A Critic’s Review Of Y&R: Musical Jobs And Love Triangles

When it comes to The 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: The Critic Offers HIS Take

Compared to what came before it, this was an exceptionally ho-hum week. The non-story that is Tucker’s (Trevor St. John) vengeance took up much too much screen time and only served to remind that, despite the countless weeks and months we’ve invested in waiting for something, anything to happen, the scriptwriters have stuck to the rote routine that is Tucker moving from set to set making (idle?) threat, hollering about this and that, insulting (admittedly insufferable) Kyle (Michael Mealor) and/or propositioning Audra (Zuleyka Silver). (Read more about that here).

Equally off-putting is the continued focus on musical jobs. Not only is Chance (Conner Floyd) packing in his work with the GCPD and casting his gaze up the corporate ladder, but Billy (Jason Thompson) is seriously considering jumping ship and joining Jill (Jess Walton) at Chancelor-Winters. UGH!

And then there’s the futile attempt at constructing a series of love triangles between the likes of Lily/Daniel/Heather (by virtue a love triangle has to include three people, and Lily is very definitely absent), Summer/Chance/Sharon (are Chance and Sharon even a real couple?), and Christine/Danny/Phyllis (Danny has no romantic interest in Phyllis whatsoever, not that he should, so what’s the point?), and trying to convince me to reinvest in Sally (Courtney Hope) and Adam’s (Mark Grossman) romance. That ship has long since sailed.

Further Y&R Musings

* Go Michael (Christian Le Blanc)! It’s nice to see him continuously refuse to kowtow and blindly obey The Great Victor Newman (Eric Braeden)

* Poor, poor Abby (Melissa Ordway). A Newman in name only consigned to serve as Devon’s talk to and protector of Daniel and Lily’s coupling.

* What a missed opportunity to delineate just how much more than a “good friend” Neil Winters was to Victoria (Amelia Heinle). After all, he and Victoria were engaged to be married, and he intended to raise Eve Nicole as his own.

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

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