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Y&R Recap – Nov 28 – Dec 2nd

December 4, 2011

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Tucker and Ashley are enjoying their honeymoon as they exchange gifts. Later, Ashley talks to Billy and is delighted that her brother is home with his family. Meanwhile, Victoria and Billy learn their divorce has been finalized. Nick happily greets Nikki as she returns to the Newman Ranch. Nick questions where she was the night Diane was murdered. After Nick leaves, Nikki tries to resist the urge, but ends up pouring herself a drink. After spending time with Kyle, Jack is shocked when a reporter informs him that Diane’s body is being exhumed. Adam warns Myrna/Patty that if Ronan figures out Victor was set up, Adam will point the finger at her. Later, Jack takes Kyle to meet Genevieve at the lakeside mansion. Myrna/Patty is furious when Genevieve gives Kyle the stray cat as a gift. At the police station, Ronan states that the vial contained a paralytic drug that can lead to death. He also says that Diane’s blood was found on the syringe in Victor’s safe. Victor adamantly insists that he has been set up. Meanwhile, Adam insists to Michael and Victoria that he will step in at Newman while Victor is away.

­Victor welcomes Nikki home with a warm embrace. Nikki and Victor share a passionate kiss and they head upstairs to make love. At the Abbott Mansion, Myrna/Patty sneaks in using her key and picks up the cat. She talks to the cat, stating that Diane got what she deserved. Later, Jack realizes that the cat is missing. Ashley and Tucker cut their honeymoon short because she’s worried about Billy. Meanwhile, at Restless Style, Billy asks Nick to sell the magazine back. Later, Victoria vents to Billy about seeing Adam in charge of Newman. Billy advises her to warn Victor about Adam. At Restless Style, Nick is annoyed by Phyllis’ ideas for stories about Billy and Victor. Jack and Ashley offer Billy a job at Jabot. Meanwhile, Nick informs Avery that he’s considering selling Restless Style to Billy. At the Newman Ranch, Victoria is happily surprised to see Nikki. Later, Tucker’s therapist is revealed to be Emily Peterson. Phyllis flirts with Ronan, trying to get information out of him about the murder case. He’s surprised when she informs him that Nikki is back in town.

In Chicago, Tucker continues his therapy session with Emily. He admits that Ashley doesn’t know who his therapist is. Chloe questions Billy about why he didn’t inform Katherine about the way Victor k­ept him away from his family. Chloe asks Victoria to be the matron of honor at her wedding. Later, Billy surprises Victoria with a visit from Reed.  At Nikki’s AA meeting, Harmony gives testimony stating that her drug addiction caused her to fail as a mother. During a coffee break, Nikki offers support to Harmony. Deacon approaches Nikki, but she coldly rejects him. Victor asks Michael to investigate Nikki’s alibi at the rehab facility. Michael learns that a credit card was stolen from Nikki’s rehab and used to rent a car the night Diane died. Nikki visits Kay and is surprised when Harmony shows up. Later, Tucker arrives at the Chancellor Mansion with a peace offering to Kay, but is furious to see that Harmony is there.  At the coffeehouse, Deacon approaches Nikki and stuns her by saying that he saw her in Genoa City last summer. Ronan arrives to take Nikki to the police station for questioning.  Abby offers to be Devon’s business partner.

­Harmony stands up to Tucker as he demands to know why she’s back at Katherine’s house. Tucker lashes out at Katherine, accusing her of using Harmony to get to Devon. Meanwhile, Ashley presents Devon with a check from Abby to finance his new business. Later, Devon hands Kay a check, returning her initial investment in his record label. Ashley learns Emily is Tucker’s therapist. Meanwhile, Emily approaches Paul at the GCAC bar.  At Restless Style, Phyllis is working on a story about Diane’s murder case. Nick is furious that the article implies Nikki is a suspect. Angry at Phyllis’ lack of respect for family, he fires her. Later, Ronan advises Phyllis to get away and spend some time with Lucy.  At the station, Michael demands Ronan release Nikki. Nikki runs into Deacon, who offers to give her a ride. Later, Ronan discovers new evidence and prepares to get an arrest warrant for Nikki.  Deacon has taken Nikki back to the Newman Ranch, where she begins drinking. Deacon states that he saw Nikki in the park on the night of Diane’s murder. When Victor arrives, Deacon informs him that Nikki took off on the Newman grounds and is drunk. Victor finds Nikki and she becomes hysterical and declares that she killed Diane.

