Daytime Soap Opera
Actor Of The Week

Mark Grossman (Adam, The Young & The Restless)

I don’t know what was more ridiculous, Adam and Chelsea being invited to the wedding, or all the absurd machinations to ensure that Adam, not Billy delivered Sally’s baby, but at least there seemingly was a method to that madness, in the aftermath, Adam is inserting himself into Sally and her baby’s lives as if he’s to some degree trying to live out the life they didn’t get to share with the child they lost. This week Adam has been drawn like a magnet to Sally and Ruby, but no one is supposed to see that, even Adam himself is in denial about it, so we’re getting a nicely layered performance from Mark Grossman, where his character is going through all these emotions and trying to contain them, trying to not let it show that he’s clearly yearning to be around mother and child, he’s enjoying the little things with Sally like burping the baby. The truth of all that he’s feeling keeps seeing through, especially when the subject of the baby’s actual father comes up. It’s completely wrong to blame Billy for being at his ailing mother’s bedside, yet that resentment towards Billy, towards him having the life that slipped through Adam’s fingers, it’s so right for Adam’s character, performed with note perfect jealousy. This isn’t the most likable behavior from Adam, but it’s far more interesting to watch him cross these emotional lines than it is to see this talented actor having little to do other than babysit Nick.