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Dynasty returns for a third season, thanks in part to a steady audience in the US and even more fans watching the show on Netflix overseas. And this season doesn’t start with a major time jump that basically ignores the season finale, kind of like how Season 2 started. Here we pick up not too long after two bodies were pulled from Lake Carrington, and Liam — who isn’t dead after all — was plucked from the jaws of death by a lazy gardener taking his umpteenth break of the day. At least that’s basically how Fallon described it. It’s hard to tell if she was grateful for Liam’s rescue or frustrated at the gardener’s lack of work ethic. Either way, she still hasn’t been to visit him in the hospital so not much time has passed. And Liam fans must have been vocal enough over the summer to have him saved and now Adam Huber has even been made a regular this season. But Fallon’s not going to have it that easy. With Liam’s ex doting over the unconscious hunk at the hospital, by the time Fallon arrives and he awakens, he has come down with a case of soap opera amnesia, not recognizing Fallon and still thinking he’s with his ex. Oh well, at least we know he’ll be sticking around … but will Fallon give up on him?
The main thrust of the season premiere was all about the two dead bodies, Fallon’s friend Trixie and Mac the security guy Blake murdered. Poor Adam — and you won’t be seeing me call him Poor Adam after this because I can’t stand him — was blamed by everyone for the divers discovering the bodies … as if he was up on the family history of murder and corpse disposal. He’s an ass but there’s no way he could have known both of those bodies were there, and if he knew about Mac he certainly didn’t know Blake’s DNA is possibly all over the body. So, yeah, Adam actually had to take the fall for something he didn’t do, for once.
As we all know, the new season brings us a new Cristal, the third in three years, with last season’s 2.0 version allegedly leaving the show for personal reasons. Uh huh. (To be fair, Ana Brenda Contreras released a statement saying it was health issues but she is on good terms with the folks behind the show and hopes to work with them again.) Daniella Alonso is now playing the role of Cristal Jennings and the writers did have some fun introducing the newest addition to the show. As the principals were all being interviewed by the police about the bodies in a quick montage, Alonso’s Cristal was given the line that she didn’t know much because ‘I just got here.’ Cute, and Cristal would not know about Trixie, but she certainly knows about Mac as she basically gave Blake the okay to kill him after Mark Jennings was shot (and they still don’t know that it was Alexis who pulled the trigger in an attempt on Cristal’s life).
So, really, the gist of the entire episode was the family attempting to come together and deny deny deny any knowledge of how Trixie got in the lake. Fallon’s guilty conscience, though, may do them all in, especially when she discovers that it wasn’t Anders who wrapped her in plastic and dumped her in the lake … it was Blake. And Blake is still angry at Adam, even smacking him across the face, for not consulting with him first before he sent divers to ‘look for Fallon’s ring’. Adam just wasn’t counting on the divers finding two bodies, and now Blake wants him to fix things so that if there is any of his or Cristal’s DNA on the body, no one will be the wiser. Luckily Adam somehow is still a doctor and sneaks into the morgue, swapping toe tags with another body scheduled to be cremated. That should help fix things with dear old dad.
Meanwhile Dominique and Monica are still putting up the act that Jeff is missing and presumed dead, pinning the murder on Adam but … Blake seems to be in on the whole thing too with Dominique returning Adam’s cuff link to Blake in exchange for a big old check. Monica has no idea of this deal her mother made with the Devil, and how it affects Jeff remains to be seen.
Of course, the entire house of cards comes tumbling down when the police burst into the Carrington mansion and arrest Blake for the murder of Mac … thanks to Fallon’s guilty conscience (aka the ghost of Trixie) telling her that only the truth will set her free. There may be some fallout from this.
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