The Bold and the Beautiful ...
Umm ... I have a very embarrassing confession to make ... I watch B. & B. No, it's not some kinky activity that involves chains and leather ... it's much worse.
It's a soapie!
There. I've said it and I feel better for it.
What's that? You're not familiar with the tangled web that binds the folks who inhabit the rarified world of the Bold and the Beautiful? But you'd love to find out? Then I'm just the person you need.
Now I have to tell you at the outset that I just sort of fell into the habit of watching; it wasn't a conscious choice on my part. Out here in Australia, the show comes on at 4.30 each weekday afternoon and that's about the same time I'm in the kitchen, pottering around deciding what to cook for dinner. So what could be more natural than to switch on the telly for a bit of company?
And what magnificent companions there are in B. & B.The scriptwriters (and I use the term loosely) must be the world's only living brain donors because they come up with some doosies in the plot. Allow me to illustrate ...
Among the central characters are square-jawed Ridge and his on-again, off-again wife Brooke. A few short weeks ago, Ridge and Brooke married (for the second or third time ... I've lost count ... there's nothing this show loves more than a wedding).
You see, Ridge was deficient in the wife department to the tune of one following the death of his former wife, Taylor. We know she died because we saw her expire in his arms and collapse in an attractive heap on the hospital floor after she'd been shot by Mad Sheila. (However, that doesn't necessarily mean that she's really dead ... we may well see Taylor back in the full bloom of health sometime soon. Stay tuned.)
So there they were on their honeymoon on an exotic island, having left their assorted children back home with those obliging nannies. It's important that you know a little about the children for what happens later, so let me introduce you to them.
Brooke has two adult children, Bridget and Eric, from her marriage to Ridge's father. Did I forget to mention that as well as having been married a couple of times to Ridge, she's also been married to his father (or at least to the man who thought he was Ridge's father ... more on that another time) and to his brother? I did? Well, now you know.
She also has a baby girl, the daughter she had with Deacon, her daughter's husband. (What can I say? Brooke is just one of those gals who likes to keep it all in the family!)
Then there are Ridge's three kids that he had with dead wife Taylor. There's a young son, who seems to occasionally complain about homework so we know he's school-age, but he's still very much of the age where he jumps up and down and claps his hands with glee when his Aunt Bridget offers to read him and his younger, twin sisters, a bedtime story. And there are the twins.
So, all the above were at home when the lovebirds celebrated their nuptials, and all went well until Ridge was kidnapped by Mad Sheila. (Remember her? She'd been caught and put in prison after shooting Taylor but had managed to escape with the help of her prison warden. And here she is wreaking havoc - again.)
Ridge's recently discovered half-brother, Nick (I didn't tell you about him, did I? Oh well, you'll just have to trust me on this ... we'll talk about him another day), had come to rescue him, but had been captured, too. In the scuffle that ensued during their rescue, Ridge fell into a fiery furnace.
Aah!
And we saw him fall, as did Brooke, who was devastated. So devastated that the next night she was back at the aforementioned fiery furnace (which, by the way, was still burning brightly). Nick also happened by at the same time and prevented her (just in the nick of time, you could say) from throwing herself into the furnace after her husband.
What is a girl to do? After some heavy sighing and close-ups, she chose to throw herself into Nick's arms instead, since he was there and he had all the qualities Brooke admires and needs in a man (viz. he was there).
They consoled each other in the only way the good folks at B. & B. know, and before you could say "there's a baby growing inside her," there was a baby growing inside her. But whose was it
Poor Brooke! She's just witnessed the rather grisly death of the love of her life ... or has she? No, dear reader, she hasn't - because Ridge survived! Hooray! He was rescued by a sultry damsel who just happened to be passing by and to know that there was, in fact, a back door to the fiery furnace.
Phew! What a lucky break!
Not only did he survive, but so, too, did his jet black locks ... There was not so much as a seared eyebrow to show for his brush with death. Phew again!
OK, are you still with me? Good, because we're getting close to the reason I started all this (fool that I am!)
The story so far: Ridge is back, Brooke has a bun in the oven and the kids are as we left them - little kids.Then, Brooke confesses to Ridge; they opt for a DNA test to determine paternity and discover that the sprog is Nick's; Ridge is distraught and takes it out on Nick; Brooke decides to do the honourable thing (that's your cue to fall about laughing) and leaves.
We see nothing more of her for several episodes, but know that Ridge is concerned because he still loves her and he really, really wanted her to stay despite the fact that the baby-growing-inside-her wasn't his.
Now, and this is the important part, we hear that Brooke hasn't yet had the baby, so we'd be forgiven for assuming that only a few months at most have passed, but what's this? We're back at Ridge's house. (Remember his little kids - knee-high to grasshoppers all three?) Well, hang on to your socks, boys and girls, have I got a surprise for you!
Scene 1: Ridge calls up the stairs to Thomas (his little boy) and a voice over announces that the part of Thomas is now being played by another actor. The door to the bedroom opens and out onto the landing steps a teenager who's as tall as Ridge!
Hello? Casting?
The Kid then attempts to seduce Dad's old childhood chum who was attempting to seduce him because his mother had ... Oh, you don't really want to know all that, do you?
Sheesh!Golly, do they think we're a few sandwiches short of a picnic?
Maybe, but I'll still be dashing out from the kitchen again next week, just to see if the writers can top this one!
It's a soapie!
There. I've said it and I feel better for it.
