MONARCH COVE ----------my last review, I think

I just finished watching “Taxi Driver” which is always a good way to start the day. Now I’ll be saying, “You talkin’ to me?” every time I look in a mirror for the rest of the day. I imagine this movie has that effect on everyone.

I wasn’t going to watch “Monarch Cove” anymore as it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. I may watch, but I doubt that I’ll write a review as the whole thing is just too confusing. Gran says she was stoned when she told Bianca that Kathy was adopted but that it’s true. Gran apparently is going to Canada for cancer treatments. I thought they were sending her the medicine. There are so many unanswered questions in this show that really need to be clarified. Parker has DNA test which proves he’s Alexander’s son. Alexander dumped his mother years ago, so Parker’s determined to get even with him by taking over the business or ruining it – probably both.

Kathy works with Alexander to get information out of Parker. I can’t figure out the relationship between Kathy and Alexander – it seems like she’s ready to jump him at any minute, but something always stops it. What is this thing between them? She goes to Parker on the boat and they have sex, of course. Eddie is taking pictures of everything to show Alexander that Parker is bad, but Alexander doesn’t want to hear about it. He knows Parker is bad but doesn’t know what to do about it since he’s his son. Jake’s furious at the thought of Parker being in the family, and knocks him around. Kathy has sex with Parker again and comes out of his room imagining herself as Mrs. Preston. But Parker’s last name is now Elian, so what is Kathy thinking? And which Preston?

Parker’s pissed at Eddie and says he’ll fire him when he takes control, and Eddie jumps on his motorcycle and races away. Bianca jumps in her little yellow sports car and races after him. He crashes and she plays nurse – but no sex. Jake comes home early from his honeymoon and finds Eddie and Bianca in bed together. Bianca has a silly grin on her face and Jake storms off. This time they did have sex.

Ben and Sophia get together but Ben doesn’t want to be a boyfriend. He walks around all the time looking sullen and is very boring. Sophia takes Charlotte, who is supposedly the daughter of a big wheel staying at the Cove who can get Alexander a liquor license for new casinos he wants to open, to a party and Charlotte pretends to OD. Then Parker arranges with the guy to blackmail Alexander for a bunch of money to give him the license. So Alexander pays him the money but it turns out that the daughter, Charlotte, is not a daughter but an accomplice of the blackmailer. But is she the daughter? We find them in the bar playing kissy-face and he tells her she turns him on playing the schoolgirl, and she answers and says “Daddy.” So is he her real daddy or just a sugar daddy? This whole thing is just too confusing. The blackmailer pays Parker his share of the money. Whatever Charlotte is, she’s a very naughty girl.

Eddie helps Bianca find out who Kathy’s parents are. It turns out a woman named Vanessa Reed killed 3 of her kids but left a baby. The baby is rescued by Bianca’s dad who takes her home and apparently keeps her as his own. That can account for the differences in the sisters. Kathy is wild and crazy and always going after money and men. She’s continually conniving with someone to find out something or to get a step up on the food chain for herself. She’s a real go-getter and fun to watch. Bianca, on the other hand, is always sweet and trying to make peace with everyone. In other words, she’s quite dull.
In one of the last scenes, Ben tells Sophia he likes her after all! What is it with these people anyway? And Jake, Eddie and Bianca meet on the beach and apologize to each other. Jakes leaves and Eddie tells Bianca he never learned how to date! What? He knows how to get girls into bed, but I guess the question of dating has never come up. Bianca says she doesn’t know much about dating either, so they decide to start dating. Where did these people come from anyway?

I don’t think Arianna went to bed with anyone this time, but she did drink a lot. And Gran was out of her bathrobe. It looks like there’s going to be a lot happening at Monarch Cove next week. . . . too much for me to write about. So I can just watch and not have to take notes with my pen that doesn’t write upside down.