Young and the Restless: 5 Worst Plots on Y&R Right Now – Victor Vendetta, Awful Alan & Bad Romance!
Young and the Restless sees the five worst storylines going on at the moment. Today, I want to talk about some of the messy plots on the CBS soap right now that have viewers ready to fast forward, tune out, or both. Stuff with Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), Summer Newman (Allison Lanier), Martin, and more.
The Young and the Restless: Awkward Award?
Despite the mediocre and repetitive material that we are watching, in case you didn’t know it, Y&R recently won the WGA writing award for daytime drama. It seems hard to imagine, but I dug into the judging because I was curious how it worked because it seemed crazy that they would win this award.
So, the judging is done by other writers in the guild, and they only judge based on certain scenes that are submitted rather than the totality of them actually watching the soap operas like soap fans do.
They submitted Jack Abbott’s (Peter Bergman) intervention with the pills and stuff to get Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott) to rehab, which was good stuff, and Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) hallucinating Cameron Kirsten (Linden Ashby), which started out pretty good. So, I can see that.
The Young and the Restless: Where is the Logic?
Just to give you some perspective, the four years before that, Days of Our Lives won the award four years straight, and Ron Carlivati’s writing over on Days is so cheesy that sometimes it feels like you’re watching a soap parody skit on SNL. That being said, I love Days, I love Y&R, I love all my soaps, but we’re going to talk about five plots that really, really need improving on Y&R.
The Young and the Restless: Unpacking the Alan/Martin Storyline Mess
First off is this mindless Alan/Martin mess. This feels like some fever dream the writers pulled out of their backsides for no apparent reason. Sharon was kidnapped by Cameron, then she was kidnapped by Jordan Howard (Colleen Zenk), and then kidnapped by fake Alan Laurent (Christopher Cousins), with Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) thrown in the mix as a bonus.
Poor Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland)’s fallen for the guy, and the premise is just wonky from the start because we’re supposed to believe that this is Martin who fell off the balcony in Paris with Alan but survived. The guys went over the railing wearing two different outfits, so how could they fall, and then Martin slips into his dead twin’s clothes and runs back up? It’s just sloppy and unmanageable as a premise from the start.
The Young and the Restless: Alan admits He is Martin
This week, Alan admitted he is Martin and was arrested, and if that’s the end of it, that is one of the lamest ways to end a storyline, and they better have him break out of prison and go on some kind of killing spree, some last hurrah. Otherwise, it is the most lackluster beginning and end to a storyline ever.
Plus, it was just random for him to target Sharon and Phyllis. It’s poorly written all around, and of course, now we have a devastated Traci who deserves better, and fans who deserve better as well.
Victor Newman’s Endless Vendetta: Why Y&R Fans Are Tuning Out
The second thing I have issue with is Victor Newman’s (Eric Braeden) endless anti-Abbott vendetta. His grudge against Jack is everlasting, and it’s just so tired at this point. And now it’s not just about Jack or Billy (Jason Thompson) Boy Abbott, but also we got Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) in the mix now.
As you know, Victor’s feud with Jack has been going on for literally decades, but right now Victor is doubling down because he’s salty about the night of debauchery when Jack saved Nikki by downing pills to scare Nikki into rehab. That’s a whole year ago, crazy. It was an extreme tactic, but it worked, and the entire Newman family, including Nikki, thinks Jack is a hero, all except Victor.
The Young and the Restless: Victor’s Vendetta
It made him hate Jack even more because I think Jack helped Nikki when Victor couldn’t get through. Victor didn’t even try. Victor still had the bar cart in the house fully stocked when Nikki came back after the vodka IV, terrible husbanding. But here we are again with Victor targeting Jabot, trying to take down Jack, trying to split up Kyle and Claire Grace Newman (Hayley Erin), and just making everybody’s lives miserable.
Michael Baldwin (Christian Leblanc) doesn’t like this vendetta, neither does Lauren Fenmore (Tracey Bregman), Nikki, or any of Victor’s kids, and by the way, fans don’t like it either. I’m not sure who told Josh Griffith that doing this plot for the 39th time was a bright idea, but it’s not. Let’s end it soon.
