B&B is The Best Damn Soap Opera Airing This Summer

Why Last Week Proved Bold & Beautiful is The Best Damn Soap Opera Airing This Summer

It's a rare occurence to be genuinely shocked by a daytime soap opera anymore. I'm not talking about the "shocking" reveal that the character you love is really his or her evil twin, or the baby your fave heroine is raising actually belongs to her nemesis across town. Those soap tropes stopped being shocking in the 90's.

In 2015, a soap has to be really clever and think outside the box of tried and true ratings tricks to give its audience an authentic "WTF" moment. CBS Daytime's The Bold and the Beautiful has been delivering such moments back-to-back all year.

No one saw it coming when Maya (Karla Mosley), the social climbing fashion model, turned out to be transgender.  Her heterosexual, white male lover Rick Forrester (Jacob Young) choosing to continue their romance was equally jaw-dropping.

We began to wonder on the Daytime Confidential podcast, "Can B&B keep this up? How long until they're back to those wash, rinse and repeat love triangles and quads?" 

When Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) returned and made a beeline for Liam (Scott Clifton), who was dating her step-cousin Ivy (Ashleigh Brewer), we collectively groaned. "Here we go. Wash, rinse, repeat," we thought. We just knew Maya and Rick would be backburnered in favor of another less-than-riveting chapter of "For Whom Liam's Bells Toll".