Bold & Beautiful’s New Kid On the Block: Does Joshua Morrow’s Son Have What It Takes?

In the wake of Crew Morrow’s debut as Will Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful, the reviews are in — or our review, anyway. He doesn’t just show promise, he shows great promise.

We can only imagine the pressure the 19-year-old must have been feeling, stepping into a genre in which his dad is a well-respected MVP. It had to be like enrolling in a school at which your father is already BMOC. In this case, the freshman wasn’t just going to have classmates to win over, either, he was going to have viewers watching, hoping that they’d have on their hands another Joshua Morrow, who just celebrated his 30th (!) anniversary as Nick Newman on The Young and the Restless.

While it’s too soon to say whether Crew has his pop’s range and versatility as an actor, at least we can agree that he certainly has his father’s charisma. Plus, the younger Morrow did a swell job of handling the awkwardness of Will’s homecoming. Without making the character come off like a total jerk, the newbie made his resentment of Bill’s insta-family as plain as the nose on his face. (Props to the day’s scriptwriter for having the teen direct his upset at his father, not at Poppy and Luna.)

Did any of us not cringe when Bill suggested that Will hug Luna — sister or not, someone he’d literally just met? It was awful for Will, but that might have been the moment that really screamed at us, “Yep, the kid’s got this.” Crew’s reaction — a mixture of “Are you freakin’ kidding me, Dad?” and “Don’t take this the wrong way, total stranger lady” — was quick, nuanced and pitch-perfect.