Bold & Beautiful has done it again. It’s taken what it’s flat-out told us and thrown it out the window to tell us something different and just assumes that we’ll forget what we were told in the first place. Spoiler alert: We won’t.

What happened this time was that Remy sensibly asked that boyfriend Deke not mention him around Forrester Creations. If we were Deke

 

 

, we’d have pressed for a reason, because the request made absolutely no sense. But that’s not the big issue. The big issue is that Remy’s initial reluctance to be outed as Deke’s beau — after he stalked and terrorized Electra and posted fake nudes of her online — was logical. What came next… was not.

 

 

In Friday’s episode (recapped here), Remy broke his promise to Deke not to have anything more to do with Luna by visiting her behind bars. There, he cheerfully announced that he would be attending a party in Deke’s honor at Forrester Creations — the very place where he previously hadn’t even wanted his name mentioned.

 

 

Hell, even Luna was like, “Bro, what you smokin’?” Remy’s turnaround made no sense whatsoever. If he wanted to make amends to Electra, as well he should if that was even possible, he could have approached her privately (since apparently there’s zero security at FC, anyway!). He could have explained to Deke that, before they met, he’d been lost and confused and had done some genuinely horrible things.

Instead, the show had Remy overnight become completely delusional. As he explained it to Luna, he was going to just show up at Deke’s party, let Electra be shocked and then say sorry. He was sure that he could prove — what, in that moment? — that he’d changed. It was nuts. Even Luna said so, and honey, when Luna Nozawa is telling you an idea is crazy, you best listen — she knows from crazy!

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Plus, Remy set up Deke to be completely blindsided. No warning that Remy had a super shady past. No hints that maybe there was something so bad in his history that he hoped it stayed buried. He was just going to walk in there and completely blow Deke’s mind at the same time as he horrified Electra. What kind of idiot does that?!?

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Bold & Beautiful also had Remy all of a sudden expressing a dream to someday work with Deke on Hope For the Future. If R.J. can be an insta-designer, we suppose Remy can, too. But why all the outta-nowhere nonsense? It feels like Remy was introduced without anyone having a clear idea of who he was or was going to become, so they just keep upending his story arc to turn him into whatever they need any given week.

The same thing happened with Daphne, really. She was introduced as a take-no-prisoners badass who thought of love and sex as fun and games, then she was watered down into a character whose sole purpose on the canvas was to crush on Carter. What happened to the OG Daphne, the one with attitude and mischief in her eyes?

Bold & Beautiful has been doing this with Sheila for years. One week, she’s supposed to be an absolute monster, the most fearsome waitress in all of L.A. Then the next, she’s Ms. Nice Guy, protecting Steffy from Luna and visiting Liam in the hospital. And the week after that? Oh, she’s back to being cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, casually threatening to murder Taylor if she makes a move on Deacon.

We’re altogether fine with characters changing and evolving, but it has to be motivated by something — ideally something rooted in sense. This habit Bold & Beautiful has gotten into of saying “Oh, well, he or she is this this week because that’s what we need them to be” is weakening a whole lotta potentially strong characters and stretching credulity to the breaking point.