Young & Restless Bombshells: Shocking Skeletons, Mr. Nice Guy’s Dark Turn, and a Jaw-Dropping RIP Twist!

Not everything will be new in the new year. Young & Restless seems to be primed to give us the same old nonsensical sorta twists and kinda turns, only reheated and served up like a plate of leftovers that think they’re fine dining.

In a recent interview with TV Insider, executive producer/headwriter Josh Griffith promised that viewers are in for “a wild ride” as Ian and Jordan’s reign of terror leads to face-off after face-off. But what does “wild” really mean when the plot mainly consists of a couple of senior citizens running around playing dress-up while skipping their naps and pulling off feats that would’ve stretched credulity on, say, I Dream of Jeannie? Will the tag team’s disguises get even sillier; their master plan, more incomprehensible?

Apparently, on our way to finding out, the villains will corner nemeses Phyllis and Sharon in what Griffith called “a life-or-death situation.” Except, is a situation still life-or-death when literally no one in the audience thinks for a minute that the show is going to kill off either character? We’re supposed to be scared — “OMG, is it curtains for so-and-so?!?” — but we know damn well that it isn’t. So where’s the suspense?

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

According to the Q&A, the boss also intends to keep playing Victor and Jack’s feud, even though its restart was so dunderheaded, it made the Black Knight look like an ungrateful dumbass. He’s basically been made to say, “How very dare you try to help my wife get sober! You will pay a steep price for this egregious affront!”

Come again? And yet, on and on that story goes, whether or not we care whether either Victor or Jack is rich, super rich or impossibly mega rich. (Reason No. 2,104 why these cast additions are desperately needed.)

In other developments, Summer, the article states, is going to reconsider whether she wants Kyle, even though he’s now involved with Wednesday Addams Claire and he only married his ex the first time around to get a part of her liver for his then-girlfriend Lola. How hot is that, right?

Is It a Secret If No One Was Dying to Know?

Audra, we are poised to discover, “has some more skeletons in the closet,” Griffith said. And we suppose it’s never too late to define her as a character. But considering that the last skeleton to fall from her closet was a torrid past with Noah that made absolutely no impact in the present, we can’t say we’re too stoked.

Finally, after the murder of Heather, a character about whom no one cared but with whom Daniel randomly cheated on Lily (with whom he was terrific, thank you very much), Phyllis’ son will “set himself on a new path,” Griffith teased, one that will send him on “a bit of a walk on the emotional wild side.”

Uh-huh. Well, if the powers that be want to turn him into a playboy the likes of which we haven’t seen since Brad Carlton was popsicled, hey, we’re all for it. But since Young & Restless these days seems utterly fun-averse, we doubt that it will really happen. More likely, given Griffith’s infatuation with half-baked psychological storylines, Daniel will again become a sex addict, only one who doesn’t even enjoy sex.