What I Watched Today
(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)
General Hospital
Sasha is getting a sonogram, and Dr. Navarro says, boy or girl? Sasha says she and Brando have decided to be surprised. She was asking about the baby the doctor just delivered. The doctor says, boy and girl; twins. She thanks them for waiting, saying, these things have a way of messing up schedules. There’s their baby. We see the sono screen.
Carly says, Jax was recording her? Is that why he was asking her why Cyrus’s ship went down? He wanted her to incriminate herself? He says he wanted her to tell the truth. She says, so he recorded her. Why? He says because he had to save their daughter from the danger Carly put her in.
At the pool (), Dante says in his professional opinion, this was a date, and Sam says, good work, detective. He wonders if it’s against the rules to date another member of their support group, and she says they just invented this two-person support group. She thinks they can make any rules they want. He says, so dating’s allowed? and she says she’s open to the proposition. He asks if she has time for another drink, and she says she thinks she could be convinced to stay for one more. He says, in that case, he’ll be right back, and goes to the bar. Sam’s phone rings, and she sees it’s unknown, but answers anyway. She says, who is this? and a voice says, Sam, can you hear me? She says, Drew? and he says he needs her help.
Jason calls Brick, and says he called a meeting with the Five Families sun dried tomatoes tonight. Vincent Novak’s nephew Joey is acting a little too confident. They need to get a better idea of where the Novaks and the other families stand… He and Carly will confirm they’re getting married, and he’s in charge, so they know there won’t be a power struggle for them to exploit. But he needs Brick to do something for him.
Josslyn and Cameron watch the fireworks, and Cameron says he wishes they could enjoy them instead of waiting for Ryan Chamberlain to attack. She says she doesn’t know what’s going on, but she doubts Ryan is prowling the grounds. He tells her not to worry, when Tony comes in and asks if they’re okay. Cameron says they’re a little shaken up, but okay otherwise. Josslyn says they were actually enjoying the fireworks, and Tony says he took a look at the boathouse; none of the boats were tampered with, and both launches are back. When the fireworks are over, the guests should be able to make it back to the mainland. Josslyn says, so it’s over, but Tony says, not yet. He’s going to arrange for one of their boats to pick them up. Josslyn says, that’s not necessary, but Cameron suggests they think about it for a second. If the party is still going on outside, and the boats are back at the dock, that means all the craziness that’s been happening is targeted toward people inside the house. Tony says, exactly, and Josslyn says, it’s Spencer’s party in Spencer’s house, so this is probably about him.
Ava sees Portia at the hospital reception desk, and says, just the doctor she was looking for. Portia asks if everything is okay, and Ava says she just wanted to see how Portia was doing. Portia says she’s doing much better, thanks to Ava. Creepy nurse watches them.
On the turret, Spencer tells Trina, admit it. Fireworks are the perfect grand finale. She wonders why he’s so calm. Ryan Chamberlain just called to tell him it ends tonight, and as if Spencer needed to be reminded, Ryan projected it on his fireplace. Why isn’t he terrified? He tells her to look at the guests down there; they have absolutely no idea what’s going on. They’re just having a good time. Trina wonders why they don’t join them; get lost in the crowd. Or is he afraid he’ll make them targets too? He says all he cares about is making sure she has a good time. She says, this is about her? and he says, when he first brought up the party, he could tell she was skeptical. All of this is just him trying to prove himself. She says he succeeded, and he says, nothing or no one is going to ruin this night for her. He promises. We see a hooded figure in a mask, holding a knife, watching them.
Carly says Jax used their relationship, her trust in him, to get her to implicate herself? He asks why he should trust her to protect their daughter. Does she think she can just build a wall between her criminal activities and Josslyn? Either she thinks he’s naïve or she’s lying to his face. She says he came into her house, their daughter’s house, and tried to entrap her. He tried to get her to incriminate herself. He says, so she admits she’s involved in criminal activity; activity that puts Josslyn in danger every single day? She asks if he wants to shine a light in her face or handcuff her to the table. How far would he take this? He says, now she’s being ridiculous, and she says, is she? What if she’d said what he wanted her to say? What would he have done with this recording? What was his plan?
Sam says, this isn’t Drew; he’s dead. Who the hell is this? He says, it’s Drew. She has to listen to him. He doesn’t have much time. They’re coming. She says, who’s coming? Where is he? She can no longer hear him, and Dante comes back with the drinks. He asks, what happened? and she says she just got a call from a man claiming he was Drew.
