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OPINION

March 28, 2008

Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams
AMC's Angie and Jesse (Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams)
— ABC

From Mala Bhattacharjee
Whatever happened to good ol' cliffhanger Friday? Here in New York, we kicked off the morning with GUIDING LIGHT's Gus in that completely lame offscreen motorcycle accident (it made me sniffle nonetheless; yes, I'm a sap) and by the time we got to ALL MY CHILDREN, I was officially feeling like it was a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Ya know...when you feel like there's no end in sight?

I adore Angie and Jesse. Everyone knows this by now. But was I the only one annoyed that poor Angie spent half the episode in the kitchen making that fantastic dinner (pasta, salad, AND dessert) only to have it all go to waste so she and Jesse could hit the sack? Food first, people! There are starving children in Corinth! Not to mention that leaving candles lit is a total fire hazard. (It's how GH's Lucky "died" in 1999, remember?) Moving on from fire hazards, we had fashion emergencies. It's bad enough that Erica wasn't in prison orange or perhaps a drab gray when she was transferred, but now that she's on lam with Carmen, they had to stumble upon a truck full of designer duds to change into? With a MONTAGE?! Please! Maybe they ought to worry about the fact that Carmen's a designer knockoff? I like her better named Hilda and on UGLY BETTY. Speaking of TV shows, could someone explain to me why Zach had a Ryan/Greenlee highlight reel lying around? While I had to applaud him for presenting Ryan with the non-Greenlee and Kendall-lovefest edition of his history, I couldn't help but wonder: Does Zach TiVo AMC in his spare time or something? Does he just keep these things for posterity? "Hey, I think I'll dust off that security video of Annie in the casino from last month ‘cause she looked HOT." By the time the Ghost of Ryanmas Past er, Zach, escorted Ryan to the cliff, I was actually hoping someone would slip and fall. Before I fell...asleep.


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