Welcome back Soap Fiends!
Step back into the opulence and intrigue of the 1980s prime-time soap landscape as we unravel the sophisticated drama of Falcon Crest. Feel the undercurrents of rivalry and the power of an all-white ensemble with Angela's return as the ultimate villain, throwing the Tuscany Valley elite into a whirl of shade, unexpected family twists, and fashion statements that define a decade. From Richard and Chase's budding bromance to the dynamic impact of Angela's return to the dark side. The cast my be waring white, but the storyline if filled with dirty secrets. Lather up fiends! It's going to be a soapy ride.
Ever wondered about the secrets lurking beneath the vineyards of Falcon Crest? Prepare to have the veil lifted on Angela's devious plans, the familial bonds put to the test, and the quest for positive media spin in a world where public perception is king. We discuss the bombshell of Maggie's adoption revelation and its ripple effects on the characters' lives, while also tipping our hats to the evolving '80s fashion—cue the Michael Jackson-inspired looks and daring all-white attire that scream status and intention.
Finally, we tease the explosive narrative waiting in Dynasty's fourth season and offer you a front-row seat to the grandeur and pitfalls of wealth and power. Our journey through the tangled web of Falcon Crest's storylines is a trip worth taking, complete with family dynamics, secrets unveiled, and a wardrobe that's as telling as the dialogue. So, pour yourself a glass of fine wine, and let's toast to the return of prime-time soap opera glory.
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Welcome back Soap Fiends!
Step back into the opulence and intrigue of the 1980s prime-time soap landscape as we unravel the sophisticated drama of Falcon Crest. Feel the undercurrents of rivalry and the power of an all-white ensemble with Angela's return as the ultimate villain, throwing the Tuscany Valley elite into a whirl of shade, unexpected family twists, and fashion statements that define a decade. From Richard and Chase's budding bromance to the dynamic impact of Angela's return to the dark side. The cast my be waring white, but the storyline if filled with dirty secrets. Lather up fiends! It's going to be a soapy ride.
Ever wondered about the secrets lurking beneath the vineyards of Falcon Crest? Prepare to have the veil lifted on Angela's devious plans, the familial bonds put to the test, and the quest for positive media spin in a world where public perception is king. We discuss the bombshell of Maggie's adoption revelation and its ripple effects on the characters' lives, while also tipping our hats to the evolving '80s fashion—cue the Michael Jackson-inspired looks and daring all-white attire that scream status and intention.
Finally, we tease the explosive narrative waiting in Dynasty's fourth season and offer you a front-row seat to the grandeur and pitfalls of wealth and power. Our journey through the tangled web of Falcon Crest's storylines is a trip worth taking, complete with family dynamics, secrets unveiled, and a wardrobe that's as telling as the dialogue. So, pour yourself a glass of fine wine, and let's toast to the return of prime-time soap opera glory.
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Get to lawyering. Don't question me one more time. One-hit wonder, manimal Phillip, my lapdog, would never. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome or welcome back to SoFloor, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. I'm your host, jett, viewing, reviewing, loving and lining up with one of the sopiest, edgiest primetime storylines of 1984. We're heading back to Tuscany Valley where Kermode God reigns supreme.
Speaker 1:This is Season 4, episode 3, strangers. This is a mercy for absolutely no reason episode. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Obey, no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25, 35 minutes. Everyone else in the air. Sean, be cool, be quiet, or you might get kidnapped and thrown in the back of a trunk like a search somebody up Because we have got to talk about our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap World story. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap Lore. All right party people. Welcome or welcome back to another fun double edition of Soap Lore.
Speaker 1:Season four, episode three strangers is baby, baby. Pour yourself a beverage, take off your shoes. We got to be comfortable for this one because Angela is back. She on her villain, she's on her bully, she's a monster with no conscious. This episode for no reason, and of course that makes it the most enjoyable. Before we get into it soap fiends, soap aficionados, novices alike what is trouble? What spells super duper trouble every single time you see it on a soap opera? I'll wait Exactly. You already know it is A random relative showing up out of the woodworks. We got a new guy on the show who's bringing an interesting twist to my theory of this, being Indiana Chase in the Vineyards of Doom. We'll go ahead and get into the show. This episode is going to go something like this I'm going to give you a rundown of episode three in 10 to 12 minutes and then we'll come back with some particulars.
Speaker 1:Those particulars today are not limited to Angela's $10,000 apology. Having FU money has its perks. And what's the point of having FU money if you never say FU Protective frenemies? Are Richard and Chase like brothers for real? Now, fashion, fashion, fashion. This episode is well-dressed, and at the top of that is Miss Pam's fashion choice. I need to understand. Is she trying to be Michael Jackson or is she trying to be Pam Lynch? White wardrobe wonders. Falcon Crest fashion forecast. Claudia with a chance of a whiteout. Why are you wearing all that white when you get so dirty? Jumpsuits, elastic waistbands, the archaeologist and Angela in red? We'll talk about this and many other things on this fun-filled edition of Soap Lore.
