Bold & Beautiful Just Sent Katie Down A Deadly Path — Plus, What’s With All the Disrespect?
If there was one word to describe a lot of what went down on Bold & Beautiful this week, it might be disrespectful. Whether it was Ridge steamrolling Steffy, Hope putting the moves on Finn, or Katie butting into Bill and Poppy’s relationship, lines were crossed and bad decisions made all over the place. Oh, also? We’ve totally figured out who the killer is — and who it isn’t, no matter how hard they’re trying to convince us otherwise. Read on for the details!
Papa, Can You Hear Me?
I’ll give Ridge credit for this much: He at long last accepted the blame for a lot of the pain Steffy and Thomas went through because of his ping-ponging between Taylor and Brooke. As Steffy went in full-blown Logan-hater mode, her dad suggested that he, not Brooke, was the person who broke up their family. It was a rare moment of self-awareness from Ridge… which he then went on to completely obliterate.
Has Steffy been a tad extreme in her reactions of late? Sure, but the woman has a lot to deal with right now. The last thing she needed was dad and co-CEO Ridge completely ignoring her feelings about the Brooke’s Bedroom line. This coming on the heels of him overruling her decision to axe the Hope for the Future line made it feel as if he’s completely in charge while she’s there to do the busywork.
Who’s Bedroom Is It Anyways?
It wouldn’t have been difficult to compromise on the whole Brooke’s Bedroom line. Why not use Monte Carlo as an opportunity to highlight women of all shapes, sizes and colors? Have Brooke be the spokesperson introducing a bevy of models. Heck, why not use this as an opportunity to bring back much-missed Maya? Or maybe Zoe, who as far as we know is still a Forrester model (currently working at the international branch in Paris). For that matter, they could have Paris become one of the new models, which would no doubt tick off Hope!
I was sort of hoping that maybe Brooke would suggest that they use the re-launch of the Bedroom line to make Hope the new spokesperson. Literally walking in her mother’s barely-clad footsteps could finally trigger the full-on emergence of the alternate personality it feels like Hope’s been developing over the past year. How fun would that be?
To Tell the Truth
Sticking with the theme of characters showing a complete lack of respect for one another, let’s move on to Hope and Finn. Yes, both of them. Because this week saw Hope basically throwing herself at the hunk despite knowing he’s happily married, while Finn didn’t bother to tell Steffy about the release from prison of his — say it with me — biological mother.
Now, I understand him not wanting to admit he was with Hope when he got the news. But Finn waltzed into the main office at Forrester, flirted with Steffy, made out with her a bit and never bothered to tell her the Sheila news. Instead, she found out via a text from her dad!
Katie’s Last Stand?
I have loved Katie Logan for as long as I can remember. Longtime viewers will recall that when Bold & Beautiful began, Katie (then played by Nancy Sloan, seen below with Katherine Kelly Lang’s Brooke) was the proverbial “ugly duckling” who lived in the shadows cast by her older, more glam sisters. At her core, the character has never lost that insecurity, even as she has grown and changed over the years.
Lately, however, I’ve been wanting to throttle Katie… or perhaps more accurately the writers who are crafting her behavior. First, she dumped Carter for no reason and off screen. Then, she suddenly seemed to redevelop feelings for Bill, seemingly prompted by nothing more than his moving on. More recently, she’s begun barging into Bill’s house — does nobody on this show know how to lock a door? — and, in keeping with this week’s overall theme, being downright disrespectful to Poppy.
