Recaps
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Eric Stands Up for Himself After Being Devalued Due to His Age
On The Bold and the Beautiful, the Thursday, February 19 episode brought with it another touching performance by original series star, John McCook (Eric Forrester), as the soap opera continues to bring to the forefront the subject of ageism.
In the pick-up, Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) just learned that Eric is Katie (Heather Tom) and Bill’s (Don Diamont) secret designer for the launch of their new fashion house, “Logan”. Self-righteous Ridge, can’t believe that Katie and Bill would stoop so low as to manipulate Eric into working for them. Katie informs her sister, Brooke and Ridge, that Eric offered, they did not pursue him to join their new fashion venture.
Ridge tells them they should have refused, if they were at all concerned for Eric’s health, since he has to keep stress out of his life. Bill said what all of us wanted to say to Ridge, that he was the cause of Eric’s stress! And as usual, Ridge has a tantrum!
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Fed up with all the bickering as if he is not even in the room with them, Eric speaks up and says he is in charge of his own life and calls the shots, exclaiming, “I make my own decisions. I’m old, but I’m not invisible.” He firmly reminds Ridge that Bill didn’t use him; this was his own decision and that Ridge fired him! Then, Ridge goes on about giving Eric an out. Then, suddenly asks him to come back to Forrester Creations.
Eric stands up to everyone in the room as he becomes more and more upset, and is having a harder time breathing that he is a competent human being and knows and understands what he’s doing as he struggles to catch his breath.
Ridge tells Bill to call 9-1-1. When the paramedics arrive, they want to give Eric a shot which he first refuses, but Ridge sits down next to his dad and asks him to breathe with him. In that moment, Ridge offers an apology to Eric that he is so sorry to have made his dad feel devalued as he wants him to come back to Forrester. Eric sheds a single tear as it streams down his face, for how hurt he has felt and discounted by his own son.
Viewer reaction indicates that many in the audience were hoping for a warring fashion house storyline between ‘Logan’ and ‘Forrester Creations,’ but felt that this scene marked the end of the line for Eric’s journey as the lead designer for Bill and Katie, if he goes back to work with Ridge and Brooke.
You can check out the clip where Eric wants to be heard and tells his family, “I’m old, but I’m not invisible” below.
So, what did you think of the performance of John McCook in the episode? Do you think B&B should continue this story of ageism and how we treat the elderly, when many are still capable of working and being productive and thriving? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
Next year is B&B’s 40th anniversary. This would have been a perfect story to build up toward that. Hopefully, Eric bounces back, rejects Ridge’s offer, and is given a satisfying return to the top of the fashion industry!
Ridge and Brooke should be ashamed. Who the hell throws a retirement party and the recipient doesn’t know he’s on the way out?! Eric has always stood by Brooke, when everyone else kicked her to the curb. He deserved better from her. Ridge thinks he knows what’s best for everyone, when he couldn’t decide between the same two women for decades! As Eric said, he may be old, but he isn’t invisible. He deserves a say in his own life.
i think this storyline about ageism is terrific and john mccook was stellar in this episode ! all involved were very good also and i must give it to Don Diamont there was a lot of subtlety there and as ruthless as bill can be he generally felt bad for Eric and showed it ! going off on Bold and brad bell has become common game lately but loved the episode and with the exception of the boring Carter and Daphne i am enjoying the show !
I am hoping for a Logan versus Forresters storyline. Forester needs a competitor and I was hoping this would be it. Looks like this may be the end of Eric at Logan, hope not, though bold has a history of starting
stories and cutting them short rather than playing them out. Show needs a head writer or team that will map out long term stories and follow them thru.
That said, there does seem to be some changes at bold, and I am here for it. The addition of the Logan co., Katie getting more airtime, Spencer family being featured more, Taylor moving on, etc…. Moving in right direction.
Now if we can get some
Great stories that aren’t the same old, same old.
Eric needs to defy Ridge and Brooke and give his creative and business expertise to Katie Logan. I want a rivalry. It would be good for the show and maybe end some of the goofy romantic games that weigh this series down.
I wish Eric’s involvement with Logan would have gone on secretly. A reveal at the height of the first and very successful Logan runway show would have given Eric reason to thrive and truly built suspense and shock among the Forresters as they saw their patriarch shine. Imagine the regret for Ridge and Brooke then!