Speaker 1:Seems like all is well on Balcon Press. They're getting back into their regular routines, which includes breakfast outside poolside. Lance and Angela are back to having breakfast outside. Lance is doing Taibo while Angela is ranting and raving about how trash Richard Channing and a stupid newspaper the Globe is. Lance tells her grandma go ahead and write to them. Just tell them how you feel. He's kind of tired of her talking about this every single day, but in my opinion she's just being an old lady. That's what old people do. They look at the newspaper and they talk shit about it. This is Twitter. Before Twitter was Twitter. Angela tells him you know what I would write the editor if I thought he could read. Clearly he can't, based on this paper.
Speaker 1:Now this is apparently Angela's new morning routine since Philip has died. She wakes up, she dresses to kill, says her supervillain affirmations in the mirror, meets Lance downstairs poolside for breakfast and talks crap about how trash this stupid paper is, and how she can't wait to finally talk to that plane inspector and tell her how trash Chase is too. Richard and Chase suck. It's worth noting that Chase is plastered all over the front of this paper and I'd be remiss if I didn't say that it is a mighty fine picture. It is a fantastic photograph of the aviator Adonis Looking like a whole snack Gorgeous, but not to Angela. Angela's looking at this like. Look at this fool looking like he hasn't got a care in the world while my man's walking around here dead. She doesn't mind that the paper has him on the front, just as long as they're going to be disrespectful to him, which they're not.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, over at the castle at Falcon Crest, chase and Maggie are going through their morning routine. Maggie is killing it in an all white jumpsuit. It kind of looks like a McGruffin crime dog, like jacket, but it's a jumpsuit. She's killing it. Chase is on the phone with some magazine and it's great news. They want to do a feature on the new champagne. Chase also has a problem with the globe. He sees his picture and he's probably thinking, yeah, I look good or whatnot, but why does richard keep bringing this up? I feel like richard wants the whole world to keep thinking about this. He and maggie quickly decide that they're gonna throw a party for the, the magazine people and the champagne, because they need some good press.
Speaker 1:The quietest cat, bridget, isn't really saying anything negative in the paper, but he is bringing it up over and over. Suddenly there's a rat-a-tat-tat at the door. Maggie opens it and it's her down-to-earth dad. He's a recently retired professor at a college and he wants no fuss, no thrills. This is an independent man. Maggie. Chase, don't go out of your way to accommodate little old me. Look what I got. They go outside. He's got a whole Winnebago. Y'all don't even trip. You won't even know I'm here. Everybody really likes that. You can tell dad's like the good parent, because they're all pumped to see him.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, in Buenos Aires, reidman, who is not missing, his father, is busy destroying evidence. When Spiris comes in to inform him that all the travel arrangements have been made, they're going to head stateside in the morning. It's going to be fantastic. While destroying Daddy Johan's useless paperwork, gustav finds a picture of his mom and dad in quote, unquote happier times, side note. This is weird to me because nobody knew they were together. Apparently, nobody even knew that Gustav is born and no one knows, according to him, that he's Johan's baby anyway. Gustav starts in about how it's so sad when people grow old. The spirits and myself, mind you misread this, this statement. And he asked Gustav, like oh, are you starting to regret the um, the elimination of your father, ie blowing him up? In short, hell, no, gustav's like if he wasn't such a stubborn son bitch, he'd be breathing instead of being blewed up.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, at last, after two excruciatingly long episodes, angela finally gets to meet that plane inspector. Now she and Lance have cooked up this story and they both are saying that they had noticed some sort of a condensation on the engines and it just like pulled on the ground. It's kind of weird, but they're real. Like, oh well, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, there was this thing, but I don't know, it seemed, seemed weird, but it seemed okay too. You know what I'm saying? Like they're real, like it's kind of an afterthought sort of thing. They're laying it on real thick.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile at Globe, richard gets a call on his private line. Now, luckily, miss Pam Lynch is back to work. She's back in her Michael Jackson thriller leather-like video clothes and Angela is the one who called. She wants to congratulate Rich on the article on the front page of his paper that he wrote FYI. The headline with Chase actually reads unanswered questions in Colorado air tragedy Investigation of the fatal flight continues. She tells him you know what you might want to keep an eye on this story. And oh, by the way, don't forget that Lance has inherited quite a few shares. Goodbye, richard.
Speaker 1:Now Richard reads this as what it is. This is a threat, mind you. He has been extra paranoid lately. He's got extra security, he's got a PI, he's got a little extra something for Pam, because he knows a cartel is going to strike at any minute. But it is at this moment that he realizes, oh crap, angela's about to make a move too. Now Pam's like, do you really think she's going to do all that? Like I don't really think she wants to be in the midst of all this. Be that as it may, pam, think what you think. Richard very rarely says anything. That isn't true. So is it paranoia, if you're right? Exactly that girl, melly Mel is suddenly crushing really hard on Cole.
