We here at Soaps.com take The Young and the Restless to task a lot — based on your reactions to our polls, justifiably so. And, since we

never stop rooting for the show to slay, it pains us to be negative. Genuinely, it does. So it is a delight to be able to say that I am loving a storyline on the show.

 

 

Which one? Daniel and Tessa. They are heartbreaking together. And that kiss — zoinkies! That was the kind of swoon-worthy soap moment I’ve been wishing Young & Restless would give us a whole lot more of. It felt like what it was: a long time coming. Tender and passionate and inevitable and doomed. (Or is it?)

 

 

As much as I may have liked Daniel with Lily and Tessa with Mariah, I like Daniel and Tessa together a zillion times more. Their portrayers just bring out something magical in one another. I totally buy that these are friends who have accidentally begun to feel more than friendship for one another.

 

 

I know, I know that a segment of the audience will argue that Tessa once said she was gay, so she can never be anything else. But life is long, folks, and a lot of people discover not all at once but gradually that what they thought was black-and-white is in fact quite gray.

As the great philosopher David Rose of Schitt’s Creek once remarked in explaining his bisexuality, “I like the wine, not the label.”

What will happen next? My hope is that Mariah exorcises the ghost of Ian Ward once and for all and returns to Genoa City hoping to repair her marriage… only by then it’s too late. Though she and Tessa give it the ol’ college try, the singer can’t shake the feelings she never meant to be awakened by her closeness with Daniel.

We here at Soaps.com take The Young and the Restless to task a lot — based on your reactions to our polls, justifiably so. And, since we never stop rooting for the show to slay, it pains us to be negative. Genuinely, it does. So it is a delight to be able to say that I am loving a storyline on the show.

Which one? Daniel and Tessa. They are heartbreaking together. And that kiss — zoinkies! That was the kind of swoon-worthy soap moment I’ve been wishing Young & Restless would give us a whole lot more of. It felt like what it was: a long time coming. Tender and passionate and inevitable and doomed. (Or is it?)

As much as I may have liked Daniel with Lily and Tessa with Mariah, I like Daniel and Tessa together a zillion times more. Their portrayers just bring out something magical in one another. I totally buy that these are friends who have accidentally begun to feel more than friendship for one another.

I know, I know that a segment of the audience will argue that Tessa once said she was gay, so she can never be anything else. But life is long, folks, and a lot of people discover not all at once but gradually that what they thought was black-and-white is in fact quite gray.

As the great philosopher David Rose of Schitt’s Creek once remarked in explaining his bisexuality, “I like the wine, not the label.”

What will happen next? My hope is that Mariah exorcises the ghost of Ian Ward once and for all and returns to Genoa City hoping to repair her marriage… only by then it’s too late. Though she and Tessa give it the ol’ college try, the singer can’t shake the feelings she never meant to be awakened by her closeness with Daniel.