The Young and the Restless

1973

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5.3| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.

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Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Executscan Expected more
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
mark.waltz I started watching this show at the tail end of the original set-up where the Brooks and Foster families dominated the story. One upper middle class, the other working class, yet interconnected and all basically decent people. Along comes "the mustache", a 35 year plus villain who doesn't mellow, just gets more rotten. Victor Newman's story did overlap the original families by 2 years, and for a while, he was engaged to the show's original bitch goddess heroine, Laurie Brooks. Today, only Jill Foster Abbott remains from the first episode, having been played by many actresses, with Jess Walton now in the part for almost 30 years. After the death of long-time matriarch Katharine Chancellor, Paul Williams (Doug Davidson, now with 38 years on the show) became the longest running character, and for a while, had a family of his own who supplanted the Fosters as the lower working class family. Original Foster matriarch Elizabeth Foster (Brooks, thanks to a brief marriage to patriarch Stuart) was on and off the show for 37 years, a regular presence for the show's first 12 years, but neglected even though daughter Jill was still on after she was written off. The show's writers can't seem to make up their mind of how they want to history, destroying Jill's being a Foster by making her Liz and Bill Foster's adopted daughter. This wasn't the first show to capitalize on youthful characters, but with "Y&R", it pretty much declared war on focusing on more mature characters. Certainly, Jennifer and Stuart, supposedly widowed Liz and the complex Katharine Chancellor had their own battles: Jennifer with breast cancer, Liz finding her husband Bill was alive then pulling the plug on his life support, and Katharine's alcoholism. I've seen old episodes of each of these major stories, and certainly, Julianna McCarthy should have been nominated for an Emmy for her heartbreaking performance as Liz. When they killed Liz off for good in 2010, I was heartbroken, almost feeling like I had lost my grandmother. Jennifer did die of breast cancer during the early years of the show, and Katharine just passed away, but these three women showed that during the early years, young didn't mean youth; It meant young in spirit, and the ability to deal with heartbreak, loss and depression.The two early major stars were Jaime Lyn Bauer as the sultry Laurie and future prime-time TV star David Hasselhoff as Jill's brother, Snapper. But their departures from the show in 1982 pulled the story towards the growing Abbott family and Eric Braeden's ruthless Victor. I liked him around this time, but his character hasn't seemed to pick up any serious life lessons, only getting worse. In short, he's the Donald Trump of soaps. The 1984 wedding to former stripper Nikki Reed was a wonderful reunion of many of the show's veterans, with a great subplot of Victor's psychotic ex-lover Eve Howard in disguise trying to kill the bride. I was addicted to the show during the story-line the previous year when Eve (the beautiful Margaret Mason) tried to kill Victor through slow acting poison and her slide into insanity as Victor pretended to be dead to trap her.Such beautiful older women as Marla Adams (Dina Abbott) and Susan Seaforth Hayes (Joanna Manning) kept me intrigued as young women like Ashley, Tracy and Patty held my interest as well. Jack Abbott and Paul Williams were fascinating young male characters, with wise John Abbott showing that powerful businessmen could be decent, even with someone like Victor Newman breathing down their neck. By the end of the 1980's, I began to loose interest in "Y&R", but have gone back on several occasions, first when Margaret Mason returned to introduced Victor to their son, Cole, and later when Judith Chapman took over the role of John Abbott's gold-digging wife, Gloria. I also would make brief re-visits every time Dina or Joanna would pop into town, as well as one of Liz Foster's longer stays in 2003 when she had to tell Jill that she was adopted.Now, the show is a shell of itself, having diminished the importance of Jill and writing off the bulk of the characters that I liked. They turned Nikki Newman into a shrew, wasted the character of Ashley Abbott, and made Victor Newman so unrealistically evil that I wished I could go back as head writer and have Eve Howard's poison taken affect. Like Sonny on "GH", Victor has a loyal group of fans and disgruntled viewers who would love them to be killed off for good. "Y&R" has never had the best writing (no matter what the Emmy Awards may think) as it is often inconsistent, angry and pandering. Yet, they must be doing something right, because of the four soaps left, it has the highest ratings. Or perhaps I'm no longer young and restless either, or just above the cell phone style of Ebonics that come out of the writer's pens.
mikerichardson-63034 They won't let me give this garbage a zero so I guess it's a one. How this show manages to stay on the air for 40 plus years is beyond me. It must be cheap to produce or something is my best guess. Like every other daytime drama its totally lacking in any sort of realism. It's a comic book look at life for housewives and the unemployed. All the characters are rich and beautiful but nobody works. I think this probably appeals to their two target demographics I listed earlier. Frankly animated shows like the Simpsons do a much better job of portraying reality. Hopefully the new generation will finally put an axe to drivel like this on TV.
cja-887-709013 I have been watching this show since I was a little girl with my mother, then with my daughters and now with my husband (yes he finally started to watch it with me). I would say almost from the very beginning. Over the years some of the story lines I didn't personally agree with but I stayed with the program because I believe that everyone has views or ideas that are different then mine. But over the past year I don't know who is writing the plots and/or determining which actors stay and who goes but I just can't take it anymore. Goodbye Y & R. Really Adam running over Delia - hasn't this character had enough negative, The character of Delia -already getting over cancer then to kill her off in such a tragic way, Jill and the box from Katherine is totally stupid, especially that her character would sell it on ebay, give me a break, like she needs the money. The Victor and Nikki characters should be dropped, just like the Brooks family, you run out of ideas for them - move on. The characters that needed to be dropped are kept on and the ones that need to go are still here. Enough is enough.
preppy-3 I find them too slow with lousy acting and silly story lines. I only started watching this cause my roommate does and he told me the guys are VERY attractive. He's right. Some of the men here (especially Billy and Cane) are drop dead gorgeous but also it isn't bad for a soap. Sure, some of the story lines drag but, for the most part, this moves fairly quickly. Yes, some of the actors are bad but no one is terrible and some of them are actually VERY good. It's also easy to pick up--it took me about a week or so to (somewhat) figure out the story lines. That's another thing--this has multiple story lines going on at once and you're never really bored. Also the production values here are excellent. There are beautiful, impressive sets in virtually every episode. I started watching about a month ago and I have to admit I'm hooked! A very good, well-done soap.