Dynasty Episode 7
For their belated Thanksgiving episode, Dynasty delivered the show that we all really want: escalating antics and the Anders and Sammy hour. When the snark is good, it’s very very good, like Fallon casually calling Cristal “participation trophy wife” while verbally sparring with Claudia, who was pointing a loaded gun at her at the time. Michael Colhane gets a backstory Because they are WASPy and wealthy, the Carrington family takes their Thanksgiving way too seriously. There’s a small marching band, cheerleaders, and Blake even has a playbook – not that it helps. Michael Colhane and the rest of the staff team always win. Blake also kicks out his star player Fallon after she makes one too many sex tape jokes after her begrudging apology. I enjoyed that Cristal wanted Fallon to stay – she’s not really Fallon’s enemy unless she’s made to be. It’s also getting harder to believe she would ever be with someone like Blake, but I’m hoping her secret identity from the arepa lady will hold some motivation. I enjoyed seeing Fallon show some redeeming qualities once again, and I’d love to see Michael given the chance to go after his career dreams, whatever they may be these days. Jeff Colby has something to hide and Blake isn’t hiding anything very well
Stephen isn’t buying into it, though. The most surprising thing about Blake’s corruption is that he so readily admitted it to his son. He must really be confident in his way of viewing the world, or in Stephen’s love for him. As Stephen said, Blake is choosing to force him between his father and doing the right thing, and that’s about to get ugly. But if Stephen goes after Stansfield, how long until the corrupt cop tells everyone about how he killed Willy for Stephen? Jeff Colby is keeping a different secret, and doing a better job of it than Blake. His father Cecil is in prison and he goes to visit him while his sister goes to the Bahama’s, like he told Fallon he was going to do. Up until now Jeff’s main qualities have been “ridiculously smart” and “ridiculously into Fallon,” so he must really be invested in keeping his father’s prison sentence a secret to turn down Fallon when she calls. I’m hoping that Cecil’s crime has something to do with Blake Carrington. Capable Fallon is back Fallon is so ballsy in this episode. She figures out the whole crime with a loaded gun pointed at her, all the while talking shit to the murderer. Fallon, who was once working toward becoming an engineer, realized that the truck that lead to Matthew’s death was rigger by an engineer. It never even occurs to dumbass Blake, who’s so sexist that he almost got shot when he insisted on sitting at the head of the table, that “girls can be engineers too, dad!” Unfortunately, Dynasty has spent so little time on this supposedly central mystery that wrapping it up doesn’t feel like a satisfying reveal. She’s still Fallon, though, so after putting her foot in her mouth as usual, she pays what she call a “rich bitch tax,” which I so desperately wish was a real thing. And apparently Fallon’s mother gave her a gun for her 16th birthday. Who is this woman? We need to meet her immediately. Fallon is the most fun to hatewatch when we can root for her while hating her. For a few episodes there she was so useless and whiny that she wasn’t any fun. I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of Claudia – a sanitarium feels like the perfect place to store a character until a season finale – but for now the murder of Matthew is settled. On to Blake’s corruption, Cristal’s past, and Jeff’s father.