Brando tells Sasha, that’s their baby. He’s had friends who wave their sonogram around like it’s the Holy Grail. Now he gets it. Sasha says, that fuzzy little person is theirs, and Dr. Navarro says, the fun isn’t over yet. She has a special treat for them.
Ava says she’s glad Portia and Trina patched things up, and Portia tells her, Trina said Ava advised her to speak to her mother. She feels so embarrassed. Ava asks, why? Because she had an affair? She’d thought Portia was perfect. Portia says it looks like she’s fallen off her pedestal for sure, and Ava says, she must have been very lonely to look outside her marriage for companionship. She sympathizes with Portia. Portia says Ava is more forgiving of her than she is, and Ava says, all that matters is that Trina forgives her, right? They sit, and Portia says, for the first couple days, she wasn’t sure, but now things seem to be moving in that direction. Ava says, good. Trina has looked up to Portia her whole life. It’s scary for her to realize Portia is human too; she makes mistakes too. That some of those times it felt like she had all the answers, she was making up as she went along. Portia says Ava seems to be speaking from personal experience. Ava says, if she’s being honest, there was another reason she encouraged Trina to talk to Portia – her daughter Kiki.
Josslyn says she’s worried about Trina. She’s off somewhere with Spencer, who’s the target. Cameron wants to go look for them, but Tony says he has to insist they stay there. Cameron says, but they’re their friends, and could be in trouble, and Josslyn says she knows it’s Tony’s job to protect her, but can’t they widen the circle a little bit, and include their friends? He says, Mr. Cassadine has his own security, and Josslyn says she knows, but he can’t call them because there’s no service. Josslyn says, they were going to the turret. She and Cameron know the way there. Can’t the three of them just go together, grab their friends, and bring them back? The doorbell rings, and Tony tells them, stay there. They listen at the door, and Tony checks his gun. He opens to the door, and finds Laura and Doc. Laura says she takes it he’s working there, and he says he is. She tells him that she’s the host’s grandmother, and she’d like to see him immediately. Cameron and Josslyn come out, and Laura says, it’s nice to know Spencer invited them, but it would have been nicer if they’d known about the party. Cameron says, about that. There’s something seriously strange going on tonight, and Laura says, something Spencer’s security can’t handle? Josslyn says, Tony is her security, and Laura says, her mistake; sorry. Tony says he’s making arrangements to get Josslyn and Cameron off the island, and Doc says, lucky for them. The rest of the partygoers are at the dock, waiting for a ferry to take him to the mainland. He’d say this party is officially over. Cameron asks if they shut the party down, but Laura says they didn’t even know there was a party until they got there. They came to see Nikolas. Josslyn says, Mr. Cassadine is in Dubai… Is he not?
Trina says, the fireworks are over, but Spencer says he hadn’t noticed. She hears something, and asks, what is that? Spencer says, probably Cameron playing a trick on him, but she says, he wouldn’t do that, especially after the night they’ve been having. Spencer looks around the corner, but doesn’t see anything. He says he’ll check to see what it is, and Trina says he’s not leaving her alone out there. She follows him inside, but he says, no one is in there. She says, maybe it was a rat, but he says, there are no rats in Windymere. She says, the house is huge and over 100 years old. Of course (🍷) there are rats. He says, fine. A rat made the sound. Let’s go outside and continue where we left off. Trina tells him to check the WiFi, but he says, it can wait. She says, no more distractions. Tonight’s been weird enough. She’s going downstairs to find Joss and Cam. He says, they want privacy, but she says she’s not buying it. The fireworks are over. She leaves, and he says, fine. He’ll check the WiFi. He looks at the device, and the masked figure grabs him from behind.
Jason says he needs Brick to check out the meeting venue for him. Make sure there’s no surprises waiting... He doesn’t know. He thinks there’s a bit of a power struggle with the Novak family. Vincent backed off when they retaliated, but Joey didn’t get the message. He approached Josslyn. Maybe it was to provoke him into having a meeting of the Five Families roasted artichokes, but this guy could set a trap for him. He doesn’t know and needs to be sure.
Sam tells Dante, she picked up the phone, even though it said unknown caller. For a second, she really thought it was Drew. He says, but it wasn’t? and she says, how could it be? The guy was yelling her name, and saying he needed help. There was a bunch of commotion and noise, and then the line went dead. He says he’ll have the techs at the PCPD put a trace on it. Maybe they can find out the origin of the call.
