Young and the Restless: Daniel Wrecks Yet Another Union – Devon Better Beware!

Young and the Restless delivers Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) running into an upset Abby Newman (Melissa Ordway). This is fresh off him bickering with his mom, Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford). We saw Daniel storm out of the GCAC and he went over to Society where he ran into Abby.

And Daniel says that Abby looks like she could use a friend and he asks if he’ll do. Now, we know that she’s struggling with her hubby Devon Hamilton Winters’ (Bryton James) anger issues. However, Daniel may do more harm than good.

Young and the Restless: Devon Overcome with Anger

So, Devon’s really struggling with these anger issues. Has been for a while. And this week, he tells his sister Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) that he thinks something is wrong with him. And of course, it all started when Mariah Copeland (Camryn Grimes) kidnapped Dominic Chancellor Winters (Ethan Ray Clark). Because before that, Devon was pretty much fine. And now he’s angry that his friend Mariah stole his son.

And more so, Devon is really angry with himself for not being there and not being able to protect Dominic from Mariah. And this anger is consuming him. AWe saw Devon trying to get Mariah’s plea deal tossed out because he wanted her in jail instead of getting help for her issues. Everybody else in Genoa City knew that Mariah was in a mental health crisis and needed help, not incarceration.

Abby didn’t want Mariah in prison and she was upset when Devon went behind her back to the DA trying to get Mariah yanked from the mental hospital and tossed behind bars. And since then, Devon’s anger is just burning him up. It’s ruining all his relationships and he’s burning bridges. He’s lashing out at so many people. And one of his main targets for aggression is Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn).

Devon Afraid for Lily on Y&R

Not only has Lily let Cane back in her life, but she’s also accepting her brother Holden Novak (Nathan Owens) into her life. And Devon’s been on fire about that. He is berating Lily and Cane because Lily made Cane the CEO of Chancellor and Devon has threatened Holden more than once. Now granted, as her brother, Devon’s worried that Lily is going to be hurt by both of these guys.

So, Devon may be working overtime to protect Lily because he couldn’t protect Dominic. So he’s doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. But Devon is angry and lashing out and it’s causing problems in his marriage to Abby because Devon won’t talk to her about any of this. Abby even tried to get her mom Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson) to get through to Devon. And she tried but she didn’t make much progress with him.

Plus Abby told Devon it makes her sad that he won’t open up to her but he says he just can’t explain his feelings. So, Abby and Dominic are both feeling like Devon’s angry with them. And even though he told Abby that’s not true, he’s hurting them. Devon is causing Abby a lot of pain. She feels like he’s shutting her out. And this week, Devon and Abby have a tense conversation. And then Devon left annoyed. And that’s when Daniel strolls into Society and he sees Abby crying.

Young and Restless: Daniel’s Interference and Historical Parallels

And she explains to Daniel what’s going on with Devon. And Daniel’s encouraging Abby to love Devon and be there when he’s ready to talk. It all sounds nice, but it didn’t stop there. Daniel offered a distraction and asked Abby to go to Noah Newman’s (Lucas Adams) Shadow Room club with him. So Abby turned Daniel down, but he didn’t give up. And when he asked again, Abby seems to be considering going. So, I’m wondering if we’re going to get another plot with Daniel interfering with another marriage. It’s starting to feel like it did when Mariah and Tessa Porter (Cait Fairbanks) were first having marriage problems.

And we saw Daniel offering advice and friendship to Tessa when Mariah was deep in her mental health struggle and pushed Tessa away. Back then, Mariah wouldn’t talk to her wife Tessa or tell her what was going on. And that’s pretty much what’s going on with Devon and Abby. Because Tessa was upset because Mariah was shutting her out. And Abby’s upset that Devon is shutting her out. And with both women, Daniel offered friendship. And with Tessa, it wound up turning into real feelings and them sleeping together. And Mariah could see what was happening between Daniel and Tessa. And I think that’s part of why Mariah took off because she thought Tessa would have Daniel to watch out for her.

Another Recycled Plot on Y&R

So, it feels like history repeating itself now with Daniel and Abby. And at this point, I think the writing is just being lazy and is repeating plots. Josh Griffith has been replaced. And by the way, great news. Young and the Restless confirmed they finally hired new headwriters. He has been replaced by Jamie Giddens and a co-writer. So, Jamie is daytime Emmy nominated for both Days of Our Lives and Beyond the Gates.

And he’ll be co-writing with Dan O’Connor who wrote at GH and also at Days. Jamie and Dan are supposed to get to work next week. So, if the soap gods are smiling on us in six to eight weeks or so, maybe that’s when we’re done with the bad repetitive writing. In the meantime, this Daniel and Abby thing may be moving forward as yet another repeated plot. So, maybe the current writing is doing the same thing with Daniel again.

Having him interfere in a troubled marriage because they don’t know what to do with the character. He nearly ruined Mariah and Tessa’s marriage. And Mariah’s back this week. No word if Tessa is with her. And now we have another troubled marriage and Daniel’s offering Abby a shoulder to cry on. Talking to her at Society. That’s fine. Asking her to go to Noah’s club with him. Not so fine. I feel like that’s a huge red flag of where Y&R might be going.

Young and the Restless: Devon Getting Bit by Karma?

Daniel has been off the grid for a while. We see him occasionally showing up to tell his mom, Phyllis, that she’s bad and he doesn’t forgive her. Other than that, he’s not around. Now, he’s back and supposedly trying to help Abby. And at the moment, yeah, Daniel’s being nice. But Devon’s been a jerk and he admits it this week.

But the question is, has he been such a jerk that he deserves to be cheated on by Abby and Daniel? I say to that maybe, maybe because it would kind of be karma biting Devon’s butt. They say how you get somebody is how you lose them. And Devon was cheating with Abby when she was married to Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) and Devon was with Amanda Sinclair (Mishael Morgan).

Young and Restless: Hopes for Healing and Change

They walked in on them doing the deed. And by the way, I did reiterate this in the early weekly spoilers. The sofa that Lily was sleeping with Cane on is not the same sofa that Devon was cheating on. They did change out the couch, so yay. But it would be a taste of Devon’s own medicine if Abby cheated on him and hooked up with Daniel. But I don’t think anybody wants to see Abby and Devon’s marriage destroyed. Nobody in the fandom that I’ve seen. And it would be nice to see something different rather than a recycled plot.

But Mariah comes back this week and she may be the perfect person to help Devon through his anger issues because she caused them for the most part. And even though Mariah and Devon had that one talk in the mental hospital, they are overdue for more conversations now that Mariah’s head is on straight. And I think they really need to hash things out. And Devon needs to tell Mariah everything he’s feeling. And maybe if Devon can say it out loud to Mariah, then he can say it out loud to Abby.

So, if Mariah can help him, hopefully Devon can heal with Abby before Daniel comes between them. And I’m sure at this point he doesn’t have the intention of ruining Abby’s marriage, but you could say the same thing about Mariah’s marriage. Daniel didn’t get friendly with Tessa with that intent, but it happened anyway. So, we’ll see how it goes, but Devon should stop focusing on Cane and Holden and instead keep a closer eye on Daniel and his wife.