This week finds me still unemployed, but with a few good prospects on the horizon—AND my MAVERICKS have won four in a row... top that off with a pretty good week on our favorite daytime show... and we’ve got a nice little week on our hands. Let’s dig in, shall we?
Charity discovers “Cyber Model” on the Internet at the Book Café and decides that she’ll give it a try. Her design gets blasted by the visitors to the site, and Charity is deflated. (Didn’t anyone tell Charity that the Internet is full of hacks who have nothing better to do than make others feel bad about themselves?) Although I will state for the record, that Charity’s design was better suited for people stepping off the Mayflower, not the runways of Paris. Charity runs into Eve and Pilar, who have just received confirmation from a specialist of Pilar’s condition... and the conversation gets around to mothers losing their children. We finally see Charity bring up how lost she is without her mother. I always felt that Charity’s grief over the loss of her mother was glossed over with her amnesia, and it is nice to see it revisited. (Could this be foreshadowing to the Internet rumblings of a Faith return??) Later in the week, we see Charity get some help from Ivy in how to take her ideas and just modify them to better fit the “mold” of what fashion really is.. Charity decides to continue with the design school applications. (Look at Poison Ivy here—she could almost pass for someone who has a heart. Okay guys, I said ALMOST.. give me a break!!)
Elsewhere, Eve and Pilar further discuss the possibility that Chad is Eve and Julian’s son. Eve says it’s just not possible, the DNA tests were conclusive, but in private with Julian—Eve expresses her worry that maybe something did go wrong. We see Chad and Whitney make love and then tune into the Victoria Gotti Show (everybody say it with me—JERRY!! JERRY!! JERRY!!—who else is sick of seeing Passions parody other TV shows—if they spent half as much time getting new material, as recycling old, used television shows—this show might get HOT AGAIN) to see brothers and sisters pregnant and in love.. (UGH.. Passions—you just need to drop this.) With so many clues pointing in the direction of Chad being the son of Eve and Julian—I find myself in the minority, thinking that this is all a hoax. Maybe Alistair wants them to believe he is their son.. so he can “ruin” them.. but maybe someone else has turned the tables on Julian.. could it be the “Ric” character who is scheduled to debut soon and have LOTS OF TIES to people in Harmony? (Then again—maybe I am just hunting for any reason to believe that Passions is not sick enough to do a full-on incest story—maybe if I just ignore the signs and explain it away enough—it will just go away.)
Kay confides in Tabitha this week, and it was SO nice to see Juliet Mills playing the soft-hearted, yet truth-telling character that we have only been allowed to see glimpses of. These scenes were fantastic with Kay lamenting that MAYBE, just MAYBE, her life is not going as well as she would like. She feels like Dort and the girls at the cannery may be right, that she has ruined her life. Tabitha basically tells her that she has made her bed, now she has to make the best of it. It was nice to see Tabby in a strong role this week, comforting Kay.. let’s see more, Passions writers. Later, Kay is tormented by the chicks at the Cannery again, who suspect that Miguel may be stepping out on Kay while she is working. (HELLO—they are not together!!! There is no stepping out, when Miguel has never even stepped in, except the one time he was drugged.) Miguel shows up at the Bennett house later to visit Sam with Maria in tow. While they are visiting—Father Lonigan drops by to visit Charity, who refuses to even consider going back on her deal with death. Father Lonigan talks with Ivy and she CONFESSES EVERYTHING TO HIM. Finally—we see someone else other than Eve know the truth, but of course, Ivy is still Poison Ivy and refuses to come clean with Sam. Charity and Miguel share a spark (LITERALLY), but Charity pulls away.