She’s sweet and pretty enough, but she does get a bit… Nina says, Willow did get angry, which got Michael angry, and Carly was furious. The second Willow and Michael left the room, Carly jumped down her throat. He says, Carly was probably still upset about what happened at Sonny’s funeral, and Nina says, it didn’t help. He says Nina came to him when she learned about Carly’s involvement in Nelle’s death, and asked him to help. Say the word. Whatever she wants to do, he’s in. She thanks him, and says she appreciates it, but she thinks she’s going to put the brakes on the scheming. There’s too little gain for too much pain. He says, if she changes her mind… She says, just say the word. He nods, she smiles, and he leaves.

Finn says, the DNA test was about Chase, but the last thing he wanted to do was hurt Chase. He thought he could do it without tearing Chase’s life apart. When he was shot, and told he might not make it, he was lying in the hospital bed thinking about Violet and Chase, and in that moment, he realized how important the truth is. Chase asks if Jackie knew about the test, and Jackie says she did. She asked Finn, begged him, not to pick up the results. Chase wonders why, since she just came barging in, insisting he know the truth. What changed? Gregory says he found out. He overheard her and Finn speaking, and they decided he should know. Since he knew… Chase says he had to know. He tells Gregory that he’s so sorry, and Gregory says Chase has nothing to apologize for. Now that it’s all out on the table, they don’t have to keep the secret of Chase’s paternity hidden any longer. Finn says they can go to GH right now and get the results, and Chase says, then what? Deal with the fallout? There’s no happy ending. Either Gregory is his biological father, and they blew up two relationships for absolutely no reason, or he and Gregory have to wrap their heads around a reality that he can’t begin to grasp. If Finn wants results, he can go. The door is right there. Get out. He doesn’t want them there. Go! Finn and Jackie leave, and Chase hugs Gregory and cries.

Sonny asks what it matters where he got the money, and Elijah tells him, he’s just saying. Here he is, a drifter, with no memory or profession they know of; not even a last name. How did he come up with that much cash? Sonny says he can’t remember, but what he does know is, Lenny and Phyllis don’t have to sell the place they love. Elijah says, it’s their decision, but if they want to put Mike’s money to another use, or even give it back to him, the offer still stands. Sonny says, the Tan-O isn’t just a place of business. It’s their home, their dream. They put themselves into it 100% and made it what it is – something lasting. He knows the world is changing, but things don’t change that bring you happiness and stability. He thinks that’s a good thing. Phyllis thanks him, and they hug. Sonny says, aw, come on.

Anna tells Peter, she wasn’t relieved when she found out Alex was his mother. She felt sad for him. She shouldn’t have lied, but she was trying to spare him. He says, aren’t they the noble ones, her and Valentin? Smiling at him while they stabbed him in the back. Anna says they didn’t mean to hurt him, and he says, but they did. Anna killed his mother before he had a chance to know her. Anna says she didn’t have a choice. It was Alex’s life or hers. Peter says, it should have been hers.

Willow says she and Michael had so many conversations about parenting as a team. It’s a pretty big decision to tell Nina she can’t see him. He says Willow left the house because she was upset, and she had a right to be. He realized Nina wasn’t in the right headspace to see Wiley, which is basically what he told Nina, but Willow is right; they should have talked it over. She says she gets that he did what he thought was best in the moment. Face it. He was Wiley’s sole legal parent, and he’s not used to checking with her. He says he wants to. She’s as much Wiley’s mother as he is Wiley’s father. He takes her hand and says, they’re in this together.

On the phone, Nina tells someone that she’d like to talk more about her grandson. How soon can they get there?

Chase asks Gregory if he was wrong to be high and mighty. He lied to the woman he loves so an innocent child could grow up in a loving family, but isn’t that what Jackie and Finn did? Gregory says he loves Chase’s mom, and knows she loved him once. She made him happy, especially when she brought Chase into their lives, but Jackie kept an essential part of herself hidden from him. He’s not ready to forgive her. Chase asks if that’s why Gregory stayed with him, and Gregory says he stayed because Chase might need him. Chase says, the DNA tests don’t matter. Gregory is always going to be his father, because he’s the one who took Chase for ice cream after he lost the Little League game. Gregory taught him how to play poker, and let him win. He loved Chase with every inch of his big heart. Gregory says he always will, but they can’t pretend today didn’t happen. Things will change, and they have to be prepared for those changes.

Michael opens the door to Valentin, and asks what he wants. Valentin says he has an offer for Michael that he thinks Michael will find appealing.

Elijah says, obviously the contracts aren’t needed, so he’ll be taking off. Lenny says he’s sorry Elijah came all this way for nothing, but Elijah says, not at all. He got to see them. Congratulations. He’s glad it worked out. Elijah leaves, and Lenny says, okay. Where did Sonny get the money? Sonny says, poker, and laughs. Phyllis said, he won  that much? and Sonny says, some things, you don’t forget. They all laugh.   

Outside, Elijah takes out his phone, and makes a call. He says he needs them to find everything they can on Mike. Follow him; do whatever it takes.

Peter says, to think of the time he wasted seeking Anna’s approval, when his actual mother would have accepted him for who he is. Anna says, that’s what she’s trying to tell him. He doesn’t have to give in to the worst of himself, and he says, there she goes again, dictating her standards of how he should live, of right and wrong. He doesn’t give a damn. He’s embraced his parents’ legacy. In their own way, they did what they wanted, when they wanted, and he intends to do the same. Right now, he really wants her to pay… Jason walks in.

On Monday, Chase tells Willow that he doesn’t know if he can face it, Valentin says he has the deal of a lifetime for Michael, Finn suggests they forget about the DNA test, and Jason tells Peter, try him and find out.

🎤 Homecoming…

Also be sure to check out Roger Howarth on the podcast down the page.

Exclusive: Amanda Setton On GH Return

⚡️ Coronarupted…

At least it’s still open for Holly’s return.

Emma Samms Wants To Return To GENERAL HOSPITAL!

👏🏽 Transgratulations…

I love Cassandra James, and hope she gets more storyline in the near future.

Terry on GENERAL HOSPITAL — Everything You Need To Know

💎 Teasing Sunset…

GG tells us about the upcoming season.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/11/golnesa-gharachedaghi-teases-upcoming-shahs-of-sunset-season/

👠 Designer AShahlt…

The whole sad designer story.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/05/jen-shahs-designer-accuses-rholsc-star-of-verbal-assault-amid-audio-leak/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/08/jen-shahs-ex-designer-traumatized-after-working-for-rhoslc-star/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/11/rhoslc-star-jen-shah-sends-cease-and-desist-over-leaked-audio/

👰🏾 Kenya Has Questions…

Girl, we all question our choices at one time or another.

https://people.com/tv/rhoa-kenya-moore-questions-why-she-ultimately-chose-to-marry-ex-marc-daly/

📺 Ones To Watch…

For your viewing/streaming pleasure.

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-biggest-tv-shows-to-watch-in-2021/2900-3653/#1

⭐️ Another One…

If you haven’t met Delilah, maybe it’s time.

https://www.essence.com/articles/delilah/

⚖️ Not His Year…

As if the divorce and business scandal weren’t enough.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/10/tom-girardi-loses-law-license-amid-legal-struggles/

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/11/tom-girardi-diagnosed-with-alzheimers-amid-legal-battles/

🛸 Not Beamed Up Yet…

Captain Kirk celebrates his 90th.

https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/william-shatner-90th-birthday-star-trek-tour/

🗿 Quotes of the Week

A good friend will always stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

Drugs are like shoes. Everybody needs them, but they don’t always fit. – guy in Sense8 talking about his drug of choice

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. – Plato

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. – Viktor Frankl

I’m eating my cereal and I don’t want judgement. – Ronald (Brian Geraghty), Big Sky

Life is problems. Living is solving problems. – Raymond E. Feist

This is the wrong time for people to be minding their own business. – Ciara Miller, Summer House

You’re like a human barnacle. – Evelyn (Holland Taylor) to Alan (Jon Cryer), Two and a Half Men

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. – Jack Dempsey (Apparently, I’m a champion every morning.)

The only real happiness is the happiness you think everyone else is having. – Robyn (Anna Paquin), Flack

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. – W. C. Fields

🤹 Here We Go Again…

This whole thing might be getting pandemically old, but at least we’ll all see a few bucks in our bank accounts soon. Even if it’s not a weekend for you, act like it is. Do something different, get out for some fresh air, mask up and see what’s going on in the world. Or at least stream something that’s not the norm for you. Expand your mind. Until we meet on the Deadside, stay safe, stay motivated, and stay not giving in to the worst of yourself.

Mar11

March 10, 2021 – Peter Begs Maxie To Come With Him, Evan Gets Another Birthday, Changing Character, Franco Brush-Up, Joe Says No, In Addition, Home Carpet, Who’s Playing & Cherry

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Why is it always on the days I have more time, I don’t? I missed the beginning, but the main points were… Scotty couldn’t get ahold of Elizabeth, and went to her house. Cameron said he hadn’t heard from her, which was unusual. Josslyn came by because she’d been worried about Cameron not being in school. Scotty gave them privacy, and Cameron told Josslyn that everything was falling apart. He explained about Franco moving out, and said he thought Franco was giving up. Josslyn suggested that Cameron call Franco. Elizabeth accused Jason of killing Franco, and Jordan said she wanted Elizabeth and Jason to come to the station. Jason said he wanted his lawyer. Laura met Carly in Sonny’s kitchen, aka the home of the moss bowl, and said that the Board wasn’t submitting Cyrus’s drug to the FDA. Carly said Sonny would have been overjoyed, and Laura said she missed Sonny. Laura was worried about Cyrus, since his plans had been halted and his mother was missing. Carly thought Sonny would tell them, pray for peace and prepare for war. At the Tan-O, Lenny tried to negotiate with his mortgage holder, since he needed money to get his bar back in order after the break-in. He also no longer had a room for rent. Sonny offered to give up his room, but Phyllis said she had a plan, and a Mr. Drummond showed up to look at Phyllis’s wedding china. Maxie insisted on allowing Peter into her room, and told him the baby was fine. He asked how she was, and she said she’d been scared, but was doing well. She told him that the police were looking for him, and said she’d always defended him. He said he still wanted them to get married, and prove everyone wrong. He wanted her to run away with him tonight. When I finally sat down…

Cameron tells Josslyn, at least Franco will know he’s thinking of him.

Jordan says she needs Elizabeth’s help. Elizabeth is a nurse. What would she say to a woman who just lost her husband to a terrible crime? Elizabeth says she’d let her grieve, and Jordan says, and then? Elizabeth says she’d tell her that she should let her husband go so the police can do their job, and Jordan asks her to tell herself the same thing. Elizabeth kisses Franco’s forehead, and tells him that she loves him. Jordan leads her away, and Franco’s phone rings.

Cameron leaves a message telling Franco, don’t get a big head, but he misses him. The police take photos of the crime scene, and Cameron says he just wanted to tell Franco. He has some things to say he should have said before. He knows Franco is going through a lot of things, but call back anyway. Unless his mom has done the right thing, and kidnapped him to bring him back home.

Carly tells Laura, she’s confident Jason is prepared for any move Cyrus might make, and Laura says she thinks Cyrus is going to move quickly. Jason can’t be everywhere all the time, and doesn’t read minds. Carly says, she’d be surprised, when Laura’s phone dings. Laura looks at it, frowning, and Carly asks if something is wrong. Laura says she’s sorry, but she has to go. Carly asks if it’s about Cyrus, and Laura says she’ll hear soon enough. Franco was shot and killed tonight.

Scotty’s phone rings, and Mac says he needs Scotty to come to the station. Scotty says, no can do. He’s with his grandkids. Call the public defender’s office. Mac says he needs Scotty there now, and Scotty says he’s on his way. Scotty tells Cameron that he’s got to go. Take care of the house, and don’t get into trouble. Cameron asks where he’s going, and Scotty says, a lawyer’s work is never done. He’ll catch Cameron later.

Maxie tells Peter, leave Port Charles and their family? He says they’re all the family they need; her, him, James and Lu. She asks, what about Georgie? And he says he’d gladly bring her, but doubts Spinelli would allow it. He knows she’ll miss Georgie, but they’ve lived on opposite sides of the country. They’ll find a way for Maxie to see her. Outside in the hallway, Anna tells Valentin, Maxie doesn’t see the obvious, and Peter isn’t letting this go. Peter tells Maxie, the past can’t touch them. He made sure of that. It doesn’t matter. Peter remembers picking up Franco’s phone, and listening to his own confession. He deletes it, like the police wouldn’t be able to track it down regardless. He wipes the phone of prints, and puts it in Franco’s pocket. I say, what a pr*ck, and Peter says, goodbye Franco. He wishes he could say it was nice knowing him. He leaves, making sure he doesn’t touch the doorknob. Maxie asks him, what does he mean, the past can’t touch them?

Anna sighs, and says they should have never let Peter go in, but Valentin says it’s what Maxie wanted. She says, Maxie doesn’t need physical protection, but Peter is going to spin his alternate reality, and paint himself as a victim. Valentin says, sooner or later, it will catch up with Peter, but Anna says Valentin heard him. He doesn’t care about a standard, or earning her love and respect. Valentin says, Peter was trying to make her feel guilty for the terrible things he did. Don’t let him do that. He played her like he did Maxie. Anna says, the difference is, she’s a trained agent. She should know better. He says they were both blinded by guilt. He doesn’t know what that says about them, but it doesn’t absolve Peter.

