Shirts Off and Claws Out: The Bold and the Beautiful Two Scoops For the Week of December 15-19, 2025

This week on The Bold and the Beautiful leaned heavily into surface-level emotion while ignoring the deeper fallout beneath the surface. Big moments were framed as romantic, supportive, or well-intentioned, but the execution told a different story. Characters acted with certainty while avoiding accountability, and the show relied on repetition rather than progression to make its point. Whether it was romance overpowering realism or family loyalty collapsing under quiet condescension, the disconnect was hard to miss. What played out wasn’t clarity, but a series of choices that raised more questions than they answered.

Enough with the make out sessions

Everyone gets it. Steffy and Finn are an aesthetically appealing couple, and steamy, passionate romance is a staple of the soap genre. However, it's become all Steffy and Finn do. Every time they are together in a room, they succumb to their immense passion for one another and end up endlessly kissing. This week was more of the same, and in the scenes they shared together, they were shirtless, forcing viewers to watch them play tonsil hockey. While they have earned a period of drama-free romance, it becomes a bit too much.

Finn's daughter was just killed after escaping prison in a laundry cart, and somehow that's an aphrodisiac for the couple. He fully understood that she needed to die so that they could move on with their lives. That's not exactly what he said, but that's how it's coming across. Steffy and Finn parade around like they don't have a care in the world, and as if he isn't a world-class doctor and she isn't the co-CEO of a prominent fashion house.

Now, there's no reason the couple needs to go back to enduring an endless stream of torment. It's okay not to have hurdle after hurdle disrupting their everyday lives. However, something needs to happen that's more intriguing than the two just constantly kissing. Celebrating Christmas with the woman who ran down his daughter is not exactly what we had in mind, either.

The bitter big sister

Brooke seemed to struggle this week with being a supportive sister to Katie. She can say whatever she wants to Ridge when they are one-on-one, but when she's faced with siding between her loyal sister and the chronic waffler, she sides with Ridge every time. Brooke was allergic to defending Katie in any capacity. She understood what was "best for business," and just assumed that Katie would follow suit. Perhaps if Katie had a genuine support system at Forrester who believed in her, she wouldn't be on her way out.

Brooke's attitude toward Katie got more deplorable as the week went on. Katie summoned the courage to give Brooke the first heads-up about her Forrester departure. Instead of wholeheartedly embracing her sister's new career move, Brooke questioned it as if it were a police interrogation. She clearly didn't think her sister was capable of handling her own fashion house, but she feigned acceptance. Even the way Brooke constantly refers to Katie as her "little sister" comes off incredibly condescending.

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Brooke is going to alienate Katie to the point that it's only going to serve as motivation fuel for the younger sister to make her new venture succeed. All Katie needs is a design team, most likely Deke, to showcase themselves as fresh and modern and send a message to the world that Forrester is a dinosaur of the past. Brooke will eat her condescension, and Katie will prove to everyone that she is a major player who refuses to be overlooked any further.

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