Early evening soap-opera 'Goldenrod' returns to Channel Tickler with chef Joe Aponte (played by veteran Portuguese character actor Luís Miguel Cintra) cauterizing the emotional tragedy of a childhood spent on Long Island watching NY Islanders games from between the swaying knees of ladies in bars called Mynx's Cabaret and Forbidden Fruit. Everything appears to be going to plan until a batch of over-fermented squash blossom sorbet reacts strangely with milkweed thistle frond tempura. Darkness descends, a customer wails that the shaved bluestone is getting stuck in his gizzard; and Joe is on his knees, brandishing his reamer like a pirate's cutlass, howling into the scenery with all the aplomb of Charlton Heston in Soylent Green. Just as in Episode 32, when Katie Phelan was inadvertently slow-rendered into tallow and moulded into candles, 'Goldenrod' earns its chops as the ultimate dreadnought cliffhanger, wetting the lips of audiences up and down the Little Delaware.