A Critic’s Review of The Bold and the Beautiful: Valid or Delusional Reactions

Every fan of The Bold and the Beautiful has their own opinion — and we at Soap Hub do, too. For five days, we sat and watched it all — good, bad, and in between. We always lead optimistically, but unfortunately, we don’t always get what we want. So here’s a review of B&B’s week that was, a week of wild reactions to crazy situations. Is Sheila Carter gone? For the foreseeable future, the answer is yes.

What I’m Feeling This Week: Fallout of Sheila’s Death

The entire week of B&B had me thinking about the characters’ reactions to Sheila’s death. Were they valid or delusional?

• Steffy Forrester: Steffy’s (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) reaction was completely valid. She took someone’s life. Her enemy broke into her home, charged at her, and wanted to kill her. She acted in self-defense. But, afterward, she felt the weight of what she did. She was distraught. She wanted support and she, basically, only got it from her family and not her husband. Unfortunately, the woman she killed was her husband’s birth mom. So, that situation became messier than anyone thought it would be. Ultimately, however, her reactions were valid.
  

• Dr. John Finnegan: Some of Finn’s (Tanner Novlan) reactions were valid, up to a point. Yes, his birth mom died. Even though he didn’t grow up with her, he did come to know her a little bit and establish some sort of bond. On the other hand, Sheila Carter’s (Kimberlin Brown) actions should have served to obliterate that bond. She didn’t adhere to his boundaries. She tried to shoot and kill his wife and shot him instead, then shot his wife in cold blood.
  
  But for some reason, her death woke something up in him and, for a while, he couldn’t let go of the knowledge that his wife killed his birth mother. I get the trauma of it happening in his own house, but running out unable to be there for his wife? Unable to give her any comfort whatsoever? Come on, Finn. Talk about delusional reactions. Thankfully, by the end of the week, his mind was in a slightly better place. He could relax with Steffy, and enjoy a glass of wine. Unfortunately, that’s when the nightmares started. Ruh roh.
  

• Deacon Sharpe: Much like Finn Deacon (Sean Kanan) shouted at Steffy that she killed Sheila. Not sure what good that would do. Yes, she did. She admits it. Then he doubled down on his pain and went to the morgue to open up a vein to his pain. I think most of what he was feeling was a valid reaction. He loved her and felt seen by her. The delusion was falling in love with a woman like that in the first place. The delusion was thinking a woman like that could ever change her ways for a second. And the delusion came with thinking that she did the work to make said change.
  

• Dr. Li Finnegan: I’m never questioning this woman ever again. Everything Li (Naomi Matsuda) ever says or does is freakin’ valid. It doesn’t matter who it has to do with, she doesn’t have one delusional bone in her body.

Burning B&B Questions and Random Comments

-Like I said in my intro, I choose to think optimistically and not think anything will happen between Hope (Annika Noelle) and Finn anytime soon.

-Why did we need to see RJ’s (Joshua Hoffman) and Zende’s (Delon de Metz) reactions to Sheila’s death? What purpose did that serve?

-Steffy was quick to bring the cleaners in and eliminate any blood or blood splatter, but are she and Finn sure they don’t want to move from the cliffhouse altogether? The creepy vibes are real.

-I still don’t believe Sheila’s “dead” but I am going with this story for now. Am I delusional?

-I love that Finn and Steffy are inching back together, they finished the week tighter than they started despite everything that Liam (Scott Clifton) tried to say to both of them. Meanwhile, I don’t know what that argument between Hope and Steffy was actually about. I get that Hope tried to make Steffy see Finn’s perspective, but it was all pretty confusing.

-Finally, I want to congratulate Michele Val Jean, former writer of The Bold and the Beautiful. She has a chance to actually develop a new soap opera, which, in this day and age of American television is unheard of. If The Gates does move forward, I hope it provides plenty of opportunities for diverse perspectives in a way that hasn’t been done before (check out a list of actresses we’d love to see should the soap see the light of day).

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