Lackluster Stories at Lightning Speed: The Bold and the Beautiful Two Scoops for the week of November 3-7, 2025

The Bold and the Beautiful kept fans buzzing with tangled romances, fierce confrontations, and unexpected connections. Hope and Liam’s loveless engagement lacked spark, Steffy made her voice heard, and a shocking reveal left everyone reeling. By the end of the week, nothing and no one felt the same.

Hope and Liam's engagement of obigation

Hope (Annika Noelle) and Liam's (Scott Clifton) reconciliation should feel like a bigger deal, but instead, it's a sparkless story that has been rushed for the sake of giving the Spencer family a feel-good moment. While it was inevitable that Hope and Liam would find their way back to one another, this story feels like they're reuniting out of an obligation to create a family for Beth (Jordyn Lynn Ariza), rather than anything else.

Nothing about the story has been about their undying love and passion for each other. The chemistry is just not there at this point. Nostalgia and feel-good moments aside, everything mentioned about their upcoming marriage has centered on their daughter, and nothing about how they are bringing together a family for a girl who has spent most of her life already in a broken home.

Hope and Liam are just not the direction that The Bold and the Beautiful should be going in 2025. While the show is accustomed to relying on relationships long beyond their expiration date (looking at you, Brooke and Ridge), it felt like these two would be apart for longer before reuniting. Not only is the relationship itself fast-tracked after a living room dad-daughter dance, but they jumped immediately into wedding planning. There was no inclination that they were heading to the altar. Yes, they bonded a bit when he was "dying," but until the day she broke things off with Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor), it looked like Liam was nothing but a supportive friend and coparent. This show has a tendency to rush every relationship from nothing to holy matrimony, and it rarely works out well for the couple.

The love story is entirely unserious, and it feels like the powers-that-be must feel the same way, given that they have a child as the wedding officiant. However, considering Carter is the usual go-to for marrying the Forresters and Logans, he's not a viable option in this scenario. A note to everyone: if you break off an engagement with the number one wedding officiant in Los Angeles, make sure your children are up to date on their wedding ceremony basics.

Steffy clocked Ridge’s Brooke obsession

Hearing about Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Ridge's (Thorsten Kate) destiny is just as nauseating now as it was a decade or two decades ago. If Hope and Liam are played out, Brooke and Ridge are the founding fathers of broken record relationships. While Steffy was away dealing with yet another emotionally traumatic experience by her stepdaughter, Luna (Lisa Yamada), her father was dropping Taylor (Rebecca Budig) like a bad habit, again opting for his precious Logan instead. Since she was out of the country, halfway across the world, Steffy didn't have an opportunity until this week to give her daddy a piece of her mind.

For a few weeks now, Brooke has expressed a sudden desire to ensure Taylor leads a life of happiness, which she hopes includes a new man. Steffy immediately saw through Brooke's facade, realizing she was feigning interest in her mother's future out of a need to protect her fragile marriage. If Taylor was busy with another man, Ridge wouldn't be able to leave her in the dust for another round of "almost marriage" with her. While it may have been snarky or a case of "Steffy being Steffy," Brooke and Ridge deserved any attitude that was thrown their way. The best part was Steffy firing back at Brooke when she pretended to care about Taylor's love life and wanted her to find a new man; Steffy responded with something along the lines of, "I bet you do."

It's nice that Steffy is able to express her distaste for the marriage without being overly crass and nasty. She made her feelings abundantly known, and although she's exhausted by her father's waffling behavior, she's not going to wallow in it. Better yet, Steffy is continuing to be a champion for her mother's future, and she's assuring her father and his new old bride that Taylor will be just fine without him. She's fully immersed in her career and spending time with her grandchildren, and that's all they need to know. There's no genuine concern, especially from Brooke's end, so Steffy putting them in their place will squash the conversation for the foreseeable future.

When did Deke and Electra become best friends forever?

It was already established how The Bold and the Beautiful enjoys expediting relationships for the sake of the plot. There is no larger example of this than the sudden best friendship between Deke (Harrison Cone) and Electra (Laneya Grace). In theory, they met like a week or two ago, and now they're acting like they used to have slumber parties and go to the mall together throughout their entire lives. It's bizarre, and while it makes sense in the context of them needing to sharpen the emotional impact of Deke revealing Remy (Christan Weissmann) as his boyfriend, that's about the only thing. They're defending each other's honor like they've served together in the trenches of war. Please don't insult the intelligence of the same audience that watched them meet each other just a hot moment before Deke joined the Hope for the Future design team.

Everything about this story is somewhat of a tangled mess. Everyone's reaction to Remy was also a bit confusing because they're forgiven much more for far less. Hope, for example, is the daughter of someone married to a killer and career criminal in Sheila (Kimberlin Brown). Katie is Bill Spencer's (Don Diamont) ex-wife, so she has turned a blind eye to many despicable actions he has been responsible for over the years. Why is Remy so different? Listen, what Remy did was deplorable and unacceptable, and there's a strong argument that he doesn't deserve forgiveness from Electra. However, why is Deke staking his entire relationship with the man he loves on past actions that predate their involvement?

Electra is portrayed as this constant victim damsel, and the act is growing stale. Not only is she the biggest factor in Deke and Remy's relationship, but she continues to be positioned as the biggest victim in the story with Will (Crew Morrow). Do they want fans to forget that Will was drugged and sexually assaulted by Luna because that's what it's looking like? Every day is another conversation with Electra and a random woman, usually Ivy (Ashleigh Brewer), lamenting how her first time was ruined because Will slept with Luna the night before. Sure, it wasn't Will's choice, and now he's forced into an unwanted pregnancy as a result of his trauma, but Electra is dating him, so it's so much worse for her.

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Til next week, everyone, where Carter and Daphne's engagement is probably imminent, and Deacon will divorce Sheila and head down the aisle with Taytlor because that's The Bold and the Beautiful folks.

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