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Nightcap takes place everyday at 7:00 PM EST.

Drop your picks below for who you think gave the best performance this week! 🎤 The performer with the most votes will be crowned this week’s Randy Watson Performer of the Week.

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Ok I love Shanice she's dope she's like our sister, best friend, she got your back chick.

I really think they need to bring some new person for her.

I'm getting really tired of Teddy Weddy.

Shanice isn't about that nonsense and she needs someone to match her energy.

Ok I'm walking out of Uptown.....

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EDIT 2: Today’s Pluto follow-up: SMITTY BLACKMAILS MARCEL WITH THE BRIBE EVIDENCCE HE DIG UP!

Found a BTG channel on Pluto! Put it on while doing chores but found myself taking notes. V interesting stuff! AMA if you want more deets. Here’s some of my notes:

• Leslie taunts Kat A LOT, very mean girl. Kat has very specific reasons to hate Leslie.

• Leslie threatens Kat & Jacob w a lawsuit from Bill if they don’t stop stalking her in their investigation.

• HUGE long-running storyline seems to be dropped: Joey’s payouts to Elon & Marcel— Smitty and Jacob were onto it. The payouts started before KKKenny, there was the big one for the original coverup but that’s been happening before that.

• Something always felt a little “off” about Madison’s motives jumping in hard w Chelsea.

• Bill tells Vernon he can go back to his “black excellence” 😂 u/MaterpieceAwkward70

• Ashley and Derek are SO much more annoying than we remembered.

• Derek and Jacob did hang out a lot. Jacob also hung out with André 1:1 back then.

• Vanessa hard negotiated her way into a large cut of Joey’s business and wanted it for her & Doug. “I’m unfaithful, not disloyal.” I think she’s probably still running this plot to grift Joey— possibly knows Doug’s alive? Idk but her behavior now makes sense if it’s still part of the grift.

• Vernon was a much stronger character. Threatens to ruin Bill Hamilton. Screams at someone over the phone (who?) over losing track of KKKenny.

• Hayley makes sinister faces and actions before her reveal, great Easter egg for re-watchers. Honeymoon was cut short, she was visibly relieved. Particularly hilarious eye roll after his stroke.

• Plus she lays it on so thick, CLASSIC love bombing. The slideshow, the entire fake pregnancy, it’s all trying to trauma bond.

• Nicole ain’t fixed shit since that famous line.

• Tomas sucks up to Vernon + Elon. Vernon and Elon’s connection deserves back story.

• Tomas is 100% dating Kat for his career and Kat is 100% trying to get the W over Eva. Kat didn’t want to have sex with him and never called him her boyfriend before she said it to Eva. Tomas swooped in at the lowest point in her life, she even says so.

• Dani and Bill have so many heart-to-hearts, in retrospect them hooking up was in fact inevitable (but I still hate it).

• Eva gets in Kat’s face every time she confronts Eva about her shady actions leading to the Anniversary party. Eva never admitted to wrongdoing but she for sure knows she did wrong, she expresses remorse to Nicole and Ted but doesn’t confess to anything illegal.

• The Duprees have this KKKenny incident over Joey I forgot that. Joey says so to Elon & Marcel.

• Tomas actually does like Eva more. Kat sees them interacting and decides sex right afterwards.

Edit: Changed a “he” to “Joey” bc it was confusing.

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Go ahead and draw your swords to cut me in the comments and downvote me into oblivion. I’m prepared.

Laura was never intended to be more than a plot device to form the character and storyline of Dana/Leslie. Laura’s sole purpose was to introduce us to Leslle & Eva. We’ve seen Laura at most 6-8 episodes of soap now into its 2nd season. We’ve not even gotten so much as a FaceTime or text thread between Laura and Katherine her great avenger or her employer Nicole.

Shes a plot device, not a central or supporting character. To that end she’s served the extent of her purpose. To stage one of the show’s main characters and solidify her place as a villain.

I’ve said it before: there is not enough character development of Laura that explains the emotional attachment to “Justice for Laura,” it’s just a thinly veiled campaign for vindication for Katherine’s intuitive knowing being ignored.

There’s also the mistaking of soap plot development to be like prime time drama plot development. It just doesn’t go that way from a storytelling perspective.

Finally I think it’s funny how there’s a deep desire to punish and prosecute a Black woman before a White man who killed a Black main character so he could possess his wife 🤪 alright now, thanks for reading my screed and I’ll see you round the cookout 👋🏾

Hey family and neighbors beautiful day in the Crest

So let's stop in Orphy Jeans get a slice of pie. While waiting on June our favorite waiters. Help your cousin out with this question.

Isaiah is new to the show how is he a main character and not our favorite Nurse Physical therapist Shanice. She's been on the show longer a fan fav. Great character she brings something good to the show.

Alright well June is bringing my pie 🥧. So leave a tip (why she's not a main character) don't be stingy

Ok I'll see y'all later in the neighborhood

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Watching Mr. Box Office and it occurred to me BTG needs Vivica A Fox. I must have a great spidey sense because what I didn't know is that she was/is on Young & the Restless. I don't know anything about her character other than it says she's a doctor, but I say she'd fit right in at the hospital.

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I see what they tried to do today, but for me it didn’t work because there was no truth to it. The idea is supposed to be “what would the world look like if you weren’t here.” Not “what would the world look like if my father was the worst.”

The Ted in her dreams doesn’t exist. Why Nicole’s story needed to be so depressing because she did have her miracle baby?

It just fell flat with me.

Okay, so we all don’t like this dude, but after today’s episode im starting to think that his character is the problem. Not exactly the actor. Thomas is a calculating, calm, and driven person that doesn’t understand social ques. He continually try’s his best to mirror every one around him to keep up appearances without actually trying to have his own personality. Some would call that being a sociopath, and it doesn’t help that his ideal is Bill.

The only time I’ve ever seen Thomas intentionally do something by himself for himself was having sex with Eva. He knew him and Kat didn’t actually break up, but still used Eva to get back at Kat only bc he was mad at her and enjoyed the attention he was getting from Eva. He’s not actually nice to Kat in their relationship and continues to be reactive to things again, and again.

I know he grew up poor in Puerto Rico, wants the American dream and is inspired by Bill to achieve this dream, but he’s starting to upset Kat’s family and that could have extreme consequences. I don’t see them lasting much longer.