Ok, So.. I had a few days without proper internet because they are working on it in my area. I was off work and had no net, so... Like any normal person would do. I binged on HOTEL. I started season 4.
Season 4 starts with awkwardness between Peter and Christine, she's leaving the St Gregory and San Fran because Peter cant give her commitment. There's a lot of huffing and puffing and sulking and then Peter shows up at the last minute and confesses his love for Christine and then they go back to give the good news to Victoria. Only... And I didn't see this coming at all... Victoria is dead... She's had a stroke. At this point I pause the DVD to google Anne Baxter and when she died, it takes forever to load but, yes... Anne Baxter really did die during HOTEL. I'm really bummed about this, genuinely so. But I go back to watching and discover that Peter has been left 50% stock in the St Gregory... He shares it with Victoria's family. Victoria left it to Peter as he's the son she never had. She also left a note in her will telling him that she hoped by now he realised Christine was the one for him. It's all a bit emosh....
Anyways then season 4 takes HOTEL down a whole other soapy continuing story route. It's now much less episodic story of the week and stories seem to stretch out over the season. We meet the Cabot's Victoria's in-laws. One of whom is Charles Cabot played by kinda Blake Carrington Lookalike Efrem Zimbalist, he's a son of a bitch and he wants Peter out of his hotel and out of his penthouse, which he moved into when Victoria left.
Then it all plays out as a proper soap, we have the ongoing ark of the Cabot's trying to get back the hotel and sabotage Peter and Christine at every chance. Michelle Philips shows up (Again) in an ongoing role as Elizabeth Bradshaw who is really Charles Cabot's daughter undercover. Nobody mentions the two times she was previously staying at the St Gregory. I think those times she wasn't Elizabeth Bradshaw, but I cant be certain, I mean she was undercover when I met her in season 4, so was she undercover before? It makes my head hurt... Any way she gets hired as the Concierge, and has a nice desk and all right by the stairs. The hotel never had one before, and there was never a desk there before, but OK... I'll go with it.
Long story short she does all soapy vixeny things and tries to break up Peter and Christine but they are too smart, they have her number and after what? A 6 episode ark she's packed up and shipped out, shortly followed by Charles. He eventually see's eye to eye with Peter and then moves to South America to be in love with a high flying lady doctor who's off saving children's lives or what not.
Later, Christine develops Bulemarexia for one episode, like when she had breast cancer and then Peter finds her at home stuffing her face and convinces her to see a doctor. It's later implied that she goes to meetings or something for her Bulemarexia. I didn't make that word up, the doctor did.
But the most soapy and yet most boring continuing story this season is.... Dave's amphetamine addiction. It's so shit brain annoyingly stupidly done and it makes me hate everything in the universe. I kept thinking it would be 1 or 2 episode thing but they dragged it out for years. Well it felt that way. He starts taking uppers to study for his Law exams, then to pass the bar he needs to study more so he takes more to stay awake and then he's hooked. He's a dirty speed junkie and he's all moody and has stubble and ripped jeans and talks like he's just had 45 Americanos intravenously pumped into him. His wife Megan leaves him, but she's pregnant and then looses the baby after they row... then... Peter makes him see a doctor because Peter is like the Jesus of the St Gregory. And then it's later implied that Dave goes to meetings for being a crack head, like AA.
Christine is promoted to take Peter's job as he's now the owner like Victoria was. So now Megan is promoted to be Christine's assistant and Julie (The Best A Man Can Get) Gillette is now Director of Guest Relations, she took Mark's job. I guess Mark got fired. They said he moved to another hotel but I'm not convinced.
Notable guest stars I have seen this season are Morgan Brittany, Jared Martin, Maxwell Caulfield, Juliet Mills, Don Murrey, Delta Burke, Deborah Adair...
But the worst, the one from hell... Was Claudia F**king Lonlow who appeared like a monster in a dream to ruin my fun with her awful acting and long auburn hair. Actually her hair was quite nice, it was long, not like her Knots Landing hair. She was still annoying though. Cole Gioberti was a pianist who put her in a coma for 10 years after causing a car accident. I LOVE Cole Gioberti.