A Logan Riff: Where Have Y&R's Epic Stories Gone?

The Young and the Restless courtesy CBS
I'm liking the babe-geezer romance of Sabrina and Victor on
The Young and the Restless, but why the snoozy setup? Outta nowhere, Victor has become an avid art collector (Sabrina's his consultant), leading to weeks of pretentious art talk, museum visits, even cameos by real-life artists. This isn't a plot! It's barely a pseudosituation, and the show has way too many of those lately. (Will Karen conquer her stage fright? Who will take an ad in "Restless Style" magazine?) What happened to all the emotionally epic, high-fever stories that made
Y&R such a landmark? This soap has somehow lost its
opera. -
Michael Logan