Carly says, when Jax got her confession of her alleged crimes, what was he going to do? Take it to the PCPD, and have her arrested, and let Josslyn relive that nightmare for a second time? Because Nelle did that; she had Carly arrested and prosecuted. He says, for something she didn’t do. Can she still say that? She says, everything she’s done, she’s done to protect her family, and he wants to put her in jail for it. He says he doesn’t want to put her in jail. He was going to play back her confession to her, and let her decide what to do. She says, how noble; thanks. He says, under the circumstances, he thinks it is pretty noble. She knows she’ll always have a special place in his heart, but Josslyn is his daughter, and his first priority. Moss bowl! 🎍 She says, he doesn’t think Josslyn is her first priority? and he says, obviously, he doesn’t. She sees this as a betrayal, but he sees it as a rescue. Saving their daughter. He was trying to save her too. If she would have incriminated herself, she would have had to make a choice between her so-called business or Josslyn. What choice would she have made?
The masked figure holds onto Spencer, who says, please don’t hurt him. He’ll give them anything. His father has tons of money. The figure stabs Spencer, who drops to the floor. He tosses the knife aside before jetting.
Josslyn says, there’s clearly no way to stop Tony from contacting her mother, and taking her home on a Corinthos boat, and Laura asks, what exactly happened tonight? Cameron says it would be simpler to show her, and turns out the lights. They see the writing in front of the fireplace, and Laura says, oh my God. Josslyn says, before the WiFi went out, Spencer got a call from someone who claimed to be Ryan Chamberlain. Cameron says, the launches went missing too; someone must have done that on purpose. Laura asks if Doc thinks he would have gone this far, and Cameron asks who she’s talking about.
Trina runs in to find Spencer on the floor. She goes to him, and asks, what happened? He says, a guy stabbed him, but she says, where? There’s no blood. Where is he hurt? He looks at his stomach, and says, that’s weird. There’s no blood. He looks at the knife, and says, there’s nothing on the blade. Trina says, this is crazy, and he says, what the hell is going on?
Ava says she’s taken so much of Portia’s time. She’s sure Portia needs to get back to work. Portia says she was just about to take s break. She’d love to hear about Ava’s daughter. Ava says she made so many mistakes with Kiki, and – Ava starts to cry – she died before Ava was able to make amends or be the kind of mother Kiki deserved. Portia says she’s so sorry, and Ava says, Portia and Trina is so lucky to have something so special. She thought if anything good could come out of losing Kiki, it would be for her to help other people not make same mistakes she did.
Laura asks where Spencer is, and Cameron says, he went upstairs with Trina. Doc says, let’s go, but Spencer and Trina come back. Spencer asks if they saw him; a guy in a hood and a mask. Trina says, he pretended to stab Spencer, and Spencer says, it was Ryan, Doc’s brother.
The masked figure lurks around, and takes the hood and mask off. No surprise, it’s Nikolas.
Brando says, the heartbeat is fast, and wonders if that’s normal. Dr. Navarro says, the baby is perfect, and he says, how could it not be with Sasha as a mother? Sasha says she thinks he had something to do with the baby’s perfection too.
Carly puts the phone on the kitchen island – aka home of the moss bowl. 🎍 She says she made her choice. Everything she’s done since Sonny died was for her family. Him blackmailing her with a recording doesn’t change that. He says, so there’s nothing he can do to make her see reason, and she says, he blackmailed Michael to give Nina more time with Wiley. She doesn’t know why she’s surprised he’d stoop so low with her. He says he’d do anything to protect Josslyn, no matter the cost. Jason walks in and Carly says she’s glad he’s back. Jax has been busy trying to get her to incriminate herself.
Sam asks if Dante thinks the tech guys can figure out where the call is coming from, but he tells her not to get her hopes up. She says, it couldn’t be Drew. He was on his way to Afghanistan to give back the money Shiloh stole. Dante says he heard. Peter sabotaged Drew’s plane, and it went down in the Gulf of Adan. Sam says, by the time search and rescue got to the wreckage, the bodies were long gone. He says, they know Peter caused the crash, to keep Drew from identifying him and Shiloh from the original abduction, and she asks if he thinks it was Peter who called her. He says, the WSB doesn’t know if Peter is dead or alive, but if Peter was alive, why would he pretend to be Drew? She says she doesn’t know, but it sounded like Drew’s voice. He says, maybe Peter was using voice altering technology, but she asks why Peter would want to make her think Drew was alive?