Speaker 1:She's riding her horse on the countryside. She notices his Jeep, so she decides to trot in front of his Jeep and makes him swerve. He hops out the car like what are you thinking, melissa? What the heck is wrong with you? She doesn't apologize, she just jumps down and says Cole, I know how much you want me, I know how much you need me, not the other way around. She jumps off the horse to tell him how bad he wants her and he says you are simply my baby's mama. At this point I don't really want anything to do with you. And, dare I say it, joseph was an accident. Well, that is the absolute wrong thing to say to a mother. She don't care how you feel about her, don't you dare disrespect baby Joseph. Melissa, with the strength of her ancestors, reaches back and slaps at least three ancestors out of Cole's bloodline, probably knocks out a couple of descendants too, draws blood and then gallops off on her horse. Cole is like just left there clutching his bloody face like damn.
Speaker 1:Terry and Lance are getting it on in the pool, which is sort of gross, and Angela happens upon them as she's staring out the window after her morning affirmations and reading Richard for filth. Later on that day she's talking to Lance and Angie. It's no secret, she's no fan of Terry, but at the end of the day she needs an air. And she tells him as much. Now he's like oh, and now all of a sudden, you're cool with her, you must need her vineyards. And she's like boy, bye, please, I don't need nothing, I'm Angela Channing. He then tells her oh, by the way, maggie and Chase are going to have this party to celebrate their champagne. Are you going? She's like I wouldn't be caught dead at their whack ass party, refuses to go and immediately sends her regrets.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, back at the castle, maggie and Daddy Deer just go round and round about him, taking it easy. He doesn't want to be a bother. You know he's retired, not helpless. Do you know what he's retired from? He's a retired archaeologist. Isn't that convenient? Terry shows up to say hi to her dad and Chase is in the background just side, eyeing her the whole time. He's killing it in this blue and tan shirt that's tastefully open to reveal his chest. Of course he's also wearing white pants. I mentioned all this because we'll talk about it later. He decides that since he woke up and put that ish on, he needs to tell Sari that she sucks. And he saw Lance's car at her house. Her dad drove all this way in this Winnebago. The least she could do is make herself available to come and greet her father. He still can't stand her for real, for real. So, father, he still can't stand her for real, for real.
Speaker 1:So meanwhile, back on Richard's side of town, pam is out minding her business in a Carmen Sandiego hat driving around. When she notices someone is following her Remember, she's a NASCAR driver or something on the side, she easily ducks and dodge and misses this person who's tailing her. She gets back to the office and she doesn't tell Richard right away she didn't have to tell him because it's the do dirt PI on the phone with Richard before she even gets there to say hey, I'm sorry, I think she might have seen me, I lost her. So Richard's like scolding him, and when she comes in he just tells her hey, I know somebody was chasing you today. That was me. I needed you to be protected, baby. I need you to be safe. It's dangerous out here. She's like okay, okay, fine, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:So at this time we're introduced to this random mechanic. Now this mechanic is pulled in by Lance, and Angela is, of course, working her magic over on him, telling him what a bright future he has, and he's clearly the new pawn Maggie and Daddy Dearest. The archaeologists are reminiscing about when Maggie was a little girl and he had gone out walking earlier and found this snail carcass and they're just kind of talking about how much time they used to spend together and how much fun it was to be out on archaeological digs and he randomly gets sentimental about how good she and Chase are together and tells her that she's his special little girl and always will be. Now he must have been pooped from that hike and finding that snail carcass so he goes upstairs to take a, a nap. Enough of this lovey-dovey nonsense. He takes a morning nap as elderly people tend to do.
Speaker 1:Craig reardon, aka the manimal, shows up to falcon crush to go over some particulars concerning lance's shares of the globe. To Angela's absolute delight, they are in good shape. She tells Lance that we are in good shape to take over the globe and Lance is like we, what is all this? We stuff, says when is it we? Basically, richard is vulnerable because of some recent business deals. Remember. He was trying to buy up more of the globe so Angela couldn't do it. The cartel is a little bit shaky. He's buying more security, so he's kind of financially vulnerable, not to mention the explosion at the race car track, which they have not brought up ever again. So he's in prime condition to be run over.
Speaker 1:Basically, the Lance woke up and put on his big boy pants and there's some back and forth about who's going to replace Richard once they take over. Now Angela thinks naturally it should be her, and Craig Reardon agrees. Like this, he can clearly see that Lance is young, dumb and you know the rest. He has no business running a company. Lance was like but at the end of the day is my name on the contract. So Angela relents and she's like don't worry, I'll have Craig draw off the papers, I'll let you run it. So when Lance leaves the room, craig is looking over at her, like uh, why did you do that? She's like don't worry about it, craig, he's going to be way easier to control than Richard. So I mean, just let me, let me do my thing. I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:In addition to letting Lance quote unquote be her puppet, she wants to be named Emma's conservator, a la Britney Spears, on the grounds that she isn't capable of running her affairs. Craig Reardon is new to this, not true to this. He thinks it's weird. He's like why not just have her sign a proxy and just like oh, I can't do that. I tried that last season, try that last season and on season two, and it just blew up in my face. So we're going to do something new on season four. And since he brings it up, she's about tired of Craig the manimal questioning all her outlandish requests. Get to lawyering, don't question me one more time. One hit wonder.
