From what little I watched of the show this year, this has to be up there but I’d definitely lean towards Eric’s miracle Christmas cure storyline. When Brooke is reading from the Bible I’m having a hard time keeping a straight face, I’m sorry.
B&B has been a complete mess in 2023.
Saving Sheila from prison & saving Eric from death has brought some awfully stupid twists and unrealistic writing.
Sheila was about to be sent to prison for many years for attempted murder. But that was not enough for Bill & Ridge. They GUESSED that Sheila had murdered someone in the past. And that she would confess to it under certain circumstances. They had nothing but guesses. So they blackmailed Steffy, Finn, Li & Taylor, making sure none of them testified against Sheila. They made sure Sheila went free from attempted murder of Steffy, Finn and Li. Then they contacted an FBI guy to set up hidden cameras and Bill figured he'd take advantage of Sheila to get her to confess. Sex and a proposal. They were lucky that Sheila actually had killed a guy 20 years ago and confessed. Bill & Ridge forced Deacon to betray Sheila. But wait, the judge had a past with Deacon and owed him a favor. So the judge threw out the murder case and set Sheila free. Now getting NO prison time at all for killing Lance, trying to kill Steffy & Li and accidentally shooting Finn and leaving them for dead.
Had Bill & Ridge just simply stayed out of it, Sheila would have at least gotten many years in prison.
As if the laws even work like this....... So stupid.
But Eric's story was even more braindead.
He starts feeling ill but refuses to seek more medical help. Only house calls to check the basics. But even though he had no major tests done at a hospital, they gave him a diagnosis. But viewers never found out what illness it was. Just that it's fatal and that there is no known cure anywhere. Suddenly we hear that several oncologists (cancer doctors) have looked into the case, and come to the same conclusion. No cure, Eric now has weeks left at best. So Eric has some kind of cancer, okay. But one that can't be cured according to the experts.
But wait! Finn spends a couple of days by his computer, and suddenly there IS a possible cure afterall. One that he found, that none of the cancer experts had ever heard of.
Meanwhile, Ridge dictates who can and who can't be informed about Eric's condition. Apparently, everyone except his nephew Zende are okay to tell. Unfortunately, Ridge can't tell siblings Kristen, Felicia and Rick because they're on a long safari trip together and absolutely can't be reached on their phones for many days.
Then Eric collapses and Finn tells the family of the highly experimental treatment that he, not the experts, found. So Finn & Bridget rushes Eric to surgery to operate on him for this still unnamed illness. Nevermind that none of them are surgeons, or that Bridget is operating on her own father and Finn on his wife's grandfather. There are apparently no available surgeons in Los Angeles that can operate on Eric.
We still don't know what they did during the operation. We don't know what illness it was. And we don't know what is so experimental about the treatment. There was only an operation and then lots of rest. Finn talked about a transplant, immunotherapy and other treatments. But there's no way the needed organ became available for Eric just hours after he was brought in and MINUTES after Ridge said ok to the treatment. Organs don't grow on trees. And there's no way an 80 year old half dead ill man would be placed 1st on the list.
And now Eric was saved. By Finn -- who was braindead a year ago.
B&B is now Days Of Our Lives realistic.