Portia says she wasn’t very nice to Ava when they met. Honestly, she was jealous of Ava’s relationship with Trina. She was defensive about it, but now she’s so happy that Trina has Ava in her life; that both of them do. She thinks she has to say that she may have underestimated Ava. She has a generous heart. Ava tells her to keep that between them, and Portia promises not say anything. She has to get back to work, but suggests she and Ava grab a drink and talk about something other than Trina. Ava says she looks forward to it. Ava leaves, and the creepy nurse watches and smiles.
Laura asks if Spencer is hurt, and he says, Chamberlain used a retractable knife, but went right for his chest. He thought he was a dead man. Doc’s brother isn’t as helpless as everyone thinks. Josslyn asks if Trina is okay, and Trina says when she saw Spencer lying on the floor, she was so scared. Doc asks where the attacker is now, and Spencer says, he took off; he could be anywhere. Is that why they’re there? Did he escape? Laura says, they came because Ava told them something might happen there tonight. Trina wonders how Ava would know, and Doc says, Spencer’s father told her that he had a plan. Laura says they don’t think Ryan is behind this, but Spencer says, of course (🍷) he is. Who else could it be? The masked figure comes in, and removes his mask. It’s Nikolas.
Ava goes to her car in the parking garage, and finds it on fire.
Laura says she was hoping Ava was wrong, but it was Nikolas terrorizing Spencer, and all of his friends? Doc says, Nikolas used his brother to feed their fears, and Nikolas says, Spencer needed to be taught a lesson. Laura says, like this? It’s like something out of a horror film. Doc says, you have a problem with your son, you talk to him about it, and Spencer says, it was Nikolas. The call from Ryan, the writing on the fireplace, the hooded figure. Why? Laura says, it’s bad enough Nikolas wanted to teach Spencer a lesson, but what about his friends? He had no right to frighten them like that. Doc asks if he doesn’t think Trina was traumatized enough by the real stalker. He had to make it worse? Laura says she’s never been so ashamed of him in her life.
Dante tells Sam, wherever Peter is, he should still be focused on Maxie and the baby. She says, if it’s not Peter, could the call be related to Hayden Barnes, as a way of distracting her from investigating Hayden, and go off looking for Drew? He says he doesn’t know if it has anything to do with Hayden, but whoever called wanted to distract and upset her. She says, and they’re using Scout’s father to do it.
Jax asks if Carly thinks he wanted to take it this far. Doesn’t she think he went through a hundred different scenarios in his head to try to get her away from Sonny’s business, and keep their daughter safe? She says, even if she had walked away from the business, it woudn’t have walked away from her. It’s already too late. He says, that’s the biggest lie. They both know Jason would do anything for her. If she asked him to take over the business, and leave her out of it, that’s what he would have done. The fact that Jason is still there tells him that she doesn’t want him to; she’s happy the way things are. She says, they’re done. Jax crossed a line. So whatever bond she thought they had has been broken – by him, and only him. He says she still doesn’t understand; this isn’t about them. He leaves, and Carly tells Jason that Jax betrayed her. He used her trust, and tried to bait her into incriminating herself. Jason asks if she said anything that could get her in trouble, and she says she doesn’t think so. He says, they need to be sure.
Tony tells Josslyn, sorry to interrupt, but they should have a boat to get her out of there soon. She says, great. She’s definitely ready to get out of there. She asks if Tony could somehow contact her mom, so she doesn’t freak out when she finds out he sent for a special boat for her. Tony tells her to come out when she’s ready; he’ll be outside. Cameron thinks they should go now, and asks Trina if she’s coming. Trina looks at Spencer, and says, not yet, and Josslyn hugs her. Laura hugs Cameron, and says she’s so sorry. Cameron and Josslyn leave, and Spencer asks if Nikolas shut down the WiFi earlier. Nikolas says he didn’t want Spencer calling for help, and Doc says, pretty extreme lesson for his son, doesn’t he think? Trina asks, what happened to Costas? and Nikolas says he told Costas to disappear for a while. He also made the launches unavailable. Laura asks why he would go to such lengths to terrorize his own son, and Nikolas says he wanted Spencer to feel as frightened as Ava did when Spencer stalked her.