In the interrogation room, Mac asks if Jason has anything to say off the record, before he starts to record. Jason says nothing, and Mac says, a man is dead, and it’s their responsibility to find out who killed him. It will make it easier on everyone, especially Elizabeth, if he tells Mac what happened. Diane walks in, and says Mac must certainly just be preparing to interrogate her client. A seasoned law professional like himself wouldn’t interview her client without her there. He says he assumed her client called her, and she says her client firmly believes he’ll be exonerated. Mac says, right. Elizabeth lost her husband, and she and Jason share a son together. Diane says, if there are no pertinent questions, they’re leaving, and Mac says, if Jason has any sense of responsibility to his boy, his brothers, or his mother, he’ll tell Mac what happened.

Jordan leads Elizabeth into the station, and says she knows Elizabeth is in shock. The last thing she wants to do is put Elizabeth through more hell, but she needs to know what Elizabeth saw in the studio. Elizabeth says, Jason killed Franco in cold blood, and Jordan asks if Elizabeth saw Jason pull the trigger. Elizabeth shakes her head, and Jordan asks, if she didn’t see it, why is she so sure he did it? Elizabeth says, because Franco asked him to.

Jordan brings Elizabeth coffee, and Elizabeth says, Franco was afraid the recurrence of the tumor would bring back his violent tendencies, and he’d turn back man used to be. She told him that could never happen. He was a good man. Jordan says, Franco wanted a failsafe in case he got too dangerous and couldn’t control himself? Why would he turn to Jason? Elizabeth says, because Jason wouldn’t hesitate to kill him. Jordan asks what Jason said, and Elizabeth says Jason’s actions speak for selves, don’t they?

Diane says they have no interest in joining Mac’s fishing expedition, and Mac says, Jason called in the homicide. Did he just happen to drop by because he and Franco are good pals, and found Franco bleeding out? Diane says Jason isn’t under oath, and not obligated to answer. Jason says, he did not kill Franco.

Laura tells Carly that Franco was shot, and says she needs to talk to Jordan. She leaves, and Josslyn comes in. Carly asks if she was able to see Cameron, and Josslyn says she was going to give Cameron a hard time for skipping school, but he’s worried about Franco. Cameron guessed Franco was having a nightmare, and when he woke Franco up, Franco grabbed him. It was blown out of proportion, and now Franco is checking himself into Shadybrook. Cameron is taking it hard. She told him to call Franco. Carly asks if he did, and Josslyn says, he left a voicemail. Hopefully, Franco called back or went home so they can work it out. Carly says it’s great that she and Cameron are so close. Josslyn is going have to be there for him. Josslyn asks, what’s going on? and Carly says, Franco was shot tonight. He’s dead.

Phyllis thanks Mr. Drummond for coming. She knows it’s late. He says, not a problem, and she hands him a plate, saying, it’s one of twelve, and there are matching soup bowls and salad plates. How much? Lenny takes the plate out of Drummond’s hand, and says he’s not letting Phyllis pawn her china. She says it will bring in the extra money they need, and Sonny says he knows what’s going on. Drummond is going to give her a lowball offer, and she’ll accept because she’s desperate. He’ll use the plates and the rest of the china to put in his front window, because he knows it will bring in customers. When Phyllis tries to buy back her china, he’ll raise the price, and make her pay double. It’s good business, right?    

Laura asks Jordan, so it’s true? and Jordan says she’s afraid so. Laura hugs Elizabeth, and says she’s so sorry. How did it happen? Jordan says that’s what they’re trying to find out, and Elizabeth says she needs to go home and tell the boys. Jordan says she still has questions, and Laura asks if they can wait until tomorrow. Jordan says, of course (🍷), and tells an officer to drive Mrs. Baldwin home. Elizabeth says, Mrs. Franco Baldwin, and leaves. Laura asks if Jordan knows who killed Franco.

Mac says if Jason didn’t do it, does he know who did? Diane says Mac is assuming Jason witnessed it, and Mac says he’s assuming her client wants to help them find the killer, so he can clear his name as a suspect. Mac has the motive and the opportunity. How soon before he finds the means?

Laura says, Jason? She tells Jordan that she knows Jason didn’t like Franco, but why go after him now? Jason has enough on his plate with Sonny dead. It doesn’t make sense. Scotty comes in, and asks, what’s going on? He saw Elizabeth getting into a squad car, and Mac told him to come down there. What happened? Laura asks Jordan to give them a moment, and Jordan says, of course (🍷). Scotty says it looks like Laura’s got bad news; don’t sugarcoat it. She says she’s so sorry to tell him this. Franco was shot tonight. Scotty says, that damn Invader, that smut sheet. He knew some crackpot would come after Franco. They need to get to the ER. She says, there’s no need for the ER. He… nobody could do anything. Franco died at the site.

Cameron hears someone come in, and says, where were you? He was calling. He turns to see Franco, who smiles.  

Cameron says, Franco got his message? and Franco says he did, and he left something for Cameron. There’s something he wants to tell Cameron. Try to remember this. Don’t ever forget that he can change the world. Cameron changed him. Cameron asks, how? and Franco says he never thought he would have children; he didn’t want them, the responsibility. He was afraid he would screw up a sweet innocent little human life, but Cameron, his brothers, and his mom helped Franco change his mind, and made him believe he could be a better person. For a while, he thinks he was. Cameron says, not for a while. He is. He’s a great guy. Franco says, thanks. Cameron is a great kid, and he loves him. Don’t forget that either. Cameron hugs Franco, and Franco says, later. He walks to the door, and Cameron asks where Franco is going, but Franco leaves without saying anything else. Cameron says, wait, and wakes up on the couch. The door opens, and it’s Elizabeth. He asks where Franco is. Didn’t she see him? Elizabeth says, it’s just them, and Cameron says Franco was there. They had a talk, and Franco left, but he was there. He asks Elizabeth, what’s wrong? and Elizabeth sits next to him. She says she’s so sorry. Something terrible happened.

Jordan tells Mac that he should be at GH with Maxie. She’ll talk to Jason, but Maxie needs him. Mac thanks her, and Jordan goes into the interrogation room. Diane says her client already stated he didn’t kill Franco, and has nothing to add. Jordan says she’s not there to ask him questions, but wants him to listen to her. She spoke to Elizabeth, and Elizabeth told her that Franco asked Jason to kill him if he manifested any violent impulses or rampages. Did he agree, and decide not to wait? Did he decide to go for preemptive action, and kill Franco tonight?

Scotty tells Laura, Karen, Logan, now Franco. Why isn’t there a law? There should be a law that says a kid can’t die before their parents. Franco’s tumor came back, and he was fighting for his life. Then he was murdered; snubbed out like some cigarette.

Anna tells Valentin, there’s no real evidence against Peter. While they figure out Plan B, Peter is there, convincing Maxie that he’s innocent. Valentin says, most people have put up with Peter, but now he’s been exposed as a fraud, but she says, the trouble is, she has the feeling Maxie wants to be persuaded by Peter, especially given the secrets they’ve kept from her. Valentin says, he thinks Anna is right, and they need to steel themselves for Maxie going back to Peter.  

Peter tells Maxie, they’ll be free of the past, and no one can keep them apart. She asks what he means, and he says he took care of things, like he always will for her and their daughter. He asks her to take his hand. Show him that she trusts him, and still believes in him. He knows they can begin again together, starting tonight. She takes his hand, and he says he knew she’d choose him. He needs to get her out of the hospital, and no one can stop them. The pain and anguish of the last few hours will be behind them forever. He promises. She says she only wishes he could feel the pain and anguish she suffered when she thought she was losing the baby. He says he panicked for them, and hopes their little girl is okay. Maxie removes her hand from his, and says she’s going to make sure their daughter stays that way. She’s sorry. She loved him, but the man she loved never existed.

Diane says, if Jordan is going to interrogate her client… Scotty busts in and says he knew it. Jason was the SOB who killed his son. Now he’s coming for Jason. Laura says, no!

An officer holds Scotty back, and Scotty says, let him go. Jason is the criminal. Jason killed his son. Why does he get to live. The officer drags Scotty out, and Laura asks Jason to please tell her that he had nothing to do with Franco’s death. Diane tells him, don’t answer, and Jason says Laura knows him. Laura nods, and leaves. Scotty yells that they should stick a needle in Jason’s arm. Diane tells Jordan, they understand Scotty is a grieving father, and won’t be pressing charges for assault at this time. If Jordan has no further questions, they’re going to leave. Jordan says, it’s Jason’s last chance. If he has something to say, say it now, while she can still help him.

Josslyn tells Carly that Cameron couldn’t stand Franco at first. Then they had a truce, and Franco saved Cameron’s life. After that, Cameron was all in. He thought Franco was the best. He loved Franco so much, and now he’s just gone… just like Sonny. She remembers how mad she was at Carly for going back to Sonny. Now she just misses him, all the time. She’s just so tired of missing people she loves. Carly says, her too, and hugs Josslyn.

Lenny takes the plate out of Drummond’s hand, and says Phyllis’s wedding china isn’t going to be pawned today. Phyllis says, Lenny and his pride. They’ll be living in a cardboard box.. He tells her not to back down. They’ll find another way; he promises. He tells Drummond, goodnight, and Drummond says Lenny could join his weekly card game, and take the last penny he’s got, but Lenny says, not a chance. Sonny fingers his rings, and asks Drummond, how much for these?

Maxie says, the kindness Peter showed her; the sweetness, the devotion, and promises that he’d changed. He says he had, but she says, it was all an act. She cries, and says, what makes it worse, is that he almost got away with it. He had her at the altar. Even when Valentin told her the truth, she refused to see it. Not anymore. She’s not going away with him. Not now, not ever.

Mac asks how Maxie is, and Anna says, she’s in there with Peter. He asks why they didn’t stop Peter, and she says, they tried. Mac barges in, and tells Peter to get the hell away from Maxie. He has questions for Peter, and Peter says Mac can talk to his lawyer. He’s not going with Mac. Mac says, then get out already. He’s seen one family torn apart. He’ll be damned if he lets Peter hurt his. Maxie says, what family? and Mac says, Franco was shot and killed tonight. Anna asks if they have a suspect, and looks at Peter.

Elizabeth takes Cameron’s hand, and says, Franco’s dead, but Cameron says, no, he’s not; he was just here. Franco came there and told Cameron how much he loved him. He told Cameron how brave he was, braver than him. That’s not true, but he was here. He said when he came home, they’d laugh about it. Elizabeth says, it’s not the tumor that killed Franco; he was shot. Cameron cries, and she says she knows. Cameron says, he was shot? and she says, the police are trying to figure it out. Cameron says, the Invader article said he was dangerous, and somebody shot him. Who shot him? She says, whoever it was, the truth will come out, and they’ll face it together. They’re a family. He says he should have been there, and cries harder, which makes me want to cry. Elizabeth says, it wasn’t Cameron’s fault.

Drummond asks how a drifter like Sonny got pieces like those, and Sonny says, he forgot. How much? Drummond says, two-fifty, and Sonny tells him, write a ticket and give him cash. It’s enough to pay for a seat in his card game, right? Drummond smiles.

Josslyn wonders if they’ll ever know what happened, but Carly doesn’t know. She still feels married to Sonny, and thinks she always will. Josslyn asks how she handles the grief, and Carly says, sometimes she doesn’t. Sometimes she wants to scream, cry, and crawl into a ball, and sometimes she does. Then she thinks. the best way to honor Sonny is to keep going. Take care of the things he cared about, and the people he loved; live life to the fullest. Josslyn says she learned that with Oscar, but living life to the fullest without the person you love can be hard sometimes. Carly says, it can be. It helps having the kids around, and makes it a little more bearable.

Diane tells Mac, this interview has reached the point of diminished return. In the absence of witnesses and evidence, is Jason free to go? Mac says, for now, but don’t leave town.

Laura tells Scotty, try to calm down, and he says he’ll go quietly. He sees Jason walking out, and asks why Jason’s not stuffed in a cage. He’s coming for Jason, and hell is coming with him.

Elizabeth asks Cameron if Jake and Aiden are asleep, and Cameron nods. She guesses she’ll tell them in the morning, and Cameron takes her hand and says, they’ll tell them together. She hugs him.

Mac says, Franco is dead. They’re in the beginning stages of the investigation, and Jason is a person of interest. He asks why Valentin and Anna are still there, and Valentin says, for Maxie’s sake. Peter says, only for Maxie’s sake, he’s going, but he’s not going to give up. The past is dead, and what they have is the future. He leaves, and Anna looks at Maxie.    

