[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.

All it takes to see why, a hundred times over, we don’t want that is a glance at the below photo gallery of “Bridge’s” horrific history. Yeah, there were romantic moments, sure. But there were also a ton of deal-breakers!