i had no idea this scene was coming...i missed out on previews/spoilers.  i have to say it was an awesome surprise & a nice way to end the work week.  not to mention, somewhat hot.  these 2 actress are doing an AWES job w/this.  it feels real, & that is something that i haven't felt on cable tv (other than showtime & logo).  let me say that when she said "get me out of these clothes" my mouth dropped & i got butterflies in my tummy.  i'm sure plenty of people will write in about the scene, but it was so tasteful & a lot hotter than erica & adam hookin up (just puked in my mouth). 

i don't want this relationship to fade away. 

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After the HUG HELLO when Reese was first introduced, I wasn't expecting much from this show.  But I've been pleasantly surprised since.  A major thing to point out is that Bianca has had more action in these past two weeks than she had in the entire 6-7 years prior.  I think that's some progress. I thought the lead-up-to-sex scene was pretty good, but it's true the "after" was too "blink-and-you'll-miss-it brief." 

But aside from the "sex scenes," what's been striking to me about Reese/Bianca is the little things that seem more unconscious: the kiss goodbye or the hands around each other's waist--things that AMC used to go out of it's way to avoid.  It's no longer the "A Frame" (Karmen's term regarding Spashley--kissing but no bodies touching) that they used to have all the time, which was always to awkward to watch.

I guest what I'm trying to say: For network TV, it was good but not great (Although, I agree, the "get these clothes off" line was HOT.)  But for AMC, it was a big step forward. 

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I love Reese and Bianca! They are so natural together, its believable and there is a lot more affection (as in touching) than I can ever remember before. I honestly think that Bianca has been kissed more in the last two weeks than she was in the five years she was a regular character!! Eden has always been superb as Bianca, and Tamara is doing an amazing job too. We have to remember that this is still a daytime soap, and I think its been great so far.

I also don't like the way Zack seems to be a focus of everything with them. I did think that maybe he would want to gain custody of Gabrielle, as it was mentioned that he wanted him and Kendell to have another child, hopefully a girl to make their family complete... I thought, CUSTODY BATTLE!! Afterall, who would a judge give custody to? A lesbian couple, or a married couple with two children??

God, I hope there won't be a love triangle with Reese, Zack and Bianca.. No, No, No!! Tamara was asked if Reese has always been gay, and she said everyone has a past, it is a soap afterall..

Isn't it funny how abc seem willing to move forward with their daytime programmes, but be so antiquated and scared at primetime...

That is a really good point, I hope you're right. Maybe Bianca will encourage Reese to contact her parents..

Soaps have a reputation for being risque, but they don't actually show anything for the most part. It seems to me that Reese and Bianca are being allowed to go about as far as anyone else is, which I think is great.

As for Reese's "coming out to her parents" storyline, it's pretty timely right now, I would say. Erica may be a little dubious that Reese is good enough for her Bianca, but she is supportive of their relationship and even their marriage. Reese's family, not so much. Sound like anything else going on these days?

I've been watching soaps since I was a kid, and all of the sudden, I'm crying like a baby, ever since Reese came to town. 

Soaps are all about fantasy: fantasy jobs, fantasy clothes, fantasy houses, fantasy weddings, fantasy lovers. Ordinarily I mock such things and make fun of the silly heterosexuals and their shenanigans (What? I have no life.), but I totally fell for the manipulation today. I was all, "I want a girlfriend to do all my chores and rub my feet/calves while looking at me adoringly!" And then, "Maybe if I buy some heavily scented soap like the one they are advertising right now, I will get a hot girlfriend who will build me a house and practically beg me to marry her!"

I've really got to get to the grocery store first thing tomorrow...

The Bianca/Lena scene - known in some circles as the "grapefruit scrub scene - was considered very, very risky and risque at the time. What really got folks worked up was a scene before that where it was made clear that Bianca went to Lena's to get laid. Apparently there was all kinds of agnst about putting that on air.

As for the thing with Zach, after today I'm not worried about them hooking up. It's pretty clear that he reminds her of her father who she misses terribly. In the scene toward the end when he finds her crying, in 99.99999% of the time she would have ended up sobbing on his manly shoulder. This time though, she brushed him off and went back to her bedroom - where she belonged.

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Even though I would have also liked to see the beginning of their romance, I am glad they didn't focus on it. Because let's not forget that Eden has only signed for a 4 month contract so it would have sucked to see the beginning of their relationship so that later we would just see them leave together (kinda like what happened with Maggie) to Paris.  They would have also been less affectionate because the relationship would just be developing. The way it is now has them in a full relationship which is a nice change because Bianca never really had a stable one.

We are finally going to have a stable lesbian relationship being developed in daytime television, which can only be a good thing.

There was a scene with two women in bed on daytime tv a few years ago. I know Passions is less loved around here. And certainly none of its characters were developed as well as All My Children and the show isn't done quite as well because Passions was such camp. (But that's really why I loved it!)

A few years ago--summer of 2005, I believe--Simone on Passions came out. She was revealed to be a lesbian when she visited her girlfriend, Rae. At the end of her coming out episode, Rae took off her robe, crawled into bed with Simone, and kissed her for 2.3 seconds. Still, with the (daytime implied) nudity and the kiss, it was clear the two women were going to have sex. There may have been another scene with them lying around in bed afterwards, but I don't remember.

All this was before Simone got a bunch of lesbians from a gay bar in Rome to defeat the evil Alistar and his minions, who were trying to steal the holy grail so he could have its power. God, I miss that show.

this helped. A lot. 

Great to see Bianca reasonably soap opera happy for a change. And while I am still very much in pretend love with Maggie (Liz....mmmhmmm!), I would gladly help Reese get out of those clothes. Yowza!

Well done, AMC! Now if you can just stop with all the lesbian baby-having and zarfs and rapes, we may be on the road to wellness with ol' Bincs!