By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 1 hour ago

Euphoria, the HBO teen drama, has been responsible for launching some pretty big careers. Without this show, Zendaya probably wouldn’t be a beloved Marvel movie star, and Jacob Elordi wouldn’t be an Oscar-nominated horror icon. Of course, the breakout Euphoria star the internet loves the most is Sydney Sweeney, someone whose buxom beauty has made her the internet’s favorite fantasy lady. Unfortunately for this blonde bombshell, the show that helped make her career is now trying to break her career in the most humiliating possible way.

Her Euphoria character, Cassie, has a current story arc where she makes money on OnlyFans. That’s not so crazy on paper. Every day, more young, well-endowed women are using this platform to make cold, hard cash. But this plotline is just a thinly veiled excuse to put her into a number of strange situations that seem like the barely concealed fetishes of the showrunner. As degrading clips from Euphoria continue to go viral, we are left with only one conclusion: Sam Levinson is deliberately using his hit TV show to humiliate Sydney Sweeney.

Down, Girl

Since you’re probably not watching Euphoria, here’s a quick breakdown of what’s been happening to Sydney Sweeney’s character, Cassie. In short, she is trying to pay for her expensive wedding to Jacob Elordi’s character (Nate), so she turns to OnlyFans as a way to raise the $50,000 she needs.

With the help of former friend turned current manager, she begins carving out some weird, kinky niches for herself on OF. This includes dressing and acting like a dog and dressing and acting like a baby. Recently, she even acted like a giant, complete with a scene of her stomping all over town, Godzilla style.

Even if you’ve never watched Euphoria, you’ve probably seen some of the viral images, GIFs, and memes centered on her character and asked, “What in God’s name is Sydney Sweeney doing?” The simple answer is that she’s doing whatever she is told. She doesn’t write the scripts or choose her character’s arc. Instead, the actor must obey Sam Levinson, the acclaimed showrunner of Euphoria.

Why is Levinson making his hottest actor do all of this crazy stuff, though?  My pet theory (unlike Sweeney, it doesn’t have ears or a tail) is that he is doing so to humiliate her, effectively flooding the internet with degrading images of her.

I Kink, Therefore I Am

All of these bizarre things Sydney Sweeney is doing as part of her OnlyFans character arc correspond to very specific kinks. Dressing and acting like a dog is part of pet play, where a submissive acts like an animal and a dominant pretends to own them. Dressing like a baby is part of infantilization. Even her recent, kaiju-style hijinks correspond to a giantess kink (also known as macrophilia), in which Titan-sized women tease, overpower, crush, and even kill submissive, standard-sized men.  

Now, I’m not here to kinkshame anyone. There’s no problem if you’re into any of the stuff that Sweeney is doing on Euphoria, and you’re probably really digging seeing clips of the world’s hottest leading lady making niche content for mainstream television.

For Sweeney, though, that’s the real problem. Scenes and images of what she is doing on Euphoria keep getting shared, without context, online. When normies search “Sydney Sweeney” on the internet, these images are some of the first things they see. Meanwhile, when kinksters search for things like “pet play” or “giantess,” you guessed it … these images are some of the first things they see!

Feeling Like A Freak On A Leash

Again, there’s nothing wrong with any of this, but mainstream audiences generally find the things Sweeney is doing on Euphoria now to be weird and degrading. By making her do one weird thing after another, Sam Levinson has consistently humiliated Sydney Sweeney, associating her acting (possibly permanently) with degrading things.

That would be bad enough for any young actor, but it’s particularly bad for Sweeney, someone who (through movies like Christy) is fervently trying to be seen as a serious actress and not just a body. Unfortunately, her name is now synonymous with some of the wildest acts this side of Eyes Wide Shut. 

Obviously, there’s no proof that this is Levinson’s intent. But it’s worth noting that some of the stuff (like her acting like a baby) is strictly forbidden by OnlyFans in real-life, so none of this adds to the verisimilitude of the plot. All it does is drag down a rising star in a kind of bizarre humiliation ritual that does very little but objectify her in front of increasingly horny audiences. If Sweeney isn’t down with things like onscreen pet play in Euphoria, then all of this is just weird and degrading. If she is into it, though, then there’s not much left to say.

Except, of course: “Who’s a good girl? You’re a good girl!”

