S04E22 Filled With Manipulations and Deceptions

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SEASON FINALE - Blake (Grant Show) and Cristal (Daniella Alonso) work together on the new obstacles threatening Blake's senatorial campaign. Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) turns to Amanda (guest star Eliza Bennett) for help regarding Liam (Adam Huber) and their marriage. Sam (Rafael de la Fuente), Culhane (Robert C. Riley) and Kirby (Maddison Brown) work on the finishing touches for the opening of The Sahara Club, as Sam gets advice from an unexpected source. Alexis (Elaine Hendrix) continues her scheming as Dominique (Michael Michele) worries about Jeff's (Sam Adegoke) health. Adam (Sam Underwood) finds himself in yet another precarious position. The episode was written by Josh Reims and Garrett Oakley and directed by Pascal Verschooris (#422). Original airdate 10/1/2021.

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Now we're not getting more Dynahit until spring!!! :sad:
 

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Dynasty needs to plant the seeds of the crystal double story in this final finale for next seasons switcheroo. Daniella Alonzo is more than capable of playing two characters at once.
with no one noticing the difference except maybe the dog if he’s still around.
Beto is the scheming Sammy Jo wanting his inheritance but the double ends up wanting more, either becoming the present Mrs Carrington permanently or the widowed Mrs Carrington.
Jeff needs to check out in this episode as well
with Alexis benefiting(finally coming through on the psychic episode 2 years ago), making room for a few more OG characters. Just a thought and it’s not PC now but that’s a good thing and Dynasty is a teen show after all but I would love to see Alexis pick up the habit again after being so stressed about all the accusations on Jeff’s demise.didn’t Steven give Fallon their moms cigarette lighter in season 1, a wink to the OG.
Bring on Caress, Dex, and Luke for a new”recast “ sober, determined, stronger Steven.
Also even the back of new Steven’s head will be welcome in the finale.
Hopefully screen time in the finale isn’t taken up by plotless Sam, Culhane and Kirby.
I do like the idea of the Carrington sisters taking down Eva though.
The series finale next year can end with the Moldavian Massacre with no survivors except Fallon who sings a duet with an alien.
 
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Amanda drops by Fallon's office, where Fallon apparently spent the night drinking. The ladies find some obsession-related materials in Eva's desk, and Fallon immediately realizes her assistant has been up to no good. She heads to Liam's hotel room to point out the "coincidences" Eva set up, but Liam isn't moved. He says she's just "looking for a way to excuse her bad behavior". Fallon is undeterred as usual. After some digging Amanda says Eva's real name is Rebecca Allen. What else is she hiding?

Jeff still insists that Brady is using Dominique to get close enough to Jeff to steal his rocket plans. She confronts him about the wall-scrawls and he placates her by saying he'll see a doctor. Dom meets with Culhane to get help in urging Jeff to get back on his meds.

Somebody has leaked Blake's association with the gambling machines at the soccer stadiums. Cristal offers to go talk to Beto to get him to back down. His price? He wants all of the Flores holdings from her, but she isn't giving them up. He threatens in angry Spanish to ruin Blake's campaign if his demands are not met. (Note: he appears to be in Atlanta) Cristal later tells Blake that her father had always said he wanted her (not Beto) to take over and she intends to move the HQ to Atlanta.

Dr. Larson wants 50% of the profits from this drug Adam is developing--plus a big, immediate down payment. Too bad Larson doesn't know what a nutcase he's dealing with....but I'm sure he will find out soon enough. Adam then drops by Alexis's to forgive her---and to hit her up for money. Her smile fades quickly, but says it's the cost of having a relationship with her son and agrees. She also gets Adam to accompany her to Blake's gala. I guess the gala will sub as this season's "disastrous wedding" they typically stage for season enders.

Eva shows up at Liam's room and makes up all kinds of stories about Fallon being mean to her, throwing things at her, etc. She gets Liam to pull her into a comforting hug, but the look on his face is "confused," and of course hers is more "devious" than "devastated". Later, however, when Fallon updates Liam again on her research, Liam repeats once again that Eva is not the issue---it's her horizontal tango with Colin. Seems "Rebecca" was arrested for stalking a professor of hers, and that was (probably) why she changed her name. He walks away again.

The opening of the Sahara Club (formerly Club Colby) is making Sam very nervous. He had Anders guiding him through the opening of the hotel itself, but now he has to do (most of) it alone. Culhane is off chatting with Dom about Jeff. We flash back to one of Sam and Anders's chats over drinks, where Anders told him to act confident, even if you feel like a washing machine inside. To help him keep it up, he unveils a plaque in the club dedicated to Anders. Anders even "drops by" to bid adieu to Sam, who can take care of everyone quite well without his help.