Speaker 1:Manimal Phillip, my lapdog would never the manimal claps back with. I ain't Phillip perm rod. Matter of fact, philip may have been a good husband, but he was a trash lawyer. Apparently, his court record shows that he is promptly fired. Luckily Chowley is there and while Angela is fussing and talking crap like I can't believe, this little boy had the nerve to talk to me like that, chowley is like you know what. Sometimes you got to give people room to roam. This wolf needs room to roam. Basically, let the kid cook, let him do his thing.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, back at the castle, daddy dearest and chase are fishing and shooting the breeze, and chase admits that he could lose his license if the case proves foul. If they don't figure out what went wrong with that plane, he could lose his license. He won't be the aviator adonis anymore, he'll just be the adonis, the curly haired adonis. And daddy de Dearest is like well, since we're telling the truth, I didn't actually retire. I got fired. They didn't want me around anymore because they wanted like a young guy. So I basically I was forced into this.
Speaker 1:But Chase is like you are that dude, don't. Don't let these kids tell you you ain't the man you are. Look at how brilliant you are. You've been doing this for many, many years. Go ahead and do something else with your life. Go ahead and do. Let's go to South America. You can dig of Incan bones and stuff. You can do all sorts of things digging up dirt. Chase tells him that he's still that dude. He can go do some research and become an archeologic influencer. It'll be the best life ever.
Speaker 1:Chow Lee must've gotten through to Angela and she eats crow, gets in her supervillain car and heads up to Craig's ranch to win him back. She apologizes, but the manimal has had all he can take from her. He's like listen, I'm not going to go back and forth with you, old lady. I'm going to need another $10,000 a month. For those of you counting $40,000 a month, which is roughly $120,000 a month in the year of our Lord, 2024. This is my Roman Empire.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Gustav and Spheres are stateside They've already laid eyes on the vineyard of Dune but now they need to make themselves look official, like the referee whistle. So they buy some office space, put up a generic sign and they it looks like they have like a respectable business going here. It's a state-of-the-art office decked out with this wiretap room so they can spy on the necessary parties, while the respectable and mundane business with a real sign, albeit vague land development, is hanging outside the office. Gustav loves this. He's like this is a perfect space. We're not going to use this for land development. I'm going to use this for my passion projects. Gustav is a budding sculptor and he has just the thing he wants to work on. So he flips open a sketchbook and I promise you it looks like a cartoon drawing of a dove slash eagle, which, I guess, when you marry a dove and an eagle, turns into a falcon, I guess. And he's like yeah, I'm going to make this. I call this one Eventual Conquest. And they're all giggling like schoolgirls over his would-be sculpture. It's going to be whack if it looks like that picture.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, back at Falcon Crest. Chase upsets Angela by stopping by to check on Emma. Mind you, she was also in the playing garage. She just wants to make sure she's cool. Angela opens the door and she's like oh, it's you. She takes the opportunity to tell him how ratchet it is to have a picnic party, considering all the things going on around him. Emma still has terrible headaches because of you, chase, and your non-plane flying ass, and she's not going to this little party either. Drink your dreary little champagne. Chase tells her. Oh, that's cool, because you know who is coming Wine Growers Magazine. They think my champagne is delicious and they're going to be there. Now, emma is fine. She's like I'm fine, chase, don't even worry, I'm going to be there. And once Chase leaves, she tries to convince Angela to go. She mentioned something about Maggie's daddy being there. And Angela gets that super villain look in her eye like oh, oh, you know what I think I'm. You know what. I think I can squeeze him in. I'm gonna stop by. I'm gonna stop by, I'm gonna behave.
Speaker 1:The rando mechanic has been thoroughly brainwashed by Angela and he tells the inspector that Chase was drunk. He had a bunch of wine before he started flying the plane. Now we're gonna discuss that here in a minute, because do you really need to be sober to fly a plane? It's like, like we'll get into that. We'll get into that. Chase also tells Maggie about her dad getting fired and she wants to baby him at first, but dad comes downstairs with a spring in his step, without the help of the internet, with nothing but the Encyclopedia Britannica and gumption. This man has decided to start fresh and take up Chase's advice. He's going to become an archaeological influencer and some sort of like maverick in the field. He's helping Ryder Grant. He's going to get some money, he's going to get a whole team and you know what Mags? You can come work for me too if you want to. It's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1:Which which tracks, because Maggie didn't have anything to do. Now she doesn't seem to write anymore. She definitely doesn't write movies, she doesn't write books, she doesn't write articles, she doesn't interview, she just kind of hangs out. She's wearing all white. She needs something to do.
Speaker 1:Miss Lynch gets caught slipping. She's walking there's a lobby at work when all of a sudden she's yoinked into this elevator where Spirits is like Hi, darling, and she's like oh my God, what are you doing here? Don't ever touch me again. Get away from me. You should have killed me when you had the chance. It's all over now.
