Y&R and B&B Early 2022 spoilers

[soapfan770]

First up, Y&R:

Goodbye Y&R it was nice knowing you. What a disaster.

Next up is B&B:

 

 

Edited December 27, 2021 by soapfan770

[Darn]

Y&R reads like bad fanfic. The type of fanfic where the writer is averse to conflict and just wants every character to be happy and complacent in their own little bubble. Where's the drama? Where are the stakes? Where is the plot?

[Vee]

Another set of spoilers that make Noah sound gay, or am I crazy?

[Khan]

You're crazy, and you're right.

Josh Griffith really needs (professional) help.

[Faulkner]

I don’t understand why Y&R’s ratings don’t drop *now* of all times when they have in the past. Even people at home due to the pandemic doesn’t quite explain it. It’s holding up much better in the demos than many of its (relatively more entertaining) competitors, so it can’t just be an excess of grannies who don’t know how to work the clicker. It’s actually embarrassing reading those “spoilers,” and I can’t imagine who would be excited by them. Maybe it’s just comfort food? Ambient TV? Familiar faces like Eric Braeden keeping folks company? It’s odd. But they have zero incentive to make changes with the ratings they have.

Why would they make Sally and Chelsea adversaries? Don’t put your bad girls all in one corner. Mix them up with the heroines—Abby, Sharon, Victoria, Lily. Even Phyllis made some sense as a rivalry with Sally, but they’ve dropped that.

[AbcNbc247]

I see Carter/Katie is as over and done with as Finn/Paris are

[Liberty City]

I wholeheartedly believe it's a CBS payola.

[kalbir]

Expecting lots of garbage time, yuck.

Edited December 28, 2021 by kalbir

[LondonScribe]

After 31 years (give or take a few years gap due to international broadcasting rights) I said farewell to Y&R this year. Not just because of how dry it is, but mainly because the incentive is simply not there to make the needed changes.

Edited December 28, 2021 by LondonScribe

[DaytimeFan]

B&B sounds lightyears better than Y&R.

I have been able to watch the soaps over the last few days and Y&R is so dull and lifeless - compare any episode from the 90s to what’s on the air and you would not think they are the same show. It is in a major holding pattern.

[Antoyne]

Jesus Y&R sounds so uninteresting. I normally just watch it as background noise when I’m working from home. 

[Khan]

And, like so many others have brilliantly said, Y&R isn't suffering too badly in the ratings, so TPTB feel they can just coast on this boring b.s. instead of giving the show the shakeup it BADLY needs.

[Vee]

I feel like that's at least half the story on their current ratings. There's always been an element of that with soaps in the daytime of course, with people working in the home, but now more than ever.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Vee

[victoria foxton]

I don't normally watch Y&R. But i was channel surfing the other day. All i saw were characters having boring polite conversations. In empty businesses. 

[Khan]

At this point, I'd even welcome a serial killer storyline.  Anything to get this show moving again.