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The Bold and the Beautiful delivered one of its most hilarious weeks in many months. A prison guard forgot the basics of her job, leading to the laundry cart escape that was heard around the world. Two sisters spent the week arguing as if they'd never spent any time together before, and Forrester's showroom became an American Idol audition stage, serving as the soundtrack for a manhunt that boggled the imagination. By the end of the week, the chaos made the show almost unrecognizable and, somehow, part of a new genre.
The Guard, The Lunatic, and the Laundry Cart
Frustration doesn't even begin to cover the feelings of watching the prison guard completely fumble every part of her job. Luna (Lisa Yamada) practically drew a step-by-step of her escape plan, and the guard had not one singular inkling of what she was cooking up. First, the guard let her use her phone, and although that was the previous week, it led to what occurred this week. Somehow, the guard turned her back long enough for a known killer to dive into a laundry cart and vanish off prison property. HOW?
There wasn't a single alarm, second glance, or anything until Luna had already made her way to Will's (Crew Morrow) beach house. Nobody thought the laundry cart was much heavier than normal? There was zero effort into making this make sense, and it felt like a jumbled mess filled with plot holes to get Luna to Will with no logic factored in. If this prison guard is the standard of all guards on this show, nobody will ever face any consequences for their actions. Although it's not as if anyone ever gets sentenced to real prison time anyway.
The laundry cart escape was the most unrealistic direction Luna's story could've taken, but that didn't stop the writers from making it happen. The show actually expected viewers to believe that nobody noticed a significantly heavier laundry cart make its way out of a "well-secured" prison. It was peak chaos for this show, and it was just another example of the show throwing things at the wall with no forethought of the ramifications. It was impossible not to look at the television screen and question what this formerly beloved soap had become.
Have The Bold and the Beautiful's Li and Poppy ever met each other before?
Li (Naomi Matsuda) and Poppy (Romy Park) take sibling rivalry to an entirely new level. While their animosity has been established, and it makes sense to an extent, it's nonstop. Every time these two share a scene, they act like it's the first time they've ever interacted. This week was much of the same; the same insults, the same facial expression, and the same emotional wounds ripped open like their own personal Groundhog Day. Every argument between the two is the same, and it's clear that they wish the other didn't exist. Although their snarky comments are peak television, this week felt like the worst case of deja vu.
The sisters talk and shout in circles, and their accusations also go around and around with no resolution. By the end of this week, they were back to where they started. Their fights are entertaining, but there's no forward movement in their association, so it's feeling stagnant. In the earlier parts of the week, they faced off over Poppy's highly inappropriate relationship with her adoptive nephew, Finn (Tanner Novlan), which resulted in the conception of Luna. Li's not wrong. However, that doesn't change the fact that she's been singing the same song and dancing the same dance since the moment she found out. What does Poppy have to do for her sister to give her just the smallest amount of grace, or at least baseline respect?
Luna's death could've served as a way to unite the sisters together, but nope, it was more of the same repetitive tension between the two. Li was wholeheartedly disgusted by Poppy's cold reaction to her daughter's death. After what Luna did to Poppy, framing her for murder, it's not too hard to understand why she wouldn't be crying her eyes out. Even so, Li expressed her sympathies toward Finn for the loss of his daughter, but it looked like the greatest chore of her life to extend the same level of sympathy to her sister, who, in theory, was also grieving.
Daphne Rose, superstar extraordinaire
Whatever the plan for Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) is, it's not working. Is she a brilliant chemist and capable of creating fragrances that entice people to shop Forrester? Or is she the next American Idol? The focus should be on making Daphne and Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) into a legitimate pairing, but instead, the spotlight is on her sudden singing ability. After two Il Giardino Open Mic Nights that seemed to feature her as the only performer, Daphne has advanced her career and is now creating tracks to accompany her fragrance line. It's all extremely convoluted and makes absolutely no sense, but the performance of said song baffled the mind even further.
Daphne, Carter, and Deke (Harrison Cone) knew that Luna was on the loose and that a massive manhunt for the escaped killer was underway. However, instead of paying that any mind, Daphne belted out an emotional and surprisingly sultry performance, while most of the characters panicked in the fog, trying to locate Luna. Everyone from Bill (Don Diamont) to Taylor (Rebecca Budig) to Deacon (Sean Kanan) to Ivy (Ashleigh Brewer) was lost in a dense fog, desperate to find Luna, all to the tune of Daphne's musical masterpiece. It was whiplash going from the desperate search to Daphne putting on a one-woman show for Carter, who is eager to "prove himself" to her.
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Half of the canvas was searching to send Luna back to prison, and then there was Daphne, singing her feelings as loudly as possible, for Carter's viewing (and listening) pleasure. It was dramatic, but not in a good way. It was camp, but in the way that makes someone want to change the channel to literally anything else on TV. Her inner theater kid was unleashed on all of Los Angeles at the most uncomfortable time, and the fact that the series made it seem so serious made it all the more hilarious.
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