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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JROG" data-source="post: 2999" data-attributes="member: 43">EPISODE 22 & 23: THE RECKONING & ANNIVERSARY WALTZJason, Sable and Frankie's trip to Greece is wonderful. Sable mercilessly taunts Frankie throughout, expertly portraying the thoughtful sister, while underneath she is seething. The trip pays off when Jason is able to exonerate Jeff, which of course plays wonderfully into Sable’s fear, anger and jealousy over the situation with Jeff and Frankie – Jeff is OK, but her son is still in peril. We also learn that it was Jason and Sable that put Corfu on the map!In a brilliant move, Miles, after his and Monica's MTV-music-video-looking trip downtown fails to jog his memory, goes to Parris, Healer of Amnesia, to get help in remembering whether he’s a killer or not. It doesn’t work, so a desperate Sable decides to provide him with an alibi.Meanwhile, in what feels increasingly rare for the show at this point, Connie's return to work hasn’t been explored; they have basically done nothing with it, and it feels like wasted potential. Perhaps sensing this, Fucking Barbara Stanwyck decides it’s time to get things moving and plays Sable and Zach's Sex Tape for Jason. Jason makes random faces as he keeps replaying the tape (a nice detail), while Sable plans a secret anniversary party and hilariously pronounces Mahoney as "Mah-HOO-nee"."Anniversary Waltz" is particularly funny, with an array of witty, surprising lines for various characters. "A costume party, and we all come as happy people?" Miles asks, and it might be the smartest observation he’s ever made. "It makes me nervous when [Sable] gets warm and friendly," Bliss (another dumb rock) twitters. Jason and Frankie's faces, on the other hand, when they walk into the Colby mansion and realize what Sable’s put together, require no words.But it’s not all fun and jokes. The show has turned seriously thrilling and sexy. After some stupidity with surfing and Bliss making the papers for it, Spiro and she have nasty apartment sex. When Spiro walks back to the bedroom after he spoke to Bliss’ father, who had no idea his daughter was naked a few feet away, it is a dark yet oddly exhilarating moment – the kind only soaps can pull off.Wayne makes a bunch of totally serious puns about being blind before leaving the show (I think. Don’t tell me). And I want Neil's wife, Gayle, to be a psycho from hell (Don’t tell me).Continuing their deepening connection from previous episodes, Jeff and Miles prove that Miles did not possess the murder weapon at the time of Mahoney's death (sneaky writers!) and then excitedly hug, before going off screen to f**k. Oh, don’t deny it, their sexual chemistry is on point!Fallon is, like, totes sure she’s pregnant!The serious juice of the episode comes when Jason, tired of Sable’s attempts at saving their marriage, plays the tape and confronts her. The strings turn murderous as Sable realizes what she’s listening to, and perhaps their best-acted scene follows, as Sable alternates between tears, anger and threats, and Jason's anger melts down and he pleads with Sable to let him go. This is certainly Heston’s most genuine moment of the series so far (if not the only). Sable runs off to Zach's yacht, where the show dabbles into creepy sexiness once more when Zach has Sable wear the dress she was wearing when he first became obsessed with her and then has her strip for him.Jason and Zach's confrontation is genuinely scary. There’s something about that dark background behind the actors and the way it’s filmed, you know something major is happening – what you don’t know is who it’s going to happen to, until Sable runs out and gets shot in the damn head!"You killed her!" Zach says, as is obligatory for cliffhangers, and cliffhang we do!Utterly delicious.DDD</blockquote>

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