Over the years, Sheila Carter has stolen husbands and babies, shot more people than the villain in a Western, chained up her shrink, hacked off a toe to pretend she’d been eaten by a bear and killed an accomplice with bees. So perhaps you can understand our amazement at what Bold & Beautiful has now pulled off with the infamous Big Bad: It’s made viewers pity her.

How the Heck Did We Get Here?

Even as Sheila was running around telling anyone who’d listen that she’s “reformed,” she still palled around with Luna, the granddaughter who murdered husband Deacon’s friends. When Sheila discovered that Luna hadn’t died following her shootout at half brother Hayes’ summer camp, she kept the intel from her better half (and cackled upon hearing that the JV crackpot had raped Will). And she told Li that if Deacon ever crossed the line with his therapist Taylor, she’d kill her.

In short, Sheila is altogether irredeemable.

Yet since Deacon fell for Taylor, his demented wife has won a good portion of the audience’s sympathy. “Outside of her murderous psychosis,” Southern_Ordinary535 said on Reddit, “she’s [the] most relatable. Team Sheila!”

“I’m feeling kind of bad for Sheila,” wrote queenofpiper. “All those years that Taylor belittled Brooke for going after married men… it’s kind of puts me on Team Sheila. I mean, she has been on her best behavior!”

Is Taylor *Worse* Than Sheila?

Some posters took to propping up Sheila by tearing down Taylor. She “is no saint,” Ezzyboo pointed out. “Shot Bill in the back. Killed Darla driving drunk.”

At least one fan wasn’t having that. “It is crazy how people are like, ‘Taylor kissed a married man, and she violated medical ethics, so she is terrible,’” noted anniewinger1347. “Meanwhile, the bar for Sheila seems to be she still does bad things, but she stopped trying to kill people, so she’s the better person.” Excellent point, that.

The Sweet Revenge That Wouldn’t Leave Bodies In Its Wake

It remains to be seen whether Sheila has truly, as she purports, changed. But one way she could prove it would be by curbing her homicidal tendencies when she discovers that Deacon’s heart now belongs to Taylor. “I hope instead of Shelia going psycho, she takes Taylor and Deacon for everything they’ve got legally,” suggests LabradorsLoveDucks. “Goodbye, license to practice. Goodbye, restaurant.”

Agile_Permiission9344 is all in on that idea, too, saying it would be a hoot if Sheila “took over Il Giardino and banished Deacon and his kids from that restaurant for good!”