Speaker 1:And he scoffs at her like darling, darling, darling. Why so hostile? I helped you escape, didn't I? And she scoffs back at him like you didn't help me do anything. I had to fight tooth and nail to swim across the ocean or whatever the ocean or whatever. I don't know how she got back to the States without a passport. He shakes his head like no, no, no, darling, the cartel doesn't make any mistakes. Believe me, if you escaped, it's because I want you to escape. This is a fair warning. Better keep your head on a swivel. This ain't over, baby, this ain't over. And she's thoroughly freaked out in her jumpsuit. Now she's got to look over her shoulder and worry about that.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, back at the castle, the inspector comes by to talk to Chase about moisture and wine and Maggie's there. And the inspector is all chivalrous and whatnot. He wants to know if Maggie wants to leave her room. So she didn't hear all this. She's like absolutely not, I'm not going anywhere. So he all but accuses Chase of ignoring the mechanic's warnings and getting sloshed on the job. And Maggie gets beside herself. She said are you freaking, kidding me? He had his entire family on the plane. Why would he get drunk and fly around with his whole family on the plane? Valid question. Even if you think he's a drunk, he wouldn't ignore the mechanic with his whole, all his people. He's got a grandbaby on the plate, his, his daughter-in-law, his wife, a cousin he likes. Unfortunately, his sister-in-law's there, he don't really care about her, his auntie, but me and the baby and my son. Yeah, he likes us. So that's just kind of there. It's kind of looming over them. Doesn't matter, because there is a party to be had. They're going to deal with this as they deal with everything when the time comes.
Speaker 1:Lastly, so melissa acts like she didn't just slap 16 chromosomes out of chay cole. She calls him like hey, you think we can hang out today and he's still being all rude, which is funny because he kind of flip-flops. He's cool with her one day. He's not cool with her. She's making spaghetti family. Now, all of a sudden, she's persona non grata again. Well, she's upset over the phone and she's like I just thought today I didn't really want to be alone. So he hangs up. He looks at the most mature person in the room, baby Joseph, who's dressed like a sailor today. It's super adorable and he's like buddy. What day is it? And I think telepathically, joseph tells him it's probably the day her dad was murdered. By that. You know your psycho cousin. And Joe calls like oh crap. Yeah, you're right, let's go to the. Let's go to the cemetery and make sure she's OK. All right, let's get to the getting.
Speaker 1:Final scene is this picnic slash party for Wine Tasters magazine or whoever in this brand new champagne growing at Falcone Crest, despite the negative press about the plane crash or the neutral press about the plane crash, we'll talk about that here. In a second Chase, is in great spirits. He's toasting Y'all. Sip it up, pour it up, pour it up. Champagne on the 24 hour champagne diet Spilling while I'm sipping. I encourage you to try it. I'm sorry, I had to do it. I'm a millennial, I can't help it.
Speaker 1:So while they're pouring out champagne problems, angela shows up in red and I said oh, here we go. You know it's about to be some mess Cause she was too happy. She was too happy to meet Maggie's dad. So she shows up and she's introducing everyone to Craig Reardon. I'm gonna go ahead and say it I'm here for a May December romance, if there is one. They're actually kind of cute together. Angela is super cute. He's cute, it could happen. He's just stiff and like, rigid enough to date a significantly older woman I digress.
Speaker 1:She's introducing Craig to everybody, the family and whatnot, and she finally makes her way over to Maggie's father, like, oh my gosh, hi, how are you welcome to Falcon Crest? And he's just as lovely as his daughter, maggie. Hi, I'm so glad to be here. This is a wonderful, wonderful place. You got going on here. She mentioned something about his wife. Oh, no, no, no, he gives his condolences for Philip. He's like you know, I've been without my wife for 10 years. I know how difficult that is. I truly want to extend my condolences. I'm sorry for your loss.
Speaker 1:I don't know if this set her off. I don't think it did. I think she came with a plan. So she's like yes, yes, yes, I wish I had met your wife. He goes, you know, I wish you had too. You could see where why my daughters are so lovely.
Speaker 1:And Angela does that kind of smiling auntie thing. She does like yeah, I guess so, but obviously for different reasons, since they have different lineage. Everybody's like what she's like. Yeah, yeah, you know, with Maggie being adopted and all. Now Maggie laughs like no, adopted, who's adopted? Her dad's not having it now. He didn't flip out. He's a very calm, cool archaeologist. He's like Angela Channing, you are way, way out of line for that. And Maggie looks at him like, well, why would that? I'm not adopted. Clearly she is adopted. Now Angela dropped the bomb in front of God and everybody roll credits messy for absolutely no reason. I thought Angela liked Maggie. There's no reason to go over there and blow that up Now.
