While The Bold and the Beautiful is making Luna’s singular focus now that she’s gotten away with murder (twice) enticing Will into the sack, it’s blowing right by what would be a truly killer storyline for Tom and Hollis’ executioner. Allow us to explain.
You Oughta Be in Pictures
What does Luna feel that she is more than anything else: entitled. Owing to the BS revisionist history that has painted Poppy as a bad mom, Luna thinks that she’s owed not just the moon but also the stars. So imagine how green with envy she’d turn if someone else stole the spotlight that she believes is rightfully hers.
No, we don’t mean Electra. We mean the actress that a Hollywood movie studio would cast in a big-screen biopic of the hot-to-trot murderess. As the production gets underway, with much of the filming taking place at Il Giardino, Luna would go from being upset that all the world is going to be reminded of what she did to jealous of the attention the leading lady is getting.
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Can’t you just hear Luna complaining to granny Sheila? “She’s playing me all wrong and making me seem like a bad person. And what’s with the bangs? When did I ever have bangs?” As quickly as the words have left her mouth, Sheila gets what she thinks is a wonderful idea, one that would kill two birds with one stone.
Fallen Star
Hating to see Luna unhappy, Maw Maw murders the movie’s star. “What the hell, Grams?” Luna exclaims. “Everybody’s gonna think that I did it. The director knows that I hated the way she was playing me. And the producer knows that if he has to make this movie, I think he should have just asked me to play myself. I’m going to get thrown back into prison for your crime.”
“No, you’re not, sweetie,” Sheila reassures her. “Your mother is going to go to jail. I planted a strand of her hair on the body. As soon as the police find it, you’ll be posing for movie posters, not mugshots.”
“You think that alone will get me off the hook?” asks a skeptical Luna.
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“That and the story we’re going to tell the cops,” Sheila replies. “We’re going to tell them that Poppy had been threatening you, that she hates you and blames you for ruining her life. We’re going to say that you were fearful but didn’t go to the police because you figured they wouldn’t believe you.”
“I don’t think they’ll believe me,” Luna protests.
“But they will. Trust me. You’ll just repeat the story until they swallow it hook, line and sinker,” Sheila says. “That’s how lies work. You just keep telling them until they sound so familiar, people believe them.
“Also, this isn’t my first murder,” she adds. “I was very deliberate. I knocked ‘Movie Luna’ over the head from behind. And from that angle, Poppy could easily have mistaken her for you, her intended target. See how easy it is to make up your own truth?”
Funny Business
Since Bold & Beautiful now treats murderers as comic-relief characters, we could totally see the show going this route… which would only make it all the more satisfying when Poppy proves her innocence, hooks up with Deacon once Sheila’s behind bars and gloats as Luna is hauled away, too, as an accessory after the fact!
