Why, Bold & Beautiful? Why? The Twist We All Saw Coming From a Mile Away… and You Still Wouldn’t Let Us Look Away No Matter How Hard We Tried!
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How many ways can we say to The Bold and the Beautiful that we want to love it? We really, really do. Hell, we often have loved it — back when queen bee Stephanie was going scorched-earth on Brooke for sleeping her way up and down the Forrester family tree, when the OG Sally was bending the rules for those who weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouth, when the show first played the “I can’t tell who I’m [bleeping]!” storyline with a masked Brooke and Oliver.
Visit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGEBut now… Lord. WTH are we supposed to make of Ridge dumping Brooke for idiotically trying to get his company back by accepting the CEO position at said company post-coup, immediately jumping into a committed relationship with perennial runner-up Taylor, going so far as to accept her proposal of marriage, and then… oof. Breaking the engagement because Brooke made a splash while overseas.
Ridge isn’t a romantic hero, he’s a heel. Utterly despicable. If he has any spine at all, it’s made of whipped cream. And Taylor… heaven help us, we have wanted better for her than him throughout her run, whether she’s been played by Hunter Tylo, Krista Allen or Rebecca Budig. For a world-renowned psychiatrist, she demonstrates a stunning lack of self-awareness.
And Brooke… aw. What are you doing? You say that you and Ridge are “destiny,” yet you shrug it off every time he kicks you to the curb. And, as with Taylor, he does that rather a lot. Nick nailed it when he said that you deserve better.
Viewers do, too.
There is no one here for whom we can root. Ridge is a horror, a babyman who hands out his heart like tycoons do their business cards and just expects everyone to accept that… well, that’s the way it’s always been and therefore always will be. (Spoiler alert: It doesn’t have to be that way!)
Taylor… she’s supposedly brilliant. Nevertheless, she keeps banging her head against a brick wall, telling herself for reasons that are altogether unclear to the audience that this time, this time, by God, it will be different. (Spoiler alert: It will not be different.)
And Brooke… Please. We get that she’s a passion’s plaything who never falls halfway in love. But how many times does she have to get punched in the heart by Ridge before she realizes that he might not be all that… or even some of that?
What are we doing here, Bold & Beautiful, aside from distracting viewers from the fact that Luna plans to use her rape baby to stay out of prison? Do better — as you have before and can again. In the meantime, brace yourselves for what lies ahead via our newly expanded fall preview photo gallery below.