Tomorrow, Sam wants to return a favor, Anna tells Jackie that she has no one to blame but herself, Sonny asks if the game is still on, and Carly says she can’t lose Jason; she won’t.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Still at Lake George, Delores explained that she and David don’t sit and talk, so she has to walk away and defrost. Since they didn’t live together, they could do that. Marge called Joe #3, who told her the guys had gone out last night, but Evan didn’t join them. Marge asked if they’d talked about the situation, but Joe said no, which was clearly a lie, since we flashed back to them talking about the situation. Marge said they’d called Jackie, and she felt bad about it. Teresa called pool guy Tony, and said the girls had been checking out his Instagram. We saw his picture, and he’s pretty ripped. He said Adriana called him a mommy stealer. Marge joined the rest, and told them about the men going out. Teresa said she was thinking about Jackie, and was more madder [sic] now. In Jennifer’s interview, she said Teresa cools off, then thinks about it again, and remembers why she’s mad. She knows they’re done talking about it, but something else pops into her head. Marge suggested they enjoy the lake. What a concept.

In Jennifer’s interview, she said she and Melissa were getting along, and she didn’t want to ruin it. She would 100% want to know if there was a rumor about her or Bill, but she had to do this the right way. The women hung out on lounge chairs by the shore, and Delores said she didn’t feel the need to do something active. Melissa got on a swan float, Jennifer and Teresa did some kayaking, and Lexi used a paddle board. Teresa insisted Tony was her friend, and not for her. In Delores’s interview, she said there was nothing wrong with these guys, but Teresa had to get out of this small pond. Teresa said, when it was right, it would happen. In her interview, she said she was looking for attentive, sweet, and someone who could be lovey-dovey. She suggested if David didn’t make a move, that Delores kick him to the curb. Jennifer asked Melissa to stay behind while the others went back to the house to get ready for lunch.

Jennifer told Melissa, there was something on her mind that she didn’t want to bring up in front of the whole group. She asked Melissa if she knew Michelle, and Melissa said she’d interviewed them about Grow with Gorga, but she didn’t really know her. Jennifer said, at Jackie’s party, Michelle had mentioned their husbands were supposed to split a speaking fee 50/50, but Joe never paid, and it was in the tens of thousands. Melissa said, WTF? a few times, and asked what Jennifer was talking about. Jennifer told her not to shoot the messenger. She was just letting Melissa know what was going around. Melissa asked if Teresa knew, but Jennifer said Teresa never mentioned it if she did. She thought it was f***ed up that Michelle was talking smack about Teresa’s brother when she was friends with Teresa. They went back to the house, and Teresa asked what they were talking about. Melissa told her that Michelle was talking sh*t about Joe #2, saying Joe owed her husband money, but she never said anything to them. Teresa said she didn’t know anything about her brother’s business dealings, and who knew what went on? In Melissa’s interview, she told us, if someone had said that about Teresa, and they didn’t defend her, holy sh*t. Teresa said she and Michelle were meeting on Wednesday, so she’d see. Marge said it was unprofessional, and a good way to f*** up a business.

Melissa called Joe #2, and told him what Jennifer had said. Teresa said that Joe #1 never told her anything, and she went to jail. Joe #2 said he and Jon didn’t have a deal; a friend had hooked them up. Joe got a bill, and paid it. Months later, Jon asked how much Joe had made; it was out of left field. He thought Jon saw his success, and wondered how much he could get from it. Melissa said Teresa always brought the kooks around, but Teresa said Michelle had been nice to her. Melissa wondered if talking sh*t about her brother was being nice. In Melissa’s interview, she said when it came to Teresa defending her brother, there had always been a double-standard. Joe #1 talked sh*t in the press about Joe #2, and Teresa didn’t defend him. Teresa told Melissa that she would handle it, but Michelle was a great effing real estate broker.

Chef Kevin came to set up dinner outside. Meanwhile, Jackie’s brother Eric paid a visit, and in her interview, Jackie talked about how Eric had been stuck on a cruise ship for a month when he got covid. He was the only member of their family who’d gotten it, and she was already protective of him because of his learning disabilities. He told her that he was scared when he had the virus, but he was okay now, and Jackie told him a friend had been mean to her, and spread a rumor about the family. He said he hated that, but suggested she brush it off, and think of something that made her happy. In her interview, Jackie said her brother taught her to be a kind person, but she didn’t know if she could be as big, and let it go.

Kevin and his crew set up picnic tables, and candles in the grass, which seemed dangerous to me. The entrée was surf ‘n’ turf, and the women watched the sunset. Melissa asked if Teresa was on any dating websites, but Teresa said it would be in every tabloid if she did. Marge talked about her book deal, and said she was excited. The book was a bit of a memoir, but more about the pitfalls of business. She’d worked in the garment center in the 80s. She was 22, living in the city (NYC to you novices of East Coast lingo), and it was her first job. Her boss was good-looking, 20 years older, and wanted to sleep with her. So she did. She said it was a weird dynamic, and a different time. In Jennifer’s interview, she told us  that she’d never say something like that out loud, much less publish it. Marge said she wanted women to learn from it. Teresa brought up Jackie again, and in her interview, Jennifer said Teresa expected Jackie to move on, but the irony is, Teresa can’t stop talking about it. She’s beating it with a dead horse [sic]. Can any of these women form a proper sentence?

When they got back from Lake George, Marge met Jackie for lunch. She said everyone missed Jackie, but Jackie thought it was for the best. Teresa had spread something that could tear a family apart. Marge said she’d want to know, but in Jackie’s interview, she said if Teresa had been truly concerned, she could have pulled her aside. Instead, she told everyone except for her. Marge said she thought Teresa said unfiltered things without thinking of the repercussions, but Jackie asked if Marge was that gullible. She wasn’t having this conversation, because she knew Teresa was smarter than that. She wondered how Marge could forgive Teresa for encouraging Danielle’s assault on her, but Marge said forgiveness was for herself. Jackie asked if Marge forgave Danielle, and Marge said she was over it. Jackie said Evan wasn’t over it, and she wanted a party re-do. She didn’t want him to remember his birthday as sh*t.  

Michelle came with a photographer to take pictures of Teresa’s house, and told Teresa that it needed to be like a hotel room. They got one shot to make a first impression. As they went through the house, we flashed back to different scenes there over the years. Teresa said it was really happening, and she wanted to talk to Michelle alone. She told Michelle that she was getting cold feet, and Michelle asked if she was getting emotional. Teresa said she had anxiety, and asked Michelle why she hadn’t talked to Joe #2 about the payment issue. Michelle said it was between her husband and Joe, and didn’t affect anything, but Teresa said she wasn’t listing her house until it was cleared up. Then she’d feel more comfortable. Michelle agreed that her husband and Joe should talk (no doubt realizing she’d said the wrong thing), and she appreciated it. I’m willing to bet she was seething. I have to doff my cap to Teresa too, for having her brother’s back to that extent.   

Everyone got ready for Jackie’s party. Except for Teresa, who wasn’t invited. Frank said he was like a gay guy to Delores, and she called him her gay husband. Well, he kinda is. Bill called Jennifer, and said he had bad news. He’d been called in for an emergency surgery, and had to go to the hospital. He wasn’t going to make Jackie’s party. She said she was afraid Jackie was going to be a raging bull, ready to attack. Jackie told Evan that she wanted him to have a re-do, and he said the rumor thing was ridiculous. She said we were born with one name, and to have someone smear it was awful. Marge told Joe #3 that she was afraid if anyone defended Teresa, Jackie would go ballistic, and Joe #2 told Melissa that he was afraid there was going to be Teresa bashing. Jackie told Evan, the bottom line was that it was a re-do of his birthday, but also for him to feel supported. She said you had to know that some people in your circle valued you enough to have your back, and Evan said being supportive was the base of friendship.

They all met at an outdoor restaurant, where a game of cornhole was set up. Jackie told Evan that she was sorry about the first time around, and he said, sh*t happens. She said, tonight it was important to put this sh*t to rest. Jackie told Melissa and Joe #2, the Gia thing was an analogy (because we could not avoid that word for even one week), and it wasn’t her intention to really say something about Gia. Just in case they’re idiots. In Melissa’s interview, she said this was a different Jackie than the one a few days ago. She knew Jackie was so hurt, yet she was trying to do the right thing. Jackie said she’d never felt that low in her adult life. I’d say she’s blessed then. In her interview, Jackie said Evan loved the guys’ group, but had a career in finance. Evan explained that every rumor, even if it was bullsh*t, caused scrutiny. Joe #2 said he thought Teresa was just looking out for Jackie, and Evan said that was one of the dumbest things he’d ever heard in his life, making Joe laugh. In Joe’s interview, he said he told their father that he’d protect his sister. He looked like an idiot, but that’s his sister, and he had to back her up. They agreed a birthday party hadn’t been the place to bring it up.

Melissa said she was just putting it out there, but no one believed the rumor about Evan. Evan said, even if something is completely baseless, you couldn’t fully erase it. The guys played cornhole, and Jennifer told Jackie, there were clearly some things she couldn’t say to Teresa. Joe #2 asked Evan how Jackie felt when she heard the rumor, and Evan said she didn’t believe it for a second. Joe said if it had been Melissa, it would have been a different story, and Evan said, guilty until proven innocent. Jennifer told Jackie that she didn’t think Teresa was malicious, and had definitely been drinking. In Jackie’s interview, she said Jennifer couldn’t stop licking Teresa’s a-hole for a minute. Joe #2 said it was offensive to be called a cheater, and they had Evan’s back; they were his boys for life. Joe #3 said he’d be Evan’s alibi any time. In Frank’s interview, he said he didn’t care if the rumor was true or false, he just wanted Evan and Jackie to be happy. Joe #2 said they were sorry Evan hadn’t joined them the other night, and Joe #3 said they were hoping he’d bring the girls.

Jackie gave a toast, and said her first attempt at a party for Evan was destroyed, and she didn’t want it to be what they remembered. She loved him. In Jennifer’s interview, she said they were all tired of hearing about the rumor, but she’d rather Jackie be toasting about it than crying in a puddle.

Next time, Joe confronts Michelle’s husband, Melissa confronts Michelle, and Jennifer falls over drunk at a party.

📌 Sticking Around…

Apparently, Roger isn’t going anywhere, even if Franco is.

General Hospital’s Franco May Be Gone, But Roger Howarth *Isn’t*: ‘I’m Excited,’ He Says

📘 A Franco Primer…

It’s a never-ending source of amusement to me that James Franco was the original Franco.

What Happened to Franco on GENERAL HOSPITAL

🚫 Deny, Deny, Deny…

Joe #2 says his hands are clean.

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/10/melissa-and-joe-gorga-deny-owing-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars/

Marge weighs in. As she must.

Margaret Josephs Slams Michelle Pais For Saying Joe Gorga Didn’t Pay Her Husband

🎞 Cutting Room Floor…

Some Royal interview leftovers.

https://extratv.com/2021/03/08/what-you-didn-t-see-from-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-s-televised-interview-with-oprah/

👗 Red Carpet At Home…

Because you can never have enough fashion.

https://pagesix.com/2021/02/28/golden-globes-red-carpet-2021-photos-of-celebrities-at-home/

https://pagesix.com/2021/02/28/golden-globes-2021s-best-dressed-celebrities-at-home/

🎶 Grammy Playlist…

A list of who will be entertaining the entertainers.

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2021-grammys-performers-taylor-swift-bad-bunny-cardi-b-bts-billie-eilish-dua-lipa-megan-thee-stallion-post-malone-harry-styles

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/2021-grammy-performers-host

🏄🏽‍♀️ Sliding Into Thursday Like…

Another hump day has come and gone, the call of Mike, Mike echoing in the distant past. Tomorrow brings another episode of that horrible Hamptons house, and the eternal question of, can’t Bravo do better? And as you ponder that, stay safe, stay original, and stay giving a toast rather than crying in a puddle.

Mar8

March 7, 2021 – How Daryl Met Dog, How It Ends, Enter Mays, Josh Takes a Ride, Chaos Filmed, JimmyVision, Jen’s Called Out, Ex-Royal Bombshells & Bad

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

The Walking Dead

Dog! Daryl messes with his bike, and gets on. Carol comes by and picks up a map from the ground, and puts it in Daryl’s backpack. The engine isn’t turning over, and she asks if she ever told him about the pedal sewing machine her grandma had. She’d help when her grandma got tired. She said Carol had an especially strong right foot. He says, she followed him out there… She tells him, no one is following anyone, and he says, she wants to come, right? She says she wants to hunt what’s left to hunt, and he needs a spotter. The bike starts, and she gets on. He tells her that he didn’t say she could come, but he takes off, Dog running behind them as they bicker in fun.

They go through the woods. Carol gives Dog a snack, and Daryl says, five miles due south at the east gate. He tells her, stay close, and remember this spot in case she gets lost. She says she’s not going anywhere. Dog spies something, and they follow him to a dead deer. Carol says, the other deer are probably all gone by now. She suggests they find another spot, and Daryl says he’s thinking the river. She says, let’s do it, and they walk.