Brady's losing his nerve in this plan Alexis has. The plan seems to be getting Dom to the altar, then dumping her for the world to see. Little does Brady realize that Jeff has him under digital surveillance and now knows Brady's visiting Alexis. Soon, however, Dom finds Jeff taking a sledge hammer to his computers and trashing the place. She tries to get through to him, get him to take his meds again, but he handcuffs her to a shelving unit and leaves with a gun, declaring Brady as Public Enemy #1. Culhane finds her and she sends Culhane to stop Jeff.

Dr. Larson meets with Adam at Alexis's penthouse to get his payoff, but he decides he wants more. They're on the balcony.....

Alexis shows up in RED for the gala, and Adam's already there. He seems quite normal and says "everything's fine now". Except the cops show up to arrest Alexis, since someone saw someone dressed like her fighting with Larson on the balcony before he fell to his death. Adam seems unperturbed as they haul Alexis away.

Eva shows up to "clear out her desk," and Fallon waves the evidence of Eva's obsession with Liam. Thus begins a knock-down, drag-out cat fight, complete with flying books, tumbling furniture, etc. Conveniently, Liam shows up since Eva asked him to accompany her since she was afraid Fallon might get violent. So Fallon looks bad once again. I guess this means Eva's officially fired. When Eva tries to kiss him, Liam draws back. He asks if she set him up to be there when Colin talked about the affair, all the other odd coincidences....in short, he's on to her. He tells her he still loves Fallon and tells her to leave.

Blake declares to Cristal that "this dynasty is stronger than ever before..." as Alexis is hauled into lock-up in that dress. During Blake's speech Liam shows up to "present a united front" with Fallon and the family, but he says that even though she was right about Eva, they're not back together.

Jeff finds Brady outside and rattles on about him wanting to steal Jeff's rocket plans and holds the gun on him with a shaky hand. Culhane tackles Jeff, allowing Brady to run away, but now Jeff's got the gun on Culhane instead.

Eva enters the party and pulls her own gun and aims toward Liam and Fallon.

Beto pulls yet another gun and aims toward Cristal and Blake.

A confetti cannon goes off, followed by a gunshot. Culhane reacts outside, but he isn't the one who got shot.

Everyone in the party ducks for cover, and Beto hurriedly hides his gun. Eva puts hers away as well, but security soon grab her to disarm her. Liam and Fallon look at one another, then Fallon looks down to see her dress splattered with blood. As she shuffles to the floor, Liam yells for help and Adam springs into action to tend to her. Eva sees Fallon fall and smiles creepily.
 

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I love the cliffhanger! A touching farewell to Joseph and Alan Dale, he will be missed. Who would have thought they recreate one of OG Alexis's most iconic scenes? And please does that mean Adam dressed again as a woman? :lol: My camp loving heart was also delighted by the catfight between Eva and Fallon, I didn't notice any stunt doubles with terrible wigs. The finale leaves question marks over the future of other characters but I'm just glad hot Beto got out alive... the actor needs the job after HAHN's cancellation.
 
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And I'm glad they didn't use the old outing-of-a-gay-character threat when C3 put Beto into his place. Still Beto... how could he go so far and intend to shoot her or Blake? Some men are really ungrateful bitches. I hope the next season continues with a revised Fallon. Toning her a bit down to sound more human was a great idea. The character development for Dom in this season was good too as were Michael and Sam or Michael and Jeff as buddies.
 

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then Fallon looks down to see her dress splattered with blood. As she shuffles to the floor, Liam yells for help and Adam springs into action to tend to her.
Don't worry kiddies, Fallon will be okay for Season 5. Seriously why bother putting Fallon in harms way when this is The Elizabeth Gillies Variety Show. Anyway thanks @Daniel Avery for the recaps. I've enjoyed reading them but I'm reminded once again how directionless this season has been. There didn't appear to be a strong story arc to lead us into the cliff-hanger. Like most of the last 4 seasons the retelling of Dynasty has been one hot mess. I had hopes this season under the direction of Josh Reims might have invigorated this much maligned reboot. Instead, reading the recaps I'm in agreement when others suggested certain characters should have been nixed.
 
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I've enjoyed reading them but I'm reminded once again how directionless this season has been. There didn't appear to be a strong story arc to lead us into the cliff-hanger.
I'm not sure how you could say that? Eva's story arc has been ongoing for a while now, as has Cristal and Beto's. And Jeff's "spiritual awakening" which led to his rocket plans and skipping his medication.

I liked the cliffhanger. Of course Fallon is going to survive, but I'm more curious about Adam / Alexis, what's going to happen with Brady and Alexis stealing Dominique's money, what's going to happen to Culhane and Jeff etc. I thought they set up season 5 nicely.
 

