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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-12 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:03:56 -0800
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On 2/13/25 9:11 AM, suzeeq wrote:

> On 2/13/2025 7:40 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, I worked in the morning, and ran errands in the afternoon, 
>> but still had enough time to get through soaps, and to binge a couple 
>> more episodes of "Paradise":
>>
>> soaps: DOOL - Joy confronts Alex about getting back together with 
>> Stephanie, and gets Alex to admit it though never lets him explain 
>> what actually happened, and them kicks him out of her room - it will 
>> be incredibly dumb if the show doesn't have Joy leave town over 
>> this... The new "Sophia" debuts, and this was even rougher than I was 
>> expecting - beyond the new actress clearly being nervous, she has none 
>> of the twinkling malevolence of the old Sophia - I would love to know 
>> what happened with the original actress, Madelyn Kientz, as she was 
>> superior in every way (except for being tiny), and if the show fired 
>> her, they're idiots!... Anyway, NuSophia's plan to get a couple to 
>> adopt goes up in smoke (and now they seem to be heading in the 
>> direction of Johnny and Chanel adopting the baby!). Holly commiserates 
>> with Doug III, and Tate catches them... Oh, and the hospital is about 
>> to go bankrupt, and Stephanie is trying to prevent that from happening 
>> on Kayla's behalf.
> 
> Something about Seth Burns makes me suspect that he was embezzling. Like 
> how maybe he wasn't joking about buying a beach house... I could be wrong,

Well, there's no way the hospital (which I learned for the first time in 
these episodes is named "Salem University Hospital"!!) is not going to 
be a part of the show, so this is going to be favorably resolved one way 
or the other. (My theory is that either Xander & NuPhilip, or EJ, will 
throw money at the hospital to save it...)