Hypocrisy Run Amuck

Oh Genoa City.  What kind of whack-a-doodles do you have running around your city?  This past weeks’ overwhelming theme was hypocrisy.  Everybody was running around doing exactly what they had berated someone else for doing just a little while ago.  Nina was yelling at Heather for making Chance leave town, even though Nina wanted Chance with Heather instead of Chloe for months, Doris was snarking at Adam while asking for his help and look at Phyllis.  She’s “doing this for Daniel”.  He is going to want to raise Lucy.  She just knows it by golly.  Yet, Phyllis didn’t think that Brian, Daniel’s biological dad, might want to raise him?  Oh, that’s right. It didn’t matter because it’s all about Phyllis and what Phyllis wants.  No one else gets a say as to how things should go if Phyllis is involved.

Over on the E!Online Boards  I am periodically accused of not liking Phyllis.  This is true, I don’t like Phyllis one bit, but I have good reason.  This latest turn of events with Phyllis puts the final nail in her coffin I believe.  Even if my other reasons are partly because she’s an adulteress and a bully, choosing to get what she wants over the safety of the granddaughter she claims to love so much is beyond the pail.  Remember Phyllis’ whole reason for boarding Daisy in the first place was so that Lucy would know she was loved and not born in a prison hospital.  Guess we’re done with the shielding Lucy portion of the show then huh Phyllis? What kind of person, publicly puts precious Lucy’s face out there for her psycho mommy to see? How do you see this playing out Phyllis?  The last time you thought you could “control” Daisy it almost got your son killed.  This time, would you prefer it if sweet baby Lucy died since you can’t have her?  Cause we all know, the Y&R writers have NO problems killing children on this show.

So somehow Phyllis believes Daisy will just sign over custody of Lucy to her? First of all, Daisy is a wanted felon whose rights are in the process of being terminated. Second, why would Daisy want to help Phyllis?  I know no one remembers this, but hello people!  Daisy RAPED Daniel.  Just gonna gloss over that bit huh Red?  In any event, I’m guessing this will end up with Billy taking the brunt of whatever weapon Daisy has.  Will it kill him?  Maybe if Billy Miller truly isn’t coming back or maybe he’ll just be in an offscreen coma for awhile.  But, because of Phyllis, the suckfest that is Daisy will be blowing back into town along with those psycho jazz hands Phyllis pulls out whenever she’s “so sorry” about something and “she never intended for it to end up as it does”.  Ugh.. enough already please.

Then there’s Saint Katherine.  Up until roughly an hour before her son was run down, Katherine despised Tucker.  Could not be done with him fast enough.  Every chance she’s had she berated him for not being loyal to family and for not being an upstanding business man.  Well that was one side of her neck.  At the same time she was talking out of the other side of her neck praising Victor for being a great business man and father.  Yeah, great job Kay.  Remind me to never count on you, you suck.  Now Kay has made it her mission to dismantle McCall Unlimited and turn it into junk.  Remember when Tucker first came to town and took over Chancellor Industries?  EVERYONE rallied around Katherine and helped her as best they could.  Even though Kay lost her business through putting her trust in someone she didn’t know, people wanted to help her, give her a second chance.  Yet, when it’s time for Kay to consider giving Jack a second chance running Jabot, she can’t see fit to give it to him.  Really Kay?  She said that Jack had issues and made poor decisions when he ran Jabot.  Hmm, seems like Kay did the same thing with Chancellor when she took random advice from Tucker right?  So why is it ok that she get a second chance but not Jack?  Oh, that’s right, because whatever Kay says is right.  ALL.  THE.  TIME.  Meanwhile, Tucker is fighting for his life while Kay is killing his life’s work.  Thanks a lot mommy dearest.

Of course we can’t forget Cane or is it Caleb?  I guess he’s not really being a hypocrite, but he/they are getting on my last nerve.  We started the week with Caleb being all sporadic and crazy.  Then we see he’s in cahoots with Colin, his dad.  Do you know how I know it’s Caleb’s dad?  Because Caleb keeps saying it over and over and over again just in case we didn’t get it the first 200 times.  Caleb is Cane’s “evil twin.”  As the week, and the dad-count, progresses, we find out that the plan is to gaslight Lily and snatch the twins to take back to Australia.  Sigh… what now?  Why does Colin want these kids so much?  Why am I supposed to care?  Why must yet another innocent, female bystander be gaslit?  Have the writers just run out of ideas at this point?  At the very end of the week, we meet Genevieve (G from here on out) who is the twins’ mom.  I was hoping for big things with the arrival of Genie Francis, but we only got a few minutes with her at the end of the episode.  And those minutes were kind of scary – and not in a good way.

So to keep things straight, at the end of the week Cane was dead, but Caleb was alive and gaslighting Lily at the request of Colin who wants the twins for himself. But is that really Caleb?  He seemed awfully upset with the way he left things with Lily during his last visit.  Why would Caleb be upset?  But it can’t be Cane because we saw him get shot to death on the church steps and he told Lily that he loved her.  Why would anyone other than Cane do that?

I really wanted to believe the hype surrounding this story.  Daniel Goddard has been tweeting about how great it is and how much we’re going to love it.  Yeah, um, not so much man.  This is by all accounts thus far a stupid story.  Cane’s “story” has been rewritten so many times it’s not even funny.  When the news first broke about this cattle rancher crap I laughed.  Really, rough and tough cattle ranchers? Please.  But then enter Colin (Tristan Rogers) and I’m back in.  Colin was the x-factor.  He was going to make this story work.  But wait, then Cane gets killed and Colin is mostly just a sounding board periodically.  By the time they get back around to this story it is just full of crazy, unbelievable plot twists.  Who can keep up?  And more importantly, who’s trying to keep up with this anymore?  How is it that Lily STILL has not found the note Cane left for her?  Why isn’t anyone else suspicious of how much Colin talks about Lily’s children?

The one good thing to come out of this storyline though is the performance by Lily (Christel Khalil).  When she found out about Cane’s lies shortly before his death, she let him have it.  I hadn’t seen so much passion/believability from Christel in ages.  I wanted that Lily to stay in town.  Then as recently as last Friday’s episode, Lily went off on “ghost Cane”.  She was on FIRE.  Why can’t we get more of that?  Those moments are really the only time we get to remember that Lily is half Drucilla.  Please let more of that Lily out to play.

I feel like maybe it’s time for Phyllis, Katherine, and Victor to all board a plane to faraway lands for a year or so.  The constant meddling, fighting dirty, and passing judgement is growing very tiresome.  Plus, they never really have consequences for their heinous actions so I say good riddance for awhile.

By the way, anyone else not feeling the need to rush out and purchase actual Jabot cosmetics?  I know the skin cream tampering was only on the show, but I for one would not be too quick to slather a bunch of that on my face.  Seems like real life product tampering is something a twisted person would find “amusing” to do.  Just sayin…

Until next week, drop me a note/comment with your opinion. 

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