November 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Power never walks through the front door on Dynasty—it slips in through a bank, a lounge, or a family name said like a threat. We jump into Season 5 with the kind of stakes that make champagne taste like gasoline: Blake is scrambling for capital, Alexis quietly buys his mortgage, Steven turns on Adam over baby Danny’s disappearance, and Jeff chases a fragile lead that might bring Fallon home. Every scene asks the same question: are you driven by love, legacy, or leverage? Steven’s recast persona hits like a blade, and his fury at Adam becomes the spark that exposes old fractures in the Carrington lineage. Blake answers with a grand patriarch speech, but the room doesn’t echo back—it absorbs the silence of people who know the surname doesn’t pay the bills. Krystal steps where pride won’t, selling jewels and furs to hand over a $4.5 million lifeline. It’s a romantic gesture with ruthless clarity: survival first, image later. Meanwhile, Alexis operates in the shadows with perfect aim. While under investigation, she positions herself to foreclose on the house that built Blake’s myth. The reveal lands as both humiliation and checkmate. And then there’s Dominique Deveraux, gliding into La Mirage with a voice that’s part velvet, part agenda. The stage is smaller than her legend, which is the point—she’s here to listen, to learn, and to move. Jeff’s arc grounds the glamour in grief as he faces a morgue call and still chooses hope, steering toward Portland with nothing but a name and a promise. This recap blends sharp plot beats with the texture that makes Dynasty a classic: couture ambition, legal knives, and loyalty that costs more than it earns. If you love high-stakes drama, missing-heiress mystery, and exes who weaponize real estate, you’ll feel right at home. Hit follow, share with your fellow soap lovers, and leave a review telling us: who’s really holding the power this season?
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Soapflore.
I hope your day is shaping upwell.
Uh, let's go ahead and addressthe elephant in the room.
Jet, where the hell have youbeen?
Believe it or not, in America,you have to like work.
I don't even get it.
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Like, I think we have some ofthe best personalities on the
planet.
Why are we not being paid toexist?
Why do you have to show up andtake tests?
I'll have you know, I've beenthrough a week and a half of
training.
My brain is mashed potatoes.
Whipped mashed potatoes, nobutter, no salt, no flavor at
all.
I barely got through thatriff-raff.
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And here's the T I'm a nerd.
I love reading, I loveinformation.
Even I was like, ladies andgentlemen, this is a bit too
much.
Excuses are like elbows.
We won't even go there.
But I do apologize for leavingy'all out for so long.
I know this is a rerun for you,but it's new for me, and I enjoy
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our time together.
So, of course, we're gonna jumpback in full throttle, pedal to
the metal.
It's all gas.
I'm doing nothing but watchingsoaps for the next few weeks
because, quite frankly, I haveaccumulated enough vacation,
amen, to not have to worry aboutthis for a while.
I will let 2026 bring its ownproblems, but for the remainder
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of 2025, I am cutting up, I'mkicking back.
We're watching VintagePrimetime's soap opery at its
finest, and we're starting withthe shiniest bunch of them all,
Queen Dynasty.
I want to shout out to you guysone more time for being OGs who
really love the show and whoreally appreciated it.
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There's a level of maturity thatI can appreciate that I don't
experience in my day-to-daylife.
I've been able to watch thisuninterrupted.
Nobody's really given too muchtea away.
Even if you did, it didn'tbother me that much because I'm
like, if you're gonna run for 10plus years, it's a storyline or
two is is par for the course.
Things will be leaked, uh,conclusions will be met.
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It's probably a little bit moreobvious after you've seen it
once or twice.
But I respect that you guysrespect this being my first time
out of the gate.
I am most excited, quiet askept, about season five of
Dynasty because this is when Ifeel like she becomes her.
She really understands, okay,this is what it is, this is what
it ain't.
We're gonna turn it up.
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We we're gonna get theattention.
We've been pretty for a longtime.
We've had some stutter stepping,but we're back in this with all
the flair, all the things thatpeople want to see when you sit
down to unwind.
So go ahead and pour yourself upsomething bubbling and bright.
I'm gonna keep it cute today.
I have some coconut water that'sbeen in the freezer because for
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whatever reason it was like hotone day and then was like
freezing.
I feel like, do you ever feellike you were just extra ashy in
the winter?
I definitely feel like that, andI feel like it's from the inside
out.
So I choose to hydrate my bodytoday with coconut water.
It ain't bubbly, but you knowwhat?
We're gonna make a do with a do.
As we enjoy season five, episodetwo of Dynasty, the mortgage.
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Don't even get me starting on alivable wage and a mortgage.
What do you think the mortgageis for a mansion?
Let's say you and I are bestfriends, right?
We each have sprawling propertyin in mountains or whatever
region.
I have a 48-bedroom home thatused to be a 52-bedroom home.
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That's neither here nor there.
I got a lot of rooms in my home,even though from the outside, to
the naked eye, you might say, uh10, 15 rooms tops.
No, no, no, baby.
Don't worry about that.
48.
Now I I I've thought about thislong and hard.
I feel like they're saying 48rooms total.
So if there is a uh a mud room,that's one.
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If there's a bathroom, that'stwo.
48 rooms total.
Who knows how many bedrooms?
My guesstimate is there's abouteight to 12.
And 12 is pushing it, 12 is anunfinished attic or an
unfinished basement.
But for whatever reason, thishome is the talk of the town.
I gotta be quite honest withyou.
I've only watched about 10-15minutes of this.
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So let me do my thing.
We'll come back and we'lldiscuss all the ins and outs of
this iconic season of Dynasty.
One of the things I've alwaysappreciated the most about
Dynasty is they don't give adamn about what I said before.
I said that then, this is now.
As with the other series, by andlarge, season five has sort of
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changed their intro.
Falcon Crest definitely has,Dynasty definitely has Dallas
still looks exactly the same,but I like that Dynasty is bold
enough to give you yet anotheraerial shot from a helicopter of
the sprawling landscape of thismansion.
And the more I look at it, itwas like, baby, you can't tell
me there's 48 anything in there.
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Ain't no way.
It is museum-sized at best, butthat's dynasty for you.
They don't give a damn what yousee.
You're gonna hear what I say.
I don't care if you this is athousand-foot apartment, this is
a 48,000 square foot mall.
Deal with it.
Lord have mercy.
I still can't believe theymanaged to bag William December
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Williams.
Can we just go there real quick?
I hold very firm to the thoughtthat circa 1600s through
probably 1930, there were onlyabout 10 names in rotation.
Shout out to William DecemberWilliams mothers for being like,
yo, listen, I I I can't do it nomore.
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Your baby number umpteen, you'regonna get whatever name.
You lucky your name ain't bag ofsugar.
You lucky your name ain't uhCocoa Melon.
I tell you, with a straightface, I know a woman named
Blondie who is narrow blondehair on her head.
I know a woman named Cookie, Iknow a woman named Brownie, I
know a woman named Bertie.
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At some point, when you have50-11 kids, you stop giving a
damn by about child sex.
It's like, who cares?
I'm gonna call you whatever Ineed to call you so that you
don't turn around when the other50 other children turn around.
You can change your name as soonas you see fit to do so.
But William December Williams,his mother said, you know what,
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damn it, when's your birthday,baby?
Bet your name is is is last namemonth last name.
Get over it, argue with somebodyelse.
I guess I got other stuff to do.
So here's the thing.
I never give really given muchthought about recasting people.
As long as the character is thesame, I actually don't mind the
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different interpretations ofsaid character.
However, I need to to go aheadand draw the line in the sand.
I was a fan of Steven seasonone, season two.
New face Steven, who kind oflooked like Michael Jackson to
me, is a mother-loving problem.
New face Steven is a giganticpain in my ass.
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Every time I turn around, he'spouting.
It's like, it's like he has avibrato without the pain.
Other Stephen, we saw him workthrough things.
You know what I'm saying?
He he was bold in his sexuality,he was bold in his footing in
his family.
He's like, you know what?
The hell with you old man.
I'm gonna go ahead and make aname for myself any way I see
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fit to do so.
New Steven came back from Taiwanor whatever with a brand new
face.
He's still smelling like Barbieplastic, but he got the audacity
of a man who's been wealthy forthree generations.
I'm not really feeling him.
On this particular episode, heis coming at brand new Adam's
neck, saying, Yo, you helpedSammy Joe kidnap my son.
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Now, this is very insensitive.
It's very insensitive.
Adam is a throwaway baby.
His whole storyline is that hewas pushed out in the rain.
He was gurgling for air andwhatnot.
Some old broad picked him up,put him in billings.
Before he knows, he's 25 yearsold, fresh out of law school.
Before he knows, this ain't evenhis mama.
But let Steven tell him, Youhelped my ex-hood rat wife steal
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my baby.
Adam said, Listen, listen, bro.