Decades before becoming the schlockmaster behind movies like 2026’s Deep Water, Renny Harlin crafted many of the great works of 1990s action filmmaking. Besides Die Hard 2, the Finnish filmmaker also directed the amnesiac spy classic The Long Kiss Goodnight and the genre-killing Cutthroat Island, but his finest work was 1993’s Cliffhanger. A Sylvester Stallone vehicle set among the mountains, Cliffhanger had everything: magnificent vistas, avalanches, and an internationally organized theft of U.S. Treasury bonds during a Dark Knight Rises-esque plane hijacking. Cliffhanger might be “Die Hard in the mountains,” but Harlin got the most from the setting and its star.

Compared to Die Hard’s famously vulnerable portrayal of then-comedy star Bruce Willis​​​​​​, Sylvester Stallone’s 1980s run of action films had turned him into an invincible cartoon character. With massive muscles, immaculately coiffed hair, and a seeming inability to lose any fights onscreen, Stallone’s only real competition for the title of ‘80s action king was the similarly unbreakable Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even movies punctuated by sentiment or pain, like Rocky and First Blood, grew into franchises where those qualities were gradually phased out in favor of (mostly pretty awesome) adolescent power fantasies. But Cliffhanger was almost a classy take on the traditional Stallone character, with a screenplay that received the actor’s traditional rewrites.

Inside Sylvester Stallone’s Rewrite of ‘Cliffhanger’

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Despite being best known as an action star, Sylvester Stallone has a strong history of writing and directing his films as well. From his mainstream breakthrough with writing and starring in 1976’s Rocky, Stallone took all creative elements of filmmaking seriously. It’s hard to miss his writing credits on ‘80s movies as varied as Rhinestone, Cobra (one of Stallone’s most brutal films), and Over the Top (as well as every entry in the Rocky and Rambo franchises). He could use his script-rewrite privilege on certain films to give himself more to do as an actor — bigger action scenes, punchier one-liners — while making sure the movies fit his public image as an actor. But by the early ‘90s, Stallone’s career was seeing as many lows as highs, especially in comedy films where he had little to no creative influence. Cliffhanger had been slowly brewing all the while. Before Cliffhanger came together, Renny Harlin and Carolco had spent years developing Gale Force, which would have cast Stallone as a man defending a seaside town against marauders at the peak of a hurricane.

As a film from the Carolco company that had produced all three Rambo films, it would have been right up Stallone’s wheelhouse. According to Entertainment Weekly, after spending nearly $2 million on scripts and treatments, Carolco scrapped Gale Force in favor of Cliffhanger.

Gabe is a classic Stallone character — stoic, isolated, and capable.

‘Cliffhanger’ Saved Sylvester Stallone’s Career

Cliffhanger’s long development and rough road to production (including multiple production stops due to Carolco’s failure to pay crew, according to the June 1993 issue of Spy magazine) followed several poorly performing movies for Sylvester Stallone. His attempts at branching out into comedy with movies like John Landis’ surprisingly funny flop, Oscar, and 1992’s notorious naughty old lady comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (a ’90s so-bad-it’s-good classic) revealed his limits. Cliffhanger, casting him as a tough and reliable mountain ranger fighting thieves in icy caves, reminded audiences of what made him such an effective action hero. In the movie’s vertigo-inducing prologue, we see what makes Gabe Walker tick, and why he walked away from the mountain ranger lifestyle, as his decision-making inadvertently leads to the death of his best friend Hal’s (Michael Rooker) girlfriend. As ridiculous as the scene can be, it announces the movie’s massive sense of scale and lets Stallone’s emotions anchor the whole film.

With a script majorly rewritten by Stallone, you might expect Cliffhanger to feature numerous scenes of Gabe Walker as an untouchable killer with remarkable survival instincts. And you’d be right — the reveal that he survived an avalanche plays like a gag. But the movie’s strength is spending time with its ensemble. Besides Stallone’s future Guardians of the Galaxy co-star Rooker, John Lithgow’s villainous Qualen is a great Hans Gruber type, and his henchmen are memorable too. Cliffhanger’s generosity of spirit, disaster movie energy, and excessive touches ensure that while Stallone comes off best, the entire film clicks as an ensemble action thriller. Considering how the ‘90s had gone for him up to that point, Cliffhanger’s a redemption story for Stallone, one he had to write for himself.