Firemen use fire extinguishers on Ava’s car, and one of them asks if it’s hers. She says, yeah. She called it in. She thanks him for coming quickly, and asks if he has any idea how it started. Was there a short or something? He says, it wasn’t electrical. They found a gas can under the chassis. She says, so someone deliberately set fire to her car, and wanted her to know it was done on purpose? He says, they found this nearby, and hands her a hospital ID. She faints into his arms.
Dante tells Sam that they couldn’t ID the call, and she wonders why someone would do this; call her and pretend to be Drew. He asks if anyone has a reason to gaslight her, and she says, not that she knows of. Maybe in her past, but… The voice, it felt so real. It felt like she was actually talking to Drew. It couldn’t be… except… He says, except what? She’s not telling him that she believes it’s Drew.
On the phone, Jason asks if Spinelli is sure it was deleted… Wipe the whole phone… He doesn’t care; Jax can buy a new one. Just do it… Thank you. He tells Carly, okay, it’s done. No one will ever hear the recording. She says, the number of people she can trust just got smaller. He says, it sucks; he’s sorry. She tells him, don’t apologize. He didn’t do anything. Jax did. He asks if she’ll be okay for the meeting tonight, and she says, it’s not like she has a choice. She’ll be fine. Good thing Jason will be there. It was difficult last time. He says, Brando told him that she owned the meeting, and she says she was nervous, but she did own the meeting. Tony calls, and she says, what’s wrong?
Spencer laughs, and asks if Nikolas is accusing him of stalking Ava again. They already discussed it, and Nikolas said he believed Spencer. Nikolas says he has proof this time, and Doc says he was with Ava when she got the phony hand. Trina says she was drenched in fake blood. There’s no way that could be Spencer. Spencer says, maybe they shouldn’t be so quick to defend him.
Portia gives Ava some water, and Ava says, she’d prefer vodka. Portia says she’s still cracking jokes, so she might be okay, but she can examine Ava to be on the safe side. Ava says she’s just a little shaken. It’s not every day someone sets your car on fire. Portia asks if she has any idea who could do something this awful, and Ava says, her stalker.
Outside Windymere, Tony tells Josslyn that her mom is coming. Josslyn says, they’ll wait there. She doesn’t want her mom to be any part of whatever is going on in there. Cameron says, you and me both.
Spencer says, before Nikolas jumps to conclusions, he’s confessing to one transgression, and one transgression only. He threw a party at Windymere when he thought his father was in Dubai, not lurking around Windymere, scaring the hell out of his friends and him. Trina says, Nikolas pretended to stab Spencer, and Spencer says, who the hell does that? Nikolas says Spencer sent Ava’s daughter a teddy bear that spoke with Ryan’s voice. Who does that? Trina says, Spencer doesn’t like Ava. He doesn’t want her with his father; he’s made no secret about. Oh my God. Would he really go that far? Setting up the sprinklers in the gallery to spray fake blood? Nikolas tells Spencer to own up to what he did. Be the man Nikolas knows he can be. Be the son his mother would want him to be. Make her proud. Nikolas’s phone rings, and he says, Ava? She says, there’s been another incident. Her car was set on fire. He asks if she’s hurt, and she says, no; she’s okay. Is Spencer with him? Nikolas says, yeah. He’s looking right at him. She says, well, this happened at the hospital, and he says, then it couldn’t have been Spencer. Because Spencer isn’t possibly smart enough to maybe have worked that out to throw them off.
In the hallway, Brando stares at the sono picture, mesmerized, and Dr. Navarro asks if Sasha still suffers from morning sickness. Sasha says, no, she’s been feeling better, and the doctor says she’ll see Sasha at her next appointment. She tells Brando, congratulations, dad, and says it was nice to meet him. He says, her too, and thanks her for everything. She leaves, and he thanks Sasha for letting him be a part of this. Who knew a doctor’s appointment could be so fun? Sasha says, every check-up gets her closer to meeting this little person, whoever they turn out to be. He says, whoever they turn out to be, they’re already lucky to have her as a mom. She says, and him as a dad, and they look at the picture together.
