soap opera digest young and the restless updates

At 12:30 in the afternoon, “The Young and the Restless” would come on TV while we ate vegetable soup together in the kitchen. He then converted his young granddaughter as a loyal viewer (much to my mother’s chagrin).

What could he do to keep his mind off his pain (and likely boredom)? A friend suggested watching “The Young and the Restless,” and after one episode, he was hooked. The long-running CBS soap opera has been an unexpected gift for me throughout the pandemic.īut during retirement in the 1980s, my grandfather began experiencing health challenges that kept him at home for much of the time. My grandfather was never part of the target soap demographic during soaps’ heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, audiences consisted primarily of American housewives, not male diplomats who worked overseas, as my grandfather did for many years through the Voice of America. I was just 5 years old when I started watching “Y&R” with my grandfather, who helped my working parents by frequently babysitting my brother and me on weekdays. Yes, that’s right: The long-running CBS soap opera has been an unexpected gift for me throughout the pandemic.

At this time of year, when we consider what we’re grateful for, I am thankful for “The Young and the Restless.”

Soap opera digest young and the restless updates