Daytime Soap Opera
Actor Of The Week

Don Diamont (Bill, The Bold & The Beautiful)

Let’s ignore that B&B is yet again featuring an inoperable illness that the patient wants to keep secret so soon after two others (Eric & Taylor) turned out curable once they got another doctor’s opinion. Let’s also ignore that somehow Bill’s household staff seemingly hasn’t mentioned to him that there was blood in his living room and blood at his doorstep, oh and an ambulance took his son away! I am just focusing on one not ridiculous thing, and that’s Don Diamont actually appeared on B&B this week, which feels like something of a minor miracle at this point. Since Bill apparently doesn’t know Liam is dying, Bill’s side of their meet up was solely about a dad who’d massively screwed up by disowning his son and more than anything he longed to take back the hurtful words and make things right between them. Diamont’s teary and genuinely apologetic performance not only reiterated that with age this actor is only getting better and better at his craft and deserves a more prominent role on this show, it also proves that B&B’s reliance on recycling tired plot devices is so unnecessary. You don’t always need the threat of someone dying or the city to be overrun with psychotic female serial killers, all you need for compelling and emotional television are quality actors and something as basic as an argument between a father and a son who are very different from one another.