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20 out of 26 people found the following review useful:
Glamorous, glitzy and cheesy, 16 September 2005
Author: dingoberserk from Australia

Two things tickle me in relation to this never-ending saga: the illogicality of many situations, and the blatant inconsistencies, hypocrisies, contradictions and double standards displayed by most characters. These two ingredients combine to make up an insidiously alluring cocktail, which may explain why B & B, in spite of its cheesiness, has the potential for becoming addictive, as exemplified by so many testimonials, both within my own social circle and elsewhere (for example, on this website). The principal characters, who are rarely seen engaged in normal activities (such as work), are prone to proclaim their undying loyalty to one another, backed by strong moral principles, family values, marriage etc., then break their promises and behave like alley cats, just a few weeks down the track. One example amongst hundreds: when Brooke is confronted by Taylor with the question: 'How could you sleep with Nick the night you thought your husband had died?', she contrives to look dutifully repentant and says something like 'I don't know how to explain it'. Not very convincing. The endless proclamations of belief in the sanctity and permanence of marriage are contradicted with monotonous regularity by the behavior of most characters. In spite of this, all second, third etc. weddings take place in a chapel in the presence of an (ostensibly Christian) celebrant. Christianity of course, or at least the traditional view of it, is frequently set aside when characters indulge in bitching about one other, undermining the reputation of others, cheating in various ways, etc. The most common method of rumbling the frequent conspiracies is by eavesdropping behind a half-closed door, then charging into the conspiratorial environment and confronting the conspirators with dramatic remarks. Again, not very convincing. There seems to be a tendency, on the part of the scriptwriters, to demonize female characters to a greater extent than male ones. There are no male counterparts to Sheila, Stephanie or Sally Spectra, just to name a few. The glitzy ambiance and would-be glamorous surroundings are an obvious smokescreen, designed to hide the basically vacuous lives of the majority of characters, deprived as they are of any authentic ideals. The mirage works quite well. And one could continue ... in spite of all the above (and more), B & B remains an entertaining soapie which will be missed when, inevitably, the final curtain falls. PS. Incidentally, have any of the characters ever heard of contraception?

12 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
This Soap is nothing but dogs!, 13 May 2006

Author: conradz58 from Sydney, Australia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

OK. How in the world did this soap be the best? First of all, this soap is cheesy, secondly - the story lines are corny, and thirdly - they made love as trash!

I mean come on, B&B would be the best but face it, the story is totally cheap and the characters keeps changing from one to another person. Like Brooke having her sex appeal to the rich guys, her daughter Bridgette keeps changing her temper of Nick like for example: I hate you - I love you, Thomas is always liking the ugly's and Nick is becoming to be playboy! IT'S ALL TERRIFYING! For all of you Soap opera fans, if you are choosing to watch this soap show: Don't watch it.

I rate it 1/10. They should change the story lines.

12 out of 17 people found the following review useful:
this show is AWFUL!!, 23 June 2006

Author: sammie_gal91 from Singapore

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

if i could give a 0 i would or even a negative number. i mean this show doesn't even make sense. i mean didn't Taylor die earlier in the show? and suddenly she is alive again?? and Ridge isn't Eric's son. this show is really full of NONSENSE! the people who are supposed to be dead aren't actually dead. in the end who will really die in the show? and Brooke is way to old to have children and she is like a baby factory. man, could this show get any worse? there is another that is so stupid. Ridge and Brigette? how could she feel that Ridge actually had any feelings for her? i mean they treat each other as brother and sister. this show is really full of thrash. can't believe it has been able to continue for so long!

14 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
A classic soap opera!, 16 July 2006

Author: Grace Zeh (filmgirlgz@gmail.com) from Chantilly, Virginia, USA

Ah, yes. I can remember when I was in high school. One thing I would do my junior and senior year when I was home from school was watch this classic soap opera. From that moment on, I was hooked on it. In addition, I also enjoyed the days when Agnes Bruckner played Bridget Forrester. Ever since Macy (Bobbie Eakes) left the show in 2003, I haven't been watching it as much. If you ask me, she was absolutely diabolical. You'd have to have seen the show between 1987 and 2003 if you want to know why. However, this is still a good soap opera. In conclusion, I highly recommend this classic soap opera to all you die-hard CBS fans.

6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
"Oh Mom! You Slept With My Brother !!", 14 November 2009
Author: ahmed elshikh (ahmed_abd_elreheem@yahoo.com) from Egypt

..And that's maybe not the worst yet!

I love soap operas. Who can forget (Knots Landing) or (Falcon Crest)? But some goods when outlive for more than their competence.. They transform into envenomed!

At first it was another, late 80s, so TV-ish, daytime soap. Namely sexy, melodramatic and yeah.. boring! But after that, it turned – while keeping itself outwardly glossy – into ugly huge farce.

I can't say it's a diary of a family. I can't say it's fine thrilling melodrama. I just can say that it's a living exploitation of soap. And you know what? It's successful. Damn one too!

