Y&R's New Generation

Colleen (Adrianne Leon) is soooo annoying. She talks too much, which I guess is the writers' doing, not her own. But she is a horrible actor. Her voice, her pronunciation sound plain fake, like she's trying to act. Furthermre, Leon is also too old to be Colleen. Am I supposed to believe this grown woman just graduated from high school? I want another Colleen now. Better yet, let's just resolve this whole Brad thing, so that Colleen can fade into oblivion. Colleen makes Y&R so hard to watch. Why is she riding Paul's back like that? "OMG, what did my dad do?" or "OMG, where is JT?" How can you run an investigation with her big-mouth flapping all over the place? Leon's character and the way she plays it is just so not endearing.

But Lily (Davetta Sherwood) is not much better. She's also a blabber-mouth character that make the story so unrealistic, so uninteresting. And they all look so old, trying to play kids fresh out of high school. Yeah, right. She was sitting on Dru's lap in one scene today. And it literally looked like an awkward scene where one grown woman was sitting on top of another. Sherwood has made no connection with her on-screen mother and it is painfully obvious to viewers, especially since things are supposed to be all good between them. Her acting on this show is just not honest, which is not to say that she isn't good in other things I've seen her do.

One of the greatest things about Y&R used to be that all the characters were living with lies that only committed viewers knew. These secrets would be peeled back like an onion, all in due time. Now everyone knows every secret. And they're shouted from the rooftops.

So my random observation is not only that this new generation's acting sucks, but that the writing does too. The writers seem desperate to usher in a new generation since Nick and Sharon are older now. But it seems forced and the actors don't fit. Get it together Y&R!