I don't know that girl thatgood.
All she said was she wasleaving, she wanted to spend
every moment with her son asmuch as she could.
Now, tell you tell me how to howdoes that sound?
Coming from the outside in, doesthat sound like somebody who's
gonna kidnap a kid?
No, I just thought she wanted tobe with her baby, that's all.
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I'm sorry, but also I'm alawyer, and I also know that
because this is 1984, 1985, andyour country ass had the
audacity to not have a solidcustody agreement.
It is what it is, my dude.
She got your baby, that's alsoher baby.
That's what you get for sleepingwith hookers and holes and
whatnot.
That's not my problem.
Adam doesn't say all that, but Iwish he did.
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I also need to point out, shoutout to Oregon.
He does definitely look 37 to meall of a sudden.
Not that there's a hugedifference, everybody's face
ages differently, but he'sholding himself together like a
man nearing middle age.
Like, listen, I ain't got timefor the foolishness.
That's what you get for notputting together an ironclad
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agreement.
But at the end of the day, Ineed you to know, baby brother,
I would never on my life.
I know what it's like to not bewith a family.
I would have never helped thishooker kidnap your baby.
I love him.
That's my nephew.
I got very little family.
I love this baby.
Well, listen, New Face Steven ison his new ish, and he is just
uppity.
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This is your fault.
Anything happens, I'm gonnaattack you forgetting that.
Adam is not only a lawyer, hehas instant access to copious
amounts of poisonous paint.
You could be sitting in yourcar.
Claudia could be getting hernails done.
Next thing you know, y'all areloopy, dupey, and damn near dead
because you didn't piss this manoff.
You have to approach people whohave tried to kill other people
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in a very gentle way.
I don't know why new set faceeven doesn't know this.
I guess they exchange part ofhis frontal lobe.
I really don't know.
But what I do know is for thefirst time ever, Blake
Carrington remembers that he isthe patriarch of this family,
dammit.
And it is time for theobligatory I am the father
speech, and this is who we are.
Before we go there, I need toreiterate that baby Danny is
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missing.
Baby Danny shares the samebedroom as baby Blake, who, by
all intents and purposes, wasprobably the favorite baby
before Danny arrived.
We don't even really know ifDanny is Stevens, but it matters
none because you know who'spissed off, who's upset, who is
beside herself, not Danny'smother, not Danny's grandmother,
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not Danny's father, who justhappened to be pissed off, not
Danny's stepmother, who happensto be Claudia the Eastallion.
His nanny, his baby mama, thenanny, is absolutely beside
herself.
She said, I knew that Sammy Joewas a trickery, triggery trick
when she walked into this piece.
Now she has stolen my baby.
What are we gonna do?
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I knew she had it out for him.
It's so interesting to me thatshe is the only person who sort
of clocked that this woman hadnefarious intentions.
Everyone else was just toointimidated by her, or like, you
know what?
Well, she's got this wholeagreement.
This is what we agreed to.
Danny's his mother.
Steven's trying to get Buck inAdam's face this whole time.
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This is when Blake decides it istime for everyone to realize
what it means to be a Carringtonwith a capital C.
So picture this.
It is Stephen, Adam, Crystal,Claudia the Stallion, and Blake
all in the study.
As Adam's dance would have it,they all have a last name,
Carrington.
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Blake is beside himself withrage as he witnesses Stephen
belittling Adam.
Adam, how dare you let thiswoman steal my child?
Adam's like, I didn't mean Ididn't do this on purpose.
Enough! Enough, shouts Blake.
He is a patriarch.
He's gonna put this family backin order because they have
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forgotten who they are.
We are the Carringtons, damn it.
We we we put on a brave face nomatter what's going on around
us.
We we persevere.
We are the best of the best.
Now, everybody looking around,mind you, I said this was Blake,
this was Stephen, this was Adam,Crystal, and Claudia the
Stallion.
By blood, only three of them areCarringtons.
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Amen.
And and and even within thatbloodline, one of them was left
out in the rain in a buggy.
So he don't really know theheritage of his family.
But Blake assures them thatyou're gonna be brothers
eventually, you're gonna getover the there's kids missing
and crap.
I got a kid missing, and I'mcool with whoever.
You guys are gonna be cool,Danny will be back or he won't,
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Fallon will be back or he won't.
Listen, we've all dealt withtragedies, we're all going
through something terrible andhorrible, but who cares?
We're gonna we're gonna put onour big girl panties and we're
gonna face the world asCarrington's.
That is so entertaining to watchthe scene because Crystal, the
look on her face, it should beone of admiration, but it's
like, God, he's not reading theroom.
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Claudia is looking over atSteven, who's like, I mean, I'm
a Carrington, but I I didn'tknow we had these qualities.
Claudia looks over to Adam,who's like, listen, I ain't been
here but a season and a half.
I don't know this heritageeither.
Blake is the only one shovelingthis thing down his throat.
He's the only person whobelieves the Carringtons'
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heritage is one of perseverance.
Now, me myself personally, uh iflife is a chessboard, the
Carringtons are 1000% pawns.
Maybe a rook on a good day, butmostly pawns.
It's also worth noting that thiswhole speech seems to be more of
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a convincing of himself fromBlake than it is encouragement
for the rest of the family.
Although I didn't notice untilthis very moment that each of
them have the exact same set ofeyes.
So it works.
But Blake's like, listen, I'm abroke boy today.
I'm gonna get my money back.
Don't even worry about me, I'llget it.
What he doesn't know is thathell hath no fury like a woman
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scorned.
And if that woman scornedhappens to marry the richest man
in Colorado, baby, you got aproblem.
Alexis Carrington is a problem.
Despite the fact that the fedsare watching her, that she is
under some sort of house arrest,she is under some sort of
investigation for the allegedmurder of Mark Deep Dimples
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Jennings.
She still has business to attendto.
Now, I admire this so much abouther.
She's keeping her eye on theprize.
It doesn't matter that the cuffswant to be on her, it doesn't
matter that she may go to prisonfor murder that she didn't do.
What she knows is that herex-husband's house is probably
gonna be coming up on the marketbecause he's a broke boy and he
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needs to extract all of theliquid assets from whatever he
can.
The house is a no-brainer.
She wants to make sure she's onthe up and up, she's abreast of
every single change, everysingle move that he's making,
and she makes a phone call thatwill inadvertently change her
life, and possibly Blake's.
But before we get too deep intothat, we gotta get into Miss
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Deboreau.
Not only has Miss Debereaumanaged to bag Billy December
Williams, she happens to be theBeyoncé of 1984.
Let her tell it.
She's mentoring all over you.
I guess she's a David Hasselhausof music.
Super big in Germany, super bigin European countries, not so
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much in the US.
She decides, hey Claudia,Claudia, calm down.
I know you're the manager of LaMirage until Fallon appears or
doesn't appear.
But uh, I need to make a splashin the United States.
And I think Denver, freakingColorado is the mecca of music.
It is the artistic haven of theWest, and I need to be here.
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Claudia's like, listen, girl, Iheard you sing.
You tore the house down.
I'm not backing front, you toreit down.
However, baby girl, all I havein my budget is$2,000.
You really want to perform eachweek for$2,000?
That comes out to about$6,000 aweek.
You know what?
Let me stand corrected.
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$6k equals$24,000 a month in2025.
It's nothing to snub your noseat.
It's weird though, consideringwho she is and what she has to
offer.
If she has been this sort ofpseudo-superstar in Europe, and
not only that, she happens tohave the attention and the
matrimony of a man who is theequivalent of Clive Davis.
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Why would you want to do LittleOld Denver?
This is one of the questions,one of the many questions that
is plaguing William DecemberWilliam, aka Mr.
Brady Lloyd.
He is a high professional,high-time, highfalutin producer.
Okay, this is the thing.
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I don't think he's all thatbothered the fact by the fact
that she wants to perform.
He just can't figure out for thelife of him why you would want
to perform in Denver, Coloradowhen LA is calling Vegas, it's
calling Reno for crying outloud.
You could perform in Dallas, youcould perform in Miami, you
could perform in any major cityin the US, Chicago, whatever.
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But Denver, not that it'sanything that's not your nose
out, but it just doesn't makesense.
It takes all episode, it takes abubble bath or two, it takes
looking into each other's eyesfor her to finally be like, yo,
I got business here.
I got deep, deep business herethat I need to take care of.
So much so that she tellsClaudia the Stallion, she ain't
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really worried about the moneylike that.
Just make sure you have a stagefor me.
I'm on my Lily Mae.
I just want to sing in front ofthese people.
And I just I just want to winover America.
I want to win over America withthe middle American crowd.
Likely story.
But by the end of the episode,what we discover is that Billy
D.
Williams, aka Mr.
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Lloyd, is not really fillingthis whole Denver residency.