(The Bold and the Beautiful), after 22 years and counting, is a real fine example of the kind of drama which some viewers need everyday like a requisite meal to satisfy their hanger (for living a romance, feeling rich, beating enemies..) whatever the acting was, and whatever the manipulation is.

I somewhat caught on its formula : a sexual desire, a sinful love, a separation between 2 lovers, a wicked plot and a surprise. Then another round. Then another one. Then another with other characters, with new characters, then between the old and new characters, then between them and us maybe!, then the same formula again with the same characters afresh, going on and on till the end of you, days or its time on screen (namely : its cancellation !).

It's a perfect scheme. So loved and long-lived. But who can stand endless story lines, everlasting dialog, the silence of the actors before cutting to another scene or commercials, and – most of all – the changing of partners?? Whoever can stand all of this for more than 5500 episodes I'm surely not one of them. Why is that ? Because I don't have non-critic mentality, a desperate passion for melodrama, and that PATIENCE!

Speaking about the changing of partners thing I recall a line was said by (Dean Stockwell) in one of (Quantum Leap)'s episodes talking about a soap opera "Here Sam, everybody is sleeping with everybody". (B & B) maybe broke this rule since in it everybody slept, sleeps, and will sleep with everybody! Sometimes I think that they have nothing to do in this world but sleeping with each other, then chatter and chatter and chatter, to re-sleep again yet with others. It's not the story of life, it's the life of very profitable story! I know that it got the power to make you sleep in front of it too!

Did its success become a curse ?! I don't completely think so. Not for the actors since they're all well-paid. Not for the viewers since they get what they want. But maybe for the writers. These people got to write one work for over than 2 decades ?? OH MY GOD! This is, in spite of all the money in the world, so heavy mission to be done. So, based on my compassion, I'll forgive them for such events like the one of my title's line which was the first thing I heard when I tried to continue watching this series again after years of losing any interest in it (yes, first I felt panic, thinking that the mom slept with her own son, but I understood it right later!). Hence when things reach this far.. I invite you to do what I already did : Changing the Channel. Believe me.. You'll feel so bold and beautiful after!

In the next episodes I bet you.. the son will turn out to the real father of his sister, (Ridge) will turn out to be a brother of his mother, (Eric Forrester) will have a sex change operation, (Brooke) will turn into lesbian (if she didn't yet?!), and I can see the end right now; the aliens will take them all away (it kind of happened before, didn't it?!). And for that I'll salute the creative writers. Simply, what can a teleplay writer do…More ?!!!

Originally, as much the viewers want it, as much it gains more time on air, and so…that's what has to happen. Though it triumphed over any jesting – even its own – already, being the most-watched soap in the world with an audience of an estimated 26.2 million viewers in more than 110 nations. So while I believe that it is provoking sitcom; running without laughing tracks or laughing.. Others don't, and that's in fact what makes it provoking. But everybody got their own classics. This show is classic for some. Classic crap for others. Hell, it is classic both ways!

4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Still tantalizing after all this time, 2 July 2002
Author: yaki_j from israel

The bold and the beautiful can defiantly be blamed for the mistreatment of its most important character, the divine Mrs. Brooke Logan, but in the last few years, under executive producer brad bell, it became one of the most surprising and shocking soaps. With plotlines involving the revelation of the father of Becky's baby, ridge's paternity proven wrong, Brooke's pregnancy by her son-in-law and what is referred to as `the best kept secret in daytime television history' - the return of kimberlin brown's psychotic character Sheila - B&B has proven itself as a must-watch soap. The once slowed-paced show has became a blink-and-you'll-miss-it TV with plenty of surprises and shocks still in store.

If only the producers will look back to the show's roots and restore Brooke's integrity and character I would rate the show as `perfect

1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Scriptwriters, 24 January 2013

Author: lorna10 from Australia

Are the Scriptwriters all in the 10 - 12 year old age group? Anybody over that age could write better scenarios than they do - what is written is pathetic!! If I want to watch 'crap', I will from now on - I'll watch the 'Wiggles'!! It's an older audience who watches The Bold & The Beautiful,& we're not morons!! Pick your writing up, or get new people who can. I have watched this show for many years, & it used to be interesting - now, you can switch on after 4 days and not have missed a thing!! Have production costs been cut or what? Some of the scenarios are just beyond belief - nobody could be as stupid as some of the characters are made out to be, yet these are 'people' who run or are involved in multi-million dollar corporations?

2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Good, but could be better, 16 June 2007

Author: emsmejl

The bold and the beautiful has daytime's best actress in Susan Flannery (Stephanie) and were created by legendary William Bell. That alone is wonderful. The main characters over the years has been Stephanie, Eric, their children and the people involved with their children, such as Brooke, Taylor and Macy. Classic soap opera in the world of fashion. Lovetriangles and family loyalty are the keywords to this soap opera. Rivlaries that can go on and on for years since they are all part of the same family and same company. They can't break lose from each other, so they try instead to win their battles. The saga of Brooke and Ridge have been a big part of the show, but it went old and boring long ago. Ridge needs to find a new woman. Brooke and Taylor can compete for someone else. Eric and Stephanie should stand united as the show's only secure couple. Felicia is a great addition. And enough of re-run story lines and stupid plots. Other than that, the show also needs some fresh air. Otherwise a great soap opera.