Carol stops, telling Daryl that she has a foot cramp. He hopes it’s not her very special strong right foot, and she says she’s fine; give her a minute. He thinks they should have gone the other way, but Carol says they should fish before noon. It’s worth a shot. He gives her a stick, and says, be his guest. He tells dog, watch this disaster, and Carol immediately gets a fish. He says, no way, and she shows him. He says, beginner’s luck. She guts and scales the fish, as he watches, and she tells him, say it. He doesn’t think she’s doing it right. He tells her, try closer to the bone, and she says she’s fileted fish before. Why doesn’t he do it himself? He says, it’s fine, but they should go. It’s going to be dark soon. They need to find a place to stay. Carol asks if he thinks their luck has run out, and he asks what she means. She says, Hilltop was hard for everyone to take, but at least they were there to fight for it. But losing Alexandria… He says, they didn’t, and she says, not yet. It feels different, like everything good in the world is not on their side anymore. He says, they’ll build and start over, and she says, until it happens again. They had a good long run; longer than most. He knows this world. The dead will catch up to them eventually. He says, if they let it. He’s not going to let it. He tells her, let’s go, when Dog takes off. Carol wonders if it’s another animal. He calls to Dog, and they follow.

They move faster, and Dog runs into a clearing, where there’s a cabin with a sun porch. Carol asks if Daryl is coming, and she and Dog go inside to investigate. Daryl sees a woman on the porch, petting Dog, but it’s just in his mind. He goes inside, and Carol is there with Dog. He looks around, and Dog acts all busy. Daryl looks out the window.

Five years ago. Daryl sits by the river. Dog as a puppy runs up to him, and he picks Dog up, kissing him, and wondering where he came from. Dog runs off, and Daryl follows. He finds a makeshift shelter, and takes out a map, putting it on the wall. He circles something, and keeps walking. He sees Carol across the river, and asks, what’s going on? She says, nothing, and he asks if she’s sure. She says, it doesn’t matter. Things are just different. He asks, how? and she says, it’s harder to talk; harder to trade. Maggie left. She took Herschel, and went with Georgie. She’s on her own journey now, like him. He says she knows she’s got to do this, right? She says she knows, and he asks how the kids are. She says she doesn’t know. It’s been two years. How long does he plan on staying there? He says he doesn’t know. As long as it takes. She asks if anything has turned up, and he says there’s a spot up the river that he’s going to check out. She says she does understand. If not for Henry and Ezekiel, and things going on back at the Kingdom… Daryl says he gets it. She should go. There’s a storm coming. Carol tosses him a backpack, and he thanks her. She tells him, be careful, and he says he will.

Daryl sees a lone zombie, and looks near it through binoculars, seeing an overturned canoe near the river. He stabs the zombie in the head, and rights the canoe, seeing a body underneath it. It starts to move, and he smashes its head with his foot. That’s one way to get your aggression out.

Daryl sits in the shelter as it storms around him. He realizes his map is getting soaked and damaged. He grabs it, yelling at the sky. Some of the shelter topples, and he walks out into the storm.

One year later. Daryl sees a knife or something sticking out of a tree. Dog is bigger now, and runs to the cabin, Daryl running after him. He follows Dog into the cabin, and kills a zombie. A woman comes out of another room with a shogun, and asks who the hell he is. Daryl puts his hands up, and she says she asked him a question. He says he’s leaving, and she says, no, you’re not.

Dog digs at the floor, and Carol asks if he found something. She pulls up the floorboards, and Dog gets excited. He pulls out a cuttle bone, and runs off with it. Carol asks if she lived here, and Daryl says, it was a long time ago. He goes outside, where Dog is chewing his bone on the porch. He says he already told Carol everything, but she says, no, he didn’t. He asks what else she wants to know, and she says, whatever he wants to tell her.

It’s night, and the woman pulls the downed zombie outside using the rug. Daryl sits by a fire, his wrists bound. He asks if she’s going to kill him, and she says, should she? He doesn’t say anything, and she says, that’s what she thought. Something tells her that he wants to die. Not today. He says she doesn’t know him, and she says, he’s right; she doesn’t. So she’ll ask him again, who the hell is he? What’s he doing out there on her land? He says his name Daryl. He didn’t come looking for trouble. Her dog found him. He was just trying to help. She says he’s tied up in her cabin with a 12-gauge pointed at his head. What kind of help does he think she needs? She lowers the gun, and takes out a pocket knife. She cuts him loose, and he says, she’s letting him go? She tells him, get out, before she changes her mind. He puts on his backpack, and heads for the door. He asks if she’s going to tell him her name, but she says, no.  

Six months later. Daryl is using a tree stump as a desk, when Dog runs up to him. They walk together, and the woman sees him heading toward the cabin. She thanks him for bringing Dog back. She says Dog likes Daryl, and Daryl says, he’s just a dog; he don’t know any better. If she won’t tell him her name, what about his? She says, Dog, and he says, just Dog? She asks if he’s got something better, and he says, no. At least he won’t forget what he is. She says, it’s not for everyone; living out in the wild and chasing the dead. He says, it catches up with all of them after a while, but she says, only if you let it. He says he’s going, and she tells him, be careful, and goes inside.

Eight months later. Daryl walks down the river in the water. In the forest, he gathers wood, and a bunch of zombies come out. He shoots one with his crossbow, and stabs another in the head. He hears a gunshot, and the woman motions for him to come. He follows her, and they hide behind a tree, as the zombies toddle past. They’re in pretty close proximity, and Daryl almost smiles. When the zombies are gone, he tells her that she needs to stay away from his camp, and keeps walking. She says, name’s Leah, as she walk in the other direction.

Three months later. Daryl heads for the cabin, and tosses a fish inside, but it’s quiet, and he leaves. While he warms his hands over a fire in the woods, a fish is flung at his head. Leah says she can catch her own damn fish, and he asks why she’s always throwing something at him. He was trying to be nice. She says she doesn’t need him to be nice. She doesn’t him to be need anything. She wants to be left the hell alone. He says he won’t bother her again, and she says, then she won’t come around again. He says, good, and she says, great; bye. He turns around, and says, she’s still there. He says he thought she was gone, and she says she is. He tells her that he gets it; being out there by herself. She asks if he’s been out there a long time too, and he says, he lost track a long time ago. She looks at his hands and asks if it’s frost nip. He says, no big deal; he’s had it before. She says, it’s not a big deal until you lose a couple fingers or a hand. Come on.

Daryl sleeps on the floor of the cabin, and wakes to Leah picking up pieces of glass from a frame. She says, it’s his birthday today, and he sees her looking at a picture of herself with a little boy. She says she didn’t have a family growing up. She knew she had to find her own way, her own family. She found it in her squad. They fought side by side for years, and when the world went to hell, they swore they’d stay together, fight together. They gave her hope, and she tried to give it to her son… Matthew was her son. She didn’t give birth to him, but he was hers. He was born of her sister; that’s what Leah called her anyway. Leah lost her when he was born. It doesn’t matter; he’s gone. She fiddles with her bracelet, and covers the floor hiding spot, smoothing the carpet over it. She walks past Daryl, brushing tears away, and looks out the window. She says she held Matthew tight, Dog’s mama next to her; she was pregnant. The dead came from all sides; there was so much screaming… so much blood. She cries, and says she was separated from her family, and she ran; it felt like she ran forever. She ended up there. Her boy was bit. She said goodbye to him the same day Dog was born, and hasn’t seen another soul since. She turns to him, and says, not until he came along. Who did he lose? He says, his brother, and she asks, how? He says, it was an accident. They never found the body. She asks if Daryl thinks he’s still out there, but he says he doesn’t know. He’s not stopping until he finds out. She says, always the hero, huh?

At the river, Leah shows Daryl the fish she caught. He says, lucky shot, and she gets another. He walks away, and Dog follows.

Daryl and Leah look at the moon, and she says, it’s beautiful, huh? They lie together next to the fire, and she motions him closer.

Ten months later. Daryl and Leah eat in silence, and he says if she’s not going to talk to him. She gets up, and he says, it’s only going to be for a few days. She wonders where he belongs. Out there on the river, looking for his dead brother, day after day after day? Or does he belong to the family he left because it became too hard to face what happened? Or does he belong there with her? He says he doesn’t know, and she says he does. She tells him that he has to choose, and leaves.

Carol approaches Daryl, as he’s looking at his map. She says she’s happy to see him too, and he says he’s just busy. He asks, what’s up? and she says she was going to ask the same thing. Does that mean he’s coming back? He says, no, and she gives him a sweater. He says, tell him why she really came, and she asks if she can’t bring a friend a gift. She came because she wanted to tell him that it will be a while before she comes back. He says, okay, and she says, things are tough at the Kingdom, and Ezekiel needs her there. He wonders if she’s asking permission, and she says, no. He says she doesn’t need to ask him to move on with her life, and she says, it’s just… He says she wants him to move on with his? She says she wants him to find some peace. She doesn’t want to lose him because he can’t figure out when to stop. He says she ain’t gonna lose him. He’s just got stuff to do.

Daryl walks through the woods. And walks. And walks. He runs.

Daryl calls for Leah. He sees the broken, now empty, frame, and looks around the cabin, but Leah isn’t there. Dog runs up to him. He packs up some cans, and writes a note. I belong with you. Find me. He puts it under the floor, and leaves with Dog.

On the porch, Daryl tells Carol that he should have been there. He could have helped her. She asks if he thinks Leah is alive, but he says he doesn’t know. She says, it’s possible Leah just left, and he says, what? She says, it’s not an accusation. He says he walked away, and she says he didn’t. He thinks that every time he loses something, it’s because of him. He says he made mistakes, and she says, they all do. Losing Leah isn’t on him. Neither is Rick, or Connie. He says, no. Connie on her, because she never knows when to stop. Carol says she’s sorry for Connie, but not sorry for going after the horde, or making Alpha pay for killing Henry, because she was right. He says, and that’s all that matters; you being right. She says, it’s not just about Leah, or Connie, or anyone else. Why doesn’t he say what he wants, that she shouldn’t have gone. He says she wanted to help, but she says she wanted to run, so she ran. What the skins did to Alexandria, she just couldn’t deal with the guilt. He says, that’s not his problem, and she says, his only problem is that he thinks he can save everyone. She doesn’t need a savior. She doesn’t need a martyr. She needs a friend. He says, friends don’t have the damn same conversation over and over again, and she asks if that’s what’s happening. He says, that’s what’s been happening. He’s sick of it. She says he should have let her get back on the boat, and he says he should have stopped her from running. She’s a runner. Run. He knows where he’s supposed to be, and won’t stop her this time. She says she was right. Our luck has run out, you and me. She tells him, no one is around except them, and it’s going be dark soon.

Next time, Gabriel wonders if think things are ever going to go back to the way they were (as we all do), Gabriel and Aaron explore, Gabriel meets a stranger, and Aaron puts a gun to his own head.   

⚰️ Sometime In the Future…

Sadly, Walking Dead will come to an end with season 11, but at least it will be stretched out due to the pandemic. There’s always an upside.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-showrunner-angela-kang-how-story-ends-season-11-final-season-summer/

🌱 Dead Newbie…

Speculation on new character Mays.

https://undeadwalking.com/2021/03/03/walking-dead-fan-theory-robert-patricks-mays-__________/

🏍 New Ride…

Josh Brolin was Norman’s guest rider on the first episode of the new season. It doesn’t ride any better than that.

https://www.amc.com/shows/ride-with-norman-reedus/episodes/season-5-the-north-island-of-new-zealand-with-josh-brolin–54234

💭 Note To Self: STFU…

I’ve never read this YA series, but it sounds like you literally wouldn’t be able to hear yourself think.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/chaos-walking-movie-review-tom-holland-daisy-ridley/

🦸🏼‍♂️ Jimmy’s Vision…

Jimmy Fallon parodies the world of Wanda.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/late-night-lately-a-very-special-wandavision-episode

👠 AShahlted…

Well, if you can’t pop off at your designer, who can you pop off at?

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/05/jen-shahs-designer-accuses-rholsc-star-of-verbal-assault-amid-audio-leak/

👑 In Case You Weren’t Watching…

All the bombshells that were fit to drop during the ex-Royals’ Interview.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/uk/oprah-harry-meghan-interview-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/meghan-markle-suicidal-thoughts-oprah-interview-48203318

https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/prince-harry-meghan-markle-oprah-interview-revelations-48201552

🚘 Another Weekend In the Rearview…

The Dead have come and gone, signaling the start of another workweek, or another stretch of seven days, depending on how pandemically affected you are. But regardless of the calendar you keep, stay safe, stay bouncing back from whatever life throws at you, and stay not having the same damn conversation over and over again with your friends.

Mar5

March 4, 2021 – Anna Tells Maxie and Finn the Truth, Summer House Is Still Awful, an Engagement, Covered In Clay, Jen Tells All, Wanda’s Grief, New Horror Story & Key’s Day

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Chase asks Jackie if Violet is okay, and Jackie says, she fell asleep watching a movie. He thanks her for getting Violet out of there, and she says she could tell things were about to go south. What ended up happening? He says, apparently, Anna knew Peter wasn’t her son, and didn’t tell Finn. He’s sure it was hard for her, so he’s trying not to judge, but how can you plan on marrying somebody, and keep something so major from them?

Finn is looking out the window, when there’s a knock at the door. It’s Anna, who asks if she can come in. He steps aside, and she says she’s sure he has a lot of questions. He says, just one. What else is she lying about?

