![]() Victor’s desire to unite his family (except for Abby) by any means necessary creates some fine conflict. OK, now back to our regularly scheduled Newmans. For no special reason.” Credit: CBS screenshot “Just gonna read that last paragraph again. Candi’s probably said it a million times already, but bringing him back to the show was one of the shrewdest moves that executive producer/headwriter Josh Griffith ever made. Without matching her level of intensity, which would be all wrong for Daniel, anyway, he volleys back in a way that is uniquely his own - smart, entertaining and utterly engaging. ![]() So it would be easy for an actor to sort of fade in her presence. Michelle Stafford is a magnificently large presence when she’s on screen, even if you want to throttle Phyllis, you can’t take your eyes off of her. ![]() Graz also really wowed me during Daniel’s breakfast with Phyllis and Summer. Glad to see Young & Restless capitalizing on it and them. Not every duo on this or any show has that, and it’s lightning in a bottle. They have “it.” When Michael Graziadei and Christel Khalil interact, it seems natural and organic. Super Natural Chemistryīefore we get back to the Newmans - and we will - let’s talk about Daniel and Lily for a moment. The characters remember when he was a porn addict carrying on with Amber, and so do we. Spoiler alert: We never need it spelled out for us! That’s why we so loved it when Daniel and Lily referenced “the old days” when people would have objected to them being together. And honestly, all that was required there was a look from Nick that said, “Seriously?” That would have been enough. Look, I get that we have to forget certain things in order to keep stirring the pot, but you can’t play a moment in which a bad guy wants credit for his good deeds without someone pointing out why he so desperately needed to do good deeds in the first place. “Now sashay… away!” Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Aaron Montgomery/JPI “Maybe,” I wanted Nick to reply, “that’s because, before you did that, you stole her from her mother and let her believe that her baby was dead while you handed her over to your then-stepmother, whom you’d caused to lose your younger sibling when she found out how much you suck at doing drag.” Was Nick’s spine removed at the door? Why would a mega-rich and disgruntled dude like him say, “What the heck? You betcha I’ll work with the person I hate most in the world” when he’d literally just come off of an interaction in which Adam had had the nerve to complain that donating an organ to Faith hadn’t been enough to earn him even common civility over the long haul. “I wonder if Forrester International is hiring.” Credit: CBS screenshot Though Nick had been put on leave by Victoria, so he was barely an employee of the family business anymore, when Daddy tasked him with baby-sitting loathed half brother Adam at Adustus, which still sounds like a cleaning service to me - Adustus and Amopus and Asweepus - he literally replied, “Sher. “So help me, you’d better not tell Abby we had a family meeting without her!” Credit: CBS screenshot And why was Abby the only one of Victor’s children not ordered to do this or that at the confab? Why was she not even ordered to attend? Should we be happy for her or insulted on her behalf? How this differed from business as usual, for all practical purposes, I have no idea. Ignoring the thought bubble as much as he had the mirrors, the tycoon called Victoria, Nick and Adam, as well as Nate, to a meeting at which he announced that, from here on, it was going to be his way or the highway. “Couldn’t I just give you some of my Lexapro?” “Oh God,” read the thought bubble above her head. “You, you, you!” Ignoring the mirrors, the sulky schemer revealed to Nikki that he had a plan. “It’s you,” screamed every mirror in the house. The week began with Victor, never exactly a portrait of self-awareness, wondering why his family was in such shambles. Young & Restless Bombshell: The Reveal That Could Leave Holding *All* the Cards Cue the Sad Charlie Brown Music ![]()
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