Speaker 1:Up until this point in the story she had concentrated on how much she can't stand Chase. She and Chase have such a funny relationship. Because he clearly came over, he didn't want to check on Emma. He knew that his presence would piss her off and he enjoys it. So she was like okay, cool, you want to crash my house. You want to interrupt my evening and my tea time. Guess what? I'm going to blow up your whole wife's identity. Okay, that's episode three. So we're coming out of the gate with some drama right away.
Speaker 1:You know, falcon Crush has always been the slow burn, but by this point in their lifespan they know who they are. They know what they have to bring and they look good doing it. Half of the fun of watching these shows is kind of looking back on the fashion. Now I made it no secret I still hate the 80s. However, I feel like there's a tide is turning, because I'm watching these shows in order and I'm kind of I'm slowly being immersed into it. The progression of style makes sense. It doesn't seem as much like a fever dream and it doesn't seem like such a huge leap from the late 70s bell bottoms and all that to what I'm seeing now. Like Chase is still walking around, like it's Miami Vice. His v-neck is still out. It's Saturday Night Fever and Miami Vice and he looks good doing it.
Speaker 1:This cast although I'd never heard of the show before watching it this cast is polished. They look good. You can tell they're wealthy, but they don't look over the top. Where on Dallas, they seem kind of down home, they just kind of look. They dress okay, dynasty, you are shiny, you are glossy, the lighting is perfect at all times. It looks very expensive. Falcon Crest looks like they shop at Nordstrom Rack. You know it's expensive, but not really it's. The regular person could do it. They just do it really really well, everybody's looking good, so let's get into this all white ensemble.
Speaker 1:This episode, maggie comes out of the gate with a white jumpsuit, huge collars. The only way I can explain it is like if you look at a leather jacket and has kind of the bigger triangular collar, hers look just like that. A couple scenes later, ms Lynch has on the same thing, but she throws on a hat. A little bit later, chase is walking around in all white pants. Now, it's not every day that you see a man walking around in white pants and as a mother, as a grown woman, as someone who grew up in the desert, maybe I just have a phobia of wearing all white, but it looks really good. That's how you know you don't have anything else to do that day.
Speaker 1:If you show up to work in all white, maybe you didn't come to work, you came to walk around, you came to be seen. You want to let these people know? Listen, I am a lady of leisure, I'm a lady who lunches. I have zero intention of breaking a sweat or lifting anything heavier than this bag of money, but it looks good. I tried my best to find just little tidbits about the costume designer. That would be my goal to get them on the show. And just see what the thought process is on all of these shows, like how do you pick out the wardrobe for a show of this magnitude? I wonder what the budget is and how do you decide who is super casual and who isn't.
Speaker 1:Like Maggie and Chase, when they first showed up they seemed a little more down home, a little more down to earth, wearing regular corduroy pants, just regular clothes, sweatshirts, button down shirts, very run of the mill. They have elevated their style, but not so much to the point where you now think they're highfalutin. It's a very interesting and wonderful progression. They look good. Whoever or whoever the designer is did a really good job. The costume department was flawless.
Speaker 1:However, we got to talk about Miss Lynch, in addition to her, and Maggie kind of having similar styles. This isn't the first episode where maybe Maggie's had on a blue outfit and Pam's kind of mirrors that. But there's something about Pam Like she is a businesswoman. She is well, she's a professional woman. There's a difference. She's not running the meetings because it's her personal business. She's running them on behalf of Richard or stepping in where he needs her to, so she doesn't need the power suits.
Speaker 1:She's never dressed as like that chick, but there's always something a little bit edgy to what she has on. She is constantly in leather. Even last season at the end of season, three leather pants, leather jacket, leather beret and some sort of fedora. So it's like are they trying to make her look mysterious or is that just? Was that just the style? Let us sign of the times. Does she really like Michael Jackson? She's got the short feathered haircut, the 80s makeup she's bring. She screams 80s more than anyone else on the show to me, and I think a lot of it is because of all that leather. For instance, baby, she has on a red and black Michael Jackson bad beat it thriller jacket. Red and black Michael Jackson bad beat it thriller jacket.
Speaker 1:At the office in San Francisco All my people listening in the United States you know if you live in, you live South of the Mason Dixie or if you live West of Texas, you already know what I'm about to say. We don't do a lot of leather in the summer. I can't imagine that people are walking around in leather suits in California to go to work. Like it's hot. There's a lot of sweat there. But tis the beauty of television. Soap tax, soap tax, soap tax. I'm waiting for her to break out in Thriller choreography or Moonwalk for a thing.
Speaker 1:For no reason Pam Lynch will be in all leather, looking like Eddie Murphy Raw, if you've ever seen that special. Or she's got on a giant Carmen Sandiego hat and the woman's got to be, she's got to be like 5'11", 6'1". She's a tall lady. There's no hiding her. I want to get to the bottom of the wardrobe choices. Not that they look bad, but when you compare her to everyone else on the show, it's like oh okay, is she going to sing? Is she putting on a show for us? Either way, I see you Lynch, I see you Pam Also, front and center.