I love John McCook so much!
i really hope that Deke ends up at logan and Will may end up there also due to the fallout with Elektra
I am so sick of Brooke and Ridge they shoved Eric out of the business now want him back is ludicrous. I want them to see him succeed somewhere else and see what they themselves did. And all that bull crap about Katie naming the business Logan which is obviously her last name how Brooke acts like she owns that name is so stupid. I think Eric needs to go on with his plan with Katie and be such a success there with his line.
Sad to say but this is all I see the writers do on so many soaps and movies is have the children kick the father out of his own business. Whites folks you are very guilty of doing this to your parents, sad to say.
General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ric’s History of Jealousy Where Elizabeth is Concerned Has Come Back Around
On General Hospital, Ric Lansing (Rick Heart) is about to fall back into dangerous old patterns by the foreshadowing during the Wednesday, August 19 episode. After first coming to see his brother, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and telling him of his plan to propose to Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) his longtime love tonight, Sonny has concerned.
Next, Sonny reminds his brother of what has happened in the past, when things have gone south with Elizabeth and wonders if it’s too soon for him to propose to her. What Ric did not tell Sonny is that he has seen the developing closeness between Sonny’s son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) and Elizabeth, which is propelling his urgent need to propose.
Meanwhile, Dante ran into Elizabeth at the park during a break from their mutual team softball games. She needs help with a bookcase after the game at her house. Dante wants to put it together for her. Later, Dante arrived at Elizabeth’s house, limping after injuring his knee during the game. Head nurse Liz wanted to check out the injury as much as Dante protested, which required him to take off his pants.
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RIC BEGINS TO UNRAVEL
Outside Elizabeth’s widow, Ric arrives with a bouquet of roses and the engagement ring. When he leers through the widow he is shocked to see Elizabeth rubbing Dante’s leg while Dante is in his boxer/shorts. He storm troops into the house, demanding to know what is going on here? Both Elizabeth and Dante look surprised by his reaction. In the pick-up of today’s Thursday, August 20 episode (see GH video teaser below), viewers will learn the upshot for all three characters.
A VENGEFUL PAST
As longtime GH fans know, Ric has done some horrible, vengeful things in regards to Elizabeth starting back in 2003 after she lost her baby after Ric’s ex, Faith Rosco pushed her down a flight of stairs. Ric accused Sonny for the accident and to get revenge, Ric kidnapped Carly (who was married to Sonny at the time), and stashed her in a panic room below the house where he was living with Liz.
On top of that, Ric fed his wife Elizabeth birth control pills to keep her from getting pregnant so that they could raise Carly’s baby together after it was born. Eventually, Elizabeth found Carly in the panic room but ended up having a pulmonary embolism. When she woke up in the hospital, Elizabeth was all confused by what happened, and Ric convinced her that her vision of Carly was just a bad dream. Eventually, Elizabeth learned the horrifying truth and divorced Ric.
Years later, Ric noticed the connection between Elizabeth and “Jake Doe” who eventually turned out to be Drew (Billy Miller) A jealous Ric hired Hayden Barnes to show up and claim to be “Jake’s” wife. Elizabeth stepped aside, and when Ric planned to propose to Elizabeth at the 2015 Nurses Ball, Carly exposed his manipulations, and Elizabeth dumped him yet again. And those are just two examples of the lengths Ric will go to for Elizabeth!
So, we ask you, given the history of Elizabeth and Ric, how do you see this playing out with Dante in the picture? How will Ric derail their growing bond? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
Recaps
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Steffy and Carter Get Lame Excuses From Their Spouses, and Try to Shake Off Their Night Together
If you caught the Wednesday, August 19 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, and if you were Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), and your wife, who literally took off, threw of her wedding ring and abandoned their marriage to head to Paris, shows back up saying she overreacted and wants to be with him, would you bother to even take her back?
As for Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), now that Finn (Tanner Novlan) is giving her the spiel about how he took her for granted, how he is so sorry for not listening to her, and that Sheila will never be in their lives again, would you want to listen to that, either, after so many broken promises?
That’s the situation hungover Steffy and Carter found themselves, while still reeling from the seeming fact that they had sex the night before while drunk in the Forrester Creations CEO office.
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STEFFY AND CARTER GETS EARFULS
Daphne (Murielle Hilare) doesn’t understand why Carter is being so distant, and he says, “You said I wasn’t family.” She wants to put all of what she said and did behind them and now explore other ways to have a child. Carter seems hurt and annoyed.
