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The Bold and the Beautiful delivered one of its most chaotic weeks in recent memory. Something big was bubbling under the surface that no one on screen had caught onto yet, and two people with a seriously violent past kept pretending they were in some kind of group therapy session together. Then, just when the week couldn’t get any stranger, an open mic night somehow turned into a full solo showcase. By the end of the week, everything was a complete mess and a trainwreck.
Luna's great laundry cart getaway
Luna's (Lisa Yamada) stint in prison was already a confusing, jumbled mess, but this week, things escalated to a level that the series may never get back from. How did she even accomplish this? The guard was portrayed as entirely incompetent in her job, which serves as a shining example of the flawed justice system in the series. First, she allowed Luna access to social media on her phone, which led her to see the picture of Will (Crew Morrow) and Electra (Laneya Grace). If that wasn't enough of an egregious error, she somehow gave her the means and opportunity to slip through the prison walls in a laundry cart. How can anyone feel safe when people like Luna and Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) never face real consequences?
Nothing about Luna's pregnancy storyline has made sense, so it's unsurprising that her escape from prison was just as nonsensical. The pregnancy was rushed, the paternity results were rushed, and now her escape was rushed to fit the idea of Will and Electra being terrorized at the beach house. Everything is plot-driven, without considering the long-term impact on the characters. Luna is coming across as unsalvageable, and the best thing they can do for her is take her off the canvas for a few months and devise a way to redeem her that actually makes sense.
However, if there's no sensible way to make it work, don't rush her back. It's entirely okay for someone to actually serve prison time for their crimes without escaping or being pardoned. It's also clear that the laundry cart escape will serve as a means for a horrific accident to occur for Luna and the baby. With the fog rolling in, they will likely create some sort of tragedy for her to garner sympathy, which could spell doom for her unborn child.
Nothing about Li and Sheila's friendship makes sense
One of the most peculiar developments over the last few months on The Bold and the Beautiful has been the emergence of Sheila and Li (Naomi Matsuda) as friends. Not only is the girl talk nature of their relationship bizarre to watch, but it's not just the closeness of their relationship that's odd; it's the entire existence of it. While it's understandable that they both had the shared secret of keeping Luna alive, and both suffered consequences as a result of it, that's kind of where it begins and ends. Li shouldn't be so desperate for friendship that she's resorting to helping Sheila with her marital troubles.
This is the same Sheila who ran Li off the road in an attempt to permanently silence her. If Sheila needs friends that badly to humanize her, perhaps she should look for a character she hasn't tried to murder before. It's a difficult stance to take because there's a strong case to be made that the scenes between the two are entertaining. However, it's so difficult to look past their troubled history. Sheila has been delusional for decades, so that part isn't a problem. The perplexing part of the equation rests solely on Li's side of the court, because in theory, a (formerly) respected doctor shouldn't be lowering herself to hang out sessions with a known killer.
One of the most hilarious parts of their interactions this week was Li bringing up the previous threat Sheila made about killing Taylor (Rebecca Budig). Shouldn't she be taking that far more seriously than she is? Li knows better than anyone the type of unspeakable violence that Sheila is capable of, so she should be banging down the good doctor's door to warn her of the looming threat. Instead, she's getting lunch five days a week at Il Giardino and casually urging Sheila to focus on her marriage and let it go. If something happens to Taylor, the blood is, to some extent, on Li's hands.
Daphne's one woman show
Open Mic Night at Il Giardino would be far more entertaining if it were more than a plot device to make Carter drool all over his latest attempted conquest. Listening to Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) sing sultry tunes in the middle of Forrester's favorite Olive Garden dupe isn't entertaining television. Sure, it leads to some belly laughs, but those are more in the laughing at them way than it is laughing with them. Daphne isn't nearly dynamic enough of a character to get invested in repeat performances. While her portrayer is musically talented, it's not good television, and her using it to play hard to get with Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) is even more nauseating. Also, why is it just Daphne performing? Does nobody else have talent?
This is one of those things that makes Bold infuriating at times because the speed of relationships is SO random. Carter and Hope (Annika Noelle) broke off their engagement, and she seemingly went back to Liam (Scott Clifton) in the same episode. Carter, meanwhile, started something new with Daphne after witnessing her perform for the first time. At least that's how it appeared to be heading. Instead, Hope and Liam were not only not a couple yet, but they didn't even share scenes again until the episode in which he proposed to her. Plus, when Daphne and Carter finally rekindled things on screen, it was like their initial romancing never took place, and now she's forcing him to "prove himself" to her like it's Love Island.
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Hopefully, some of these off-the-rails stories begin to make sense in the next few weeks of the show. Unfortunately, it appears as if Luna is officially on the loose, so expect the cartoonish hijinks to kick into an even higher gear rather than subsiding.
Catch all-new episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful weekdays on CBS and Paramount Plus.
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