Wait! do YOU know what’s going on?

Yeah, me either.  I don’t even know where to begin with this week’s Y&R.  There was SO much going on and most of it not being done well (thanks to the writers, not the actors) that I just decided it wasn’t worth paying THAT much attention to.  Abby purposefully tried to kill Tucker in a drunken fit and Ashley, in a moment of motherly nature to protect (where has that been all this time?), decided to cover it up and take the fall.  I might get this scenario if it weren’t for the fact that Ashley has spent the last few months completely ignoring any maternal instinct she may have had.  Ashley had essentially said I don’t know what Abby’s deal is but I’m gonna go ahead and marry this man she HATES.  Even after the disaster that was the last marriage.  Now all of a sudden she wants to protect her precious baby Abby?  I’m not buying it.  Plus Abby is dangerous.  She maliciously chose to aim the car at Tucker and speed up to hit him.  Drunk or not, that needs consequences.

Happy Break:  Can we pause just a minute to talk about Coco (Erica Gimpel) being back on tv?  She is the lovely detective looking into Tucker’s “accident” but I know and love her from her days as Coco on the tv series Fame.  I loved Fame and I wanted to be Coco.  She looks fabulous and I hope she sticks around for awhile.

Back to the show.  Can we be done with this whole “who gets to raise Lucy” bit?  I have decided that whenever Phyllis is on in relation to this I should fast forward so as it not make my brain explode.  She is SO FREAKING ANNOYING in this role.  Daniel is a grown man!  Let him make his own choices and live to love or regret them.  Why don’t you focus on a) finding a new job and b) finding out where your actual, real live daughter is?  Ugh…

Another one who could stand to mind her own business for a minute is Katherine.  I don’t know what happened to Kay.  She used to be a character to root for and to agree with most of the time.  Now she’s just a meddling, whining, complaining to God old biddy who is chewing scenery wherever and whenever she can.  She’s been shunning Tucker for ages now – even as recently as the days before his wedding.  But in the eleventh hour Kay has a change of heart, but oops!  It’s too late.  This really serves her right.  She’s been SO busy sticking her head up Victor’s butt that there wasn’t time for anything else; including the son she got rid of because he was inconvenient.  Now she’s setting up vigil and making decisions like she played an important role in Tucker’s life when in actuality she didn’t.  If the rumors are true and Tucker will have amnesia I am NOT looking forward to that.

I didn’t think it was possible for Sharon’s story to be worse than it was before, but yikes!  This is dullsville.  We get it.  Sharon is torn, sad because she misses her babies.  But I don’t see her turning up to reclaim her kids or her imprisoned life.  And really, no one is looking for her so either accept it and start again as “Sherri” or start hiking back to town in your stilettos already.  This was a bust of the Victor/Hope Story 2.0.  At least so far.

I’m not sure if the current writers at Y&R don’t know the history of the show or they’re just choosing to ignore it, but Diane Jenkins was many things.  A bed hopping skank was NOT one of them.  Sure she got around, but there was a relatively decent break in her forays into new partners.  These days she’s lucky if she can make it a few hours before bedding some other rich man in Genoa City.  The worst part of this iteration of Diane is that there is no need for her desperation. Victor was annulling their marriage sure, but he was giving her a huge chunk of money in the process.  She should have been set for awhile.  Yet, there she is,on her way to try and get her hooks into Tucker and his money.  Why?  Writers any insight into this?  Cause I’m not seeing it other than the overwhelming hatred of capable, non-needy, strong women  on this show.  Note to show – it’s getting old! Not all women are incapable of functioning on a high level without a man!

Which brings me to Lily.  Poor, poor sad grief stricken Lily.  Sigh… what have they done to this character.  I get that she is grieving over Cane and isn’t sure if she’s going crazy, but she’s still Drucilla Winters daughter and when Colin came snooping around she should have slapped him down with the quickness. No matter how crazy she thinks she is, if she doesn’t find an ally soon she’s going to find herself locked up and minus two adorable babies.  Now I know it’s early in this storyline but why is everyone out to get Lily?  Colin wants her out of the way for his grandbabies.  But what did Lily do to any of them?  It’s Cane’s fault that his family is not in the children’s lives why take it out on Lily? And now that Cane’s mom is coming what’s her deal with Lily? She doesn’t even know her and again, lest we all forget, Lily didn’t get Cane killed, Colin did.  I’m excited to see Genie Francis begin her role this week, but if the rumors are true then this story is about to take a turn for the worse – Passions worse at that.  Ugh.. what I’ve seen is head-scratchingly unbelievable.  Hopefully these spoilers are either wrong or will all be explained quickly in the first few days (yeah right).