­Emily provides some details about her life in order to convince Paul that she’s not Patty. Paul mentions that Patty is still missing from the mental institute.   Tucker admits to Ashley that he sought out Emily as his therapist. Tucker says he wants to bring Emily to Genoa City for a visit, which upsets Ashley. At the GCAC, Tucker informs Emily that he has to stop seeing her because of the problems it’s causing with Ashley. Nick confesses to Victoria that he may sell Restless Style back to Billy. Victoria suggests they start their own company. Later, Nick offers to sell Billy Restless Style. At the coffeehouse, Nick accuses Adam of setting Victor up for murder. Meanwhile, Nikki continues drinking as she recounts how she left rehab and went to the park the night of the murder. Nikki passes out in Victor’s arms. Ronan enters the Newman Stables and finds Victor who admits to the murder. After Adam verifies that Victor is the murderer, Victor is arrested.

Adam calls Sharon at Sam’s home in New Mexico and informs her that Victor has confessed to the murder. Sharon makes plans to take a flight back to Genoa City. Meanwhile, Nikki wakes up from underneath a pile of hay and wonders where Victor has gone.

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Y&R’s Eileen Davidson Delivers the ‘Power Performance of the Week’

April 14, 2024

Taking on a DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) storyline on the soaps can be extraordinarily challenging for the performer who is tasked with making a clear distinction and delineation between the various alters of their character.

However, the other trick to playing this kind of story, is often having the various alters trying to hide the fact from those they know and love of what is truly going on with them, so as not to tip them off, as to what is happening to them as they battle for control of a person’s psyche.

The gold standard is One Life to Live icon Erika Slezak’s (ex-Viki) Emmy-winning and gut-wrenching and riveting DID storyline where we met Tori, Niki (although we met her earlier in the life of the show), Tommy, Princess, Jean and even her father, Victor.

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Now in 2024, The Young and the Restless’ Eileen Davidson is playing out a new DID storyline for the first time as Ashley Abbott. We knew decades ago that Ashley had a breakdown and has suffered psychological issues, but this has taken it to a new level. And, let’s be real, if you are going to give someone currently on a soap a DID story, who better than Davidson, who is used to playing multiple characters at one time as she did on Days of our Lives. Although on DAYS, each of the characters were their own distinct person, while now on Y&R, Ashley’s alters are fighting for control of her being,

Last week, on the Thursday, April 12th episode of the CBS soap opera, Davidson truly got to shine, as in front of the Abbott family and through what was supposed to be an intervention (they hadn’t figure out what the hell was happening to her), Ashley was flipping from alter to alter. We know there is Ms. Abbott, and Ash thus far, but there is said to be one more alter a-coming.

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In the key scenes, Davidson’s internal struggle was played pretty masterfully in a scene where she literally is in a tug of war with her alters and flings herself on the couch, while Jack (Peter Bergman), Diane (Susan Walters), Billy (Jason Thompson) and Traci (Beth Maitland) look on. Of course, there are the soap trope scenes of alters in handcuffs while the other is on the loose. And leave it to Billy to figure out Ashley is suffering from DID from his past experience.

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While this all seemed to spring from Ashley’s messy relationship with Tucker (Trevor St. John) and a throw back to an old car accident where she lost her unborn baby, is there some other underlying issue in Ashley’s past that was even more traumatizing that will be revealed as another trigger for this massive personality split? We shall see.

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In the meantime, Michael Fairman TV names Eileen Davidson’s work the Power Performance of the Week, and rest assured, come 2025, Davidson will find herself going for the third Daytime Emmy win as Lead Actress for this storyline.

So, let us know, what did you think of Eileen’s performance? Are you enjoying Ashley’s DID storyline? What do you think will happen to her next? Comment below.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: “Sugar Sugar! Oh, Honey Honey”

April 13, 2024

The Bold and the Beautiful revealed at the end of the Friday April 13th episode what many viewers had guessed, that it wasn’t Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) who died when Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) stabbed her, but it had to her doppelgänger, Sugar, or at least it seems that way.

Deacon (Sean Kanan) has been beside himself since seeing what was supposed to be Sheila’s body being cremated, but revealing the body had ten toes and not nine, and we all know Sheila had cut off her toe, so she only had nine.

While explaining his thoughts that she is alive to Finn (Tanner Novlan) and then trying later to explain to Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), Deacon is more convinced that something is wrong here. Meanwhile, Finn went to talk to Steffy about Deacon’s theory, which stuns her, as she believed she killed Sheila in self-defense.