So as she's pouring her heartout over the piano keys, tingle,
tingle, tingle, woo-woof de-wom,la di da da.
He he throws up the deuces andhe walks out.
Interestingly enough, Mrs.
Debereau, or Miss Well, hell,she's not Mrs.
Lloyd now that I'm thinkingabout it.
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Okay, Mrs.
Lloyd, aka Miss Debereau, notBlanche, has made a splash in
Denver.
From her one or two impromptuperformances at La Mirage, she
has garnered some sort offandom.
They are showing up in drones.
Half of these people, shedoesn't know.
Three of the people happen to bethe newest Carringtons and the
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oldest Carringtons.
Blake shows up, as does uhCrystal, as does Claudia.
Now Dominique is quite surprisedthat Blake showed up.
She's like, okay, last time Isaw you, you had a big old
attitude.
Now you're here to hear me sing.
He's like, listen, I was havinga rough day.
I heard you, I heard you got thepipes, darling.
I want to hear you.
And she's like, okay, good.
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Hang on to your pants, Mr.
Sir.
I gotta be honest, guys.
I'm having a little bit oftrouble accepting her in this
show.
It's not for what you think, itis because her eye, she doesn't
blink.
People who don't blink make mevery, very nervous.
I'm trying my very best.
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I'm fighting with everything inme not to see her as a hoodoo
bio queen from Lusanna from someswamp somewhere.
I'm trying not to see her inthat way, but that's all I see.
If she doesn't blink, I thinkshe's putting the hacks on
people.
It's making me veryuncomfortable.
And apparently it's makingClaudia the Stallion, aka the
resident cuckoo uncomfortable.
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Is Claudia a cuckoo or is shecrazy like a fox?
I tend to believe the latter.
She tells Blake during one ofthe last scenes of this episode,
that woman got something againstyou.
I can't tell you what it is, butyou better watch your front,
back, and side, homeboy.
She's got it coming for you.
That would appear to be thecase.
However, we do not find out whatit is that she's holding against
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him this episode.
Let her tell if she's acarrington.
We don't really know what thatis, but I do know that the
former Mrs.
Carrington is on her bully.
Alexis is working overtime thisentire episode.
Despite the fact that she is theprime suspect in Mark Jennings'
alleged murder, she's still onher bully.
She wants to know what Blake isdoing, making every move, making
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sure that she is a person who umsecures his mortgage, less TD
fault, and then she can go aheadand foreclose on him.
But despite all that, the copsare still like, yo, you're the
biggest suspect.
She's like, I'm not a freakingsuspect.
He worked for me.
What is the big deal?
She's smart enough to bring inher son Adam, who is most like
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her.
And he says, Mom, this guy's adouche, but he's right.
Why did you write this$100,000check?
And y'all had a relationshipwith Satabal.
This is what irritates me aboutthis.
Alexis Carrington has a milliondifferent relationships.
What you're not gonna do isimply that this woman had this
sensual relationship with thisman, paid him$100,000 and then
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killed him.
Do you know how many baddies shekeeps?
She has a whole, what do youcall it?
A bevy or a harem of dudes?
She is not tripping, she is notharder for any man.
Trust me.
It is the reverse, okay?
$100,000.
Why do I need to write a wholecheck and then murder you?
I don't need to do that.
Nobody believes her.
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But in the midst of this, she'skeeping her head up, she's
keeping her gloss on, she'skeeping her furs on, and she's
making money moves.
Alexis freaking Colby alsodoesn't blink.
Sadly, her son-in-law, orrather, her ex-son-in-law,
almost new son-in-law again, isnot having the same luck.
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Because Falon Carrington ColbyColby is well, Fallon Carrington
Colby, almost Colby, again, is ahigh-profile case.
They're getting weirdos out ofthe woodworks calling, uh,
insisting that they've seen herin various spots.
I just saw her here at the trainstation.
I just saw her on top of MountEverest.
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I just saw her at the Statue ofLiberty.
She's in Niagara Falls, she's onthe West Coast, she's on the
East Coast, she's in Mexico,blase, blase.
Jeff is going crazy, followingevery single lead.
But the Denver Department ofPolisery is not feeling the same
way.
Matter of fact, they got adetective who was so good.
He's already put out this liethat Fallon ran off in her
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wedding dress.
We all know that not to be truebecause the wedding dress was
the thing giving her thehallucinations, the headache.
She took that off and she jumpedin the car and she ran away.
She did what she needed to do.
So when someone calls, as theydo in one scene, we get to see
where Jeff is chilling at thepolice station.
Someone calls and they're like,Are you looking for Fallon Kobe?
Detective's like, Yeah, have youseen her?
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Yeah, I know exactly where sheis.
You can stop looking.
And the detective says, Well,you saw her in her wedding
dress, right?
And the person on the phone islike, exactly.
That's how they know people arefull of it.
It's quite cruel considering howdevastating this loss is for
Jeff.
But if I'm being honest, Jeffseems to be the only person
who's really, really thatconcerned.
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I mean, Blake is aware, but ishe concerned?
Hmm, not so much.
Despite his dress, Jeff is stilla good guy.
He still knows he's BlakeCarrington's favorite.
He Blake wishes Jeff was aCarrington.
So much so that Jeff iscompelled to be like, yo, dude,
I know you're going through it.
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Listen, I have a whole trustfund.
If you need it, and I'm talkingabout, I'm not just talking
about five or ten percent.
If you need 100% of my trustfund, I would give you 100% of
my trust fund.
That's how much I believe inyou.
That has to feel so good onBlake's fragile, fragile bone
structure and ego.
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It has to feel like a warm bathon a cold day.
Really, Jeff?
You would really give up yourentire inheritance for me?
Side note.
Yeah, you got a trust, but youalso had a job for a while.
You also like uh has huge sharesin Colby coast.
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Probably not.
But the gesture's cutenonetheless.
It must be Blake's lucky day orhis very, very unlucky day
because eventually, at somepoint in this episode, Crystal
is supposed to be at thedoctor's office, only she's not,
she's gone somewhere else, andwhen she comes back, she's able
to hand Blake over a check forthe humongous amount of four
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million five hundred thousanddollars.
He's disgusted.
Crystal, where the heck did youget this money?
Did you sell your furs, yoursables, your minks, your jewels,
your your pendants, your tracks,your weave, your wigs, whatnot.
You sold it, and she's like,Yes.
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I believe you, Blake, I believeyou.
He's offended.
How dare you, brother?
How dare you do this?
I can do this on my own andusually.
He starts to flip out, but thenshe's like, But you're broke.
And he's like, I mean, yeah,honestly.
Sorry.
But the most interesting thingabout this scene to me is that
they had to write the amount outon the check.
Now that's not that unusual.
I believe most of us soap fiendslistening are millennials, Gen
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X, and a little bit older,people who have who are aware of
what the soap opera world is.
This scene reminded me of myjunior year of high school where
I was flucked from obscurity tobe a speaker at the the Armist
State Assembly.
We're honoring all of theveterans, and I was doing fine.
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We practiced before, we went upbefore the entire school.
So at some point, I had actuallywritten out the names because
I'm gonna be real with you.
Math has never been my strongsuit, word problems are never
been my strong suit.
I wrote out the actual number,but day of said speech, I
stumbled.
And I remember my homeboy Josephwas like, You were doing so
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good.
I just don't know what numberyou said.
Like, don't shut up.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm saying people die.
That's all I'm saying.
I didn't have the exact number.
I played myself by not writingit more than once.
Blake Carrington, aka Mr.
Forsyth, was like, listen, whaty'all not gonna do is embarrass
me in front of God and everybodyon national television.
Write this number out so that Ican say it.
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Now, I would think the numberwould be 4.5 million, but he
says 400, he says the wholegovernment name number out, and
he's pissed.
How dare you sell all of yourcrap?
We go back to season one withthe million-dollar drop in the
ocean.
People need to think I ambawling at all times.
How dare you, Crystal?
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How dare you sell all of thegifts and all of the furs and
the minks and the cars and thejewels that I gave you?
How dare you?
She did it for love.
I love you and you need thismoney.
Mind you, homeboy has to raise$100 million.
But you know what?
This$4,500,000 is going to haveto do.
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She went so far as to remove thediamond off of her wedding ban.
All she's wearing now is awedding man.
No wedding ring because shebelieves in him so much.
And he's pissed.
Also, he's pissed because he wasexpecting some news about the
baby, but their appointment isactually until the next day.
Disappointment is runningrampant through the halls of
this mansion.
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Jeffrey gets a call from theDenver Morgue.
Can you even imagine?
He already, I mean, he knowswhat they're calling about, but
he obviously doesn't want toknow what they're calling about.
They've asked him, Mr.
Colby, could you please collectyour penny loafers and your
finest hairspray?
And escort yourself down to theDenver morgue.