Speaker 1:This episode was the jumpsuit. Now, I can remember being very little, probably not even in school yet remember seeing these sorts of outfits. I probably you know what the truth is. I probably have seen them in my parents closets, like I've seen it in my aunt's closet. I've seen it my grandma's closet, seen it in my aunt's closet. I've seen it in my grandma's closet, seen it in my friend's house. I remember growing up seeing these jumpsuits with those elastic waistbands all over the place. Now, granted, some people wore them much longer than they were in style, because if you're a 90s kid like me, their jumpsuits weren't really a thing. We might have had rompers, overalls were coming back into style, but I don't remember adults really wearing those suits. And now they've come back into style, but we just don't do the elastic waist. There's something that makes you look like a toddler with this.
Speaker 1:And Miss Lynch, of course. On the scene where she gets smashed into the elevator by Spirits she has on the quintessential 80s jumpsuit it is. You can tell it's kind of a windbreaker material. It is that teal and purple color wave. It's got like the asymmetrical buttons. You could not write a better 80s outfit if you tried. She looks amazing, but it's got this big thick elastic waistband instead of that like paper thin belt. I love it. I actually love it, and I think watching shows like this slowly, like seeping myself into it, I don't. It doesn't look as comical to me, do I love the 80s now? Hell, no, not even close.
Speaker 1:We got to talk about Angela's $10,000 apology. Have you ever just let your emotions get the best of you? She's certainly still on one because of Phyllis' untimely death. I really think it's because she had to go out and find a new lawyer. Not that she misses him, because, let's be real, he wasn't loyal. He definitely was bouncing around with other women too. He made her look like a fool. He actually bought part of her land so that she couldn't have it and then, to add insult to injury, look like a fool. He actually bought part of her land so that she couldn't have it and then, to add insult to injury, we find out this episode that he ain't even that good of a lawyer.
Speaker 1:So what are we really missing here? What it is is she's like I just need you to be obedient child. I don't need you coming in here telling me what to do. Just say yes, yes, ma'am, yes, angela. I'm already on top of that, angela, and get to it. But you know, the man was like listen, I had my own show on NBC for about three weeks. You are not going to speak to me Like I'm not a respectable human being, because that's not going to happen and, a matter of fact, every time you go off on me, it's going to cost you $10,000. Hear me out, though I watch this scene back and forth. It's no, it's. It's unusual to watch angela say she's sorry or well, I don't know if she actually says she's sorry. She, she back pedals better than anyone on television of ago and up today, better than anyone.
Speaker 1:I just wish the writers had taken just a few more moments on this scene because everyone missed a golden opportunity. So picture this Falcon Crest is famous for what? Well being a great show, lorenzo, lomas, all those wonderful things, but when they started out, that damn Falcon was there every other episode. Now we don't see it as much. It popped up a couple of times during season two, once or twice on season three. Hadn't seen it yet this season. But when you have the guy who was the actual manimal on the show, why not have him just? Just, okay, let me paint the picture. I'm going to bring back a little something called solo theater Only today. I'm not going to do verbatim at all, might not even draw out the essence.
Speaker 1:This is an alternate playing out of this situation. So Craig Reardon is chilling in Angela's office. He's absolutely disgusted that she let Lance run this company if and when they take it over. Angela, this is a horrible idea. Of course, a perm or a guy doesn't take no lip. Excuse me, child, who are you speaking to? I am Angela Gioberti, channing, erickson. Channing, you do not speak to me that way, sir. I do what I want to. Pretty sure my initial spell ace if you ignore the G. So yeah, there's that Unbeknownst to her.
Speaker 1:Craig Reardon is an animal. He has these magical powers. So picture this. All of a sudden he's like who do you think you who? And then he turns into magical powers. So picture this. All of a sudden he's like who you think you who? And then he turns into an owl. Shut up I know it's corny, just let me. Just let me rock. He turns into an owl who you think you talking to? And he turned into a parrot. It would be amazing and so menacing if he turned into seven or eight animals within that moment.
Speaker 1:I can be anything. I can be a snake, I can be a jaguar. I am the falcon at Falcon Crest. Put some respect on my name. That's all I'm saying. She said she's sorry, it cost her 10K. That would be the equivalent of him making $120,000 in 2024. Respect on my name, that's all I'm saying. She said she's sorry it cost her 10K. That would be the equivalent of him making $120,000 in 2024. I just can't even wrap my mind around that. But I think it would be really funny if he turned into different animals. Every time he got pissed off, like he turns into one of his horses one time, then he turns into a rabbit and hops away. When he's feeling really meek he turns into a puppy or something cute. It just I mean, they missed the golden opportunity.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, the show was filmed almost 40 years ago. What are we going to do? All right, we need to wrap this up here pretty quick. So let's get into maggie's archaeologist father. Guys, I'm not gonna, I'm. Come on now. Come on now. The German Nazi sympathizers or former Nazis yes, they're not. Their parents would have been have moved to California to excavate some treasure hidden under falcon crest. That's one for the bad guys right on the good guy side.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden, maggie has this professor of a father who's an archaeologist, who doesn't specialize in dinosaurs, like on Jurassic Park, which is the first thing I thought, and I was like are you crazy? You literally just watched Indiana Jones. I love that scene, by the way, where she writes I love you on her eyelids. That is hilarious to me. But yeah, her dad is Indiana Jones. Actually, he's um indiana jones's dad, chan connery, who was a fox to the day he died, amen. But yeah, now we have an archaeologist who, just, you know, he's taking a hike and he happens upon this. I'm calling it a snail carcass, but I'm going to say a fossil. He happens upon a fossil. So I imagine, just to keep his, his joints limber and his days filled with promising activity, I guess he's just going to start digging and pretty soon we're going to discover this Y'all. They didn't even pretend, they didn't even jazz it up in any other way. But you know what? Luckily, this is one of my favorite movies. I'm going to allow it to play out.
