WHY & R

WHY do I keep watching The Young & The Restless??  I ask myself this almost everyday yet I keep viewing that darn soap opera first thing when I come home from work.  Some of the characters and storylines are completely uninteresting to me but I keep coming back for more! 

"The Naked Heiress."  Really?  A teenage rich bitch who's trying to become popular by exposing herself in public and putting the vidoes online.  Not interested! 

A woman who wants to remarry her controlling ex-husband for the fourth time?  Get some self-esteem and self-respect, used-to-be-stripper! 

A woman scorned who started a blog (ahem...) about the "tramps" in her hometown after her husband left her.  Yet she had an affair with said husband when he was married to someone else.  Who's the tramp?

Victor, who professes his love for family yet turns his back on his daughter on her wedding day -- actually has her arrested for something HE did.  Adam.  Where do I even begin with Adam??  Pretending to be a homosexual to gain his gay attorney's trust, trying to drive his stepmom crazy, causing said stepmom to have a miscarriage only to convince her that she didn't, taking his future wife's baby (telling her her baby was still born), and giving that baby to his stepmom.

And, I know this is nitpicky, but I hate the show's hairdresser!  The women on the show are always needing to flip their flat-ironed hair out of their faces.  My anal retentive self is starting to count how many times this happens in each episode.

So why do I watch?  Well, Y & R does have some riveting and relevant storylines like teenage drunk driving, cancer, and surrogacy.  And I was rooting for Sharon and Nicholas to reunite until the writers dragged it out too long.  Now I'm rooting for Billy and Victoria, even though Billy has been mostly a good-for-nothing, happy-go-lucky kind of guy.  I think his character can be charming and he brings some comic relief to the show.  Like when Billy wanted to get "Victoria" tatooed on his back but the tatoo artist keeled over from a heart attack after only writing "Victor" (who is Victoria's dad and happens to despise Billy).  And when Victor saw this, even he smiled ... and then paid another tatoo artist to finish the "ia."

Thankfully I have a DVR so I can fast forward through the boring segments of the show.  A part of me wishes I could stop watching (after all, I did stop watching Days of Our Lives after the storyline about demonic possession).  Maybe it just makes me feel better about my life.  Maybe I just need to get away from reality for a little while.  But until the day that I can just say "no," I'll faithfully turn on the DVR when I come home from work and curse at the television when Sharon doesn't just walk away from Adam or Victor yet again alienates his children.  Is there a 12-step program for soap opera junkies???

A hui hou!
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