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I need you to identify a body.
Oh my god, it's devastating.
It's devastating.
He goes down to the morgue, andall he has in the back of his
mind is that baby Blake has beenasking for his mother.
Where's mommy?
Where's mommy now?
In my mind, baby Blake isactually asking for his nanny
because he only sees Fallon twoor three times a week.
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We're gonna let that slide sinceshe's disappeared, okay?
We'll let that ride this onetime.
He gets down to the morgue, andthe corpse, luckily, is some
other 21-year-oldmarriage-avoidant bride.
Not Fallon.
Crystal is there to pick up thepieces.
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeffrey,Jefferson, Jefferson.
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Look at me, look at me, baby.
Look at me.
It's okay.
Fallon's not dead.
I know, but baby.
Blake is asking for her.
Well, I mean, he'll be fine.
He's gonna forget her.
He's like three.
He's he'll forget her.
She's not dead.
Keep your head up, keep yourchin up.
You're gonna be fine.
I need you to plant your pennyloafers on something solid.
We're gonna find her.
Don't even trip.
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I promise.
Really quick side note.
I have got to write some sort ofblog or something about this
show because Dynasty is sort ofchanging my brain chemistry.
Yes, I have bought fine glasses.
I've bought champagne shoots.
Yes, I drink champagne nowoccasionally.
Now I'm gonna have to buy adecanter and I'm gonna put
bubbles in it because DianeCarroll took a freaking bubble
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bath from a decantered bubblebath holder.
How genius is that?
I think the T though is we don'thave as much counter space and
bathtub space as they did backin the 80s.
I spent a lot of time thinkingabout these sort of things now,
all of a sudden, like damn, Iunderstand that this is this
television show and these areprops, but ultimately my
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bathroom and every otherbathroom I've ever seen in my
entire life, no matter how bigor how small, the shower bathtub
area is littered with shampoobottles and all of these sorts
of things.
It's never not crowded, but butdang it, I need a decanter
filled with bubble bath liquid.
I have to do it, I gotta do it.
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Coming to my favorite, I mean myabsolute favorite part of this
whole episode is the 34-minutemark.
Jeffrey is having a nightmare.
He's having a nightmare, he'sreliving his wedding or almost
wedding night.
He's having a flashback.
But the gotcha gotcha is he'snot picturing it from his angle,
which would have been himwaiting at the foot of the
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stairs for a buy that neverappears, running up to her
bedroom only to find her weddinggown in a pool on the floor, her
missing, hearing the screechingof tires, understanding that
that is her automobile, runningout to his Mercedes, chasing her
down the road in the dark ofnight, in a rainstorm with
torrential rain coming down atan angle, like on force gump and
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whatnot, chasing her, screamingher name, loosening his tie,
only to have some big Mactruckslash tractor block his way
as his beloved runs his paramourgone forever.
Or at least for for now, wedon't know forever.
That's what you would think he'dhe'd be flashing back to, right?
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Because that's what heexperienced.
No, no, no, no, no.
For whatever reason, his pointof view in his dreams is a
Fallon in her own car, butsomehow Jeff has a memory of a
Fallon driving and dropping outof her crinoline and silk and
taffeta skirt and making a runfor it.
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That's his flashback.
God bless you, Dynasty.
Like I said, Dynasty don't care.
I don't care what you saw.
You're gonna believe what Isaid.
Clean up on aisle five.
I tell you what, I know who hasa beppy of crinoline skirts in
her childhood wardrobe, MissDiane Carroll.
She's eating the girls alive ina sequent number as she shimmies
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and sings a lounge song thatsends her beloved paramour far,
far away.
Because what does he look likebeing married to someone who's a
lounge singer when he'srepresenting Manula or whoever?
You know, sometimes the pastcomes back to bite you in the
butt, sometimes it doesn't.
For Blake D.
Carrington, it's gonna.
Oh, it's gonna.
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So not only does he go to thebank and he gets the approval
from this no-name bank in themiddle of nowhere, Denver,
Colorado, the guy who's tellinghim that he got the loan is
like, yo, I didn't think you'dbe in bed with your wife like
that, your ex-wife like that.
Blake says, What do you mean?
He's like, Oh, you didn't know?
Your ex-wife is the one who'sholding the note on your new
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mansion or your mansion.
Blake's like, W T F.
So of course he does thecountryest thing he could
possibly do.
He goes to confront Alexis,although she is the hand that
feeds him.
He says, Listen, ex-wife, youbought my house.
She's like, indeed I did, andhow dare you! I'm the man
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boyfriend.
Clearly you're not, sir.
Clearly you're not.
Alexis says, Listen, you can himand haw and do whatever you want
to do, but in three months'time, 90 days, my guy?
Quicker than you can buy aRussian bride.
I'm gonna own your house.
Not only I'm gonna own yourhouse, I'm gonna own your house
and I'm gonna stand in it andI'm gonna wave goodbye to you
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and your new trailer trash wifeas you collect your tings and
are escorted off of my property.
And Blake wants to talk big-ish.
How dare you say that?
I've wanted to kill you severaltimes, and I definitely want to
do now, but you got a murdertrial coming up.
Uh, pot calling the cattle blackmuch?
Sir, didn't you kill a wholedude uh by tripping and falling
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into him season one?
Didn't you?
Didn't you kill your son'sex-lover?
And behind some just clumsy-ish?
I really wish Ted Denart wouldcome back from the dead, but
that doesn't seem to behappening anytime soon.
She's like, you know what?
I'm I ain't no killer, but Iknow what I know this.
I know you bought that mansionfor me to stunt in, so do not be
upset when I do the very thingyou wanted me to do with it.
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I'm going to stunt.
I just happen to be wanting tostunt when you and your wife are
pulling all of your crap out ofme and my kid's house.
Okay.
Love you, boo.
Okay, last little tidbit.
I can't stress this enough.
The detective, Sergeant Roscoe,who seemed to be working
Fallon's case.
I don't know if he just hasother things going on.
He doesn't seem to be all thatinterested.
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He does not seem to beconcerned.
Actually, the more I think aboutit, no one is really all that
concerned.
Fallon is fully missing.
Nobody's considering that shemight be deceased.
They're just thinking, okay,she's clearly run away.
We're gonna find out where sheis.
So some uh brawny man in apuffer vest shows up at the
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police station.
He's like, yo, I gave this girla ride across country.
She told me that she needed aride.
She asked me where I was going.
I'm like, yo, I'm going toSeattle.
And she said, you know, what acoincidence I am too.
So he claims that's where hetook her.
Goes down to the station, and bythe end of it, Jeff is drinking
this cheap turpentine levelstrength coffee from the police
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station.
And he decides that by episodethree, he will be on the west
coast doing the absolute most inSeattle v.
Washington.
End scene.
My bad, my bad, my bad.
I talked to all that ish uhPortland.
Not Seattle.
Dude claims that he sees Fallon.
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She says, Where are you going?
Well, I'm going to Portland.
Oh, me too, baby.
Brawny man in the puffer vestdecides she is good enough,
takes her all the way toPortland.
Jeff, at the very end of thisepisode, decides he too is
heading up to the northwest onthe west coast, doing the
absolute most in Portland,Oregon, long before Starby's end
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scene.
Alright, guys, we got twomissing people.
We have mild interests from theCarrington family.
This is a little moreCarrington-centric than I would
have liked, but I'm not mad atit.
We gotta get somewhere, right?
Where is Sammy Joe?
Where is Danny?
Where is Falon?
Is she cool?
Is it gonna be the same girlcoming back?
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I'm kind of waiting for that notto happen because I totally get
her point.
Y'all have not been bringing theheat like you needed to be
bringing the heat.
But we're gonna see.
Also, I gotta admit, thisDominique Devereaux entrance was
good, but you mean to tell meshe's gonna be a low-key lounge
singer to gain intel on BlakeCarrington?
He splashed all over thetabloids every single day.
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Girl, don't do that.
Oh, this is one point I did Ididn't really talk about, but
this is what seems to have gonedown.
So she told us she was aCarrington, right?
We don't really know what thatmeans.
I don't know if it's from hismom, I don't know if it's from
his dad.
But what I do know is that BillyDecember Williams, aka Mr.
Lloyd, has helped her.
She's listened to his advicemost of her life, but for some
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reason she's not listening now.
She listened to him when she wasoverseas, like, yo, buy this
club, don't buy this club, bringin this singer, don't buy this
singer.
And she has become a wealthywoman from that, which poses the
question (39:23):
has she been wealthy before she met Mr.
Lloyd?
I don't really know.
Seems like she would have beenif she's going to all these
expensive private schools andwhatnot, right?
They don't seem to have beenmarried too long.
But you know what?
Time will tell.
I'm here for it either way,Dynasty.
You are laying the ground for afantastic season.
I'm into it.