Maxie tells Peter, she’s getting nervous. Why hasn’t he answered her? He says because he can’t believe she still wants to marry him, and she says, of course (🍷) she does. Her love for him hasn’t changed just because his mother has. He asks if she’s sure; he doesn’t want her pity. She says, the one she pities is Obrecht. She was so determined to wreck their lives, she made enemies out of everyone. What Peter does have is her love, her respect, and her heart. She hopes she still has his. He says she does, and he will marry her. Obrecht tells Valentin, Peter isn’t who Maxie thinks he is. The pretense of morality and kindness is all a lie. He’s a manipulator who can’t be trusted. He mustn’t be allowed to go home to her grandson. She owes it to Nathan to keep James safe. She walks over to Dante, and takes out her pen. Britt asks what she’s doing, and Obrecht says, what must be done; Maxie and James must be protected. Valentin practically shouts, sorry, Maxie. He can’t allow this wedding to continue. Not until she knows who Peter truly is. Maxie makes an exasperated noise, and asks Peter what Valentin is talking about. Peter says he doesn’t know, and asks Valentin, what the hell is he talking about? Valentin says, this has gone on long enough. It’s time the truth was brought to light.

At the MetroCourt bar, Carly asks Jax if everything is all right. He says, yes… Nina’s not returning his calls. He thought he’d run into her downstairs, but she skipped out on Maxie’s wedding. Carly says, that’s one sacred ceremony she can’t desecrate, and he makes a face. She says she thinks she might know where Nina is, or rather who she’s with. He asks, who? and she says, Wiley.

Michael opens the door to Nina, and asks her to come in. She thanks him for inviting her over, and he says he’s glad she could make it on such short notice. She says, is he kidding? She would have jumped off an airplane mid-flight to be there. She’s grateful, and thanks him for giving her a chance to get to know her grandson and be in his life. It means the world to her.

On the phone, Franco leaves a message for Obrecht, saying, he checked himself into the MetroCourt, just for the night, until he can check himself into Shadybrook tomorrow. If she feels like breaking into a hotel, give him a call back. There’s a knock at the door, and Franco opens it to Elizabeth and Cameron. He asks what they’re doing there, and Elizabeth says he didn’t bring much stuff with him, so they brought a few things to make it feel like home. Franco says he would have managed, but Cameron says, it was his idea. He got upset, and stormed off. He didn’t have a chance to say goodbye.

Valentin says Maxie needs to listen to him, and Peter says she doesn’t. She says, everyone needs to just stop. It doesn’t matter to her who Peter’s mother is. It doesn’t change her love for him. Valentin says it doesn’t change the way he feels either. He’s not condemning Peter because Alex is his mother. Peter condemned Peter through the actions he’s taken, and the choices he’s made. Peter is a liar. His redemption is a lie. You can’t have redemption if you lack the capacity to acknowledge who you really are. Peter clearly doesn’t have the courage to do that, so he’ll do it for him. Everyone waits…

Jax says, it was generous of Michael to allow Nina to have a relationship with Wiley, and Carly asks if he’s surprised. He says, of course (🍷) not. He’s sure Nina appreciates it. Carly says, she’s sure too, and he asks if she thinks Michael is wrong. She says she thinks Wiley should get to know his grandmother, but she’s still furious at Nina. Her behavior was out of line at Sonny’s grave, and she’d tell Nina to her face, but that’s between her and Nina, not Wiley. But she’s worried about Nina spending too much time with Wiley right now, not once things have settled down, and Nina has faced her new reality. It’s been one shock piled on another. Even before Nina found out Nelle was her daughter, she made excuses for Nelle, painting her as not as guilty as she was. Jax says, trying to redeem Nelle’s memory, and she says, if Nina allows that to bleed onto Wiley, what is that going to do to that little boy?

Willow sees Nina, and says, that was fast. Nina tells her, the name Wiley put some pep in her step. Can she see him? Willow says he’s playing with blocks, and brings Nina into the living room. She says, look who’s here to visit him, and Michael asks if he remembers Nina, his grandmother. Wiley nods, and I’m telling you, that kid is going places.

Franco tells Cameron, enough with the goodbye stuff, and Elizabeth says, it’s a temporary arrangement until the issue with the tumor is resolved. Cameron says, and if they aren’t? and Franco says, those are the only two options, but Terry says while the tumor isn’t shrinking, it’s not growing either. That’s good news. Elizabeth says, very good. It gives them time to figure things out. Franco takes a phone out of the suitcase, and says, what’s this?

Jackie tells Chase, she knows he’s protective of his brother, and he should be, but try not to be too hard on him. Relationships are more complicated than anyone outside of them knows. Chase says he’s figuring that out. He’s sorry for not realizing how strained things were between her and Gregory. He had such an amazing childhood, and so many fun memories. That’s all he knew. She says, it’s all he should know. As a kid, of course, you want your parents to be perfect, and want your world to be secure, and that’s what your parents want for you too. But the truth is, we’re all making it up as we go along, and none of us is perfect. We’re doing the best we can, and sometimes it’s enough, but sometimes it’s not.  

Finn says, Anna knew since she got the lab results that Peter wasn’t her son? and she says, yeah. He says, and the plan was to never tell him? She says, there was no plan. When we found out the truth, we realized everything had to be contained. Finn says, we? and she says, her and Valentin. He says, so she trusted that little weasel more than she trusted him.

Peter says he doesn’t know why Valentin is doing this, but Valentin says, yeah, he does. Maxie asks if someone can get Valentin out of there, and Mac starts to move, but Robert stops him, and says he thinks Maxie should listen to Valentin. Peter says he thought Valentin cared about him all these years, and Valentin says he does. Peter is the man he is today because of the actions Valentin took. Don’t think that’s ever been lost on him. That’s why he promised to protect Peter from Jason, but he’s not going to allow Peter to hurt anyone else, definitely not Maxie.

Franco looks at the phone, and asks what phone it is; it’s three models ago. Cameron says Franco might want what’s on it. Franco said he was suffering some side effects of what Shiloh did. When he thought he was Drew, and they were about to do the procedure to bring him back, he asked for a phone to record something on. Elizabeth says, Drew left a video, the one Franco has put off watching for over a year. Cameron says he thought it might help Franco understand the voices he’s hearing, and Franco says, cool, thanks. Cameron says, he’s not going to listen? and Franco says he’d do anything to get Drew out of his head, and looks in the suitcase, wondering what else is in there.

Carly tells Jax, she’s worried Nina is going to tell Wiley her version of who Nelle was, and they know that version is a lie. He says, yes, but it’s not like they can have an open conversation about Nelle. She says, no kid that age should know their mother was insane and a killer, but he shouldn’t believe in a fantasy that’s only going to be shattered. What if when he gets old enough, he does research, and finds out on his own who Nelle was? Jax says, he’ll be devastated, and she says, that’s why she thinks, while he’s still young, they shouldn’t tell him much at all. When he asks, they’ll say Nelle was troubled and had problems; keep it vague. When he’s mature enough to understand, they can tell him that Nelle had a terrible and abusive childhood, and grew up to do terrible, abusive things. Jax says, and Carly doesn’t think Nina is in a place to understand and abide by that? and she says she knows Nina isn’t. But it’s Willow and Michael’s decision, and she has to honor that. She’s scared that their best intentions will turn out awful for Wiley.

Anna tells Finn, she knows how it looks. When everything happened with Jordan and Curtis, she was afraid they were headed down the same road. He says, it’s not the same. He knew what he was getting into when he fell in love with her. He knew certain parts of her life existed in the shadows, but he didn’t think she’d keep secrets from him, and confide in someone else. She says she’s sorry, but he says he doesn’t want an apology; he wants an explanation.

Maxie tells Valentin, this isn’t news to her. She’s aware Peter was coerced by Helena and Faison into kidnapping Drew. Valentin says, but Peter wasn’t an unwitting pawn. He was trying to double-cross his father with Helena’s help. Peter asks why Valentin is lying, and Valentin says, Helena wanted it done, and Peter orchestrated the whole thing, but it was a long time ago. The point is, Peter knew what he did was wrong, and in working to cover it up, he did something much worse in the process. Maxie says, like what? and Peter says, she knows Valentin is a liar. She says she needs to know what Valentin is accusing Peter of. What is this horrible act that was so much worse than anything else? Valentin says, Peter brought down Drew’s plane, and she asks if he’s saying Peter is responsible for murdering Drew. Valentin says, yes.

Sam heads toward Peter, but Robert holds her back. She says, you son of a bitch. She knew it. He killed Scout’s father. Maxie says, it can’t be true, and Obrecht says it’s why she was released. Peter framed her for his crimes. Robert says he suspected as much, and Maxie says, because Robert hates Peter. Peter says, this is absurd, and suggests he and Maxie get out of there, but Mac says he’s not taking Maxie anywhere. Valentin says, first, Drew’s plane went down, and looks at Sam and asks, then what happened? Sam says she was kidnapped by Shiloh, and Valentin says, Shiloh knew Peter was responsible for Drew’s kidnapping. That’s why Peter arranged Shiloh’s escape, and was on the pier with a bag of money. He wasn’t buying an apartment; he was paying Shiloh off. Covering up one crime by committing a worse one in the process.

Franco asks Cameron if he’s going to be buying sunscreen and visors to visit him in California, and Cameron says, no one wears visors. Franco says he loves a visor. Lots of people like them. Cameron isn’t answering his question. Cameron tells Franco, remember when he said he wanted less Drew inside his head? and Franco says, oh, he gets it. Cameron doesn’t want to be pestered about college. Cameron says he catches on fast; good for him. Franco says he’s super smart; everyone says so. Elizabeth’s phone dings, and she says, it’s the hospital. She has to go in. Cameron says he’ll hang out for a few minutes, and meet her back at home, but Franco says, it’s not safe for Cameron to stay there.

Jax says he knows Carly is in a different headspace where Nina is concerned, but he feels terrible. They made a huge mistake in not telling Nina that Nelle was her daughter, and a bigger mistake forgetting Wiley was her grandson. She says, not on purpose, and he says, that doesn’t make right. They don’t get to decide if Nina gets to have a relationship with Wiley. She says she agrees 100%, and he says, it’s actually a blessing… Hear him out. Nina gets to have  a relationship with her grandson without Nelle around. Even though she might not realize it, it’s the best thing for Wiley. Carly says, amen to that, and he says he knows he doesn’t get a say, but Carly is right. He doesn’t think Nina is capable of seeing Nelle for who she was. Nina sees her as a victim. Carly says, that’s the picture Nina will paint, Nelle the way she wanted her to be, and Jax says, that’s okay now, but it would be sad if it was a pattern that got laid down. Without realizing it, Nina could inflict pain and grief on her grandson. I guess these two still haven’t learned not to make decisions for other people.    

Wiley smashes whatever he was building with his monster truck, and Michael tells Nina, Wiley is in a phase where all the building part is just a means is total destruction. Nina says Nathan was like that. He’d have her spend hours constructing a huge tower, just to have him take it out like Godzilla. Michael looks at his phone, and says, stuff is going down at Aurora. He’ll be back. Willow asks Wiley if mommy can help him build.   

Jackie tells Chase that she and Gregory were happy for a long time. She doesn’t want him thinking he grew up in a lie. For three decades she had the most wonderful family, including an amazing son. He says, go on, and she says she could, for hours. He still brings her that joy. She wouldn’t give up the years with him or his father for anything. There were times when she and his dad were on their own tracks; when tracking a story was too tempting not to go after. Maybe she shouldn’t have. Looking back, there are a thousand things she wishes she’d done differently, but it’s just… Chase says, life, and she says, yeah. Life.

Anan tells Finn that Valentin came to her, and told her that Peter was way more culpable in Jason and Drew’s kidnapping than he’d admitted, and he’d gone to great lengths to cover it up. Meaning, that he’d had Drew’s plane sabotaged, and arranged for the assassin to kill Andre and Franco. Finn asks when she found this out, and she says, a couple of days ago. She realized she could no longer be in denial about Peter’s guilt, and pretend his redemption was anything other than a show. They decided Peter couldn’t marry Maxie… Finn says, so they had Peter abducted on his wedding day. She says, yeah, but she did this with Valentin not because she trusts him more than Finn, but because he understands the complexities of her relationship with Peter. Finn says, and he doesn’t? and she says, Valentin had the same relationship with him. She didn’t want Finn anywhere near this. He’s such a good man, she just didn’t want him to be part of the whole tragic, sordid mess. He thanks her for making the decision for him, and she says she knows he’s angry. She doesn’t blame him, but she can assure him that she didn’t know any of this. She didn’t want to accept how bad Peter really was. She starts to cry, and says, it’s not an excuse. It’s the truth. He says, because of her, he allowed his daughter to be around a murderer, and she says she would never let Violet be in any danger. He says, because of her, the wedding Violet thought she was going to be a part of, was never actually going to happen, because she was too busy playing spy games with Valentin. She says, it happened so fast, there was no time to tell him. He asks if he was really that much of an afterthought.