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At Il Giardino, Deacon looks at his phone then slams it down. He flashes back to the body going into the crematorium oven saying to himself, “Maybe I’m not going crazy. Maybe that wasn’t you. And if that wasn’t you, maybe you’re out there. Maybe you need my help.”

Deacon gets on Sheila’s laptop and tries to find something that might help him figure out where Sheila has gone. He looks at her text message communications and sees a section from an unknown number. He opens the messages, and Deacon reads that they’re from someone named “Sugar.”  That person said she was going to find Sheila. In the messages, Sheila made it clear she wanted no part of her. But it could be that Sheila met up with Sugar, or was forced too?

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In a quick history lesson about the character of Sugar: she was originally played by Robin Mattson on B&B, and was a former prison warden who helped Sheila escape and then joined her in kidnapping Ridge Forrester to hold him for ransom. A twisted plot ensued, where flames engulfed the foundry they were at and Ridge was presumed dead. Meanwhile, Sheila and Sugar disappeared with Massimo and Sheila’s baby, Diana.

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Fast forward to 2006, Sheila returned to Genoa City to go after Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman) again and was arrested for attacking Scott Grainger (Peter Barton). In a shocker, when Lauren went to visit Sheila in the slammer, she learned that the woman behind bars was actually Sugar, who had been given plastic surgery and now looks exactly like Sheila.

Now the questions become, did Sheila know that Sugar was going to attack Steffy? Did they have a plan and it went awry, or was Sheila hoping she could get rid of both Sugar and Steffy, by having her daughter-in-law sent to prison for her “murder”? Or, is Sheila out there somewhere in trouble?

Share your theories via the comment section below, and if you knew all along that it would be revealed that Sugar is the person who actually died and not Sheila. But first, check out next week on B&B where Deacon gets a visit from Lauren.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Drew and Nina Get Physical; Were You Surprised or Did You Expect it to Happen?

April 9, 2024

On the Tuesday, April 9th episode of General Hospital, Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Nina’s (Cynthia Watros) explosive relationship just turned up the heat another notch.

In story, Nina who was responsible (although she doesn’t see it that way) for Drew being sent to prison for insider trading when she tipped off the SEC, let out her feelings to him about how to get back in the good graces of her daughter, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and Michael (Chad Duell). In doing so, she asks him for his help with it.

For months, the two have had nothing short of contentious moments, where Drew has not let Nina off the hook for what he did to him, or to his ex Carly (Laura Wright). Fast-forward and when alone in the Crimson office, Nina brings up wanting to stick it to Carly again.

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As they banter back and forth, Drew can’t figure out why he should help Nina at all with any of her manipulations. Suddenly, as he tried to exit, his shirt rips and exposes his bare chest and abs, and Nina get quite an eyeful. From there, things become physical and before you know it, Drew and Nina are making out and having their version of hate-sex.

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Cameron Mathison spoke to Soap Opera Digest on the shocking turn events, sharing, “I didn’t see it coming at all. I really didn’t. I think the audience did. Cynthia did some appearances and I guess the audience was ‘You and Drew, there’s some sexy chemistry there.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? Really?’ I didn’t even get it. So I love it that it was very unexpected. The writers saw it, too. And, I love that it’s not a typical way for two people to be … physical. I was gonna say intimate, but there’s not a lot of intimacy there. And then as soon as it’s over, it’s back to arguing and giving each other crap again. It was really cute and really well done.”

As the fallout for their office room romp will air on the Wednesday April 10th episode, just how will the two deal with the fact that they had this fiery passionate moment in the weeks and months ahead? Will this be Nina’s new plot to get at Carly to be seen with her ex? Will Drew and Nina never speak of this again? (Well, this is a soap opera, after all, that’s pretty doubtful), or is this part of a major reset for some of the characters on the canvas now that Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte are co-head writing the show?

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Speaking on the aftermath of the tryst, Mathison added, “The two of them are both like, all right, let’s forget about that and move on. It’s like a weird kind of aggression attraction. There’s obviously attraction there, but I don’t think either of them expected it, and I think they’re both totally shocked and surprised by it. I think Drew gets a kick out of it whereas Nina is a little embarrassed by it.”

Now let us know, did you see this coming? Did you think Drew and Nina would have sex? What do you think of the story turn? Comment below.

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