Carly tells Jason that Tony said something weird is going on at Windymere. He said Josslyn’s fine, but he doesn’t trust the launch, so he sent one of their boats. She needs to go to Josslyn, but she’s supposed to be at the meeting. He says, don’t worry about it, and she asks if he’s sure. He says he’ll take care of it. Josslyn is more important. Carly says, she is, and starts to babble. Jason says, forget Jax. Don’t let it get to her. Just take care of Josslyn. She tells him to take care of himself tonight, and be careful. She needs him. She leaves the home of the hallowed moss bowl.🎍
Cameron asks if Josslyn thinks it was Spencer’s father the whole time, but she says she doesn’t know, and doesn’t even think she wants to know. Spencer can be over-the-top sometimes, but for his own father to do that to him? He stabbed Spencer, and made him think he was going to die. Tony tells her that her mother will be there soon.
Trina asks if Ava is okay; what happened? Nikolas says, someone set fire to Ava’s car, and Trina says, no. Nikolas says, Ava is shaken up, but Dr. Robinson is looking after her. Doc asks where this happened, and Nikolas says, at the hospital. Doc says, far from here; far from Spencer. Laura says, so Spencer is innocent. She wishes she could say the same about Nikolas.
Portia says she’ll wait with Ava until the police get there. Is she sure she’s okay? Ava says, not really, and Portia says, who is this stalker? Ava says she doesn’t know. Someone emulating Ryan; a copycat or someone doing his bidding. Whoever it is had just upped the stakes. Portia says, how so? and Ava says, the firemen found this next to her car. She shows Portia the ID, which belonged to Kiki. Portia says how would the stalker get that? Where was it even last seen? Ava says, it was with Kiki. She buried the badge with her daughter because working there meant so much to her. Creepy nurse walks by, and smiles.
Sam tells Dante, Drew’s body was never recovered. She has to at least consider the possibility that it was his voice. He says, so she’s considering the unthinkable? and she says, yeah. Maybe Drew didn’t die in that plane crash after all.
A man is tossed into a primitive cell; just a cot, paint peeling off the walls. The guard says, wrong choice using the phone. It won’t happen again. He says, this is the last place you’ll ever see, Drew Cain. We see Cameron Mathieson looking all scruffy.
The text says, In Memory of Jay Pickett.
Tomorrow, Laura tells Nikolas that he’s going to end up on the same path his father did, Obrecht meets with Jax, and Jason says the meeting will continue or repercussions will follow.
🎭 Doing What He Loved…
In case you hadn’t read about Jay Pickett.
The Real Housewives of New York City
Still at Black Shabbat, we revisited Leah telling Ramona, it’s not about white people right now. Eboni told Leah that she regretted even doing this. Ramona said she was hangry, and haunted the kitchen, kvetching to the staff that she didn’t eat, had been running all day, and needed food. In Ramona’s interview, she said when no food went into her mouth, her foot went in. Leah told Eboni that she thought Ramona had a low IQ,, and in Eboni’s interview, she said Archie had opened her beautiful home, and given them beautiful food and drinks. Shut up and enjoy it. LuAnn found Ramona, who whined they had another hour to go. LuAnn came back to the table, saying it was shocking and embarrassing. Archie said it was supposed to be about the human values we all have, and gave a toast. In Ramona’s interview, she said Sonja had been drinking since they were on the bus, and had no food. It wasn’t going to be pretty. Unlike the mess she’d just made. But Ramona’s prophecy was correct, since it wasn’t long before Sonja started screeching about finding a purpose, tossing her napkin around, and jumping out of her chair. LuAnn hugged her to shut her up, and Sonja said Ramona wasn’t doing the hard work or heavy lifting. Ramona needed to get real and feel people’s pain. Like she was telling us something we didn’t know. Eboni told Ramona, it was time out on white people, and Ramona said she was both, pointing out that she was wearing a zebra print. Linara tried to tell a story about a turning point in her life, and how medical care was different for a pregnant Black woman. She talked about how the medical staff assumed she was addicted to drugs when she was in pain, and refused to give her medication. The pain ended up inducing labor, when it could have been avoided. This prompted Ramona to bitch about a Black nurse not believing she was in pain when she was in labor. It is pretty amazing how badly Ramona fails at reading a room, or even letting anyone else have a moment. In LuAnn’s interview, she said it was like a runaway train. If you jumped out the window, you were doomed, but you were doomed if you stayed on. Eboni said Ramona didn’t realize her questioning felt adversarial, and in her interview, she said, God help her, she believed in Ramona. Ramona wailed that she was tired, and it had been four hours. Eboni said she wasn’t holding anyone hostage, told Ramona to go home, and apologized to Archie. In her interview, Eboni wondered if Ramona really wanted to leave, was undermining the evening, or was just too selfish to appreciate it. I vote for D) All of the above. In Ramona’s interview, she complained that his was longer than a wedding. Not being able to leave without focusing some more on herself, Ramona said one thing she would change about herself was to be less unfiltered. She wanted to be honest, and said she didn’t take in what others were saying before she jumped on what she was thinking. Eboni told her friends that the women said Ramona was better than she had been, and in LuAnn’s interview, she said Ramona had come a long way. She thought Ramona had exhausted the bad behavior. We flashed back to Ramona screeching about Simon attending a ladies night, berating Bethenny about having no one in her life, hassling a limo driver, screaming take a Xanax! at Aviva, and other random obnoxious behavior. LuAnn couldn’t believe Ramona still had it in her. Sonja and Ramona hugged it out, and Archie just laughed at the ridiculousness of it all. She seems like a pretty cool chick.
