Week 11
- Dorian gets to insulting Markko’s parents and to drinking too much and to becoming further embarrassing and winds up in the pool
- There’s some more custody back and forth, but things degenerate into usual soap court ridiculousness and I find it hard to watch, until Tea aims to hit Todd over the head with her walking stick. But then the idiot Judge follows up a sensible speech with a stupid decision to make them all live together and I just roll my eyes. Until Tea actually hits Todd with her walking stick
- Marcie gives the baby back to Starr, and Kathy Brier breaks my heart. Cole gets busted with drugs he probably wouldn’t have taken. Michael and Marcie decide to move to Seattle
- Matthew gets to play the generall hilarious role of Mr Soap Exposition by explaining to Destiny about the baby-switch and his mother marrying his uncle, while we find out what Shaun and Destiny’s brother does for a living
- There is much amusing Todd-Tea banter, for example:
“You were just participating in some ex parte communication.”
and
“You were going to stay in the Angel Square Hotel? People get stabbed in that flea-bag.”
“People get stabbed at your house.”
- There is another baby funeral, Cole gets jailed for 1-2 years and then gets hit over the head with the fact that they have the baby back and that Starr still loves him. He reacts to all of this by proposing
- I asked for Bo and Rex, I get Bo and Rex. And Bo counselling Rex to stay the hell away from Stacey
- The younger teens who aren’t quite ready for marriage yet get to play and/or sing in a band/choir which provides heart-warming family moments, lovely montage music, and happy tears when Marcie finds out she’s pregnant. Which is convenient, but fabulous. Bye-bye Marcie and Michael
- Dorian’s drunken escapades may have been painful, but her hangover is reasonably amusing
- I really like Todd and Tea, but am disconcerted with her being injured and in the same bed as injured, lied to, raped Marty was. I do like that Blair has the same issues and vocalises them
- Markko’s parents forbid him from seeing Langston
- Layla wears short shorts and is shot in a crotch-tastic way, then accuses Cristian of being under-dressed (which he is, but no one, including Layla, is complaining). The groundwork for Fish and Kyle begins, although Fish asks Layla out again and she agrees to go. Kyle, Rex and Fish also go shirtless for varying periods of time
- Roxie dresses like a go-go dancer in the middle of the day, and Schuyler figures out she has a clue or two about what’s going on with Stacey, Gigi and Schuyler continue to be watchable, Rex and Stacey become even more fast-forwardable
Rating for the Week: 3.5 out of 5. The Marcie-Starr stuff and a lot of Todd-Tea-Blair was good, but the goings on with Markko’s parents was painful on all fronts and there was too much of Malibu Stacey even on fast forward. Further, I am concerned at just how many episodes of Three’s Company the writers have been watching, given their current penchant for throwing groups of three into odd living arrangements – Layla, Cristian, Fish; Todd, Tea, Blair.