Willow asks if Wiley thinks he can build the tallest skyscraper ever. Show mommy. Nina says, maybe he’ll grow up to be an architect, and Willow says, may be. It’s kind of wild for her and Nina to be part of the same family, playing games together. Nina says, they’ve come a long way, and Willow says, they’re both in a better place. She certainly is. Nothing can make up for losing a child, but it meant so much for Michael to say he wanted her to stay in Wiley’s life. Nina says, not just stay, but legally adopt. After all that heartache, she’s still Wiley’s mom. The doorbell rings, and Willow opens the door to Carly, who trots in. She says she was texting with Michael, and he said Nina was coming by. How’s it going? Willow says, great. She thinks it will be good for both Nina and Wiley. In the living room, Nina tells Wiley that she’s his grandma, like Grandma Carly, but she’s not his mommy’s mommy. That’s not how they’re related. Wiley laughs, probably because he has no clue what anyone is saying, but it’s fun to build and smash stuff.

Cameron tries to argue, but Elizabeth says she can’t get into it now; she has to get to work. Cameron says, go. He’ll be fine for a few minutes. Franco says his mom is right. He woke from a nightmare, and attacked Cameron. Cameron says, that’s such an exaggeration, and Franco says his head’s not right. Cameron says he can’t believe this. Fine. Is Elizabeth coming with him, or is it okay for her to be there alone with Franco? Elizabeth says she’ll be there in a minute; she’ll meet him in the lobby. Franco tells Cameron, wait, and thanks him for bringing the stuff. He’ll see Cameron in a little bit. Cameron leaves, and Franco tells Elizabeth that she shouldn’t be there. If he’s a potential threat to Cameron, he’s a potential threat to her.  

Robert says he knows it’s painful, but it makes sense, and Maxie says, except for one thing. Anna knew all this? Valentin says, she did, and Maxie says, Anna would never do that to her. Anna loves her, and she knows Anna would never let that happen. If what Valentin is saying is true, Anna would have told her.

Anna tells Finn that she was wrong; she knows that. She just couldn’t see her way out, which makes her no different than Peter. She was selling him on a lie that she was sharing her life with him, and she wasn’t. She thought she was protecting him, but she was really just protecting herself, trying to avoid this moment. He phone rings, and Finn says, don’t answer. She says, it’s Robert. It’s going to be about Peter and Maxie. She asks Robert, what is it? and he tells her, get down here right now. All the information she and Valentin have been hiding is going to hit the fan. He doesn’t know how Peter is going to react if he’s pushed in a corner. She says she understands, and Finn asks if she needs to go. Anna says she wants to work this out, and he says, she has other properties. She says she’s so sorry; she really is. Finn says, so is he, and she leaves.

Jackie tells Chase, everything will be okay. He’s seen her and Gregory. It’s not like they can’t be in the same room; just the opposite. He says, it’s weirdly cordial, and she says they have too much mutual respect for it not to be. He says, it’s getting late. Does she think he should take Violet? She says, probably. She’d love for Violet to stay there, but she’s still practically a stranger. Violet will be more comfortable with him. He says he’ll get her, and she says she loves him. He says he loves her too.

Maxie tells Peter, she’s right, isn’t she? Everything Valentin is saying is a lie. Peter says, of course (🍷) it is. Valentin is the man who lied to Nina for years, and literally trades in secrets. He doesn’t know what game Valentin is playing – Valentin says, no game – but all that matters is he loves her. She has no reason to believe Valentin. Anna appears, and says Maxie has every reason to believe her though.

Willow brings Carly into the living room, and says, how lucky is Wiley? Two grandmothers in one night. Carly asks Wiley for a hug, and says, it’s so good to see him. Is he having fun with Nina? He says, yeah, and Willow suggests Wiley get in his PJs. Then he can come down and play afterward. She takes Wiley upstairs, and Nina asks if Carly is checking up on her. Carly says, no… Actually… Well… she wants to acknowledge that she may have been too blunt. Nina says, that doesn’t sound like an apology, and Carly says, it wasn’t. They both have good reason not to trust each other, but she assumes they both want what’s best for Wiley. Nina says, yes, and Carly suggests they just leave at that.

Franco says it’s not just that he’s being honest with Elizabeth, but he’s being honest with himself. There’s a realistic possibility that these violent outbursts – she says, just one – are going to get worse. She says he sounds like Jason, and he says, Jason’s not wrong. She says, yes he is when it comes to Franco. Jason doesn’t know him like she does; he doesn’t know them. She tells him that she’s scared, and he asks her to come over to him. She sits next to him on the bed, and he holds her. She says she wants to make things perfectly clear; she’ll never give up on him. It doesn’t matter how dark things get, or how dismal things are, she’ll always be his champion. Not just because of what he does for her, but because she loves him. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. He says, okay. Good enough. He hands Elizabeth her phone, and she says she’ll call him later. She leaves, and he looks at the phone Cameron brought. 

Anna tells Maxie, everything Valentin said is true. Obrecht says, let her guess. Anna has known Peter was guilty the whole time, and allowed her to rot… Anna says, get this woman out of her face or she’ll lose her mind, and Obrecht says Anna’s mind isn’t the only thing she’s about to lose. Valentin drags Obrecht out, still talking, and Anna tells Maxie that she’s sorry. Maxie says, no, because if it was true Peter did those horrible things and Anna knew, Anna would have told her. Anna says she didn’t know until recently. She had her doubts, but she thought she was being paranoid. She thought Peter had changed, but he hadn’t. Maxie asks, when did she have doubts? For how long? Anna says, really too long. She’s sorry. Everyone looks like they’re either pissed off or going to cry. Or both.

Nina picks up her coat, and Michael asks if she’s heading out. Nina says, it’s getting crowd… late. She thanks him for inviting her. Willow comes back with Wiley, and Nina says, perfect timing. She picks Wiley up, and says it was wonderful spending time with him. Willow says, just ten more minutes, and then straight up to bed, and Nina thanks them for thinking of her. Carly asks if Willow is okay, and Willow tells her, Wiley just said she’s not his real mommy. Carly looks at Nina. Okay, my suspension of disbelief is lacking here. Wiley is cute and smart, but there’s no way he got that from what Nina said. I don’t even think he could form that kind of sentence yet.

There’s a knock at Jackie’s door, and she asks if Violet forget something, but it’s Finn.

Franco sits on the floor, and leans against the bed. He looks at the phone, and presses play. He appears on the screen, and says, hi, Franco; it’s Andy. He needs to tell Franco a few things.  

At the MetroCourt bar, Valentin thanks Obrecht for interrupting the wedding. If she hadn’t, he would have had to. She says she’s shocked that he abandoned Peter at the end, but he says he didn’t have a choice.  Anna was willing to go through with it, but if Maxie had married Peter, she would have never been able to live with herself. She says, his devotion to the scarecrow is annoying at best, but this time, it worked to her advantage. And Maxie’s. At least now, she’ll finally be free of Peter. He says, let’s hope so.   

Anna tells Maxie, she knew last year Peter was closely associated with the company who sent the assassin, the man who made the attempt on Andre and Franco’s lives. Peter says he stopped the attack, and she says, amazing that he happened to be there at just that moment. He says, it was luck, and she tells him, just stop. He knew the assassin was there, because he hired the assassin to be there. She tells Maxie that she chose to cover up the connection because she didn’t believe it, for the same reason Maxie doesn’t believe it. She can’t bear the fact that Peter is guilty, but he is. He confessed everything to Valentin. Valentin told her, and she confronted Peter. Peter says they’re both lying. They’re in this together. Anna says, no. She confronted Peter, and gave him every opportunity to tell the truth, but he didn’t; he lied. It made her realize that he will always lie. She doesn’t think it’s his fault, but the man Maxie loves just never existed. Peter says, enough of this. He tells Maxie, let’s get out of here; he’ll explain everything. Mac says, the hell he will, calls Peter a son of a bitch, and punches him in the face.

Maxie sits down, breathing heavily, and Britt and Sam rush over to her. Maxie says, the baby, and Britt says, just breathe. Maxie glares at Peter.  

Tomorrow, Carly asks Nina if she thinks it’s a good idea, Jackie asks Finn if he can get past it, Peter asks if he’s being arrested, and Dante asks Sam if she’s going to tell Jason what happened.

🏖 Since I had the time, I actually paid attention to Summer House. Carl found out his brother had died from an overdose. I have to admit, although I don’t like these people (with the exception of Hannah, who I think is just young), Carl is the most mature of the bunch, and actually seems to be working on himself as a person. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, so all this has gotten him so far is being the designated watcher, since no one is driving anywhere. These are the last people I’d want to go through a tragedy with. Or a victory. Or anything for that matter. Amanda and Hannah compared notes on who attacked who first, and it was all, no, you. Hannah was the clear winner, since Amanda had thrown a glass at her. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but a wine glass could take an eye out. The guys scattered, while the girls all listened in. This was really nice too, considering Carl was trying to keep it together. Kyle tried to turn everyone against Hannah, saying she was out of control, but again, insulting someone vs throwing an object at them that’s not a pillow? The majority couldn’t give a flying, as long as they weren’t in the line of fire. No surprise, Carl couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

As I’m typing this, I realize nothing really ever happens on this show. And this season, they’re even working from home, but still nothing. Ciara still seems pretty sane, but give her time. She tried to explain to Luke that, relationship or not, he should have treated Hannah with more respect. Ergo, she wasn’t interested in more than friendship with him. For Lindsay’s birthday, Stephen got food from the restaurant where he’d asked her to be his girlfriend. He set up a fish and chips dinner outside, and I thought that was pretty romantic, but she told him that she had higher expectations than just going through the motions. I guess she wanted to be wined and dined in the middle of quarantine? They argued, and Stephen split in an Uber. I don’t know if I was missing something, but it seemed like Lindsay just wanted to start sh*t, and then was shocked when Stephen left. Hannah thought she should order some sage for the house, and Kyle said it was the worst day of all time.

Next time, Lindsay says there’s no coming back from it; Hannah says Kyle thinks he’s boss of the house, but he isn’t; and Kyle gets whacked in the balls with a croquet ball.

💍 Officially Moved On…

It no longer matters what zone she’s in with Luke.

https://extratv.com/2021/03/03/summer-house-star-hannah-berner-engaged-to-des-bishop/

⚱️ Countess Of Clay…

Why? Who knows?

https://pagesix.com/2021/02/22/luann-de-lesseps-strips-down-on-vacation-covers-herself-in-clay/

👠 Shah-mazing…

Jen talks about changes, feelings, and a new season to come.

https://www.distractify.com/p/jen-shah-rhoslc-season-2

🦸🏼‍♂️ Profound Marvel…

As WandaVision comes to a close, Vision becomes more poetic.

https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/wandavision-grief-love-persevering-line-director-matt-shakman/

🧿 A Different Spin On the Story…

American Horror Story will be changing it up this season. And this has to be the shortest teaser in the history of the world.

‘American Horror Stories’ Reveals It’s Own Horrors in Short Teaser

✌🏽 Peace Out…

See you for soaps and tea tomorrow, but until then, stay safe, stay reliable, and stay not serving fish and chips to someone with high expectations.

Mar4

March 3, 2021 – Peter Learns the Truth, Teresa Can’t Be Convinced, Jennifer’s Dad, Marge On Kids, Lee’s Upcoming Projects, More Globes, the Spot & Start

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Of all days, I was running late, but this is what I missed. Carly and Michael talked about missing Sonny, and Michael said he told Wiley about Sonny all the time. Carly said Nina was in denial, and wanted to turn Nelle into a wronged innocent, but Michael said they’d been through worse. Nina met Ava at the Bistro, and Ava wondered why Nina wasn’t at the wedding. Nina said Maxie had disinvited her. She told Ava that Maxie believed she was still upset about Nelle, but Nina also thought Maxie didn’t want to be reminded of Nathan. Ava was clueless about Nelle, and Nina explained Nelle was her daughter. Ava was glad Nina learned the truth, even if it hadn’t been a happy ending. Nina said she knew Jax would always choose Carly over her, and told Ava about what happened on the cliff, and how she’d heard Carly and Jax talking about it, and confronted them at Sonny’s funeral. Curtis came back from taking a call, and wondered what was going on, and Sam told him about Obrecht crashing the wedding. Maxie accused Obrecht of kidnapping Peter, and said Obrecht was a fugitive, but Obrecht said she had nothing to do with it, and she’d been released. She showed Robert her paperwork, and he said it was legit. She said she’d been exonerated of her crimes, and they could call the WSB to verify it. Robert called, and confirmed it was true. And then…

Michael tells Carly that he feels badly about the scene Nina created at Sonny’s grave, but he wishes it had been enough for her, and she didn’t feel the need to follow up with the FBI and the police. Carly says, fortunately, they didn’t believe a word Nina had to say, and Michael says, it’s over from a legal standpoint, but won’t be good for Wiley if Nina keeps blaming Carly for Nelle’s death. She says that’s the exact reason she went to Nina’s office; she wanted to straighten things out. He says, that’s a nice way of putting it, but be honest. She went to Nina’s office to lay down the law, didn’t she?

Robert says, the WSB exonerated Obrecht, and she was given a full release. Jordan says she thought the evidence was air-tight, and Maxie asks why Obrecht is trying to ruin her special day. Obrecht says, new evidence has come to light that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that she never committed any of those crimes. Curtis says, if Obrecht wasn’t responsible, who was? 

