Previews for the week of 17-Jan-2011
by Carol Banks Weber [Soap Zone]
**Another psychic nightmare for Sonny! After he awakes, he finds himself pointing his piece at drowsy Brenda.
Jason goes about putting the kibosh on Sonny and Brendas nuptials. Its a losing proposition.
Sonny and Brenda remain committed to stupidly going through with what will obviously be a cluster cliffhanger wedding ceremony.
Carly prepares to drop the bomb that Dante and Brenda had relations in a secret relationship and then had a baby together at Sonnys marriage ceremony to Brenda.
At the last second, Carly rethinks jumping the gun on Dante and Brenda, biding her time.
Brandon menaces Abby once more. He used to be her boyfriend but got too controlling and abusive. Now, hes back, trying to run her life again.
Brandon grosses Abby out by treating her like a hooker and hes the john.
Carly happens by, watching this unfold, taking in the hooker and john line, and jumping on Abby for her bad influence on precious Michael.
Carly closes ranks, trying to scare Abby into leaving Michael alone. It works.
Believing its in his best interest, Abby acts like shes been putting Michael on all along and fakes like shes been hiding her hooker status.
Michael refuses to run from Abby or believe Abbys crock. This has his mom, Carly, written all over.
Carly yells at Sam and tries to make Sam feel badly for trying to pair up an aging slut with Michael.
Jason gets between Carly frothing at the mouth and her victim, Sam.
Jason goes to the mat for Sam, puts Carly down.
Michael goes after Carly for hurting Abby. Hes most vicious with his mom, who still wont see the light.
Jason must settle Michael down before he does anything hell regret with his mom.
Michael starts to open up some more about his time in prison, when talking to Jason. Jason, in turn, lays down some helpful advice to guide his prodigy along.
Jason persuades Abby that its best if shes upfront with Michael.
Sam consults with ob-gyn Kelly Lee about a new, experimental fertility hope that would make her pregnant.
Molly gives Sam food for thought when Sams reluctance to go for the sci-fi experiment is second-guessed and put down.
The Balkan confirms for himself that Brenda shot his son, with Dante in the thick of it, too.
Theo takes it upon himself to fink on Dante and his shady past with Brenda
to Luluout of the blue.
Lulu goes to Dante with Theos gossip, to determine veracity. As soon as she does, she can see hes guilty of a cover-up.
Lulu puts Dante on blast for cheating on her with Brenda and lying about his relationship in the past.
Dante makes an attempt to explain to Lulu that his thing with Brenda was in the past. But Lulu turns to stone, walking soundly away from him.
Once Brenda is alerted to what happened to Dante and Lulu, she goes to Lulu at work and tries to make things right.
Lulu gets incredibly offended at Brenda for butting in and pops off.
Lulu screams for Brenda to get out of her sight.
Dante feels down in the dumps, because Lulu dumped him and wouldnt listen to his excuses.
Michael reacts to depressed Dante mooning over Lulu.
Lulu feels sorry for herself about yet another boyfriend letting her down. She begins to feel doomed, like its some gene defect or something.
Dante tries to win Lulu back, despite having deceived her.
Dante notices Diane handing over to Carly information about his and Brendas secret love child.
Claire joins the law firm of Alexis, Diane and Theo in this Brenda/Dante case. Claire and Theo, a team?
Theo works behind the scenes to wreck everything. He envisions taking bride Brenda on her wedding day.
Brenda and Robin have a chance to be in a scene together, as friends dishin about the men in their lives. For Brenda, its Sonny. For Robin, it seems all about Terrell.
Molly acts up and acts out, scaring Kristina and herself.
Molly does online research about her possible condition.
Convinced shes turning into her Uncle Sonny, Molly seeks his reassurance and enlightenment.
Sonny describes what its like for him to struggle with manic depression, as Molly takes it all in.
Molly loses control of herself following a traffic calamity. Its not MD. Its PTSD.
Steve hits on patient Olivia. The two banter like hormonal high schoolers at a prom.
Siobhan breaks up with Lucky, leaving him high and dry.
Lucky wont be left, just like that. He pursues Siobhan for answers.
Nikolas and Brook Lynn give up the pretense of business, when they kiss.
Sensing Brook Lynn is a threat, Elizabeth tries to drive a wedge between Brook Lynn and Nikolas by dangling baby Aiden around.
Johnny gives Lisa a wry heads-up that Patrick already knows of their partners-in-crime situation.
Patrick finds himself incredibly threatened by Terrell in Robins life. Next, this new doctor is tossing back a few with Robin.
Terrell capitalizes on Robins HIV status and AIDS interest, to get closer. He makes himself look noble to her by volunteering in the AIDS Wing.
As soon as Lisa observes Patrick turning green at Robin with Terrell, she goes in and twists the knife.
On Wednesday, January 19th, all ABC Daytime soaps will be reruns. GHs comes from May 27, 1996, back when Sonny decides to dump his wife Lily to take up with Brenda and Jason couples with Carly in a one-night stand.
Next week:
Sam and Brenda find some common ground when they happen upon the topic of motherhood thwarted. Spinelli joins in their conversation
Spinelli tries to get Carly to not say a word about Dante and Brenda, and babyout of respect for Brenda
Sam and Jason are on the same page about remaining childless, considering Michaels plight
Sam sounds convincing when she talks a good game about remaining without child. But does she mean what she says?... The Balkan prepares minion Dimitri
Lulu feels terrible loss after her breakup with Dante
Maxie is a best friend to Lulu, in the breakup aftermath
Dante attempts to win Lulu back with an opera date
Lulu denies Dante and the opera date
One of the Balkans goons attacks Johnny, rendering him almost inoperable
Lulu nurses Johnny from his recent assault
The Balkan comes after Lulu, with a warning first
Brandon physically manhandles Abby
Michael experiences flashbacks of Carter assaulting him
Jax and Carly spend some lovey-dovey moments together after a separation. Its brief, because then Carly wigs out when Jax says he went to London to save Brenda from Jerrys clutches
Carly makes noise about divorcing Jax
Brook Lynn outwits Elizabeth in the game of love
Tracy advocates for Brook Lynn to keep trying to get Nikolas
Alexis nudges Molly in the right direction, therapy for her PTSD
Kristina and Michael go over the events of the fateful bus crash and what its meant for them
Lulu remains inflexible regarding mercy on Dante
Maxie wonders how Lukes diamonds figure into this photo shoot, and what in the world hes giving them to her for
Tracy might see the inside of a cell for her part in the jewels. Lukes shocked
Ethan puts Maya down for not trying hard enough to make this last. **