3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
addictive, 28 December 2004
Author: BritBaby03 from United States

This show is very cheesy, I know. But if you let yourself get interested in the characters and the storyline, I guarantee you'll be hooked. That's what happened to me, and now I've been watching for 5 years (and I'm only 19!). The characters play into the world's fascination with the rich & famous, so you get the feeling of watching powerful people screw up and give in to human emotions. We all can relate with some of the things these characters go through. This is the only soap I watch; I have to admit that I sometimes laugh at the too-dramatic acting, but I'm telling you, give this soap a try and you'll find yourself watching every day just to see what happens next. A real nail-biter!

Loved it for years, 19 March 2011

Author: bb_ash2003 from United States

I love this soap. Always have. Personally over the years I think it gets better. It revolves around the Foresters & the Logans. Saying their families are entwined would be an understatement. Keep reading.

Eric & Stephanie are the foundation of the Foresters. Their children together are Caroline, Ridge, Felicia, & Thorne. The Logans are the children of Stephen & Beth Logan, Brooke, Donna, Katie, & Storm. Eric & Stephanie have always been on & off. I prefer Eric w/ Donna, not Stephanie. I always did like him better with Brooke, Sheila, etc. It is a little weird how almost everyone is related in some way.

I never thought about it until a few years ago I was explaining to my friend. Brooke is my favorite i explained, as we watched. Ridge is her husband, but he was married to Taylor at one time. Taylor is now married to Nick, who is Brooke's ex-husband. Nick was first married to Bridget though. That's Brooke's daughter, who is one of 2 children she had with Eric, and Eric is Ridge's father, Ridge the man she's married to now so technically, her husband and younger children's father is half brother to her 2 older children Rick & Bridget. Eric is also linked romantically to Jacky who is Nick's Mother. Besides being the ex wife of Nick, Brooke is the biological mother to Jack whose father is Nick, whose married to Ridge's ex-wife & children's mother, Taylor. Nick married Taylor, and Brooke but also was with Bridget, Brooke's daughter and they were married (That makes her the Mother of His Child w/ his 3rd wife, ex-wife, & ex-mother in law all in one). The baby her & Nick share Jack, is actually Nick & Taylors child- now remember,Taylor is Ridge's ex, Brooke's current husband. It was a mix up by the Dr who fertilized the wrong egg with Nick's sperm, & then implanted the embryo which contained an egg they thought was Taylors, but was Brooke's,that had been fertilized by Nick in Taylor- Brooke & Taylor had always hated each other. The doctor making the mistake? That was Bridget..Nicks ex wife, Brooke's daughter, Taylors ex-husband Ridge's sister, & mother of Nicole, Nick's first baby who had died as an infant, after which Bridget/Nick divorced, & that's when Brooke, Bridgets mom, married Nick but later married Ridge, leaving Time for Bridget & Nick to rekindle for a while. Ridge married to Brooke now, was married to Taylor, whose married to Nick, who was married to Brooke. Taylor had 3 kids with Ridge. Stephy, Thomas, & Phoebe. Phoebe's 1st & only love was Rick, who along with Bridget, are Brooke & Eric's children. Phoebe just after being crushed by a fling her Mom, Taylor, had with her only love Rick died. Rick was also Pheobe's Dad Ridge's, half brother. He was born to her father Ridge's, father Eric-her grand father & Brooke, Eric's ex-wife who is now her step mother, since she was married to her grandfather, but is not married to her father. So Rick is Brooke's son, Phoebe's uncle, & her step brother since his Mom was married to her father. Rick began dating Phoebe's Mom, Taylor, so he was like her step father for a while, but he was also her ex-boyfriend...who then after dating her Mom when they broke up, & after her death, started to date her sister Stephy, who was her twin, so Stephy shared the same relationship to Rick as Phoebe- and once Rick was dating Stephy, so again his relationship to his girlfriend was that he was also her uncle/step-brother who had dated her sister & her Mom but now was her boyfriend. Messy? Confusing? Drama? You Bet! This soap is a classic must see. I DVR it, and enjoy watching it, I try to not watch on fridays because I spend the weekend wondering so instead I will watch Friday on Monday or Tuesday when I have a quick conclusion to the awesome cliff hanger they always leave on Friday's.

Whew! Things change of course & this is just a little background into a few characters so I wouldn't spoil anything. Again, this was a story I told a friend several years ago about relationships within the story. Some things have changed. This info isn't the most recent but gives a good history of relationships for anyone who doesn't know who Sheila or Pheobe or Nicole are. Since then I must say that perhaps my portrayal of Ridge may not be 100% accurate. After all, Stephanie loved not only Eric but another and well....can anyone ever truly be sure who there father is? In the Bold & Beautiful series I mean...

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