Obrecht says she’s not privy to the workings of the WSB, but believes they have a suspect under investigation. From the evidence they’ve gotten so far, it was suggested she be exonerated. She’s a free woman. Lucy says she’s creating a huge nuisance, and asks Obrecht to find the nearest exit, and let her join these couples in wedded bliss. Obrecht says, no one is getting married, but Maxie says she’s marrying Peter. Obrecht says if she does, it will be her final mistake, but it’s no surprise, given the pack of lies she’s been told by the people she trusts most. Anna says Obrecht wasn’t invited; just get out. Maxie tells Obrecht, what she said, and looks at Peter.

Nina asks Ava if she should be sorry for caring about her daughter, and being upset because her life was cut short. She was angry because Carly might have helped, but chose not to. She complained to Jordan, who notified the FBI because Nelle’s body was found across state lines. They questioned Carly, and even though she lied to the police for months, she was cleared of any wrongdoing. Ava says, there were no witnesses or evidence, so it’s pretty standard, and Nina says, Carly thinks she was acting irrationally, and being vindictive because she wants justice. She told Nina that if she continues to spiral, she’ll lose everything, including Wiley. She said Nina would have no one else to blame but herself. Ava says, oh boy. She hates to say it, but in this particular instance, Carly might be right.

Carly tells Michael, she made it clear there can’t be another scene like the one at Sonny’s grave. Then she highly suggested Nina work things out with Jax, and not dwell on the past. Michael says that’s why he and Willow brought Wiley to see Nina, so he can get to know his grandma. She says she gets that, but she was completely blindsided when she found them in Nina’s office. Michael says, not that he can’t guess, but how does it make her feel?   

Obrecht says she’s not going anywhere. She objects to this marriage; Maxie’s, not Anna’s. If Anna and Finn want to inflict their misery on each other, feel free, but they’ll have to take their vows another time. Chase says if she doesn’t leave, he’s going to arrest her for trespassing, and Obrecht says if they won’t listen to her, maybe they’ll listen to Anna’s twin Alex. Anna says, she’s dead and can’t hurt anyone anymore, but Obrecht says, Alex left a gift for Anna, and especially for Peter. She plays the video. Alex says, hello, Peter. If he’s seeing this, she’s probably dead, which is so unfortunate, but she didn’t want the truth to die with her.

Carly tells Michael, of course (🍷) she thinks Wiley should have a relationship with Nina – at some point. She doesn’t think it needs to be right this minute, especially if Nina is holding on to her fantasy about Nelle, and imposes it on Wiley. He says, Wiley doesn’t remember Nelle, and Carly says, that’s why she thinks it’s healthier for everyone to take a step back. Nina should go to grief counseling, and can see Wiley when she’s ready. It will be better for both of them.

Nina says, Ava is siding with Carly? Has the world ended? Ava says, it’s still spinning, and asks Nina to put herself in Carly’s position for just a second. She was at her husband’s grave, facing life without him, when Nina showed up confrontationally, crashing the party, so to speak. Nina says, in retrospect, she could have handled it better, but at the time, she was grieving. Ava says, of course (🍷) she was, but to make it worse, she went to the cops, and she had to know how angry that would make Carly. Nina says she didn’t care. She turned her back on Nelle when she was alive. The least she could do is defend Nelle in death. Ava says, hindsight is not always 20/20, and can obscure what really happened. Nina says she went on the stand, and testified against her own daughter, but Ava says, she told the truth. Nina says, if not for her ruining Nelle’s chance of custody, she wouldn’t have run with Wiley, fell, and gotten killed. Ava says, everyone knows that she’s no fan of Carly’s, but Carly was grieving the loss of her husband, and when Carly feels attacked, she fights back. Trust her, Carly will not back down.

Curtis tells Sam, this shouldn’t be happening here, and suggests they put a stop to it. They leave, and on screen, Alex says her sister is quite lethal when she’s threatened, and she’s afraid of the truth. Anna takes the remote, but Obrecht says she’s already texted Alex’s speech to everyone. Anna can’t stop the truth. Anna says, not in front of everybody, but Obrecht says, who’s fault is that? Anna didn’t tell them, so it’s her duty to protect Nathan’s widow and her grandson. Alex says she left this with her ex-husband Dimitri, and he agreed to send it if she didn’t return. She has something important to tell Peter; something that will change his life. Something Anna knows, and most likely neglected to tell him. She’s the one who slept with Faison, not Anna, and in the night they spent together, they created new life – him. Anna is not his mother. She is. Peter starts to cry, and Alex says if he doesn’t believe her, ask Anna. She’ll tell him. Everyone gives each other soap looks.    

Sam tells Curtis, it looks like they weren’t soon enough, and Peter asks Anna if it’s true. Maxie says, no. Alex was crazy, and hated Anna. She tells Anna to let Peter know it’s a lie, but Anna says she can’t; it’s true. Alex was Peter’s mother. Peter asks, why lie? Why did Alex give him to her? Valentin says, Alex gave the memory to Anna because she couldn’t live with what she’d done, and Peter says, he knew too? Valentin says, yes, he did, and Maxie says, this is what Obrecht meant at the cemetery when she said Peter wasn’t the man he thinks he is. Finn says, Anna knew all along from when Faison’s DNA was tested, and Anna says she’s sorry. He says, tell Peter, not him, and she says she can explain. Finn walks out, and she follows. Chase intercepts her, and says, let him talk to Finn. He tells Finn, wait up, but when he catches up to Finn, Finn shakes him off.   

Obrecht tells Britt, she couldn’t allow Maxie to marry a man who was lying to her, but first, Anna’s halo needed to be removed. Britt says Obrecht stopped the wedding, but Obrecht says, actually, her mission is not yet complete.

Jordan says she wishes she had the authority to arrest Obrecht, and Chase says, it proves that lies, even for the right reason, always end up hurting someone. Jordan says she knows all about that, and Willow says, there’s always forgiveness. She tells Chase that she thinks it’s safe to say the wedding is over. Does he want to leave? He says he’s going to stick around and check on his brother, and she says he’s a good guy. He tells her he’s trying. He says he’ll call her, and she leaves.

Michael asks if Carly doesn’t think the more people who love Wiley, the better. That’s what he had as a kid, and it’s not so bad. She says, Nina will bring up Nelle every chance she gets, and spin it, saying Nelle was a sweet, sensitive person who got a raw deal, instead of telling him the truth. His mother was a psychopath who gave him away at the side of the road. He says, Wiley is going to find out, and they can’t lie about who his birth parents are. She says she’s not suggesting they do. When Wiley is old enough to understand, they’ll tell him the truth. His biological mom died before he knew her. When he’s mature enough, they’ll explain she had severe problems. Wiley will process things on his own timetable, not Nina’s.

Nina tells Ava, she’s Wiley’s family, and she’s going to be a presence in his life. Ava says she gets that. She’s just telling Nina that if she chooses to declare war, Carly will use every weapon in her arsenal to keep Nina away. Doesn’t she see a way of giving peace a shot?

Obrecht says Robert promised to look after Maxie, and keep her safe from Peter. He broke his promise. He says, so she decided to turn up, and blow up the wedding. She says she wouldn’t have if Peter had been proven guilty. She had no choice but to bring him to justice herself. He says he doesn’t see any justice, just broken hearts, and she says, if he thinks that’s bad, just wait. More is coming.

Maxie tells Peter, it makes sense. All the things Alex said to them, she wasn’t speaking as his aunt, but as his mother. Mac says, none of this is Maxie’s fault, and she says, what about Anna? She’s just as bad. She knew the truth, and she lied.

Anna approaches Peter, who asks why she lied to him. She says, because he needed to believe she was his mother, and he says she had no right to make that decision for him. She says, no, but she thought she was protecting him. He wanted a second chance after the horrific life with his father; a chance at love, a chance with Maxie. He asks how long she knew, and she says she always suspected, but didn’t know until last autumn. He says she kept the secret all this time, and Anna tells him to understand this doesn’t have to destroy his life. He’s in control. He says, not anymore. He’s never going be the man Maxie wanted.

Ava says Nina needs to be careful how she approaches Carly. Apologize for the confrontation at the grave, even if she doesn’t mean it. Nina says she did apologize to Willow and Michael, and Ava says, that’s a great start. Nina says they brought Wiley to her office, and it put her in a gracious mood. It was lovely. She got to play with Wiley, and hold him, and they suggested she babysit. Ava says, great. So Michael is open to letting Wiley be in her life. Nina says she thought it was great too, until Carly arrived, and threated to blow it to pieces.    

Michael says, Nina is Wiley’s family, and he’s not going to deprive Wiley of his grandmother, the same way he wouldn’t deprive Wiley of Carly. Carly says he can’t trust Nina not to go off the deep end, but he says, raising children is all about trust. You trust they’ll be healthy and happy, do well in school, eat their vegetables, and play well with others. And you trust that love will make it better. He’s saying this as Wiley’s father, and Willow, as Wiley’s mother, agrees with him. It will make everything easier on Wiley, especially if Carly is on board. Willow comes in, and says, sorry to interrupt. Michael wonders why she’s back so soon, and she says, neither wedding happened. Peter disappeared, and Dante found him locked in the utility closet. Carly says, she’s kidding, and Willow says she wishes she was. Peter was fine, and the wedding started. It was underway, when Obrecht arrived. Michael says he thought she was in prison, but Willow says, she was exonerated, and had real paperwork to prove it. It went back and forth for a while, and Maxie asked Obrecht to leave, when Obrecht played a recording from Alex. Apparently, she’s really Peter’s mother. Carly says, it came out at the wedding? and Willow says she felt terrible for Anna, especially when Finn walked out. Carly says, Finn left Anna (looking a little too greedy for gossip IMO), and Willow says she guesses all of the revelations were too much, and he took off. Chase is worried about him.

Jordan says she’d have given anything to haul Obrecht away, and Curtis says, when Obrecht objects to a wedding, she goes all out. Lucy wonders if the apple would fall that far from the tree, and Peter could be like his mother. Jordan says she never trusted him; he seemed to have a secret agenda, and he published the article on Franco’s medical records. Curtis says, it had him questioning Peter’s motive, and Jordan says she put it aside because Peter made Maxie happy, and helped her get over Nathan’s death. Curtis says, it could still happen, no matter who Peter’s mother is, and Lucy says, she thinks it matters to Peter more than anyone else. Curtis says, except Finn. He had no idea Anna was keeping that big of a secret. At least he found out before they got married. He leaves, and Lucy asks, what was that? Not that it’s any of her business, but Curtis seemed to be talking about him and Jordan. Jordan says she lied, and Curtis walked out on their marriage. Lucy says she’s so sorry. Is there any chance it can be fixed?

Obrecht says, Maxie must realize the man she thought she was marrying doesn’t exist, and Sam tells her, back off. Robert says, given time and distance away from Peter, Maxie can get the whole story, but Mac says, that’s Maxie’s decision alone.

Valentin tells Anna, it’s safe to say it didn’t go the way they’d hoped, but Maxie didn’t marry Peter. Anna supposes that’s a consolation, and he says they did their best to save things, but she says, they were a little too late. He says, Peter’s horrific childhood notwithstanding, he committed his own crimes. He lied to her and Maxie. She asks what he’s going to do, and he says, what he told Peter. He’s going to do everything to minimize the pain inflicted on those they love. She says, it’s a bit too late for that, and he says, trust him. She says she’ll have to. She’s got to find Finn.

On the phone, Finn says he appreciates Jackie taking Violet. She needs to be far away from the situation. Let her rest; it’s been a long day. When she wakes up, tell her that he loves her, and give her a glass of milk. She likes that when she wakes up. The wedding didn’t happen, but he’ll tell her about it later. Chase knocks at the door, and says he’s not going away. Open the door. Finn tells Jackie that he has to go; they’ll talk later. He opens the door, and Chase says he knows Finn doesn’t want to talk. Finn says he’s got that right, but Chase says Finn shouldn’t be alone. Finn says he should be. What part of he knows what’s best for himself does Chase not understand? Chase says if Finn changes his mind, he knows where Chase is. You can be really stubborn, but I love you, brother.   

Maxie tells Peter, it’s not the wedding they expected, right? He doesn’t reply, and she asks what being Alex’s son really means. He’s still him, the man she loves. He’s going to make a great husband and father. She puts his hand on her belly, and asks if he feels that. It’s their little girl kicking in agreement. She’s asking her daddy to marry her mommy. She wants to be a happy family, and neither one of them can say no to their sweet Lu. She hasn’t said the words officially, but she loves him for better or worse. He’s her heart, and she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. Will he do her the honor marrying her? Valentin closes his eyes.

Willow tells Michael, she decided she needed a dose of Wiley to take the edge off, and Carly says she’s sorry the wedding turned out like that. Michael says, Wiley is upstairs playing with his new truck. It will probably end up at the gatehouse, which Wiley thinks is a big playroom. Carly asks how Willow’s new digs are working out, and Willow says, the gatehouse gets more adorable every day. Michael is on a non-stop renovation kick. Wiley gets to come and go between two homes, and she still gets to have her own life. Carly should come by. She’ll be Willow’s first guest… Second; Chase picked her up there. Carly says she’d love to, but she can’t tonight; she has to go. She tells Michael that she’ll be in touch, and leaves. Michael says, before Willow sees Wiley, would she mind hanging out for a second? She says, sure. What does he have in mind?

