The Bold & The Beautiful had a classic, soapy story
brewing. Ridge married Caroline, only to learn that she was pregnant with his
son, Thomas’, child, the result of a drunken hook-up
when Ridge and Caroline were briefly on a break. (It was all Ridge’s fault, he
dumped Caroline because he couldn’t give her the children she wanted. Then he
got over it.) Caroline and Ridge assume the baby is Thomas’, because Ridge had
a vasectomy (and those certainly never, ever go wrongon daytime). Ridge
bullied Caroline into keeping the truth from Thomas and raising her baby boy as
theirs, and Caroline went along because she truly loves her husband. And
because Ridge bullied her.
But secrets never stay secrets on soaps for long, and
viewers knew that little Douglas’ paternity was bound to come out sooner or
later.
But did it have to be in such a clumsy and plot-driven
manner?
How clumsy and plot-driven was it? Let me count the ways at Entertainment Weekly....
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