By Robert Scucci
| Published 1 hour ago

I love watching Steven Seagal movies. Under Siege (1992) is Die Hard on a boat, and it’s actually a great watch thanks to the supporting cast involved, especially Tommy Lee Jones. Hard to Kill (1990) is amazing because the most badass thing Seagal says in the entire film happens when he’s alone in his bedroom, muttering about taking the evil senator on his TV to the blood bank. And how could we talk about Steven Seagal without mentioning On Deadly Ground (1994), a cautionary tale about corporations destroying the environment that somehow involves Seagal, the good guy, blowing up half of Alaska?

At face value, these movies are tremendously entertaining, but not for the reasons you’d think. Most of the entertainment value comes from Seagal believing he’s a living, breathing legend, even though most of the fight scenes involve him talking tough, running awkwardly, and wiggling his hands around. But if you really want a Steven Seagal punisher that could double as a drinking game, it has to be 2006’s Attack Force.

And what would that drinking game be, you ask? Every time Seagal opens his mouth and it sounds like a Martin Sheen impersonator is dubbing over the dialogue, you take a sip of whatever you’ve got. Be warned: you’ll probably need your stomach pumped if you actually commit to this bit.

I Don’t Even Know What This Movie’s About

As of this writing, I’ve written 1,945 articles for this site, most of them movie reviews. Usually, I’ll knock out a quick summary, talk about the themes, break down intention versus execution, and figure out who the movie is actually for. Attack Force finally broke me. This movie isn’t about anything or for anyone, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t laugh my face off the entire time I watched it.

To the best of my understanding, Attack Force follows Steven Seagal’s Commander Marshall Lawson, who, as expected, suffers from a terminal case of “Damn, he’s good” syndrome. On this mission, however, a commander is only as good as his team, and his squad gets wiped out almost immediately by a stripper named Reina (Evelyne Armela O’Bami). Marshall, with help from his girlfriend Tia (Lisa Lovbrand), discovers that Reina murdered his team while high on a new party drug called CTX, which Tia co-developed alongside corrupt nightclub owner Aroon (Adam Croasdell).

Though Tia helped create CTX, she wants nothing to do with Aroon’s comically evil plan to taint Paris’ water supply with the drug because it turns anybody who takes it into a bloodthirsty maniac with an insatiable appetite for flesh, or something close to that. There’s a lot of dialogue about animal instincts and violent mammalian impulses, but none of it really clarifies anything. There are also reports that earlier versions of the film involved aliens, so who the hell knows what happened here?

Long story short, Steven Seagal wears these weird talon gloves that let him punch and slash people at the same time, a bunch of people die, and then the movie abruptly ends with zero explanation or closure. I’m trying to make it make sense, but I’m a writer, not a miracle worker.

It Gets Worse

The most insane thing about Attack Force is the sloppy overdubbing. Legend has it that there were so many rewrites after production wrapped that entire chunks of dialogue had to be replaced in post. The problem is nobody was available for reshoots, so a healthy percentage of Seagal’s lines were redubbed by a guy who sounds more like Martin Sheen than the actor he’s supposed to be portraying. We’re not talking about little touch-ups either. There are scenes where Seagal switches between two completely different voices within the same conversation. He’ll start speaking normally, the next few sentences are dubbed over, and then the exchange suddenly snaps back to his real voice like nothing happened.

To add insult to injury, the hand-to-hand combat sequences in this movie are ridiculous. Most of Seagal’s fighting at this point in his career involves him glaring intensely, waving his hands around like he’s performing interpretive dance, and relying on frantic camerawork to disguise the fact that a past-his-prime action star is basically doing the Macarena while people fling themselves across the room after running into him. I wish I was exaggerating, but if you watch Attack Force for any reason, I hope it’s to study these production disasters for the love of the game because the movie has absolutely nothing else going for it.

Attack Force may genuinely be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I say this as somebody who once gave Buttcrack (1998) a five-star review. At least Buttcrack knows exactly what it is. It’s a bunch of people trying to make the dumbest movie imaginable and somehow landing a distribution deal in the process. I can respect that, and I do respect that. Attack Force, by all appearances, was a legitimate attempt at a sci-fi action thriller, but there’s barely any sci-fi, no thrills whatsoever, and action scenes that feel like they’re on life support waiting for somebody to pull the plug. I respect none of this.

