A Critic’s Review Of B&B: The Right Side And Sabotage

When it comes to The Bold and the Beautiful, every fan has their own opinion – and Soap Hub is no different. For five days, we sat and watched the good, the bad, and everything in between, and now we offer you a handy review and a cheeky critique of B&B’s week that was.

The Bold and the Beautiful: The Critic’s POV

Far be it for me to play armchair headwriter (I already did that in last week’s column), but I’m fairly certain that Finn (Tanner Novlan) just signed his own death warrant. At least if the good doctor does get snuffed he’ll go down on the right side of history. #JusticeForEmmaBarber and all that. And let me tell you something Thomas (Matthew Atkinson) apologist: He did kill Emma.

Sure, he didn’t take a gun and shoot her, and he maybe didn’t actually ram into the back of her car and send her careening down that hill, but Emma is dead as a direct result of Thomas’s actions prior to her car accident and the inaction he showed afterward.

Don’t believe me? Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) sure seemed to agree, or else he wouldn’t have worked so hard to shield Thomas from the police’s inquiry — and don’t forget that he’s well aware that his son was tailgating Emma and that he moseyed on after she crashed into the ravine and that Thomas deleted his vehicle’s tracking history.

(That action in and of itself proves that Thomas did wrong and that he knows it.)

Then again, Ridge isn’t exactly someone you should listen to. After all, on Friday’s airshow he put forth the argument that amounted to “Well, Thomas hasn’t done anything bad in a long time, therefor he must be fine and dandy and we should all forgive and forget past actions.” Um, Ridge, sweetie, the past will bear out that there were multiple passages of time between Thomas’s more psychotic episodes.

Further B&B Musings

* Despite my fervent hope that this particular plot point would be abandoned midstream like so many before it, B&B seems bound and determined to press on with giving Bill (Don Diamont) yet another bastard offspring. I guess it was storyline so nice they have to do it thrice. Because it certainly didn’t lose its punch the second go around.

* If there’s one thing I could do without in regard to the revisitation of Emma’s death, it’s the obviousness of the writers intent to sabotage the Sinn marriage and pave the way for a Finn/Hope (Annika Noelle) pairing.

The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS. For an in-depth look at the show’s history, click here.