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The Bold and the Beautiful served up a week dripped in ageism, to the point that it was uncomfortable to watch. A son treated his father like a fragile museum exhibit that needed to be handled with white gloves. Family loyalty proved entirely optional this week, and not only was age weaponized, but someone delivered a killer confession that nobody asked for, wanted, or needed. Plus, Brooke forgot she had any family not named Ridge, completely turning her back on both sisters in the name of holding onto destiny. By the end of the week, it was hard not to feel like even with Luna gone, the soap had fully lost the plot.
Ridge and Brooke deliver peak narcissism on The Bold and the Beautiful
Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) always place themselves on a pedestal above everyone else. However, this week it seemed to reach new levels of insufferable, and they wreaked havoc amongst their closest family members. The first instance was with Katie (Heather Tom), and Brooke did not have her back like a true sister. In fact, the way Brooke spoke to Katie didn't give off the vibe that they had any kind of relationship. Not only was Katie completely overlooked and disregarded, but Brooke blindly sided with her precious Ridge, without even attempting to hear Katie out. That was strike one for the pair.
Strike two against the couple of destiny came when Brooke made Donna (Jennifer Gareis) feel incredibly small for standing up for her husband, Eric (John McCook). It looks like it's completely fine for Brooke to do Ridge's bidding and be his mouthpiece, but if anyone else sticks up for their significant other (Donna, Bill), it's a problem. What even is Brooke's role at the company? While it's easy to understand that Brooke may fear Ridge will waffle back to Taylor (Rebecca Budig) if she doesn't stay in line, her sisters have been nothing but loyal to her. The same cannot be said for her, and her previous trysts with Bill (Don Diamont) are glaring examples of that.
The third and final strike, potentially the most egregious of all, came when Ridge surprised Eric with a forced retirement. He put his father on the spot in the middle of the CEO's office, in front of all their friends and family, and told him that he had no choice but to retire. Where are Eric's other children? Have they been consulted on this? Why does Ridge get to act like the judge, jury, and Old Yeller-style executioner toward his father? It was gross. It was unacceptable. The storyline reeks of ageism, and Ridge and Brooke need to take some time to reflect on the way they treat others.
The lunacy of Dylan's confession
In the wise words of Sabrina Carpenter, "Please, Please, Please," let the show move on from Luna (Lisa Yamada). Enough is enough. She dominated the entire canvas while alive, and somehow she's doing the same in death. It's time to let sleeping dogs lie and find a way out of the trenches that her storyline put the show into. There was absolutely no need for Dylan (Sydney Bullock) to be inserted back into the storyline. Her arc wasn't exactly leaving anyone clamoring for her long-awaited return, and if she was going to make a comeback, this was the most poorly executed way to accomplish it.
Dylan admitted to Electra (Laneya Grace) that she had already spoken to the police and was cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of Luna. It could have started and stopped in that design office. Instead, viewers were forced to sit through Will (Crew Morrow) and Electra trotting Luna's "killer" to Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Finn's (Tanner Novlan) house for the most cringeworthy confession in recent memory. It's difficult to grasp the overall point of the plot twist. She isn't going to jail, and she didn't commit the murder in cold blood. There's nowhere to go with it from here, so it was days of meaningless scenes.
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Once the PR nightmare situation, which likely only exists to create angst between Brooke and Katie, finally reaches a conclusion, Luna's name should cease to exist. Unless there are plans to bring back Lisa Yamada to reinsert Luna back into the story somehow, there's no good reason to continue mentioning her. There are other storylines desperate to have a chance to reach their full potential, but the series is stuck on Luna and is having a surprisingly hard time pulling out of the hole it dug for itself.
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