Y&R: October 2017 Discussion Thread

[DeeeDee]

Y&R doesn't care about Lauren outside of Michael/Lauren. She'll share an occasional scene with Paul but that's it.

[Jerry675]

Has anyone on the show even mentioned that Sheila is alive and well in Los Angeles?

[Soapsuds]

Lawd the actor that plays Graham is awful. He may have great looks but damn he can't act.

[ajsp35801]

JM is struggling with this story. He's seeming more and more ill at ease as days go by. When he was talking to Sharon, his line delivery was just unnatural. He's better than this. Gotta be the story. 

[DeeeDee]

And still no signs of Alice. Sloppy.

[Soaplovers]

 

This is a major problem with the show, and the other soaps, the pacing is off.  Has there been any follow up since the accident at all?  It seems like the show will focus on one plot for two weeks or so.. then it gets to a certain place in story and it falls to the background while another plot takes over... and this happens doing important moments that require follow up

[ajsp35801]

Didn't Sharon say Alice was fine the other day when talking Tessa and Mariah? 

[edgeofnik]

 

Which is a huge miss on the show. Lauren is the perfect Y&R character - legacy from the Jabot-intro era, relevant ties to everyone in town, grown-up bad girl, who is warm/loving/rarely weak, intelligent, solid career, etc. And Tracey has always had that 'it' thing - she just connects and I've never seen her phone it in.  Lauren can be dropped into almost any storyline. In fact, Lauren and Jack should Hilary's mentors and friends. 

 

DIna's story is resonating. Monday's POP ratings just released:

 

129    YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, T    POP    7:00 PM    60    0.06    518

 

Keep in mind, while down from Friday, last Monday's show did not even make the cable Top 150. 

[DeeeDee]

 

She told them that she and Scott went to visit Alice in the hospital but she'd disappeared.

 

+1. The one thing I've always disliked in the post-Alden years is the need to retcon history for agendas.

 

Take the current Ashley story for example. Traci & Jack tell Abby her Mom has had a single nervous breakdown as if she only experienced the one.

 

Ashley is a strong character but she's always been unable to deal with stressful emotional situations. She either breaks down or runs away. Instead of Y&R writing to that, they have her screaming & becoming violent.

 

Lauren lost any worth when Y&R decided to use her to prop Kevin. All of her previous history was trashed so Y&R could turn her into his number one supporter.

 

Why would a woman who had intimate knowledge of what it felt like to be terrorized AND BURIED ALIVE by a sexual predator suddenly decide a serial pedophile was infinitely redeemable? Exactly.

[Soapsuds]

Eileen Davidson and Beth Maitland will be LIVE on Facebook tomorrow at 2pm ET / 11am PT.  Any questions log in to Facebook and post them under the Y&R facebook feed under Eileen and Beth's picture.

[Ponds]

 

 

I think he plays smarmy to a tee!

[DramatistDreamer]

In those hospital scenes, the first thing I thought of was how unfortunate that Olivia wasn't there.

[slick jones]

Or Nate. Instead we get  random dayplayer. I hate to say it, but I would have settled for Barton or Stitch, though Olivia was my first thought as well.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Stitch and Barton two crossed my mind, although Barton was treated as if he were little more than a dayplayer himself (did we ever see him outside of the hospital?), I admit that Nate didn't because I was thinking of the relationship between Ashley and Olivia, and if Olivia were the chief of staff, how poignant those scenes might have been with Olivia stuck between observing hospital protocol and loyalty to a dear friend with those scenes where, no doubt, she'd be forced to referee between Ashley, the Abbotts and Graham. 

 

ED, BM and even PB did a good job but it could've been even more intense had Olivia been trapped in the middle trying to do her job and keep order in the hospital, while trying to comfort her friend.

[Jerry675]

Love Olivia but her wigs got really bad ca. 2008