The Bold and the Beautiful’s Electra wrote a letter that Will never read, but we are not sure why he had to when it didn’t say anything more than what she has said before. And she has said it over and over again.
Electra’s letter should have added drama
It’s an old soap trope, right? Someone intercepts a letter, an email, a voicemail, etc, leaving a couple with wired crossed, which leads to a breakup. That is what happened on The Bold and the Beautiful with Electra’s (Laneya Grace) letter. Ivy (Ashleigh Brewer) intercepted it, so Will never read it, leaving Electra to believe he didn’t love her anymore and was moving on with Dylan (Sydney Bullock).
The problem with this letter is that there was nothing revealing or revoltionary in its contents. It was just a short note written on what appeared to be scrap paper, with Electra telling Will (Crew Morrow) she still loved him, as she had told him so many times before. She just had a problem with Dylan living with him.
Will already knew this, so that is why he was looking for Electra without a letter to guide him. And he found her where she said to meet, in the showroom. The problem is, by then Electra was busy kissing RJ (Brayan Nicoletti). So much for that undying love Electra was proclaiming.
What if Will had seen Electra’s letter?
Do we really think this not-so-special, very special letter would have made a difference if Ivy hadn’t intercepted it. Electra still would have wanted to throw a homeless girl out onto the street and they would have had the same fight again. The only reason that Dylan was able to move out the day before was that she finally got a job and had received her first paycheck.
Now, Electra knows that her Aunt Ivy intercepted the letter to keep her and Will apart and is outraged. What Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) told her turned out to be true.
So, about Daphne and that secret. Why did she even keep it? We know Ivy ordered her not to say a word, but why did Daphne listen? Ivy didn’t have any leverage on her. She wasn’t blackmailing her. She was just…mean. Daphne doesn’t look like the type to let a mean girl stop her from doing what she knows needs to be done.
And that is why this story falls so flat. There is nobody to root for, no actual stakes of drama — just a dull letter and a secret that never needed to be a secret at all.