As of this writing, you can stream Attack Force for free on Tubi. Seriously, don’t pay for this one.

Roommates, it looks like a new chapter may be loading for one Hollywood heavyweight — and let’s just say the timing has fans deep in their feels. After weathering one of the most difficult periods of his life in the public eye, Jamie Foxx has been keeping things lowkey, focusing on family, gratitude, and what’s next. Now, sources close to the actor say his future is getting even brighter… and a little louder too.

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Jamie Foxx Reportedly Expecting First Child With Alyce

According to reports, Jamie Foxx and his girlfriend, Alyce Huckstepp, are expecting their first child together. The exciting news comes after the couple quietly built their relationship away from social media and public attention following dating rumors that first surfaced back in 2023. Fans also spotted Alyce supporting Jamie during his emotional return to the spotlight after his serious health scare, standing proudly beside him in a video shared by Gayle King as he celebrated his comeback.

Inside Jamie Foxx’s New Dad Era At 58

Jamie stepping into this season of life hits differently for supporters who watched him battle through his medical emergency and emotional recovery over the last few years. While the actor has always kept his romantic life private, he’s never hidden how deeply he loves being a father. From co-hosting ‘Beat Shazam’ with his eldest daughter Corinne to sharing heartfelt moments about his youngest daughter Anelise helping him during his hospitalization, Jamie has consistently shown the world that fatherhood is one of his proudest roles. Now, at 58, the Oscar winner is reportedly preparing to embrace the newborn stage all over again.

Folks Are Circling Back To Jamie Foxx’s “White Girls” Joke

Chileeee — didn’t Jamie Foxx swear off dating white women during his Netflix special? While reflecting on surviving the 2023 brain bleed and stroke that nearly took his life in ‘What Had Happened Was…,’ the comedian suddenly broke into song telling the crowd, “I’ve been cured… no more white girls,” before joking, “I’m back on the Black side of town!” The comments instantly had fans bringing up his past relationships, including his years-long romance with Katie Holmes and previous relationship with Connie Kline, the mother of his oldest daughter Corinne Foxx. While many took the moment as classic Jamie Foxx comedy, social media is now debating whether the actor was joking or dead serious, especially given this alleged pregnancy news! He and Alyce have not addressed the TMZ report or made any official announcements.

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Andy Cohen is offering some clarification regarding Lisa Kudrow’s viral comment about The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

“It blew up that people were saying she was calling me out on fakery on the show,” Cohen, 57, explained during the Wednesday, May 13, episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.

Cohen explained to cohost John Hill that the scene in question was when Dorit Kemsley stranded Erika Jayne and Kyle Richards following their “huge fight” in a “little” Italian town.

“Dorit said, ‘Screw you,’ and got in the Mercedes van and left,” Cohen explained. “What Lisa was pointing out was there was another Mercedes van there, so they weren’t stranded.”

Cohen noted that they reached out to the showrunner about the second van. (It’s also important to note that Dorit actually told Kyle and Erika to “go f*** yourselves” before leaving them.)

“I remember hearing from production, like, ‘Whoa, Dorit stranded them in town,’” he said. “The other car was the crew vehicle that was taking the crew somewhere else and took the crew somewhere else.”

Cohen added, “So Kyle and Erika then called the house to ask for a ride back. They called the house and that’s why the van that had just dropped off the crew then returned to get Erika and Kyle.”

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He said that Erika and Kyle “walking on the street” waiting for a car “was real,” explaining that the women were waiting “for some time” since the van had to drop off the RHOBH crew before returning.

“It’s not even that interesting,” Cohen concluded. “I’m sorry to bore you guys, but that is what happened.”

The RHOBH episode, which originally aired in March, has been dissected on social media with several fans bringing up the two-van theory.

Kudrow, 62, appeared to hint on the Monday, May 11, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that she believed Kyle and Erika getting stranded was a scripted moment.

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“I saw the Beverly Hills [episode] — you don’t want me to discuss it. I am telling you right now,” she said. “I am just going to say Black Mercedes sprinter twins. I caught that, I’m sorry.”