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My camp loving heart was also delighted by the catfight between Eva and Fallon, I didn't notice any stunt doubles with terrible wigs.
Finally they had a catfight where they didn't feel the need to intercut it with other scenes and make it a music montage.

A bit sad about Eva being gone though, but I assume she'll turn up in prison. Easy guess is that she's the one who threw the doctor off the roof...
 
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Haven’t they used the obsessed stalker enough in this show, still an enjoyable season finale, superior to the previous two. It didn’t push anything forward though in my opinion to a new direction or introduce new characters to next season. After a couple of episodes into season 5 when Fallon and Jeff survive,Liam and Fallon reconcile , Alexis gets released and the real killer is known and Blake either loses or backs out of the campaign I bet it’ll be business as usual with Fallon/ Liam / her company. Sam and his friend Michael with boring filler, more pointless Jeff, Brady leaves, nonexistent Steven and goofy antics with Sam Fallon and Kirby.
A good recreation of Alexis going to prison, are we going to get the snoopy neighbor spying on her and the check to the doctor implicating her again.
in the OG at least Alexis had a relationship with the deceased.
Nice scene between Blake and Fallon, we need more interaction like that between them like in the OG.
Jeff should have collapsed after shooting Michael, that should have been the shot that got fired.
Adam pushing the doctor off Alexis’s balcony will have no consequence like all the criminal acts he’s done, disfiguring his mom, screwing with Steven’s sanity, trying to kill Liam, etc. if they made him pay he would have to be written off to prison.
Michael Michelle as Dominique was fantastic.
Too bad we lost Joseph, one of the few things this reboot improved from the weirdo original.
 
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I hope a major arc of Season 5 is Amanda investigating Adam's involvement in the Doctor's death - since she brought him back - which leads her to delve into Adam's psycho behaviour and uncovering Steven in the Paris hospital (who has now morphed into a new actor).

There are a few things that Nu Dynasty has got right over OG. Adam should have been more of a psychopath in the original like Christian Bale in American Psycho. And while no one betters PSM, Elizabeth Gillies is easily trumping Emma Samms in her portrayal, Season 9 notwithstanding.
 

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I also agree that Season four did an admirable job in multi-episode story arcs, at least in comparison to much of season two and parts of three. In addition to others mentioned, they had Dominique actually working to have her clothing line introduced and working to make it a success, which is much more realistic than the typical "Oh, I bought this company that I have no idea how to run, and yet it is immediately a success and I run it like a pro." When the viewer sees her struggles there is more emotional investment in her success and the success of her company. If they'd taken the same approach they did with Blake's sudden ownership of a private jet business (which seems to run itself these days), would we really care if Alexis and Brady succeeded in ruining Dom's clothing business?

Many have mentioned how well they've improved the character of Dominique, toning down the attitude and showing the heart under all that faux animal print. But the one I've kept my eye on the most this season is Cristal. Whether they meant to do it or were forced to do it due to DA's maternity leave, they've finally gotten Cristal "right". The showrunners (before the show was even on the air) were so determined to give Cristal the "claws" that OG Krystle never had that they never even considered that the best function for the character of Cristal was....to be much more like OG Krystle. It took them long enough, but the showrunners have gotten Cristal in the best place she can be, which is as close to OG Krystle as one can get in 2021. She is no saint, but she is the heart of the family these days.

If the CW continues to use this season's broadcasting format as a blueprint--that is, running all the episodes weekly with no interruptions or hiatus periods from May-ish to October-ish--then the show-runners will be well-served to rely on season-long story arcs rather than short arcs that corresponded to the old hiatus periods. Season-long stories would have seemed long, padded-out and boring when they took from September to May to play out, but 22 weeks? As we see, it flies by.
 

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Beyond lame season finale. A Moldavia massacre type ending, which would have been a perfect opportunity to get rid of the dead wood of this show (75% of the characters imo, Adam, Kirby and Sammy Jo I especially loathe) is what I thought was coming, only to shoot Fallon, the one character we know ain’t going anywhere. Adam of course (dressed up as Alexis) was the culprit who killed the doctor. Only good thing was the throwback to the 1984 season finale with Alexis in the red dress being hauled off to prison, which only served to remind how much better that version was. Pull the plug next season CW. Please. If there’s a God.
 

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Many have mentioned how well they've improved the character of Dominique, toning down the attitude and showing the heart under all that faux animal print. But the one I've kept my eye on the most this season is Cristal. Whether they meant to do it or were forced to do it due to DA's maternity leave, they've finally gotten Cristal "right". The showrunners (before the show was even on the air) were so determined to give Cristal the "claws" that OG Krystle never had that they never even considered that the best function for the character of Cristal was....to be much more like OG Krystle. It took them long enough, but the showrunners have gotten Cristal in the best place she can be, which is as close to OG Krystle as one can get in 2021. She is no saint, but she is the heart of the family these days..