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Alright, guys, I think that'sit.
That's all.
Join me next time as we jumpback into another primetime
vintage soap opera.
In the meantime, in betweentime, for crying out loud.
If your brother's baby mamawants to go on any sort of road
trip, for the love of God, reachout to him first.
Otherwise, you're gonna crumbleany sort of bridge that the two
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of you have built between eachother.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized,mind your own business, and keep
all of your drama on TV.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
welcome and welcome back toanother fun told edition of
Stuff Lloor.
I'm your host, Jessica.
You and you're doing this that'sprime time storylines of season
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It's time to play outside oroutside to make no questions,
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Everyone else in AirStack willhave to be out there.
It can be very, very cool, i.e.
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It can be quiet when you bothwill not want to do the note.
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You will be talking about themeaning or wanting our story.
What do you mean, gentlemen,boys and girls?
This is soaploor.
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Hello, gorgeous.
Welcome or welcome back toanother fun filled edition of
Soapflore.
I hope your day is shaping upwell.
Uh, let's go ahead and addressthe elephant in the room.
Jet, where the hell have youbeen?
Believe it or not, in America,you have to like work.
I don't even get it.
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Like, I think we have some ofthe best personalities on the
planet.
Why are we not being paid toexist?
Why do you have to show up andtake tests?
I'll have you know, I've beenthrough a week and a half of
training.
My brain is mashed potatoes.
Whipped mashed potatoes, nobutter, no salt, no flavor at
all.
I barely got through thatriff-raff.
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And here's the T I'm a nerd.
I love reading, I loveinformation.
Even I was like, ladies andgentlemen, this is a bit too
much.
Excuses are like elbows.
We won't even go there.
But I do apologize for leavingy'all out for so long.
I know this is a rerun for you,but it's new for me, and I enjoy
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our time together.
So, of course, we're gonna jumpback in full throttle, pedal to
the metal.
It's all gas.
I'm doing nothing but watchingsoaps for the next few weeks
because, quite frankly, I haveaccumulated enough vacation,
amen, to not have to worry aboutthis for a while.
I will let 2026 bring its ownproblems, but for the remainder
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of 2025, I am cutting up, I'mkicking back.
We're watching VintagePrimetime's soap opery at its
finest, and we're starting withthe shiniest bunch of them all,
Queen Dynasty.
I want to shout out to you guysone more time for being OGs who
really love the show and whoreally appreciated it.
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There's a level of maturity thatI can appreciate that I don't
experience in my day-to-daylife.
I've been able to watch thisuninterrupted.
Nobody's really given too muchtea away.
Even if you did, it didn'tbother me that much because I'm
like, if you're gonna run for 10plus years, it's a storyline or
two is is par for the course.
Things will be leaked, uh,conclusions will be met.
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It's probably a little bit moreobvious after you've seen it
once or twice.
But I respect that you guysrespect this being my first time
out of the gate.
I am most excited, quiet askept, about season five of
Dynasty because this is when Ifeel like she becomes her.
She really understands, okay,this is what it is, this is what
it ain't.
We're gonna turn it up.
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We we're gonna get theattention.
We've been pretty for a longtime.
We've had some stutter stepping,but we're back in this with all
the flair, all the things thatpeople want to see when you sit
down to unwind.
So go ahead and pour yourself upsomething bubbling and bright.
I'm gonna keep it cute today.
I have some coconut water that'sbeen in the freezer because for
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whatever reason it was like hotone day and then was like
freezing.
I feel like, do you ever feellike you were just extra ashy in
the winter?
I definitely feel like that, andI feel like it's from the inside
out.
So I choose to hydrate my bodytoday with coconut water.
It ain't bubbly, but you knowwhat?
We're gonna make a do with a do.
As we enjoy season five, episodetwo of Dynasty, the mortgage.
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Don't even get me starting on alivable wage and a mortgage.
What do you think the mortgageis for a mansion?
Let's say you and I are bestfriends, right?
We each have sprawling propertyin in mountains or whatever
region.
I have a 48-bedroom home thatused to be a 52-bedroom home.
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That's neither here nor there.
I got a lot of rooms in my home,even though from the outside, to
the naked eye, you might say, uh10, 15 rooms tops.
No, no, no, baby.
Don't worry about that.
48.
Now I I I've thought about thislong and hard.
I feel like they're saying 48rooms total.
So if there is a uh a mud room,that's one.
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If there's a bathroom, that'stwo.
48 rooms total.
Who knows how many bedrooms?
My guesstimate is there's abouteight to 12.
And 12 is pushing it, 12 is anunfinished attic or an
unfinished basement.
But for whatever reason, thishome is the talk of the town.
I gotta be quite honest withyou.
I've only watched about 10-15minutes of this.
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So let me do my thing.
We'll come back and we'lldiscuss all the ins and outs of
this iconic season of Dynasty.
One of the things I've alwaysappreciated the most about
Dynasty is they don't give adamn about what I said before.
I said that then, this is now.
As with the other series, by andlarge, season five has sort of
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changed their intro.
Falcon Crest definitely has,Dynasty definitely has Dallas
still looks exactly the same,but I like that Dynasty is bold
enough to give you yet anotheraerial shot from a helicopter of
the sprawling landscape of thismansion.
And the more I look at it, itwas like, baby, you can't tell
me there's 48 anything in there.
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Ain't no way.
It is museum-sized at best, butthat's dynasty for you.
They don't give a damn what yousee.
You're gonna hear what I say.
I don't care if you this is athousand-foot apartment, this is
a 48,000 square foot mall.
Deal with it.
Lord have mercy.
I still can't believe theymanaged to bag William December
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Williams.
Can we just go there real quick?
I hold very firm to the thoughtthat circa 1600s through
probably 1930, there were onlyabout 10 names in rotation.
Shout out to William DecemberWilliams mothers for being like,
yo, listen, I I I can't do it nomore.
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Your baby number umpteen, you'regonna get whatever name.
You lucky your name ain't bag ofsugar.
You lucky your name ain't uhCocoa Melon.
I tell you, with a straightface, I know a woman named
Blondie who is narrow blondehair on her head.
I know a woman named Cookie, Iknow a woman named Brownie, I
know a woman named Bertie.
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At some point, when you have50-11 kids, you stop giving a
damn by about child sex.
It's like, who cares?
I'm gonna call you whatever Ineed to call you so that you
don't turn around when the other50 other children turn around.
You can change your name as soonas you see fit to do so.
But William December Williams,his mother said, you know what,
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damn it, when's your birthday,baby?
Bet your name is is is last namemonth last name.
Get over it, argue with somebodyelse.
I guess I got other stuff to do.
So here's the thing.
I never give really given muchthought about recasting people.
As long as the character is thesame, I actually don't mind the
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different interpretations ofsaid character.
However, I need to to go aheadand draw the line in the sand.
I was a fan of Steven seasonone, season two.
New face Steven, who kind oflooked like Michael Jackson to
me, is a mother-loving problem.
New face Steven is a giganticpain in my ass.
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Every time I turn around, he'spouting.
It's like, it's like he has avibrato without the pain.
Other Stephen, we saw him workthrough things.
You know what I'm saying?
He he was bold in his sexuality,he was bold in his footing in
his family.
He's like, you know what?
The hell with you old man.
I'm gonna go ahead and make aname for myself any way I see
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fit to do so.
New Steven came back from Taiwanor whatever with a brand new
face.
He's still smelling like Barbieplastic, but he got the audacity
of a man who's been wealthy forthree generations.
I'm not really feeling him.
On this particular episode, heis coming at brand new Adam's
neck, saying, Yo, you helpedSammy Joe kidnap my son.
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Now, this is very insensitive.
It's very insensitive.
Adam is a throwaway baby.
His whole storyline is that hewas pushed out in the rain.
He was gurgling for air andwhatnot.
Some old broad picked him up,put him in billings.
Before he knows, he's 25 yearsold, fresh out of law school.
Before he knows, this ain't evenhis mama.
But let Steven tell him, Youhelped my ex-hood rat wife steal
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my baby.
Adam said, Listen, listen, bro.
I don't know that girl thatgood.
All she said was she wasleaving, she wanted to spend
every moment with her son asmuch as she could.
Now, tell you tell me how to howdoes that sound?
Coming from the outside in, doesthat sound like somebody who's
gonna kidnap a kid?
No, I just thought she wanted tobe with her baby, that's all.
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I'm sorry, but also I'm alawyer, and I also know that
because this is 1984, 1985, andyour country ass had the
audacity to not have a solidcustody agreement.
It is what it is, my dude.
She got your baby, that's alsoher baby.
That's what you get for sleepingwith hookers and holes and
whatnot.
That's not my problem.
Adam doesn't say all that, but Iwish he did.
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I also need to point out, shoutout to Oregon.
