Y&R: April 2025 Discussion Thread

[Longtime Viewer]

I've been enjoying this whole storyline with Traci and creepy Martin, and I haven't really been invested in a y&r storyline in ages, so that's saying something.

[Tisy-Lish]

Does anyone have ideas how this Martin/Alan/Traci plot is going to play out?  Do we already have the answer?  Or is there going to be a twist at the end?  It has been so predictable since day-one, I sort of hope there will be a surprise ending and the audience has been wrong all along. 

[ReddFoxx]

Bergman, Davidson and Maitland are amazing at playing siblings. 

[Wendy]

So, there are two Jack Abbot(t)s on TV now, apparently. I was watching The Pitt, and actor Shawn Hatosy is playing Dr. Jack Abbot! (Although some write ups spell it as Abbott.)

I just find the coincidence amusing. Trying to think of any other daytime/prime time characters with the same name but am failing. By the way, if you're into realistic medical dramas [per doctors and nurses that have watched], The Pitt may be the new show for you.

Edited April 11 by Wendy

[Taoboi]

Amen.

[ranger1rg]

Do Kyle and Claire ever do anything but go for coffee at Crimson Lights?

[soapfan770]

 

Double amen here…they were amazing this week and definitely the highlight 

Josh Griffith’s way of telling a G-rated (or TVY7?) “love” on a show that was once historically sexy. 

[Tisy-Lish]

This head-writer has no idea how to write a romance.  And seems to have absolutely no interest in writing any type of long-term romantic plot.  Characters change romantic partners, and characters change jobs at billion-dollar companies -- ad nauseam.  It's all willy-nilly with no purpose, and with no long-term effect on anything.   Big YAWN...

[Antoyne]

There’s such an easy and believable chemistry between them all.

[ranger1rg]

-- I said this before: Audra is an absolute moron for again going into business with Victor. We're told repeatedly how great a business guru she is, yet she goes into business with a guy who destroyed her. I have whiplash from all the times Audra's character has changed.

-- Victor himself is stupid for hiring Audra to break up Insipid Kyle and Amish Claire. He'd be better off hiring someone no one knows.

[kalbir]

Kyle and Claire love scenes were not off the charts heat generating.

[soapfan770]

Somehow we forced to accept this drivel because for whatever reason Griffith didn’t want Audra and Summer on a collision course.

 

Pretty much…not to mention unlike ZS or AL who at least have passion, HE has the chemistry of a cold wet sock the way Claire is written too. 

[CrazySexyQ]

Third or maybe fourth Amen.

Maitland is the heart of the show for me. I wish Tracy could get a decent romance. 

 

Claire/Kyle are a snooze. She needs some spark of a personality. 

Edited April 12 by CrazySexyQ

[Paul Raven]

The Claire character from inception has been a misfire,

Did Victoria need another child when she has nothing to do with those she already had?

Cole has disappeared.

Reed could have returned or  if we wanted a new character to mix it up with the Newmans have Matt return to announce he has discovered a daughter. Matt brings her to GC and then is tragically killed. 'Claire' joins her newfound family.

[Paul Raven]

Beth stated in an interview that they are still taping 5 eps in 4 days, which has been the practice for a few years now. But good to have that clarification as I was worried they might have gone further.

So that averages out at an extra 9-10 minutes each day which should be manageable considering that episodes are shorter these days than previously.

I would love to know the daily routine as it seems there is one rehearsal and then taping.

BITD I think there was  a read through, camera blocking, dress rehearsal and taping.