The Italy fight came as Kyle and Dorit’s continued to fracture. By the RHOBH season 15 reunion, which concluded earlier this month, the two women still haven’t reached a resolution.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is now streaming on Peacock.

Whew, Roomies! Folks online aren’t the only ones who have thoughts on Chrisean Rock linking up with Blueface. Jaidyn Alexis has entered the chat and weighed in on their viral hangout too! Although fans think Chrisean’s popping out on tour with him ruffled her feathers, she’s clearing the air on where she stands and how she feels about their chill sessions.

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Jaidyn Alexis Weighs In On Chrisean Rock Popping Out With Blueface

Recently, LiveBitez dropped clips from Jaidyn Alex’s livestream, where she seemingly reacted to Blueface and Chrisean Rock hanging out. If you’ve been out of the loop, viral clips showed Chrisean popping out on Blueface’s tour, with other videos capturing her on his tour bus after the show. During the stream, Jaidyn made it clear she was not surprised that they were back to linking up. “Don’t y’all see what he do,” she said in the clip. Jaidyn’s friend, who also appeared on the stream, cracked jokes about Rock and Blue’s chill session, saying a circus usually brings out special acts. Jaidyn responded by saying, “So bring out all your acts, babe. Additionally, she said people probably thought she would be crashing out over them, but she “doesn’t really give a f**k.” 

Are Blueface & Chrisean Spinning The Block?

The internet was flooded with reactions after viral videos showed Chrisean and Blueface kicking it together while he was on tour. Chrisean even posted a Snapchat video of them play boxing and offering to train him for his next fight. Fans know Blue previously lost his fight to Chibu, while Rock made her professional boxing debut against Zenith Zion on April 25 and won.

Chrisean Speaks Out After Fans React To Her Viral Link-Up With Blueface

After social media was flooded with reactions to her hangout with Blue, Chrisean hopped online to set the record straight and let folks know she’s not spinning the block or tapping back into her old ways. In a lengthy Instagram Story message, ther rapper said she just wants peace and chose respect over resentment when it comes to him.

“I forgave because I value peace more than carrying anger. No, we are not together I just choose respect over resentment. I’ve learned that not every battle is meant to destroy you. Some are meant to grow you. I prayed, faced things head on and left it in Yahweh’s hands.”

Rock also told fans she’s in a different space in her life now and that old version of her doesn’t exist anymore. “Y’all keep saying ChriseanRock was with Blueface No No No Chrisean was with Johnathan the old Chrisean died. Don’t let that go over your head. -Holy Hands” 

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By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 26 seconds ago

When James Gunn’s Superman premiered, it leapt fan expectations in a single bound and did the seemingly impossible: made us care about DC movies again. It was perfectly cast, had plenty of action and humor, and generally felt like a fun, lived-in superhero universe. As a result, most audiences loved this film, but it did leave tights-and-flights fans with a seeming plot hole. Namely, if Lex Luthor created a clone of Superman, how the heck did he not know that Clark Kent was secretly the Man of Steel?

Recently, James Gunn took to Bluesky to answer this question. According to the Superman director, Clark Kent uses “Hypno Glasses” to fool those around him, plus Lex Luthor would never assume that a godlike alien spends his time walking among humans in a secret identity. Finally, he claimed that Luthor, like most brilliant people, still has blind spots even his genius might overcome. While these explanations work on paper, some in the fandom are disappointed because Gunn accidentally made Superman unethical and Luthor downright stupid.

Superman Or Super Creep?

What’s wrong, exactly, with James Gunn’s answers here? Let’s start with the Hypno Glasses. Gunn didn’t invent this concept. It’s actually been part of Superman comic lore since the late ‘70s. The glasses don’t give the Man of Steel broad hypnotism powers or anything. Instead, they simply keep people from making the connection that Clark Kent is actually Superman. This helps explain why the award-winning journalists who work with Clark every day and regularly have contact with Superman (like Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, and even Lois Lane at first) can’t figure something so basic out.