He does definitely look 37 to meall of a sudden.
Not that there's a hugedifference, everybody's face
ages differently, but he'sholding himself together like a
man nearing middle age.
Like, listen, I ain't got timefor the foolishness.
That's what you get for notputting together an ironclad
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agreement.
But at the end of the day, Ineed you to know, baby brother,
I would never on my life.
I know what it's like to not bewith a family.
I would have never helped thishooker kidnap your baby.
I love him.
That's my nephew.
I got very little family.
I love this baby.
Well, listen, New Face Steven ison his new ish, and he is just
uppity.
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This is your fault.
Anything happens, I'm gonnaattack you forgetting that.
Adam is not only a lawyer, hehas instant access to copious
amounts of poisonous paint.
You could be sitting in yourcar.
Claudia could be getting hernails done.
Next thing you know, y'all areloopy, dupey, and damn near dead
because you didn't piss this manoff.
You have to approach people whohave tried to kill other people
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in a very gentle way.
I don't know why new set faceeven doesn't know this.
I guess they exchange part ofhis frontal lobe.
I really don't know.
But what I do know is for thefirst time ever, Blake
Carrington remembers that he isthe patriarch of this family,
dammit.
And it is time for theobligatory I am the father
speech, and this is who we are.
Before we go there, I need toreiterate that baby Danny is
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missing.
Baby Danny shares the samebedroom as baby Blake, who, by
all intents and purposes, wasprobably the favorite baby
before Danny arrived.
We don't even really know ifDanny is Stevens, but it matters
none because you know who'spissed off, who's upset, who is
beside herself, not Danny'smother, not Danny's grandmother,
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not Danny's father, who justhappened to be pissed off, not
Danny's stepmother, who happensto be Claudia the Eastallion.
His nanny, his baby mama, thenanny, is absolutely beside
herself.
She said, I knew that Sammy Joewas a trickery, triggery trick
when she walked into this piece.
Now she has stolen my baby.
What are we gonna do?
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I knew she had it out for him.
It's so interesting to me thatshe is the only person who sort
of clocked that this woman hadnefarious intentions.
Everyone else was just toointimidated by her, or like, you
know what?
Well, she's got this wholeagreement.
This is what we agreed to.
Danny's his mother.
Steven's trying to get Buck inAdam's face this whole time.
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This is when Blake decides it istime for everyone to realize
what it means to be a Carringtonwith a capital C.
So picture this.
It is Stephen, Adam, Crystal,Claudia the Stallion, and Blake
all in the study.
As Adam's dance would have it,they all have a last name,
Carrington.
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Blake is beside himself withrage as he witnesses Stephen
belittling Adam.
Adam, how dare you let thiswoman steal my child?
Adam's like, I didn't mean Ididn't do this on purpose.
Enough! Enough, shouts Blake.
He is a patriarch.
He's gonna put this family backin order because they have
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forgotten who they are.
We are the Carringtons, damn it.
We we we put on a brave face nomatter what's going on around
us.
We we persevere.
We are the best of the best.
Now, everybody looking around,mind you, I said this was Blake,
this was Stephen, this was Adam,Crystal, and Claudia the
Stallion.
By blood, only three of them areCarringtons.
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Amen.
And and and even within thatbloodline, one of them was left
out in the rain in a buggy.
So he don't really know theheritage of his family.
But Blake assures them thatyou're gonna be brothers
eventually, you're gonna getover the there's kids missing
and crap.
I got a kid missing, and I'mcool with whoever.
You guys are gonna be cool,Danny will be back or he won't,
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Fallon will be back or he won't.
Listen, we've all dealt withtragedies, we're all going
through something terrible andhorrible, but who cares?
We're gonna we're gonna put onour big girl panties and we're
gonna face the world asCarrington's.
That is so entertaining to watchthe scene because Crystal, the
look on her face, it should beone of admiration, but it's
like, God, he's not reading theroom.
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Claudia is looking over atSteven, who's like, I mean, I'm
a Carrington, but I I didn'tknow we had these qualities.
Claudia looks over to Adam,who's like, listen, I ain't been
here but a season and a half.
I don't know this heritageeither.
Blake is the only one shovelingthis thing down his throat.
He's the only person whobelieves the Carringtons'
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heritage is one of perseverance.
Now, me myself personally, uh iflife is a chessboard, the
Carringtons are 1000% pawns.
Maybe a rook on a good day, butmostly pawns.
It's also worth noting that thiswhole speech seems to be more of
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a convincing of himself fromBlake than it is encouragement
for the rest of the family.
Although I didn't notice untilthis very moment that each of
them have the exact same set ofeyes.
So it works.
But Blake's like, listen, I'm abroke boy today.
I'm gonna get my money back.
Don't even worry about me, I'llget it.
What he doesn't know is thathell hath no fury like a woman
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scorned.
And if that woman scornedhappens to marry the richest man
in Colorado, baby, you got aproblem.
Alexis Carrington is a problem.
Despite the fact that the fedsare watching her, that she is
under some sort of house arrest,she is under some sort of
investigation for the allegedmurder of Mark Deep Dimples
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Jennings.
She still has business to attendto.
Now, I admire this so much abouther.
She's keeping her eye on theprize.
It doesn't matter that the cuffswant to be on her, it doesn't
matter that she may go to prisonfor murder that she didn't do.
What she knows is that herex-husband's house is probably
gonna be coming up on the marketbecause he's a broke boy and he
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needs to extract all of theliquid assets from whatever he
can.
The house is a no-brainer.
She wants to make sure she's onthe up and up, she's abreast of
every single change, everysingle move that he's making,
and she makes a phone call thatwill inadvertently change her
life, and possibly Blake's.
But before we get too deep intothat, we gotta get into Miss
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Deboreau.
Not only has Miss Debereaumanaged to bag Billy December
Williams, she happens to be theBeyoncé of 1984.
Let her tell it.
She's mentoring all over you.
I guess she's a David Hasselhausof music.
Super big in Germany, super bigin European countries, not so
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much in the US.
She decides, hey Claudia,Claudia, calm down.
I know you're the manager of LaMirage until Fallon appears or
doesn't appear.
But uh, I need to make a splashin the United States.
And I think Denver, freakingColorado is the mecca of music.
It is the artistic haven of theWest, and I need to be here.
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Claudia's like, listen, girl, Iheard you sing.
You tore the house down.
I'm not backing front, you toreit down.
However, baby girl, all I havein my budget is$2,000.
You really want to perform eachweek for$2,000?
That comes out to about$6,000 aweek.
You know what?
Let me stand corrected.
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$6k equals$24,000 a month in2025.
It's nothing to snub your noseat.
It's weird though, consideringwho she is and what she has to
offer.
If she has been this sort ofpseudo-superstar in Europe, and
not only that, she happens tohave the attention and the
matrimony of a man who is theequivalent of Clive Davis.
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Why would you want to do LittleOld Denver?
This is one of the questions,one of the many questions that
is plaguing William DecemberWilliam, aka Mr.
Brady Lloyd.
He is a high professional,high-time, highfalutin producer.
Okay, this is the thing.
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I don't think he's all thatbothered the fact by the fact
that she wants to perform.
He just can't figure out for thelife of him why you would want
to perform in Denver, Coloradowhen LA is calling Vegas, it's
calling Reno for crying outloud.
You could perform in Dallas, youcould perform in Miami, you
could perform in any major cityin the US, Chicago, whatever.
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But Denver, not that it'sanything that's not your nose
out, but it just doesn't makesense.
It takes all episode, it takes abubble bath or two, it takes
looking into each other's eyesfor her to finally be like, yo,
I got business here.
I got deep, deep business herethat I need to take care of.
So much so that she tellsClaudia the Stallion, she ain't
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really worried about the moneylike that.
Just make sure you have a stagefor me.
I'm on my Lily Mae.
I just want to sing in front ofthese people.
And I just I just want to winover America.
I want to win over America withthe middle American crowd.
Likely story.
But by the end of the episode,what we discover is that Billy
D.
Williams, aka Mr.
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Lloyd, is not really fillingthis whole Denver residency.
So as she's pouring her heartout over the piano keys, tingle,
tingle, tingle, woo-woof de-wom,la di da da.
He he throws up the deuces andhe walks out.
Interestingly enough, Mrs.
Debereau, or Miss Well, hell,she's not Mrs.
Lloyd now that I'm thinkingabout it.
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Okay, Mrs.
Lloyd, aka Miss Debereau, notBlanche, has made a splash in
Denver.
From her one or two impromptuperformances at La Mirage, she
has garnered some sort offandom.
They are showing up in drones.
Half of these people, shedoesn't know.
Three of the people happen to bethe newest Carringtons and the
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oldest Carringtons.
Blake shows up, as does uhCrystal, as does Claudia.
Now Dominique is quite surprisedthat Blake showed up.
