Secrets Are the New Couture: The Bold and the Beautiful Two Scoops for the Week of June 15th

The Bold and the Beautiful has become a game of secrets, with everyone seemingly terrified of hurting someone's feelings by telling the truth. However, despite lies being handed out like candy on Halloween, Sheila Carter made her long-awaited return, and this new version of Sheila may be slightly sweeter, but she's just as sinister. It's time to break it all down, Two Scoops style.

Everyone Needs to Stop Lying

The fallout may be worse than the truth ever would have been | Image: CBS

The lying has to stop. Everyone at Logan has developed an allergy to honesty, and they've become entirely incapable of telling the truth. So many of Katie's (Heather Tom) problems could have been easily solved if she had been forthcoming from the start. The need to sneak around and keep all of her decisions shrouded in mystery is making the fallout so much worse. While it's true that Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) would likely still take issue with Hope (Annika Noelle) jumping ship and working for the enemy, it would ease everyone's anxiety if they simply came clean.

It's not just Katie and Hope who are being forced to lie either, which is what makes the situation more complicated for everyone. People like Donna (Jennifer Gareis) and Will (Crew Morrow) have been made complicit in the deception, even if it's the last thing they want to do. Donna goes home to Eric (John McCook) every single night and has to keep a massive secret from her husband because Katie doesn't want to go to war with her big sister. Will, on the other hand, finally reconciled with Electra (Laneya Grace), and now his mother is risking his entire relationship by forcing him to keep quiet about anything and everything concerning the future of Logan.

The New Sheila Is More Dangerous

Sheila found a way to make Taylor do her dirty work | Image: CBS

Welcome back, Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown). One of the most puzzling decisions in recent memory was the choice to sideline Sheila immediately following Deacon (Sean Kanan) and Taylor's (Rebecca Budig) affair coming to light. In theory, it made sense for Sheila to sulk in silence and sit in the shadows until she was ready to reemerge, but it would have been nice to keep her as a constant presence on the canvas. However, she finally made her long-awaited return last week, and it couldn't have gone any better. Deacon and Taylor may have expected the sinister Sheila to return and immediately resort to violence to get what she wanted, but instead they were met with a far more cunning version of her, one who played the ultimate card to pull their strings and get exactly what she wanted.

Sheila could have resorted back to the way she used to be and the way everyone expected her to behave, but this time, instead of completely blowing up her life, she found an opening to make it better. Using the divorce papers as leverage to get Taylor to facilitate an opening for her to become close to Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Hayes was a stroke of genius. Taylor is now forced to make it make sense to Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) why she's advocating on Sheila's behalf. Taylor has been cornered into championing the same woman who, decades earlier, fired a bullet into her, and that may be the most humiliating punishment of all.