However, some fans find the idea of Hypno Glasses to be a bit icky. Superman is always presented as this moral exemplar, but it seems more than a bit unethical for him to constantly hypnotize the people he cares about by using creepy alien technology. It’s even weirder when you consider that he spent a fair amount of time hypnotizing Lois Lane, basically making her fall in love with the man she sees in the glasses and not the real thing. Also, did Lois simply figure out his secret identity on her own? It’s unclear in the film, but if so, that means these glasses are about as effective as they are unethical.

Super Genius Or Super Stupid?

As for Lex Luthor, James Gunn claims that just because the man is a genius doesn’t mean that he can’t “miss basic things,” and that Lex was so worried about an alien trying “to take over the world” that he never considered a human identity. However, this explanation arguably makes the franchise’s genius supervillain look like something of an idiot. He knows how to fight Superman because he has studied him for years, but he can’t figure out that the guy who keeps disappearing for eight hours a day has a job? Also, he can hack the entire Fortress of Solitude, but he can’t figure out some tricked-out alien glasses?

Of course, I’m being a bit hard on James Gunn here. Superman’s titular character is a kind of modern myth, and his secret identity is part of the mythology. The idea that a guy completely obscures his identity with a pair of glasses has never made much sense in a real-world context, and, if we’re being honest, it never will. Unfortunately, Gunn’s attempt at an explanation makes Superman look like a creep, and Lex Luthor look like an idiot. At the rate the bar is lowering, the booze-swilling, party-hearty Supergirl may end up being the real role model of this entire franchise!  

Young and the Restless early weekly spoilers for May 18th – 22nd thrill with Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) plotting some premeditated murder with a cop as his sidekick. Plus, Audra Charles‘ (Zuleyka Silver) dirty, dark LA secret is going to spill out at last.

And as we always do on early edition day, we’re going to start with what happens the rest of this week before we dive into next week’s action. So, let’s do it.

Wednesday, May 13th

Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) tells Devon Winters (Bryton James) and Nate she’ll leave for New York. This is on the Wednesday, May 13th episode. She’s going up for Malcolm Winters‘ (Shemar Moore) surgery as soon as Cane Ashby (Daniel Goddard) does his donation of the bone marrow in Genoa City. Lily has some medical questions for Nate about the risk to Cane from the surgery, but Devon doesn’t care about what happens to Cane and he’s openly mocking.

Lily says that Cane’s arrest scared her, but he promised to jump bail to donate if it came to it. Devon is not impressed and Nate of course sides with Devon. But Lily says Cane is helping Malcolm, but Devon insists it’s just about Lily. And Devon gripes that Cane didn’t even pay for any of the bad things he’s done.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: Lily Encourages Devon

Lily thinks Devon is acting out because he’s mad at Mariah for not paying for her crime. And Devon admits he is annoyed. Plus, Abby’s attitude is also bothering him. Devon gripes about there not being justice and he’s really upset that Dominic wants to see Mariah. Lily encourages Devon to go see Mariah and start healing. And then Lily asks Nate and Devon to keep Cane in their thoughts as he goes through his procedure. And Lily leaves. Devon tells Nate he thinks Cane is a problem and he hopes Lily doesn’t bring Cane back into their lives.

Meanwhile, Nick is still acting off and Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) flat out asks Nick if he’s back on pills. He sidesteps Adam’s question and Nick asks instead where would he even get drugs since they were just in the park looking for Matt Clark (Sean Dominic). He offers to let Adam search him, which is funny because we know Nick took his last pill while they were in the park. Adam wants to be there, but Nick says he’s stressed about Matt and is hangry. And Nick says he has a plan for Matt, and that is to kill him. Adam doesn’t want Nick to wind up in prison.

And basically, Nick’s plan is to provoke Matt knowing he’ll go nuts, and then Detective Burrow can be there and Nick can kill him and the cop can see it’s in self-defense. So, he tells Adam, “Step back. I’ll take it from here.” And Nick is surprised that Adam’s objecting because he is morally flexible, morally gray. And he tells Nick, just let the Newman security team handle it. And he gets mad and he storms out on Adam.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: The Search for Matt

Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), meanwhile, updates Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) and Noah Newman and says the search for Matt is ongoing. And Noah tells Victor that Matt didn’t recognize Audra and he thinks the amnesia is real. And that gives them the upper hand on Matt, and Victor actually agrees. Sharon though thinks the cops should handle it, but Victor says no, it’s up to them.

Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) talks to Matt at Crimson Lights about growing up in Genoa City and brags that she once dated Danny Romalotti. He has no idea who that is. Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) storms over, interrupts, calls Patty a liar, and she takes off, but first tells Matt they should talk later.

Then Matt asks Phyllis why she’s always fighting with people. She says she has enemies and tells Matt a whole bunch of Patty’s past crimes. Matt talks about not remembering your crimes and says people hate him, too. Phyllis hates Patty and then Matt asks her about her argument with Cane that he saw. Matt asks if she’s a grudge holder and likes bad boys.

And then Matt tells Phyllis he remembers he’s from Los Angeles. So she starts grilling Matt about why he came to Genoa City, and Phyllis advises him to avoid Patty. And then Matt invites Phyllis to dinner, but says he lost his wallet, so she has to pay. And then he mentions these guys, Noah and Victor, that hate him, and they told him his name is Matt Clark, and he asks if Phyllis knows him. Her jaw drops.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: Making Sense of Matt’s Plans

Adam tells Victor that Nick was getting twitchy and then left, and he suspects his brother is already back on pills. Amazingly, Victor thinks that Nick should go to rehab. Adam says Nick wants to murder Matt with Detective Burrow there to say it’s self-defense. Victor and Adam agree that Nick needs to be on the sidelines.

Sharon’s happy to see Nick when he shows up at the house and she says Noah wants to go after Matt. Nick is in agreement, but says he’ll go with Burrow and that Noah can’t come along because it’s dangerous. Nick explains his whole self-defense murder plan, which Noah loves, but Sharon hates, and she says Nick needs to focus on his recovery and let security handle it, but he won’t back down and says it’s fine if he goes to prison.

Thursday, May 14th

Thursday, May 14th, Phyllis sets up a trap. I assume it’s about Victor, and I do wonder if it involves Matt Clark since she knows where he is, and she knows how much the Newmans want him taken down. Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc) asks Phyllis if she’s going to give up Newman Enterprises to avoid criminal charges.

But Phyllis claims to have a better plan on Young and the Restless. Meanwhile, Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) turns things around on Patty. And of course, she desperately wants Jack back, and he wants to ruin Victor. So, I wonder if Patty will do what Jack wants. Victor gives Nick some much-needed tough love on Thursday. Victor wants him in rehab. Yay to that. But I bet Nick is going to be mad and accuse Adam and Victor of ganging up on him and refuses to go.

Friday, May 15th

Friday, May 15th, we have got Nick in danger when he makes a deal. And I’m presuming it’s the drug deal because Nick is going to buy a baggie of pills from a dealer in the park. Adam already suspects Nick is back on fentanyl. And I’m sure the rest of the family is going to realize very soon that he has indeed relapsed.

Cane is stunned by Lily. Maybe she kisses Cane for donating bone marrow before she takes off to go to New York City to be with Malcolm. Claire Grace Newman (Hayley Erin) and Holden Novak‘s (Nathan Owens) bond grows in New York after they spend some time with his mom, Stephanie. And of course, Holden is very worried about Malcolm’s treatment. I do wonder if the sparks will fade once Holden tells Claire the big Audra LA secret.

Week of May 18th-22nd

Then the week of May 18th through the 22nd, we’re going to have a big early week because the last day of May sweeps is Wednesday, May 20th. And I expect Nick’s relapse to worsen and Matt’s memories to return very soon. They’re already starting to kind of filter into his brain. Malcolm is due back soon on our screens, I’m assuming, for these New York transplant scenes.

Jack gets to work manipulating Patty and we should see Claire demanding the truth from Holden since he promised her if she came to New York he’d tell her all about Audra in Los Angeles. Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson) and Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope) are excited about the baby but still worried he might face consequences. Cane and Lily get closer after his and Malcolm’s procedure once she is back home.

And Phyllis works hard to avoid prison at all cost. Victor is busy dealing with Nick, chasing Matt, and still pressuring Christine Romalotti (Lauralee Bell) to put Cane and Phyllis behind bars. Adam worries about Nick, and we’ll get more scenes with handsome Matt Cohen as Detective Burrow. Look to see if Crazy Patty circles back to Matt. Also, look for recast Jill Abbott for five episodes starting June 25th. She’ll be played by Days of Our Lives actress Lauren Koslow.