She's like, okay, last time Isaw you, you had a big old
attitude.
Now you're here to hear me sing.
He's like, listen, I was havinga rough day.
I heard you, I heard you got thepipes, darling.
I want to hear you.
And she's like, okay, good.
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Hang on to your pants, Mr.
Sir.
I gotta be honest, guys.
I'm having a little bit oftrouble accepting her in this
show.
It's not for what you think, itis because her eye, she doesn't
blink.
People who don't blink make mevery, very nervous.
I'm trying my very best.
(21:15):
I'm fighting with everything inme not to see her as a hoodoo
bio queen from Lusanna from someswamp somewhere.
I'm trying not to see her inthat way, but that's all I see.
If she doesn't blink, I thinkshe's putting the hacks on
people.
It's making me veryuncomfortable.
And apparently it's makingClaudia the Stallion, aka the
resident cuckoo uncomfortable.
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Is Claudia a cuckoo or is shecrazy like a fox?
I tend to believe the latter.
She tells Blake during one ofthe last scenes of this episode,
that woman got something againstyou.
I can't tell you what it is, butyou better watch your front,
back, and side, homeboy.
She's got it coming for you.
That would appear to be thecase.
However, we do not find out whatit is that she's holding against
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him this episode.
Let her tell if she's acarrington.
We don't really know what thatis, but I do know that the
former Mrs.
Carrington is on her bully.
Alexis is working overtime thisentire episode.
Despite the fact that she is theprime suspect in Mark Jennings'
alleged murder, she's still onher bully.
She wants to know what Blake isdoing, making every move, making
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sure that she is a person who umsecures his mortgage, less TD
fault, and then she can go aheadand foreclose on him.
But despite all that, the copsare still like, yo, you're the
biggest suspect.
She's like, I'm not a freakingsuspect.
He worked for me.
What is the big deal?
She's smart enough to bring inher son Adam, who is most like
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her.
And he says, Mom, this guy's adouche, but he's right.
Why did you write this$100,000check?
And y'all had a relationshipwith Satabal.
This is what irritates me aboutthis.
Alexis Carrington has a milliondifferent relationships.
What you're not gonna do isimply that this woman had this
sensual relationship with thisman, paid him$100,000 and then
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killed him.
Do you know how many baddies shekeeps?
She has a whole, what do youcall it?
A bevy or a harem of dudes?
She is not tripping, she is notharder for any man.
Trust me.
It is the reverse, okay?
$100,000.
Why do I need to write a wholecheck and then murder you?
I don't need to do that.
Nobody believes her.
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But in the midst of this, she'skeeping her head up, she's
keeping her gloss on, she'skeeping her furs on, and she's
making money moves.
Alexis freaking Colby alsodoesn't blink.
Sadly, her son-in-law, orrather, her ex-son-in-law,
almost new son-in-law again, isnot having the same luck.
(23:49):
Because Falon Carrington ColbyColby is well, Fallon Carrington
Colby, almost Colby, again, is ahigh-profile case.
They're getting weirdos out ofthe woodworks calling, uh,
insisting that they've seen herin various spots.
I just saw her here at the trainstation.
I just saw her on top of MountEverest.
(24:10):
I just saw her at the Statue ofLiberty.
She's in Niagara Falls, she's onthe West Coast, she's on the
East Coast, she's in Mexico,blase, blase.
Jeff is going crazy, followingevery single lead.
But the Denver Department ofPolisery is not feeling the same
way.
Matter of fact, they got adetective who was so good.
He's already put out this liethat Fallon ran off in her
(24:34):
wedding dress.
We all know that not to be truebecause the wedding dress was
the thing giving her thehallucinations, the headache.
She took that off and she jumpedin the car and she ran away.
She did what she needed to do.
So when someone calls, as theydo in one scene, we get to see
where Jeff is chilling at thepolice station.
Someone calls and they're like,Are you looking for Fallon Kobe?
Detective's like, Yeah, have youseen her?
(24:57):
Yeah, I know exactly where sheis.
You can stop looking.
And the detective says, Well,you saw her in her wedding
dress, right?
And the person on the phone islike, exactly.
That's how they know people arefull of it.
It's quite cruel considering howdevastating this loss is for
Jeff.
But if I'm being honest, Jeffseems to be the only person
who's really, really thatconcerned.
(25:19):
I mean, Blake is aware, but ishe concerned?
Hmm, not so much.
Despite his dress, Jeff is stilla good guy.
He still knows he's BlakeCarrington's favorite.
He Blake wishes Jeff was aCarrington.
So much so that Jeff iscompelled to be like, yo, dude,
I know you're going through it.
(25:40):
Listen, I have a whole trustfund.
If you need it, and I'm talkingabout, I'm not just talking
about five or ten percent.
If you need 100% of my trustfund, I would give you 100% of
my trust fund.
That's how much I believe inyou.
That has to feel so good onBlake's fragile, fragile bone
structure and ego.
(26:01):
It has to feel like a warm bathon a cold day.
Really, Jeff?
You would really give up yourentire inheritance for me?
Side note.
Yeah, you got a trust, but youalso had a job for a while.
You also like uh has huge sharesin Colby coast.
(26:22):
Probably not.
But the gesture's cutenonetheless.
It must be Blake's lucky day orhis very, very unlucky day
because eventually, at somepoint in this episode, Crystal
is supposed to be at thedoctor's office, only she's not,
she's gone somewhere else, andwhen she comes back, she's able
to hand Blake over a check forthe humongous amount of four
(26:46):
million five hundred thousanddollars.
He's disgusted.
Crystal, where the heck did youget this money?
Did you sell your furs, yoursables, your minks, your jewels,
your your pendants, your tracks,your weave, your wigs, whatnot.
You sold it, and she's like,Yes.
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I believe you, Blake, I believeyou.
He's offended.
How dare you, brother?
How dare you do this?
I can do this on my own andusually.
He starts to flip out, but thenshe's like, But you're broke.
And he's like, I mean, yeah,honestly.
Sorry.
But the most interesting thingabout this scene to me is that
they had to write the amount outon the check.
Now that's not that unusual.
I believe most of us soap fiendslistening are millennials, Gen
(27:31):
X, and a little bit older,people who have who are aware of
what the soap opera world is.
This scene reminded me of myjunior year of high school where
I was flucked from obscurity tobe a speaker at the the Armist
State Assembly.
We're honoring all of theveterans, and I was doing fine.
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We practiced before, we went upbefore the entire school.
So at some point, I had actuallywritten out the names because
I'm gonna be real with you.
Math has never been my strongsuit, word problems are never
been my strong suit.
I wrote out the actual number,but day of said speech, I
stumbled.
And I remember my homeboy Josephwas like, You were doing so
(28:16):
good.
I just don't know what numberyou said.
Like, don't shut up.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm saying people die.
That's all I'm saying.
I didn't have the exact number.
I played myself by not writingit more than once.
Blake Carrington, aka Mr.
Forsyth, was like, listen, whaty'all not gonna do is embarrass
me in front of God and everybodyon national television.
Write this number out so that Ican say it.
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Now, I would think the numberwould be 4.5 million, but he
says 400, he says the wholegovernment name number out, and
he's pissed.
How dare you sell all of yourcrap?
We go back to season one withthe million-dollar drop in the
ocean.
People need to think I ambawling at all times.
How dare you, Crystal?
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How dare you sell all of thegifts and all of the furs and
the minks and the cars and thejewels that I gave you?
How dare you?
She did it for love.
I love you and you need thismoney.
Mind you, homeboy has to raise$100 million.
But you know what?
This$4,500,000 is going to haveto do.
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She went so far as to remove thediamond off of her wedding ban.
All she's wearing now is awedding man.
No wedding ring because shebelieves in him so much.
And he's pissed.
Also, he's pissed because he wasexpecting some news about the
baby, but their appointment isactually until the next day.
Disappointment is runningrampant through the halls of
this mansion.
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Jeffrey gets a call from theDenver Morgue.
Can you even imagine?
He already, I mean, he knowswhat they're calling about, but
he obviously doesn't want toknow what they're calling about.
They've asked him, Mr.
Colby, could you please collectyour penny loafers and your
finest hairspray?
And escort yourself down to theDenver morgue.
(30:03):
I need you to identify a body.
Oh my god, it's devastating.
It's devastating.
He goes down to the morgue, andall he has in the back of his
mind is that baby Blake has beenasking for his mother.
Where's mommy?
Where's mommy now?
In my mind, baby Blake isactually asking for his nanny
because he only sees Fallon twoor three times a week.
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We're gonna let that slide sinceshe's disappeared, okay?
We'll let that ride this onetime.
He gets down to the morgue, andthe corpse, luckily, is some
other 21-year-oldmarriage-avoidant bride.
Not Fallon.
Crystal is there to pick up thepieces.