LuAnn visited Ramona, and in her interview, said that she thought Ramona had no clue that she was over-the-top rude. She told Ramona it had been quite the night, to which Ramona responded by going on and on about how drunk and nuts Sonja was, and that she thought Sonja was projecting. She said it felt like Sonja was on a train that was going to crash, and she had no regard for people’s feelings or property. In LuAnn’s interview, she said it was typical of Ramona to keep the focus on someone else. LuAnn said Ramona had been rude, and Ramona said she’d been starving. LuAnn said, there were plenty of appetizers, but Ramona said she was still starving. LuAnn said she didn’t need to scarf down a whole meal in the kitchen, and Ramona said she’d had too much to drink. LuAnn knew how it was. LuAnn told Ramona not to throw that at her, and Ramona said she’d apologized to Eboni first thing the next morning. In her interview, LuAnn said it was one excuse after another; too much to drink, she needs food, she needs to pee. In the meantime, Eboni visited with Sonja at the townhouse, while Marley periodically stole cold cuts from the charcuterie board on the coffee table. In Eboni’s interview, she said she was proud that Sonja standing up for herself had been successful, but they needed to find the sweet spot that included social graces. She asked if Sonja remembered peeing in Archie’s driveway, and we flashed back to Sonja taking a leak in other unconventional places like the cornfield.
LuAnn met Eboni at the Alpine Lodge restaurant, and brought Leah along on the phone. In Leah’s interview, she said she thought it would be nice to be isolated for two weeks, but she was having FOMO, and missed the ladies. Ramona joined them, and in LuAnn’s interview, she said it was typical Ramona. After she burns down the house, let’s be nice. In other words, completely ignoring what an ass she’d been at Black Shabbat. Ramona started talking about Sonja’s drinking, and in her interview, Leah said the last thing she wanted to hear was Ramona gaslighting Sonja. Some women from Fortune Society also showed up, and told stories about going to prison. Of course, Ramona interrupted a thousand times, and in her interview, LuAnn wondered where the radar was that Ramona wasn’t born with that says, do not speak now. Ramona managed to turn it into a conversation about Sonja, and the women told her that you could be there for a friend, but they were the one who had to go through their own process. Like Ramona is going to take advice about anything.
Rob brought Kier back to Leah’s place, and she was glad to see them both. She and Rob discussed schools for Leah, and Rob thought they were expensive for high school. Leah said she wasn’t thrilled with some of the elitist viewpoints, but they had to think of the good education Kier would be getting. In Leah’s interview, she said she wasn’t on any boards, and there was no hospital wing named after her. Clearly, she was in over her head. Eboni was a bundle of nerves, waiting for Linda to come with news of a DNA trace. Linda told her that she had three candidates who were all brothers, but thought there was one in particular, who was closest in age to Eboni’s mother, that was probably Eboni’s father. He was still alive, married, with two kids. Eboni got all emotional, and in her interview, she said, it was a lot, but it was extremely wonderful, and the best case. She looked at the picture of most likely brother, and said she was basking in the truth that she had a dad.
Next time, LuAnn says Sonja is getting totally wasted in the daytime, and the women play Pin the Tail on Harry.
🌆 Closed For the Night…
See you tomorrow for more soap and Wives. What will Erika deny next? Will she finally discover waterproof mascara? Until then, stay safe, stay floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, and stay talking about it if you have a problem with someone. Don’t lurk about the halls in a hood and mask.
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