The Young and the Restless

A soap opera I started watching as a young, out of work, married girl back in 1973. Back then it was the Young and the Beautiful and the story lines were interesting and it sucked you right in. Now - some 30 Plus years later I can't say the same thing.

Since I can't sleep because my mind is racing with other issues - I'm blogging about the only thing I can that is truly PISSING ME OFF. YnR........

You only have to be a fan of Any soap I am sure to appreciate my frustration. I mean - if this is supposed to make you relate - it doesn't and if it's supposed to make you escape - the only thing I want to escape from IS this soap. Thank God for my DVR and the fast-forward button. (Not to mention close caption so you can understand Victor Newman when he speaks)

So - this will be my open letter to the writers (?) of The Young and the Restless........WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? Are you all eating bowls of stupid? How much more insulting story lines can you serve up? How many more times will you have the Cluster fuck kids being duped by fake FBI agents (CIA, Police, whatever) drawn into something shady that ends up with a bag/suitcase full of $100,000 or more? Isn't that storyline getting tired yet? Will these kids (Amber, Daniel, Jana, Kevin) EVER get to grow up and even resemble the successful adults they are - when they aren't involved in these tired story lines? Do the young teens you are trying to seduce into watching over summer breaks REALLY buy into this crap? Now the young Abby (who suddenly is a young adult) is a true version of today's SPOILED, self-absorbed, obnoxious brat. STRIKE . But I guess you can do an episode next year and she can be a "Bridezilla" - combine two shows in one with that one. Score!

OK - so what is up with the returning mystery daughter of Paul - the super assistant DA, Heather Stevens. Super girl. Nothing believable about this character and everything that makes me gag. Someone that gullible would never have made it thru law school. Maybe the writers should give her some of her Father's good instinct. What a drone. And can we get Genoa City another policeman? Come one - we have only ONE ?? I'm sure other soaps have at least two. Strike.

And speaking of returning daughters. What about returning sisters - sisters who have had plastic surgery and no one recognizes. Where has this mystery sister been all these years writers? The Williams are such a close family - WTF??? Strike.

There was a good opening a year or so back - before you REPLACED Colleen with the current actress, to address a storyline that hasn't been addressed since the soap came on the air - and that storyline was about a young woman who WAS NOT a size zero - who was of a fuller body - not fat by any standards except TV and Movies. A real life young woman with real insecurities - shy and believable. No - you replace her with another self-assured, spoiled young - size zero - woman who is overtaking the board room at Newman. Strike.

Now what can I say about the Newman storyline(s). Victor - able to suddenly father a child - at what - 70?? This man is shooting blanks for Gods sake! Maybe he could have gotten a lucky shot with the young wife last year, but Ashley? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Let's be generous and say she is only in her late 30's. NOT. Do we really have to go thru another Ashley losing her mind because she lost her baby and doesn't realize it and has a fake pregnancy storyline - AGAIN? STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE. Send her back to the Bold and the Beautiful with her obnoxious daughter.

Sharon and Nick. VOMIT. Sharon is a cheating wife. Did everyone forget that? That sappy, needy whore has been with as many men as her handsome husband has been with women. Sharon should have gone over the cliff in stead of Dru and we could have ended this on-going same old star-crossed lover-high-school sweetheart bullshit. AND we wouldn't have had to suffer thru the rebound romance Neil had with Karen and now the sudden affair with the mystery "Aunt" (who isn't a real aunt but is adopted, of course) But I digress.....back to the Newman fiasco. My girl Phyllis deserves a man with balls - not Nick Newman. Time for Sharon and Nick move on to wherever the Brooks and Williams families disappeared to. Or better yet - let's get Phyllis a REAL man - KILL Sharon for real so she can't come back from the dead - and make Nick Newman bitter and crazy because he screwed up Phyllis' life.

Or, maybe it's time to bring back some of the original bloodlines because the present ones are getting really THIN......

Again - God Bless my DVR.