Sorry, But *What* Did Bold & Beautiful’s Sheila Just Say?!?

We accept a lot of thing as par for the course where The Bold and the Beautiful is concerned. We shrug it off that characters routinely over-identify one another. (“You slept with my son, your nephew, a doctor, Steffy’s husband, a mammal!”) We check texts while the show builds up to its reveals. (“I have something to tell you, and it’s important, crucial, vital that I do so now, immediately, right this second, and yet I won’t actually spit it out for another three days!”) We are even used to the rampant hypocrisy. (It didn’t occur to Hope that she was channeling Steffy when she lambasted Daphne for — gasp — kissing someone else’s man and trying to send her packing.)

But despite all the concessions that we make for The Bold and the Beautiful, we were still taken aback when Sheila opened her mouth in the March 13 episode (recapped here) and expressed her shock that Luna had drugged Steffy and thrown her in a cage with the intention of letting Finn’s wife die when the building was demolished. “I never would have wished that upon her,” Sheila said. How she kept a straight face, we have no [bleeping] clue!

Sheila, unless you are suffering from the same kind of amnesia that she apparently is, you will recall attempted to murder Steffy in cold blood. When Sheila’s first shot missed the target — Finn stepped in the way — she fired again and left Hayes’ parents for dead in Il Giardino’s back alley. And then she plotted to rub out Steffy in the hospital before she regained consciousness and could tell anyone what her monster-in-law had done.

It got worse. Sheila then remarked on how horrible it was that Luna had killed her “father” Tom. “Maybe some people really do deserve to be locked away in prison for the rest of their lives,” Sheila said like she was a pillar of society, “and if anybody does, it’s Luna.”

Really, ma’am? Really? On The Young and the Restless, Sheila stuck her own mother’s head in an oven!

Obviously, it’s nuts that we are even discussing the relative awfulness of Sheila’s crimes vs. Luna’s, but that’s where Bold & Beautiful has left us. The show has set Luna free for “reasons” and positioned her granny as the world’s unlikeliest judge and jury. How did Deacon not laugh in his wife’s face when she was taking such a hardline stance on Luna when she herself had murdered accomplice Lance Day (with bees!) shot Taylor, Brooke, Stephanie and then some, chained up James, kidnapped Ridge and half brother Nick, shoved Brooke off the wagon and tortured Young & Restless’ Lauren for so many decades, she’s gotten used to sleeping with one eye open.

It makes zero sense — and our facepalm was totally avoidable. How hard would it have been for the writers to have had Sheila acknowledge her own history of violence and vindictiveness and be curious about what drove Luna to do what she did instead of immediately jumping to the very conclusion that Steffy draws about her: that she is an irredeemable killer. It wouldn’t have been a problem, barely an inconvenience.

Yet Bold & Beautiful once again decided that this is what a character will do because it is what the powers that be want them to do. Never mind how illogical it is. Never mind how the audience will react. It’s like we can hear them in the writers’ room going, “Yeah, but we need so-and-so to do this so that this other thing can happen.” Some poor newbie is probably saying, “But so-and-so would never do that. Can’t we connect the dots in a way that makes, ya know, sense?” The room erupts in laughter. “Nah, let’s just do this. Everybody forgot that Luna always said she had a happy childhood with Poppy, they’ll forget that this is made-up BS, too.”

“How’d I get dragged into this?”

Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (4)

Actually, no, we didn’t forget that Luna always said that she’d been close with her mom, nor did it slip our minds that Sheila insisted to Deacon that she had access to untold riches, Wyatt is still theoretically engaged to Flo, Paris is the first woman that Thomas hasn’t raced down the aisle, Ridge made his last commitment to Taylor on the advice of a pinecone or that Ivy is super into Liam… just not into him enough to let him know that she’s been back in L.A. for months. Is her phone broken? #MakeItMakeSense