I have watched this show since it began and yes there have been lots of stories that are hard to believe but this latest has caused me to end my relationship with the show. The issue with the custody of the grandchild has just made me realize that the writers of this show think their audience must be really stupid. I'm sad that I have to call it quits but this is just so beyond stupid that I cannot handle it anymore. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to take this storyline. Too bad cause to me this was the last of the good soap operas!

more than a classic soap opera. maybe, a cultural phenomenon. or an ocean. because, for me, except Jeanne Cooper and Eric Braeden, the series is a huge Rubick cube, full of new presences, confuse conflicts, frozen time and old fights, relative friendships. a series with a life of 44 years is out of any definition. first, because it is the series of its fans. second, because, like each illusion/fairy tale, it is a source of alternative life events, different by generation who discovers it. short, endless series. maybe, the most seductive soap opera if you do not ignore its impressive longevity.

They won't let me give this garbage a zero so I guess it's a one. How this show manages to stay on the air for 40 plus years is beyond me. It must be cheap to produce or something is my best guess. Like every other daytime drama its totally lacking in any sort of realism. It's a comic book look at life for housewives and the unemployed. All the characters are rich and beautiful but nobody works. I think this probably appeals to their two target demographics I listed earlier. Frankly animated shows like the Simpsons do a much better job of portraying reality. Hopefully the new generation will finally put an axe to drivel like this on TV.

I've watched this show since I was born. Maybe a little before: my mom used to watch it way before I was born so, Genoa City is a place I know well. It's my little world, my little universe. It's a place I love because it's full of characters I've met years ago: Victor Newman, Nikki, Nicholas, Sharon, Phyllis, Daniel... I'm used to these characters. They're so real to me. They're part of my life. I can't imagine living without watching their stories, their life going on. I know the characters, their life, their favorite places: Crimson Light, Gloworm, Restless Style, Jabot, Newman Enterprises... It's like I'm there every single day even though I'm not physically there. I really can't imagine a life without "The Young and the Restless". Already 40 years... and hopefully 40 more. I wish this show a long long life.