What's that? You're not familiar with the tangled web that binds the folks who inhabit the rarified world of the Bold and the Beautiful? But you'd love to find out? Then I'm just the person you need.
Now I have to tell you at the outset that I just sort of fell into the habit of watching; it wasn't a conscious choice on my part. Out here in Australia, the show comes on at 4.30 each weekday afternoon and that's about the same time I'm in the kitchen, pottering around deciding what to cook for dinner. So what could be more natural than to switch on the telly for a bit of company?
And what magnificent companions there are in B. & B.The scriptwriters (and I use the term loosely) must be the world's only living brain donors because they come up with some doosies in the plot. Allow me to illustrate ...
Among the central characters are square-jawed Ridge and his on-again, off-again wife Brooke. A few short weeks ago, Ridge and Brooke married (for the second or third time ... I've lost count ... there's nothing this show loves more than a wedding).
You see, Ridge was deficient in the wife department to the tune of one following the death of his former wife, Taylor. We know she died because we saw her expire in his arms and collapse in an attractive heap on the hospital floor after she'd been shot by Mad Sheila. (However, that doesn't necessarily mean that she's really dead ... we may well see Taylor back in the full bloom of health sometime soon. Stay tuned.)
So there they were on their honeymoon on an exotic island, having left their assorted children back home with those obliging nannies. It's important that you know a little about the children for what happens later, so let me introduce you to them.
Brooke has two adult children, Bridget and Eric, from her marriage to Ridge's father. Did I forget to mention that as well as having been married a couple of times to Ridge, she's also been married to his father (or at least to the man who thought he was Ridge's father ... more on that another time) and to his brother? I did? Well, now you know.
She also has a baby girl, the daughter she had with Deacon, her daughter's husband. (What can I say? Brooke is just one of those gals who likes to keep it all in the family!)
Then there are Ridge's three kids that he had with dead wife Taylor. There's a young son, who seems to occasionally complain about homework so we know he's school-age, but he's still very much of the age where he jumps up and down and claps his hands with glee when his Aunt Bridget offers to read him and his younger, twin sisters, a bedtime story. And there are the twins.
So, all the above were at home when the lovebirds celebrated their nuptials, and all went well until Ridge was kidnapped by Mad Sheila. (Remember her? She'd been caught and put in prison after shooting Taylor but had managed to escape with the help of her prison warden. And here she is wreaking havoc - again.)
Ridge's recently discovered half-brother, Nick (I didn't tell you about him, did I? Oh well, you'll just have to trust me on this ... we'll talk about him another day), had come to rescue him, but had been captured, too. In the scuffle that ensued during their rescue, Ridge fell into a fiery furnace.
Aah!
And we saw him fall, as did Brooke, who was devastated. So devastated that the next night she was back at the aforementioned fiery furnace (which, by the way, was still burning brightly). Nick also happened by at the same time and prevented her (just in the nick of time, you could say) from throwing herself into the furnace after her husband.
What is a girl to do? After some heavy sighing and close-ups, she chose to throw herself into Nick's arms instead, since he was there and he had all the qualities Brooke admires and needs in a man (viz. he was there).
They consoled each other in the only way the good folks at B. & B. know, and before you could say "there's a baby growing inside her," there was a baby growing inside her. But whose was it
Poor Brooke! She's just witnessed the rather grisly death of the love of her life ... or has she? No, dear reader, she hasn't - because Ridge survived! Hooray! He was rescued by a sultry damsel who just happened to be passing by and to know that there was, in fact, a back door to the fiery furnace.
Phew! What a lucky break!
Not only did he survive, but so, too, did his jet black locks ... There was not so much as a seared eyebrow to show for his brush with death. Phew again!
OK, are you still with me? Good, because we're getting close to the reason I started all this (fool that I am!)
The story so far: Ridge is back, Brooke has a bun in the oven and the kids are as we left them - little kids.Then, Brooke confesses to Ridge; they opt for a DNA test to determine paternity and discover that the sprog is Nick's; Ridge is distraught and takes it out on Nick; Brooke decides to do the honourable thing (that's your cue to fall about laughing) and leaves.
We see nothing more of her for several episodes, but know that Ridge is concerned because he still loves her and he really, really wanted her to stay despite the fact that the baby-growing-inside-her wasn't his.
Now, and this is the important part, we hear that Brooke hasn't yet had the baby, so we'd be forgiven for assuming that only a few months at most have passed, but what's this? We're back at Ridge's house. (Remember his little kids - knee-high to grasshoppers all three?) Well, hang on to your socks, boys and girls, have I got a surprise for you!
Scene 1: Ridge calls up the stairs to Thomas (his little boy) and a voice over announces that the part of Thomas is now being played by another actor. The door to the bedroom opens and out onto the landing steps a teenager who's as tall as Ridge!
Hello? Casting?
The Kid then attempts to seduce Dad's old childhood chum who was attempting to seduce him because his mother had ... Oh, you don't really want to know all that, do you?
Sheesh!Golly, do they think we're a few sandwiches short of a picnic?
Maybe, but I'll still be dashing out from the kitchen again next week, just to see if the writers can top this one!
posted by Jennifer | 12:24 pm
2 Comments:
I used to watch B&B faithful but I'm so sick of the repeated storylines... nothing new to care about. The show needs more men on it - who are not related LOL!
It seems that no matter when i tune in whether it be weeks months or years the love triangle between Ridge, Taylor and Brook is still going strong, is there no other man on the planet???
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