Back at the cliff house, Steffy is so upset between sleeping with Carter and getting drunk, and Finn and his mother, Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) in Monaco. She tells Finn, “I need you to stand up for me. I can’t live like this. I won’t.” Finn begs her not to let “one terrible mistake” (get it!?) tear us apart.
Finn promised Steffy he will get a restraining order on Sheila if it calls for it. He understands why Steffy is so scared of Sheila after she shot her … and him. In the closing moments of the episode, Finn pronounces how lucky he is to have the “perfect wife.” To which a rattled Steffy in tears goes, “Oh, I’m not perfect.”
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STEFFY’S GUILT
Steffy is losing her grip at this moment as Finn says he wants to step up and be the husband he deserves. Along with Daphne, I kind of want to kick Finn to the curb, too. Then Finn lays it on real thick and adds, “You’re pure, you’re honest, you’re loyal.” Steffy interrupts, “Not quite.”
Suddenly a guilt-ridden Steffy says to Finn, “There’s something I need to tell you.” Can she actually get the words out about getting drunk and having sex with Carter …or, will she keep it under wraps so we can have months of the line “one terrible mistake?”
Take a look at some of the scenes between Steffy and Finn from today’s episode below.
Now let us know: would you bother to take back Daphne or Finn, if you were Carter and Steffy? Would you like to see Steffy just blurt out she had sex with Carter to her husband? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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On the Tuesday, August 18 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, viewers were tuned-in to see if Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor), who were were both on benders, wound up having sex in the Forrester Creations CEO office.
As the Monday, August 17 episode concluded, Carter and Steffy shared a close moment where it looked like they would kiss. Now in the pick up which starts the morning after, Steffy awakens from the couch in the office, and realizes she has no clothes on and is mortified to see Carter on the end of the couch also naked and under blankets.
In that moment, Steffy realizes they had sex, and begins to unravel to Carter as she scrambles to get dressed: “We shouldn’t have done this. Oh my God, I shouldn’t have done this!”
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STEFFY RACES TO GET HOME
Steffy’s panic of the situation escalates when she finds her phone, and sees multiple text messages from her husband, Finn (Tanner Novlan), desperately trying to reach her. He told Steffy he was on his way home from Monaco.
Suddenly, a hungover Carter speaks up and agrees. He says to Steffy they made a terrible mistake and wanted to talk about it, but Steffy kiboshed any discussion, not dealing with Carter, and racing home to be with her kids and Finn. As a disheveled Steffy ran out of Forrester, Carter stayed behind to straighten up the office and get rid of any remnants of their drunken binge.
Just then, Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) showed up as Carter is shocked. She apologized for running out on him, and details how when she got to the airport to board the plane to Paris, she realized she couldn’t leave him. She loved him too much, and asks him to please forgive her and her, “terrible mistake.” Daphne hugs Carter and he looks like a man who has no idea what to do or make of this entire situation in the moment.
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WHAT WILL BE THE REPERCUSSIONS OF CARTER AND STEFFY’S DRUNKEN NIGHT TOGETHER?
Cut to: Steffy comes home and runs into her mother, Taylor (Rebecca Budig). She explains what happened with Finn and Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) in Monaco. Next, Steffy details how she took off her wedding ring after Taylor noticed it was no longer on her finger. Just then, Finn arrives. Taylor leaves the two to talk. Finn begs for Steffy’s forgiveness and the episode comes to an end with Steffy facing away from Finn and towards the camera, trying to figure out what to do next. Take him back?
Now the real story begins: it would appear that the intent was to have Carter and Steffy face long-lasting consequences of their drunken night together. So that, Steffy would become pregnant with Carter’s child, which would cause the ripple effect in Carter’s marriage to Daphne, who is unable to carry a child.
One other theory, unless, Carter and Steffy believe they had sex, but they passed out in compromising positions but nothing ever happened? Perhaps one of them, or both will have flashbacks of them carrying on together on the couch? Were they set up? Stay tuned.
So, we ask you. What happens from here? Steffy gets pregnant with Carter’s child? Does Steffy goes back to Finn? Carter goes back with Daphne? They really never had drunken sex? Weigh-in via the comment section. But first, take a look below, and a bit of what went down when Steffy and Carter realize what happened between them.
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