Y&R: May 2025 Discussion Thread

[DaytimeFan]

Not that I want to defend Y&R's writers, but it's not as absurd as you'd think and I believe they plucked it from reality (and then bungled it).

The Estee Lauder Companies purchased Tom Ford's brand several years ago and I am willing to bet that's how Jabot came to buy Marchetti.

[Paul Raven]

Do we believe that Jabot is at the level of Estee Lauder??

I am on board with Jabot deciding to expand but the way it was handled was ridiculous. Jabot just decided and bingo, that was that. Not months of negotiations and decisions about how it would fit into the Jabot portfolio.

And then no follow through.

Josh thinks he's serving business stories by characters sitting around and discussing mergers, takeovers and job switching.

Now we have Audra setting up her own company -Vibrator or something. Well, why not? You don't need staff, office space or even products.

[ranger1rg]

All true, and all an enormous problem on this show.

-- The business stories are maddening because none of it makes any sense, none of it has any connection to the real world. As you said, sitting around and discussing mergers, takeovers, and job switching is not a storyline.

-- The deck chairs are constantly rearranged on the Titanic -- that's what this show is.

Summer, Chelsea, Sally, and Chloe have been in design for how long? And we've never seen ANYTHING from them. Carrying around an iPad isn't enough. BOLD is terrible, but at least they show us dresses from Kohls and jewelry from Amazon.

-- I know it's baked into the DNA of the show, but I will never enjoy seeing Jabot and Newman treat each other as if no other companies exist in the entire world. A new magical line of cosmetics is not going to bring down a company like Jabot.

-- This is a writing problem, not a budget problem. An enormous amount of cash is not needed to write compelling business stories and show real products. This is writer LAZINESS.