Speaker 1:Maggie being adopted is throwing me for a loop. That seems very irrelevant. And how would Angela know this? Because it's odd to me that Maggie had to introduce her to her father. This is her niece, right? This is her play niece. This seems to be the only person she really likes on the show. She seems to like Maggie more than she likes Emma. Remember she didn't want Michael, called him a quack and told, told her don't let him operate on you, he could even save his own life. Don't let him slice and dice. You want Maggie, not my niece. But then I thought about it. I'm like okay, she, she knew Chase. Chase had kind of been the prodigal son. So it's very possible they don't know a whole lot about Maggie, but why was she sitting on the secret for four months or four seasons? Who who cares if she's a doctor. She really did.
Speaker 1:Angela put on her red. Let's go ahead and get into that Anytime I see her in red. It's either those red polka dots or it's red something. She is coming to stir the pot. She really left her whole house and went down there to drink that terrible champagne. She called it dreary and then still had a glass With the sole purpose of dragging maggie. For no reason. Maggie caught this train just for being married to chase. It's diabolical, but I'm glad she did it and it would explain why terry is such a hoe and maggie's not. It definitely explains a little bit more. Terry seems to be adopted, if you ask me. I can't wait to find out more about her mama. There's a lot of that going around.
Speaker 1:On season four, speaking of familial ties, it seems as if Chase and Richard have crossed into a new plane. It seems like they actually care for each other, but they're not at the point of admitting it On the first episode. Yes, chase may or may not have cropped us at Richard's limousine, but Richard didn't seem to mind. He actually smiled because he didn't want his baby bro to be too afraid to fly. He was fine with the chemicals and pesticide being sprinkled all over him and Miss Lynch, but, like I said, she keeps a Carmen Sandiego hat, so she didn't even get bothered. Plus, she was really quick, she jumped in the car. He didn't jump in the car as quick hat, so she didn't even get bothered. Plus, she was really quick, she jumped in the car. He didn't jump in the car as quick.
Speaker 1:But on this episode, with all this inspector hoopla, with chase being super pissed, with chase being super suspicious of the cartel and richard, he didn't give up his brother. He had the opportunity to say like there was a point where the inspector asked him sir, if you think there's foul play, then who would be behind it? He could have said it right then and there, because he and Richard had talked about it on more than one occasion and they talk about it a little later, this episode. But he goes. You know I don't know what I intend to find out. He knows exactly who it is. He doesn't give up Richard and Richard could flip this story in the paper to kind of make everything go away like Like that was just you know freak accident.
Speaker 1:He could put in all these articles about how planes fall out of the sky all the time, blah, blah, blah, but he doesn't. He keeps Chase front and center, as in. This man is a wonderful pilot who saved our lives. There were a few casualties, but there were many, many more people saved. He could sell them up the river and be like maybe he was a little bit drunk, maybe he did this, but he's not.
Speaker 1:They have turned a new leaf and there's a scene where they're in the wine house and they're talking about it. Chase is like bro, this is getting wild. Like I see, you got extra security, all these things. You know they did this to the plane. He, richard, tells him chase, the cartel is very unpredictable. These are very wild people. I have zero intention of crossing any of them. Okay, I just need you to know that. I need you to be careful. Then they start play fighting like they grew up together, like they shared a bunk bed and used to play um, I don't, whatever. Whatever, pete, I don't know what you play in the 50 jacks or something they would have been born in the 50s, right before. I don't know what they did, but they're pretending like they did it together way back when. All right party people. That's enough of that for now.
Speaker 1:Hope you enjoyed today's episode. Watch in real time. You won't forget it. I am watching on the Amazon Prime app. Spoiler alert Season 4 wants their money. I guess they can buy more Nordstrom Rack for some of that costume money and some of the pyrotechnics that I'm sure are coming up, because you can't do any on a dome without a dome and they're bringing in all the characters. I'll see you guys next time as we jump back into dynasty. Just one loco. We need to figure out why. Until next time, keep your friends close, your enemies closer and the selfish person. Treat yourself well, because you deserve it. Mind your own business, stay hydrated, stay moisturized and keep all of your trauma.