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by Todd Brown
March 1, 2008

In fact I'm confused by everything having to do with Victoria these days. For starters the woman was immobilized in a coma for months and yet here she is back at work only weeks after waking up. And she's as skinny as if she spent those months in a gym. Recent mothers everywhere are rightfully calling "foul." And long time viewers are rather taken aback by the fact that Victoria has spent lo these many years yearning for a child only to get bored with being a mother and handing it off to a nanny or daycare within days so she can go on about her normal life like when she didn't have a baby. If history is any example we won't see Reed again until he's seventeen in a couple of years. Already Victoria has given up on breastfeeding so she can drink a glass of wine.

Isn't that house smaller than the loft anyway? I mean, four people were living at the loft at any given time and it looks like you could barely do a cartwheel in the Newman guest house. I don't know what JT means by saying Reed will have so much more room there. Plus the way he's got it decorated looks like something my grandmother would go for with that flowery green sofa and all those candles. Not exactly baby friendly if you ask me.

Now we've got this new son of Victor's to deal with. At first his name was Victor Jr, then it was Vic, and now it's Adam. Who knows what it will be next. Maybe it can become a running gag. Like someone goes up to him and says "Hi Adam" and he says "No my name's not Adam anymore, I'm Walter now." Then the following week people go "Hi Walter!" and he goes "No I'm not Walter anymore I'm George."

This alleged graduate of Harvard business school with a history of working for a top financial institution in New York arrives in Genoa City, studies the Newman portfolio and immediately latches onto . . . Beauty of Nature? What the hell? This guy pours through stacks of documents outlining the details of every major conglomerate corporation Newman Enterprises has a hand in, and the first thing he comes up with is "I'm worried we're not selling enough lipstick." Meanwhile everyone is very concerned about his work ethic. He shows up early, leaves late, has no social life, is on top of everything and I don't even think he's been in the break room once. He's making everyone else look bad.

But wait - he's not so promising after all. Upon being asked what he thought of Beauty of Nature's spokes-model Sharon, he replied "She seems bright." Bright? Has he met Sharon? For starters, being bright isn't exactly the top criteria in choosing a model. He could have commented on whether or not her look was right for their product, which can be argued either way. Sharon's so-called brightness shouldn't really be a consideration whether he's met her or not. Perhaps he's seen her on TV, but so have I and the last word in the world I'd use to describe her is "bright." I guess Adam wasn't privy to that whole nose drops conversation.

I've got a little advice for Victoria and Nicholas if they want to get rid of their new-found and erstwhile brother. Introduce him to Jana. People who get involved with her tend to wind up dead. Fortunately for her the demand for coffee in this town is so great the populace would rather place their own lives in danger than, God forbid, buy Folgers. No matter how many shades of pink she has in her hair or how much weird blue eye shadow she smears on the multitudes are satisfied she's sane enough to serve them coffee despite the double homicides.

Why does Nick need to take on debt and borrow against his trust fund? As co-CEO of Newman surely he was raking in at least six figures and never paid rent. Not to mention the coffee house business he ran and sold. Did he throw all his money away on hair gel? More

 
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