This is a good point. Cristal is a decent person underneath it all, but she's also human and will get manipulated by power if it comes her way. I always tend to think that people who see themselves as "good people" can end up doing the nastiest things and well... Cristal has shown herself to be able to be a puppet-master behind Blake. She doesn't want to do evil, but on the other hand there's the greater good to think about.

But yes, Dominique's and Cristal's story arcs have been the best this season.
 

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It’s true Dominique and Crystal both have had some real development character and story wise . A third recast finally getting its grounding and the Dominique character came in down on her luck wearing ridiculous outfits like they did to Alexis early on( does the CW like to clown older actresses) and a cardboard one dimensional character.
If only the powers had Alexis evolve,
Blind love for her son withstanding , this character is so gullible, one thing that iconic character was not.
(Guilt or not) She fell so easily into Adam’s plot to frame her.
Alexis Carrington played by Joan Collins who close to 50 and beyond turned a show that was going to get cancelled into a worldwide phenomenon in the 1980’s and here we are discussing it in 2021.
The CW version had a couple of good scenes in the early introduction , besides the trailer living, but quickly turned her starting in season 2 into a desperate quirky, dumb blonde clown.
At least early on she still wanted power and her ex husband, family and position and had the rivalry with the young new wife, when crystal 2 showed up that rivalry didn’t work with C2 not being his wife and now it’s non existent with C3, but season 3 and 4 I don’t know her characters motivation. That’s why I thought inheriting Jeff’s tech company would give her some direction and being such a ditz having to hire a young genius maybe named Dex to help her run it would get the character out of this funk.
 
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That was a great season finale!!!
I know some of you disagree, but... I'd really like more episodes like this, and not filled with singing scenes or alternate realities, at the end of the day this is a soap opera, not a variety show as some of you just pointed out. The Alexis-goes-to-prison homage was great, Adam is a fu***ing bastard, and Fallon, yeah, she reminds me of Emma Samms portrayal in S9.
I wasn't expecting Eva at the party, and when I saw the gun, I thought Liam was going to be the chosen one. I know Fallon is going to be okay, but, considering she was always at the center of every plot, always under convenient protection, this is kinda shocking. Also, it is ironic that this is pretty much the same ending that we saw in the last good season finale, when Cristal/Celia was shot, which leads me to think that Fallon could have been pregnant.
S2 finale was lame, and I'm not totally sure if we got a S3 finale. So, after all, this is the second decent end-of-season. I really hope (again) that stories get better, and more interesting. And I'd really like that Steven goes back (and Celia too) but, I know this is asking too much.
 

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Adam pushing the doctor off Alexis’s balcony will have no consequence like all the criminal acts he’s done, disfiguring his mom, screwing with Steven’s sanity, trying to kill Liam, etc. if they made him pay he would have to be written off to prison.
At some point the bow will break with Adam. The criminal acts you've mentioned are serious enough to warrant prison time but for some reason the writers think because his victims rolled their their eyes and said, "That's Adam" then somehow the audience is expected to forgive and forget. That's a cop out and at some point the character of Adam has to be addressed for his actions.
 

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only to shoot Fallon, the one character we know ain’t going anywhere
Because everything has to be about her, the Unlimited Fallon Carrington. So beautiful, so dazzling, so darling, so funny, so awesome.
Of course she needs to be the focal point in the season finale.
Brace yourself for a comatose "Fallon in Heaven" musical season premiere.

If they hadn't shown the victim they could have done that coffin scene in a mini-time jump final scene, FALCON CREST style.
The only person they show is Alexis (because you already know she wasn't there) but in that case Fallon wouldn't get all the attention and therefore it's not possible. And that's why this show sux big time.
 

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There are a few things that Nu Dynasty has got right over OG.

For me 100% with Joseph/ Alan Dale. The role of a mentor to Blake, Fallon and Sam explained better why he stayed loyal to the household. In the original he was too underwritten as a character. And their version of Amanda is so far also more interesting.
 

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Because everything has to be about her, the Unlimited Fallon Carrington. So beautiful, so dazzling, so darling, so funny, so awesome.
Of course she needs to be the focal point in the season finale.
Brace yourself for a comatose "Fallon in Heaven" musical season premiere.

If they hadn't shown the victim they could have done that coffin scene in a mini-time jump final scene, FALCON CREST style.
The only person they show is Alexis (because you already know she wasn't there) but in that case Fallon wouldn't get all the attention and therefore it's not possible. And that's why this show sux big time.
To be fair - I don't think they wanted another fake out and they already killed Anders off this season. Fallon being shot isn't even the interesting cliffhanger - it's everything surrounding it.
 
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