WTH, kids? Bold & Beautiful has had Ridge dump Brooke on the advice of a pinecone and profess his undying love to Taylor — without filling in the blonde about what he was up to until later, after it was a done deal. The show has had him give her the heave-ho for — idiotically, we’ll grant you — taking over the top spot at Forrester Creations in hopes of returning the company to him and his family.

Well, his inadvertent family; Ridge is, after all, not Eric’s son but Massimo Marone’s.

[Bleep], Bold & Beautiful let the dressmaker rape Brooke and still wants us to buy that he’s her destiny? Hard pass.

So the July 22 episode was… oof. Painful. As Brooke once again gave Ridge a chance to say bygones and reunite, all we could do was groan. What woman in 2025 wants to watch a peer reduce herself to nothing more than an accessory for a man, someone — something — to be kept or discarded on a whim?

It’s icky extra. And we don’t know how many times we or other websites or fans have to say it for the powers that be to listen. This is not exciting. This is not aspirational. This is tragic — and not in the way that good drama is. It’s tragic in that it’s a cycle that keeps repeating even though the times and tides have changed.

Brooke should be living large and in charge, and loving the fact that Nick worships the ground on which she walks. Yet again, we are being asked to invest in her and the jerk who treats her like “ol’ reliable”? We don’t want that, and neither should Brooke.