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeffrey,Jefferson, Jefferson.
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Look at me, look at me, baby.
Look at me.
It's okay.
Fallon's not dead.
I know, but baby.
Blake is asking for her.
Well, I mean, he'll be fine.
He's gonna forget her.
He's like three.
He's he'll forget her.
She's not dead.
Keep your head up, keep yourchin up.
You're gonna be fine.
I need you to plant your pennyloafers on something solid.
We're gonna find her.
Don't even trip.
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I promise.
Really quick side note.
I have got to write some sort ofblog or something about this
show because Dynasty is sort ofchanging my brain chemistry.
Yes, I have bought fine glasses.
I've bought champagne shoots.
Yes, I drink champagne nowoccasionally.
Now I'm gonna have to buy adecanter and I'm gonna put
bubbles in it because DianeCarroll took a freaking bubble
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bath from a decantered bubblebath holder.
How genius is that?
I think the T though is we don'thave as much counter space and
bathtub space as they did backin the 80s.
I spent a lot of time thinkingabout these sort of things now,
all of a sudden, like damn, Iunderstand that this is this
television show and these areprops, but ultimately my
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bathroom and every otherbathroom I've ever seen in my
entire life, no matter how bigor how small, the shower bathtub
area is littered with shampoobottles and all of these sorts
of things.
It's never not crowded, but butdang it, I need a decanter
filled with bubble bath liquid.
I have to do it, I gotta do it.
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Coming to my favorite, I mean myabsolute favorite part of this
whole episode is the 34-minutemark.
Jeffrey is having a nightmare.
He's having a nightmare, he'sreliving his wedding or almost
wedding night.
He's having a flashback.
But the gotcha gotcha is he'snot picturing it from his angle,
which would have been himwaiting at the foot of the
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stairs for a buy that neverappears, running up to her
bedroom only to find her weddinggown in a pool on the floor, her
missing, hearing the screechingof tires, understanding that
that is her automobile, runningout to his Mercedes, chasing her
down the road in the dark ofnight, in a rainstorm with
torrential rain coming down atan angle, like on force gump and
(32:57):
whatnot, chasing her, screamingher name, loosening his tie,
only to have some big Mactruckslash tractor block his way
as his beloved runs his paramourgone forever.
Or at least for for now, wedon't know forever.
That's what you would think he'dhe'd be flashing back to, right?
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Because that's what heexperienced.
No, no, no, no, no.
For whatever reason, his pointof view in his dreams is a
Fallon in her own car, butsomehow Jeff has a memory of a
Fallon driving and dropping outof her crinoline and silk and
taffeta skirt and making a runfor it.
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That's his flashback.
God bless you, Dynasty.
Like I said, Dynasty don't care.
I don't care what you saw.
You're gonna believe what Isaid.
Clean up on aisle five.
I tell you what, I know who hasa beppy of crinoline skirts in
her childhood wardrobe, MissDiane Carroll.
She's eating the girls alive ina sequent number as she shimmies
(34:00):
and sings a lounge song thatsends her beloved paramour far,
far away.
Because what does he look likebeing married to someone who's a
lounge singer when he'srepresenting Manula or whoever?
You know, sometimes the pastcomes back to bite you in the
butt, sometimes it doesn't.
For Blake D.
Carrington, it's gonna.
Oh, it's gonna.
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So not only does he go to thebank and he gets the approval
from this no-name bank in themiddle of nowhere, Denver,
Colorado, the guy who's tellinghim that he got the loan is
like, yo, I didn't think you'dbe in bed with your wife like
that, your ex-wife like that.
Blake says, What do you mean?
He's like, Oh, you didn't know?
Your ex-wife is the one who'sholding the note on your new
(34:44):
mansion or your mansion.
Blake's like, W T F.
So of course he does thecountryest thing he could
possibly do.
He goes to confront Alexis,although she is the hand that
feeds him.
He says, Listen, ex-wife, youbought my house.
She's like, indeed I did, andhow dare you! I'm the man
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boyfriend.
Clearly you're not, sir.
Clearly you're not.
Alexis says, Listen, you can himand haw and do whatever you want
to do, but in three months'time, 90 days, my guy?
Quicker than you can buy aRussian bride.
I'm gonna own your house.
Not only I'm gonna own yourhouse, I'm gonna own your house
and I'm gonna stand in it andI'm gonna wave goodbye to you
(35:26):
and your new trailer trash wifeas you collect your tings and
are escorted off of my property.
And Blake wants to talk big-ish.
How dare you say that?
I've wanted to kill you severaltimes, and I definitely want to
do now, but you got a murdertrial coming up.
Uh, pot calling the cattle blackmuch?
Sir, didn't you kill a wholedude uh by tripping and falling
(35:49):
into him season one?
Didn't you?
Didn't you kill your son'sex-lover?
And behind some just clumsy-ish?
I really wish Ted Denart wouldcome back from the dead, but
that doesn't seem to behappening anytime soon.
She's like, you know what?
I'm I ain't no killer, but Iknow what I know this.
I know you bought that mansionfor me to stunt in, so do not be
upset when I do the very thingyou wanted me to do with it.
(36:10):
I'm going to stunt.
I just happen to be wanting tostunt when you and your wife are
pulling all of your crap out ofme and my kid's house.
Okay.
Love you, boo.
Okay, last little tidbit.
I can't stress this enough.
The detective, Sergeant Roscoe,who seemed to be working
Fallon's case.
I don't know if he just hasother things going on.
He doesn't seem to be all thatinterested.
(36:32):
He does not seem to beconcerned.
Actually, the more I think aboutit, no one is really all that
concerned.
Fallon is fully missing.
Nobody's considering that shemight be deceased.
They're just thinking, okay,she's clearly run away.
We're gonna find out where sheis.
So some uh brawny man in apuffer vest shows up at the
(36:55):
police station.
He's like, yo, I gave this girla ride across country.
She told me that she needed aride.
She asked me where I was going.
I'm like, yo, I'm going toSeattle.
And she said, you know, what acoincidence I am too.
So he claims that's where hetook her.
Goes down to the station, and bythe end of it, Jeff is drinking
this cheap turpentine levelstrength coffee from the police
(37:18):
station.
And he decides that by episodethree, he will be on the west
coast doing the absolute most inSeattle v.
Washington.
End scene.
My bad, my bad, my bad.
I talked to all that ish uhPortland.
Not Seattle.
Dude claims that he sees Fallon.
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She says, Where are you going?
Well, I'm going to Portland.
Oh, me too, baby.
Brawny man in the puffer vestdecides she is good enough,
takes her all the way toPortland.
Jeff, at the very end of thisepisode, decides he too is
heading up to the northwest onthe west coast, doing the
absolute most in Portland,Oregon, long before Starby's end
(38:05):
scene.
Alright, guys, we got twomissing people.
We have mild interests from theCarrington family.
This is a little moreCarrington-centric than I would
have liked, but I'm not mad atit.
We gotta get somewhere, right?
Where is Sammy Joe?
Where is Danny?
Where is Falon?
Is she cool?
Is it gonna be the same girlcoming back?
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I'm kind of waiting for that notto happen because I totally get
her point.
Y'all have not been bringing theheat like you needed to be
bringing the heat.
But we're gonna see.
Also, I gotta admit, thisDominique Devereaux entrance was
good, but you mean to tell meshe's gonna be a low-key lounge
singer to gain intel on BlakeCarrington?
He splashed all over thetabloids every single day.
(38:48):
Girl, don't do that.
Oh, this is one point I did Ididn't really talk about, but
this is what seems to have gonedown.
So she told us she was aCarrington, right?
We don't really know what thatmeans.
I don't know if it's from hismom, I don't know if it's from
his dad.
But what I do know is that BillyDecember Williams, aka Mr.
Lloyd, has helped her.
She's listened to his advicemost of her life, but for some
(39:12):
reason she's not listening now.
She listened to him when she wasoverseas, like, yo, buy this
club, don't buy this club, bringin this singer, don't buy this
singer.
And she has become a wealthywoman from that, which poses the
question (39:23):
has she been wealthy before she met Mr.
Lloyd?
I don't really know.
Seems like she would have beenif she's going to all these
expensive private schools andwhatnot, right?
They don't seem to have beenmarried too long.
But you know what?
Time will tell.
I'm here for it either way,Dynasty.
You are laying the ground for afantastic season.
I'm into it.
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Alright, guys, I think that'sit.
That's all.
Join me next time as we jumpback into another primetime
vintage soap opera.
In the meantime, in betweentime, for crying out loud.
If your brother's baby mamawants to go on any sort of road
trip, for the love of God, reachout to him first.
Otherwise, you're gonna crumbleany sort of bridge that the two
(40:08):
of you have built between eachother.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized,mind your own business, and keep
all of your drama on TV.
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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.