A Critic’s Review of Young and the Restless: Name Game Blame

When it comes to Young and the Restless, 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 Y&R’s week that was.

The Young and the Restless: A Critic’s Week In Review

What’s that you say Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford)? If something doesn’t change for you, you’re going to spin out and start creating a lot of chaos. Girl, don’t you threaten me with a good time! And The Young and the Restless, don’t you tease me with the possibility of a good juicy story – we both know you aren’t going to deliver.

Just look at the travesty that is the Dominic Chancellor *ahem* excuse me, the Dominic Philip Abbott Newman Winters Chancellor saga.

For all of a hot minute I thought we were going to get a canvas encompassing custody battle, and what I got was four days of Abby Carlton Newman Abbott Chancellor (Melissa Ordway) squalling and pouting, Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) making a bad situation worse and Devon Hamilton (Bryton James) haughtily declaring that he’d tried to be fair as fair can be with the aforementioned pair and that they were being deliberately obstinate, and a fifth that culminated in the trio plus Amanda Sinclair (Mishael Morgan) declaring themselves one big happy family.

Swing and a very big miss The Young and the Restless. How can you get things this wrong?

Also, what’s with Devon’s obsession with Dominic carrying on Neil Winters’ legacy and name? Devon was raised by Neil, and he happily rejected the Winters name. Projecting much?

Further Y&R Musings

* Am I the only one hopeful that Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) will tire of Chelsea Lawson’s (Melissa Claire Egan) shenanigans and fire her? As if she’s actually needed at Newman Fashions anyway.

* Did anyone else catch Rey Rosales’s (Jordi Vilasuso) visceral reaction to seeing Sharon Rosales (Sharon Case) lay her hand upon Nicholas Newman (Joshua Morrow)? Trouble is assuredly afoot.

* Nick hiring Noah Newman (Rory Gibson) to work at New Hope with absolutely no idea what he will do there is truly emblematic of The Young and the Restless’s storytelling style.

* The one thing that no one wants to hear immediately after they’ve proposed marriage is, “I can’t…there’s something that I have to tell you.” Could Mariah Copeland (Camyrn Grimes) have been any more cryptic?

The Young and the Restless (YR) airs weekdays on CBS. Check your local listings for airtimes. For more about what’s coming up in Genoa City, check out all the latest that’s been posted on Y&R spoilers, and for an in-depth look at the show’s history, click here.

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