Y&R: June 2025 Discussion Thread

[janea4old]

 

Victoria's house (that she long ago lived in with Billy) burned down (I think Aunt Jordan set it ablaze?).
Victoria briefly moved into the ranch after the fire, with Claire, Johnny and Katie, I think?

Mariah and Tessa and baby Aria had been living in the tack house but they bought a house we've never seen and moved there.

Victoria, Claire, and Cole then moved into the tack house as soon as Teriah left.

I guess Victoria's children Johnny and Katie would live with Victoria at the tack house eventually?
But Johnny and Katie went to boarding school during the school year. Not sure if we'll see Johnny and Katie for the summer vacation or where they would live.

Edited yesterday at 01:38 AM by janea4old

[Paul Raven]

Of course, how could I have forgotten those thrilling episodes depicting the fire?

Also we had the GCAC rooftop set that came out every Summer.

Moving on to Friday's episode. Victor is propped in his chair, answers his cell and tells the caller 'Let him in'.

Seconds later Kyle enters. So does Victor have security on the front porch?

It would have been better had Victor taken the call, and then said to himself 'Well Kyle, let's see what you have to say'and fade out. Next scene Kyle enters, indicating that the first call was from the Ranch entrance and time had passed .

Nit picky but I get frustrated when they do stuff like that.

[soapfan770]

Duncan McKechnie Is Mariah’s mystery man….????

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[ranger1rg]

GROSS. Michael Swan was hot back in his ATWT days. Now he's 76 and WAY past his hot years.

 

 

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[janea4old]

https://x.com/JermaineRivers/status/1922782226317529409

 

 

 

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[soapfan770]

I would enjoy it if Swan popped up on BTG as an old one time friend/mentor of Anita’s for a cameo. This is just

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[janea4old]

I think the gross ickiness is Josh Griffith's intention.

At birth, Ian Ward stole Mariah from Sharon, so that Sharon knew only of the Cassie twin and not the Mariah twin.  Sharon gave up Cassie for adoption at birth, never knowing that Mariah existed.
When Ian Ward stole baby Mariah, he had her be raised by a woman member of his cult. She grew up in his cult.

Years later, after Mariah was an adult in Genoa City and had left him, he tried to kidnap her to marry him himself, I sort of remember some icky scenes where he had arranged a wedding, but she escaped or was rescued -- it was so gross that I chose to forget it, and I don't want to look up the details.

Mariah is feeling traumatized/triggered by Ian Ward being in Genoa City several months ago, because he was obsessed with her, and he terrorized her loved ones, interacted with Tessa, and drugged Sharon, which ultimately resulted in the death of Heather -- causing the grief of Daniel and Lucy.

None of that was Mariah's fault. But she was so horrified by what happened, that she feels she did something wrong that caused this hateful villain to continue to obsess about her.  

Based on small comments that Mariah made recently, I think she feels completely worthless.
I gather that when she was away on the business trip a month or two ago, all of what happened with Ian Ward and Heather's death just hit her all at once and she was mentally/emotionally collapsing, and just felt unable to call for help.  During the business trip she sat in her hotel room and spiraled more, feeling more and more worthless and afraid.

Finally she started drinking at a bar, and that's when the creepy old man approached her.  By that point, she wasn't in her right mind, and started interacting with the guy.  Either she thought he was Ian, or she thought he was someone like Ian, and she would be *required* to flirt with him in a role play, and do what he commanded, almost like old programming being reactivated.  Or perhaps just simple self-loathing playing out.

I don't know if the guy actually knew Ian or Jordan, or if he was a random stranger.  But Mariah's fear/loathing/subconscious chaos kicked in. And then... well that's as far as her flashbacks have aired so far. She can't bear to face the rest of whatever it was.  I gather that in the coming episodes, we'll (eventually) find out what happened next as we see more of the icky flashbacks.

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The rest of this post is only my speculation: I think that she felt like she was supposed to have sex with him but didn't want to, and may have tried to kill him instead. Or he r*ped her.  Or they didn't have sex at all, but it's all convoluted in her mind.  Something horrible happened but I don't think it was her fault.  If the man died, maybe she covered it up?  I really don't know, I'm just speculating ideas.

At any rate, I'm totally convinced that this is NOT a conventional "cheating storyline" where someone willingly has sex outside their relationship.

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This is basically Josh Griffith's obsession with dark storylines, creepy villains, and terrible writing of "mental health issues".

Edited 3 hours ago by janea4old

[ranger1rg]

I appreciate your POV and ideas here. I don't, however, trust Josh Griffith to make this anything like a good story. My guess is that much of it will be off-camera and that we'll have to be happy with Mariah retelling the nightmare in bits and pieces.

Meanwhile, Tessa will still be strumming her damn guitar with Daniel. Ugh.

I know I'm negative about this show. I am hate watching with every fiber of my being, and there's nothing about it that's working for me. I never recall Y&R being worse.

[janea4old]

Yeah that's likely the case and it will all be awful.

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