Li and Sheila: Fans React to The Bold and the Beautiful’s Odd Couple
As with most soaps, The Bold and the Beautiful sometimes asks us to accept surreal situations: People can come back from the dead, everyone in Los Angeles works in the same building, and marrying Ridge Forrester is the ultimate score. But Li Finnegan and Sheila Carter are BFF’s? Is this real?
Li and Sheila on The Bold and the Beautiful
On The Bold and the Beautiful, Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) and Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown), women who should be mortal enemies, have somewhat suddenly become thick as thieves. Fans have been watching scenes where Sheila is casually (and sometimes rather intentionally) venting to Li about her marriage troubles with Deacon, and Li is… listening? Sympathizing? It’s baffling.
Selective Forgive-and-Forget-ness
Fans haven’t forgotten that just a few years ago, Sheila chased Li down a dark highway in a rainstorm. She tailgated her until Li lost control, crashed her car, and plunged into the ocean. Sheila looked over the edge, smiled, and left her for dead.
Of course, Li survived, and we got to know her better — as perhaps the one person in L.A. who never forgets one detail from the past, and holds a grudge like no other.
The Luna Factor
We know why this started. The odd couple’s unusual friendship kicked off because of Li and Sheila’s grandma/aunt and grandma/mentor connection to Luna Nozawa. When Li decided to steal Luna’s body and fake her death to rehabilitate her granddaughter in secret, she needed help. Enter Sheila, the only person in town with a moral compass broken enough to want in on it.
They bonded over their shared Grandma status and their medical backgrounds, joining forces to save the girl who terrorized the Spencer and Forrester families. It was a plot device to keep Luna in play, but it has morphed into a seemingly genuine alliance that makes zero sense, yet somehow, we’re here for it.
What B&B Fans are Saying
X user @GinaBeana365 commented, “I like Li and Sheila playing off each other like this” while @mscharpf24 said, “I love Sheila’s and Li’s friendship.” Um, kay, but what about the obvious downside?
While they’re not throwing pasta, Sheila and Li together can be humorous. Sheila’s dramatics are countered by Li’s sarcasm, and she’s not afraid to put Sheila in her place. But…we keep waiting for the hammer to fall, or the Nozawa power to be flung.
Li Finnegan has spent years perched on her high horse, scolding and judging anyone who steps a toe out of line. She is the self-appointed moral authority of the Finnegan family.
What Happens Next
So, how does she justify cozying up to the woman who shot her son, Finn, and his wife, Steffy, in an alley? Li treats Poppy like dirt for keeping secrets, but she’s grabbing coffee with a sociopath who literally ran her off the road. At the very least, you’d think she’d be holding a grudge for giving Luna her genes.
It’s confusing that Li has this much time to give Sheila. She is (was?) a brilliant doctor. She knows exactly who Sheila is from personal history.
As Li learned the hard way with Luna, a sociopath can’t be fixed with some rules and lectures about morality.
We can all see what’s coming: Sheila will inevitably find out about Deacon and Taylor’s reciprocated feelings, and she’s going to go ballistic.
Will Li be able to be there for Sheila and help her navigate her emotions? Or will she slip up and call Sheila ‘crazy’ again for reacting in a way that comes natural to her?
You know how much Sheila hates being called crazy. If Li’s not careful, she could wind up as collateral damage at any given moment with her new bestie.