Nina tells Ava, Carly couldn’t stand to see Wiley happy and laughing and having a good time. She couldn’t get Michael and Willow out of the office fast enough. When they were gone, Carly kept saying over and over that Wiley was her grandson, and threatened to keep him away from Nina if she didn’t play her cards right. Ava says, then play them right. Make peace for Wiley’s sake. The good news is, Michael is willing to let her in Wiley’s life. Nina’s phone rings, and she says, it’s Michael. Michael says he hopes he’s not interrupting, but he was wondering if she’d like to come over and see Wiley if she has the time. Nina says she’d love to; she’ll be right there. She thanks him, and Ava says, good news? Nina says, great news. Michael invited her over to spend time with Wiley. Ava says, fantastic, and Nina says, Michael understands the importance of family. She’s Wiley’s family, and the only part of his mother that he has. Ava says, birth mother. Willow is Wiley’s mom now. Nina promises to remember that, and act accordingly. She’s going to take Ava’s advice. Ava says, which part? and Nina says she’s going to apologize to Carly.

Jordan tells Lucy that she offered solutions to repair their marriage, but Curtis doesn’t trust her anymore. What happened at the wedding reminded him of why their marriage imploded. Lucy says she’s had more broken relationships than broken nails, so she’s probably not the right person to give advice, but can Jordan say she’s sorry? Can she think about what she did to make Curtis leave, in the hope of trying to make him come back? Lucy thinks they both deserve to be very happy. She squeezes Jordan’s hands, and leaves. Jordan and Curtis look at each other, but Curtis turns away.

Finn looks out window. There’s a knock at the door, and he ignores it for a moment, then opens it. Anna is there.

Robert says, don’t tell him that Maxie is proposing to Peter, and she doesn’t know that she just dodged a bullet. Mac tells Robert to get over himself. He could list the skeletons in Robert’s closet. Peter is just as shocked. Robert says, Peter’s newfound mama is the least of his problems. Personally, Robert thinks they should wait, but Mac says, the priority is Maxie’s happiness. Robert says, maybe Peter will pass up the proposition. Sam tells Britt that she thinks it’s the wrong decision, and Britt says, everyone knows Peter is wrong for Maxie, except Maxie.

Maxie says she’s getting nervous. Why isn’t Peter answering her? He says he doesn’t believe she still wants to marry him, but she says her love hasn’t changed because his mother has. He says he doesn’t want her pity, and she says, who she pities, is Obrecht. She decided to wreck their lives, and made enemies out of everyone. He has her love and respect, and hopes she still has his. He says, she does, and he will marry her. They hug, and Obrecht says, Peter is not who Maxie thinks he is. He shows the pretense of morality and kindness, but he’s lying and manipulating Maxie. He can’t be trusted, and he must not be allowed near her grandson. She owes it to Nathan to keep James safe. She clicks her pen, and Britt asks what she’s doing. Obrecht says, what must be done; James and Maxie must be protected.

Valentin says he can’t allow this to continue until Maxie learns who Peter truly is.   

Tomorrow, Carly thinks she knows where someone is, Robert thinks Maxie should listen, Jackie wishes she’d done a lot of things differently, Valentin says it’s time the truth came to light, and Finn asks Anna what else she’s lying about.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

The women were still at Lake George, where the day’s agenda was to go on a boat ride. Marge called Joe #3, and said every time they went away, there was drama. She felt sad because Jackie wasn’t there, and Teresa was hyper-focusing on the analogy, even though everyone was trying to talk to her. Joe said Teresa didn’t understand anyone else’s point, so why bother? Melissa wanted to continue the good vibe, but Marge thought it was weird without Jackie. Teresa insisted she’d already apologized, and we flashed back to her saying, sorry, BUT where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Great apology, T. She thought Jackie must have skeletons in her closet due to her anger level, and Melissa asked for a show of hands as to who thought they were beating a dead horse. In her interview, she said she felt sorry for Jackie, but they couldn’t spend the whole trip trying to convince Teresa she was wrong when she wasn’t hearing it. Teresa asked if everyone wanted a shot before they left, and Marge said, it’s 11 am; why not?

On the way there, Marge said the guys were getting together, and the last time they did, Joe #2 was Gorga-ed. Delores said, don’t compete with a Gorga, and Jennifer said, Bill enjoyed being Gorga-fied. Teresa spoke to her realtor about selling the house, and in her interview said it was hard. She and Joe had built it together, and raised their daughters there, but she was ready to move on. Melissa said Antonia just turned 15, and had a boyfriend; they’d been together since 8th grade, and he was so sweet. Melania told her that he didn’t pressure Antonia to have sex, and everyone had sex. Teresa said she was so not ready for that, and it led them to talking about how old they were their first time. Melissa said she’d rather die than talk birds and bees to her kids, but thought it was becoming necessary. She said she didn’t miss her kids that much, since they hadn’t left her side since February because of quarantine. Joe #2 wasn’t keen on her going to Lake George with the girls, and she worried he was going out.

The women got on a tiki boat with Captain Greg, who informed them it was a boozy boat. Delores thought Teresa should get Joe #2 back for making her lie about him being in a strip club a million years ago, and suggested Teresa say Melissa was talking to another guy. Teresa texted Joe, saying, the owner of the restaurant where they had dinner asked Melissa for her number, and he and Melissa had been texting all day. She added, don’t tell Melissa that she told him, and to delete the text after reading it. In her interview, Jennifer said she didn’t think a practical joke about cheating was a good idea after what they’d just gone through. Case in point, Jackie wasn’t there. Teresa called Joe, telling him the guy was cute, and she was interested, but he kept going up to Melissa. Joe started talking in Italian, and in Melissa’s interview, she said that meant Joe fully believed it. She was surprised he had no faith in her. Teresa told him that Melissa and the guy had taken a walk, and in Marge’s interview, she said Teresa might be the best pathological liar she knows, but she was a genius. Teresa told Joe that she didn’t always have her eye on them, and he said, mama mia, you never know. That’s when she told him he’d ben punked, and he said they’re morons. In his interview, Joe #2 said they got him, but he wouldn’t have listened if it had been anyone else. Marge said Teresa might get the Academy Award, and everyone dozed on the way back.

Back at the house, Melissa made Marge show them her new boobs, and in Marge’s interview, she said, Melissa loves assess and t*ts, so she just goes with it. Melissa must have been a man in a previous life. They decided to order in, as they guzzled rosé, and Marge went upstairs to put on sweats.

Melissa called Joe #2, and said since he’d been speaking Italian, he must have believed Teresa. He said he didn’t want the kids to know their mother was a dirty tramp, and asked the status on Jackie. Melissa said Jackie had sent a text just saying she missed them, but she knew Jackie was upset. She suggested Joe invite Evan to the guys night, and he said he already had, but Evan claimed to be busy. Jennifer told Delores that she’d talked to Teresa’s realtor friend Michelle at the party, and she’d said Joe #2 owed her husband money. In Jennifer’s interview, she said it wasn’t the first time she’d heard that Joe owed someone money. He’d also said he did a kitchen renovation, and the person who really did it, called him out on it. If he was willing to lie about a kitchen renovation, what else was he willing to lie about? She told Delores, Michelle’s husband did motivational speaking for Joe, and was never paid. Delores said, a lot of bombs were being dropped at the party. Jennifer wondered if she should go to Melissa. They’d just made up, and she didn’t want Melissa to flip on her like Teresa did on Jackie. Delores suggested she not ruin tonight. If it was Frank, she’d want to know, but Jennifer needed to watch how she said it.   

Frank, Bill, and Joe #3 met at Joe #2’s house. Joe #2 provided an incredible spread, including Tito’s and sushi. They played deuces wild, and Joe #3 cleaned up. Joe #2 told the guys that he’d been faking his night. His sister called, and said the owner of the restaurant where they had dinner was hitting on Melissa, and Melissa had been calling him all day. He told them that he was about to cry. The bottom line was… he got punked. In his interview, Joe said he had a stable marriage, but the cheating word is serious, and you have to be careful. Frank wondered if the girls were having as good a time, but Joe #3 said they were going to be arguing about Teresa and Jackie. Frank said he was three tequilas in, and wanted to make sure he understood about the rumor. Joe #3 said he’d heard rumors Evan had a girlfriend, and Joe #2 said maybe there was something to it. In Frank’s interview, he said the only person who knew if it was false, was Evan, but they went out all the time, and Evan never looked at women or flirted. They agreed Evan was a stand-up guy, and toasted to him. I always find myself smiling and laughing when the guys get together, and they always work out their differences. Maybe they should have their own show. Or their own channel. You could just have them on in the background, and it would feel like you’re at a party.

Tons of food came, and Melissa and Marge sat on Melissa’s balcony. Melissa said she missed Jackie, and Marge  said she felt bad. She called Jackie, and said they missed her. Jackie said she missed them too, but she had to do what was right for her family. Evan was disgusted. He worked in finance, and it hurt his reputation. Teresa needed to clear his name. Jackie wanted Teresa to call Evan, and say it was total bullsh*t. In Melissa’s interview, she said it wasn’t a small request. The lot of them couldn’t even convince Teresa that it was wrong to spread the rumor. Melissa suggested Jackie start the ball rolling by apologizing for the bad analogy, but Jackie said she had nothing in the world to be sorry about. Teresa had been hurtful, and it was totally in her court. Marge told Melissa that Jackie wouldn’t have been as upset unless Evan was.  

At dinner, Marge said she’d called Jackie, and Jackie wasn’t crying, but she was heated. Evan was upset about his reputation. Teresa said if he wasn’t doing anything, why would he be upset? and Melissa said he was in a different type of business. Teresa said Jackie had no backbone, and was effing weak. She must have an inkling that Evan was cheating, because someone acting like this was out of control. I wondered if it was me, or did Teresa just not make sense. Marge said her friends would hit the roof if they were in Jackie’s position, and Teresa said, when confronted with Joe #1 cheating rumors, she was secure in marriage, so she stayed calm. I realized the question I should have asked was, were we watching the same show? but in her interview, Marge confirmed this by saying, FYI, Teresa’s husband was cheating, and she was not calm about it. We flashed back to that, and Teresa said she was tired of all this. She was about to blow her casket. Everyone was like, um… and she said she was never going to tell Jackie anything again. Although it was atrocious timing – New Jersey, the atrocious timing state – Melissa said Jackie would like Teresa to call her husband. She could say she heard a rumor, but whoever said it was probably a liar. In Teresa’s interview, she said she wasn’t sure if Jackie was trying to imply she’d made it up, but it was something she’d heard. If Jackie didn’t like it, too effing bad. She told the women, Jackie needed to apologize to her daughter. Melissa said she was sure Jackie would do that, and Teresa started whining really loud like she does, saying, oh my God, she’s like a broken record. Melissa said Teresa was 100% wrong for saying it at the party, and Teresa – who can never be told she’s wrong – said she was leaving, They were all a-holes, and could go f*** themselves. I laughed at Jennifer’s face. She really shouldn’t be surprised by now.

Marge said they weren’t attacking Teresa, just showing her another point-of-view, and Melissa said they’d all tried talking to her, but she wasn’t having it. Marge said, while Jackie didn’t bring this on herself, she made the situation worse. The women descended on Teresa in her room, and  Marge suggested she and Lexi go upstairs, since there was mass hysteria going on. Delores’s said, enough already, and Melissa told Teresa that they were just trying to bring two people back together, but only had one there. In her interview, Melissa said Jackie had to find a way to move on, or they wouldn’t be able to be together again.

The women put on their matching sweatshirts, and sat around a fire outside, making smores. They heard something in the woods, and Delores and Teresa took off for he house as a prank. The others freaked, and ran after them.

Next time, Marge talks about sleeping with her boss, Jennifer tells Melissa what Michelle said, and Jackie says if no one has her back, there’s no point in being there.

👨‍👧 The Good Daughter…

Jennifer talks about her dad living with her.

https://pagesix.com/2021/02/24/why-rhonj-star-jennifer-aydins-dad-still-lives-with-her/

🪁 Marge Lets Fly…

Marge tells it all on the topic of children.

Margaret Josephs Opens Up About the One Topic That’s Off Limits on the RHONJ

🎥 The Dish On Daniels…

What do The Wonder Years and Billie Holiday have in common?

https://extratv.com/videos/lee-daniels-dishes-on-the-wonder-years-reboot-plus-his-billie-holiday-biopic/

🏆 Global Intoxication…

Behold the drunkest celebrities.

https://pagesix.com/article/drunkest-celebrities-at-golden-globes-through-the-years/

Commentary from the designated driver.

https://pagesix.com/2021/02/28/sober-chrissy-teigen-mocks-her-golden-globes-meme-face/

And just in case you missed it, everything you needed to know about this year’s Golden Globes, and then some.

https://pagesix.com/tag/golden-globes-2021/page/3/

🍽 If You Were Wondering…

I think I’d keep mine in the kitchen.

https://www.eonline.com/news/1241449/where-the-heck-do-stars-really-keep-their-awards

💫 Sleeping the Dream…

Another day, another fight with my computer and my email. The technical struggle is real. Whatever your struggle, stay safe, stay knowing good times will come, and stay hanging out with the guys and playing deuces wild, instead of going to Lake George where there will be drama.