Meanwhile, Beth was plotting with Spike. Note that there are no fewer than four villains in Rome: Beth, Spike, Lena, and Alistair. Before this week, I had no idea there was any connection between Beth and Spike, but whatever. Beth tells Spike to murder Fancy. Spike is reluctant, because he works for Alistair, and Alistair doesn’t want Fancy dead. (Remember, she’s his precious granddaughter and the only person on Earth he cares about.) But Beth is hoping that once Fancy is dead, she can take Fancy’s place in Alistair’s affections, as well as Luis’s.
My mask is eviler than your mask.
For whatever reason, Spike agrees to murder Fancy, so he and Beth both go to the masked ball. Unlike Fancy, they are actually wearing masks. Spike makes numerous botched attempts to get at Fancy with a knife. Meanwhile, Fancy totally makes out with Luis to make Noah jealous. Of course, this only fuels Beth’s murderous rage.
Yes, that chump watching is Noah. Or maybe it’s the non-union, lower-budget Noah.
After Spike fails repeatedly to get near Fancy with the knife, Beth tries to poison her instead. Eventually Luis spots Beth and grabs her, but she doesn’t care, because she thinks Fancy is about to drink poisoned champagne and die. Beth moronically tips Luis to this, so of course he saves Fancy and they end up kissing again.
Also at the masked ball are the Three Dunceketeers, who sneak in by disguising themselves as wait staff. Their goal is to sneak around and find clues to the art thefts, or something. As I mentioned earlier, Jessica ends up getting kidnapped, while the other two find Alistair’s shredded painting.
Finally, Theresa and Ethan are at the masked ball too. And so is J.T. Cornell! When we last saw J.T., he was being arrested for public drunkenness. Well, after that, Theresa went to the police station to file a report on him. She spotted him there, but he made bail at the last second (thanks to Rebecca wiring him the money) and he got away.
Ethan and Theresa at the ball.
J.T. then decided that he still wanted to leave town for Spain, but first, he had to have one more night of checking out the hot Italian ladies. And what better place to mack on sexy ladies than an art-show opening? Or a masked ball? Or an art-show opening that is also a masked ball? No strip clubs or hookers for this guy – he’s class all the way when he’s on the prowl.
Of course, Theresa ends up spotting J.T. at the event, and she tracks him to some ruins, followed by Ethan. At the end of Friday’s show, J.T. is in the midst of actually telling Ethan the truth about how his paternity got leaked to the tabloid. (Theresa promised him $10 million if he would tell Ethan the truth.) Rebecca and Gwen are listening over the phone in horror. So, it seems like something has finally happened with this storyline.
There were a couple of significant developments back in Harmony this week, too. First, Luis and Sheridan talked on the phone about the weird feeling they both have that Alistair is the evil mastermind behind the whole Rome thing. Actually, for Luis, it’s now more than a feeling because Beth kind of let slip that she has been in contact with her daddy. After Luis and Sheridan got off the phone, Sheridan went over to the nursing home just to make sure for one last time that her father was really there and really in a coma.
Well, when Sheridan got there, she inspected old “Alistair” a little more closely than everybody did when they went over there just last week. In fact, she noticed right away that there was a BIG RUBBER SEAM along the side of Alistair’s neck. Then she just reached right over and pulled off his rubber face. Yup – it was a rubber mask of Alistair, and underneath, there was some poor yutz in a coma.
I have a few comments about the rubber mask. First, it looks like Passions actually did go to the trouble to make it look like Alistair’s face. The actor must have sat and let them make a mold. Good for y’all! (I feel that if I am going to bash Passions for being low-budget and brain-dead, it is only fair that I give them their props when they do something right.)
Second, the show was obviously very proud of the trouble they went to making this rubber mask because they kept showing it over and over again. Sheridan stood there with it in her hands and talked to herself for a good long while, and we got to see it from various angles.
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Comments (9)
All I can think of is the mermaid episode of Futurama...
"Why couldn't she be the kind of mermaid with the girl part on the BOTTOM!?"
1 of 9 | Posted by stm007
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Posted on June 12, 2006 11:54 AM
The "sand" on the "beach" looks like fill dirt. What happened to Charity? It cannot be possible for this show to look cheaper.
2 of 9 | Posted by Vidle
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Posted on June 12, 2006 1:00 PM
Couldn't the Three Dunceketeers have snuck into the MASKED BALL by, I don't know, PUTTING ON MASKS??
3 of 9 | Posted by mandymax
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Posted on June 12, 2006 1:37 PM
I wish you could find a picture of Teresa making that long jump between planks in the ruins. I had a burst of laughter when I saw that. And when she tipped over after she barely made the jump.
I'm surprised that there was $5 million at all in their budget. I really believe that the writers think of this show as a joke. No writer can be serious and write this stuff.... Unless it's a Walker, Texas Ranger writer.
4 of 9 | Posted by tikilights
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Posted on June 12, 2006 3:18 PM
Miguel must have a stick of dynamite in his pants, if he's going to penetrate that fish tail.
I love when Sheridope talks to herself. She's an imbecile, and its a riot to watch.
The whole virtual reality story makes no sense. Whitney and bad monk big Al just walked right into the Pope's chambers. They didn't have to do a thing. Whitney had that dumb headset on for weeks.
I look forward to the lower budget shows. Will be interesting. I think it will be cancelled soon, ratings are way low.
For a nun with a limp and a hunchback, she sure gets around fast.
KH
5 of 9 | Posted by KatiesHole
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Posted on June 12, 2006 4:21 PM
I'm so tired of the Monk and Mermaid storyline, it's so boring and makes little sense. I love all the cooky stuff that happens on Passions but this is just boring!
I was wondering the same thing about the art gallery and the masked ball. Why? lol
6 of 9 | Posted by Duchovnysfan
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Posted on June 12, 2006 4:55 PM
Haha, I don't watch Passions, but that's funny.
7 of 9 | Posted by Kathryn
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Posted on June 12, 2006 7:24 PM
8 of 9 | Posted by Ubiquitous
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Posted on June 14, 2006 10:10 AM
Love your posts. I can't wait until the the budget-reduced shows begin airing. Normally a serious reduction in budget would hurt a show but I sincerely believe that in the case of Passions this will prove to be a creative boon. Can you imagine the crap they will come up with on an even more shoe-string budget? Comedy gold!
9 of 9 | Posted by bdos88
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Posted on June 18, 2006 6:35 PM