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They have something of a GH problem in that there's too many kids and now they're all getting too old. To their credit they play them all much more than GH does theirs, but you can't play them all and I am never gonna care about some of these people lol. My advice would simply be to pare the younger set down to core personalities who you can build into actual characters, as opposed to jigsaw pieces fitted together. Like, you don't necessarily need blonde Claire and blonde Allie on the show at the same time. I don't care about Daniel and Nicole's child or even Brady's lol. Maybe the Nickelodeon twunk playing Tate has improved a lot, maybe one of them is a great actor so maybe one of them can stay, I dunno! But I'd be pretty merciless about these people at this point. And this isn't just about the twentysomethings or teens - you have Stephanie, Belle, Shawn, Phillip, Chad, J.J., Gabi (who I've never cared about and has had nine lives as is), etc. to figure out as well. Johnny has a nice body but what does he actually offer? Can you reposition him or recast? Maybe Chanel's great, who knows. How many times can Brady and the latest Phillip recast argue with their senior relatives about the imaginary DAYS companies? Boy, I dunno.

Literally half of Megan's memoir is about how she killed people off due to spite.

I just don't want to jinx it, since I thought Kathryn Hays looked wonderful on this show maybe a year or two before she ended up in assisted living not long before her death.

Exactly. Unlike others, I don't think the Higley/Tomlin model after they dumped Dee and Drake - where they would push hard on these very mid couples like the many loves of Daniel Jonas, or Nathan Horton and Melanie or whoever (and again, I liked Molly Burnett lol) while cutting costs - was the answer. A lot of those people were interchangeable or just boring. And I see a lot of that with the young people today too. But I think there has to be a re-investment in building out the individual characters as more than just spare parts to be fitted together. John, Bo, etc. were iconic because of the synthesis of strong or charismatic actors with fleshed-out roles. Same with Carrie, Billie, Sami, etc. Then you can start to see what works again overall for the show. Right now it's just musical chairs and most of these characters fade out to me as indistinguishable from each other. There's no major personalities like we had in the '80s and '90s. How are Gabi and Ari that different from each other (putting aside the fact that it is insane that Will and Gabi now have a practically grown daughter, and I'm still not totally sure who Tate and Holly are, let alone Allie or... what is the name of Belle's kid)?

Quality work on Sean Freeman's IG:

I've really been here for Andre repping for Dani with the family at every turn. Particularly Nicole and Bill.

But nobody seems to talk about them today. I just don't see any of them approaching '80s/'90s level. Putting aside the more systemic issues like Corday, or never getting over the Jim Reilly era and not ever knowing how to leave it behind, I think DAYS' fundamental error in the romance department in the 21st century - and it's one they can't easily escape - has been either trying to either stay the supercouple machine in an era that really isn't suited for it, or trying to ignore it and just create a string of interchangeable couples. The first part was the issue in the past but I can't really tell which is the bigger problem today, in part because I watch infrequently outside of John's death. I suspect the latter. Like, I would argue that something like Spencer and Trina on GH got more heat and attention in its moment in the sun than any young couple DAYS has had in years. Chad and Abby, Will and Sonny, even Lucas and Sami who I adored, none of them have compared. So when I hear about Johnny or Brady or Chanel or Gabi or J.J. or Chad or Stephanie or Belle or whoever swapping partners again my eyes kind of just glaze over and I lose interest. Like, none of these characters are iconic unto themselves like their predecessors in the '80s and '90s. A lot of them just don't have much meat on the bone as solo individuals. But maybe I'm totally wrong. If not though, maybe that's why they're so devoted to hanging onto the senior supercouples in the way they have. They know the weight of characters like Marlena or Patch/Kayla, or J&J or Bo and Hope in their visits, backstops a lot of this stuff that just feels like white noise to me. I don't know what the solution is there. I don't think you should try to pretend it's the 80s and make every couple a supercouple, but I also don't think a lot of these musical beds are that thrilling.

I know of no soap that generated as many supercouples in one decade as DAYS. GH came close but not that close. Unfortunately the only DAYS couple I can think of in the last 20 years that came anywhere near that was E.J. and Sami, and that was built on him raping her at gunpoint in a midsize sedan on the side of the road.

I am much more likely to critique repetitive or circular scene construction (which is an issue on all the soaps atm and certainly on BTG, which loves to state and restate points in the classic B&B and Bell style). I just don't have an issue with the couple using metaphor to refer to them getting older, I don't need to check the HD screen to see if Mike Manning has a few stray gray hairs lol.

This is approaching CinemaSins criticism. They're referring to getting and feeling older because of being in the marriage a long time and raising children together.

We all know plenty of gay men think they're ancient at 30.

Pratt doesn't work on this show, and Carlivati was just a BDW.

Jesus. What a bullet dodged.

The same Britt logic as the nonsensical Bobbie's situation where she whines to Carly about water pressure and rent. You chose to not live with rich Cousin Nina rent-free! You chose not to take the money Nina freely offered you! Nothing is stopping you! Shut up! I legit would be a little interested in Sonny openly getting involved with someone a little wild and sketchy like that though lol. Outside of another mobster like Claudia it's rarely happened. And it would beat the umpteenth round of someone like Turner, Alexis, Reese, etc. getting hot flashes while going 'Mr. Corinthos, we cannot be involved because of the Laws' as they undo their blouse.

Yeah, I peeped some of Ehrich's psychotic break last weekend when a friend notified me. Posting nudes and dick pix (and more, to say the least) while doing whippets live and streaming on social media, saying insane shít. It was making Michael Nader's low points look chill. I think his whole meltdown went on for several days. Honestly I was waiting to hear he got committed, arrested or turned up dead. Dude is not well.

I remember Jamey's last breakdown episode being pretty solid. I will reserve judgment on today. It couldn't be as painful as some of the first few weeks where Ron had Dani charming her way into the Hamilton house with the security guard (and not for the last time, sadly).

At least put him with a sketchy bounty hunter or something if you have to keep bringing in random chicks for Sonny. That might be different!

Two things can be true: Vanessa is a ho and I think LB is killing it.

I like how Curtis had no idea who Isaiah (a.k.a. The Thumb) was when he started babbling on about Portia, lol.

They hated her, and I did too a lot of the time lol. She was just a moaning, drab matron who everyone seemed to obsess over in these bad stories. I didn't fully get or appreciate Brooke til much later, when she returned in the late 2000s and when I saw some of her classic material. But I think a lot of the 90s did not serve her (or several other women in that age range) well.

Which is funny because I kind of rolled my eyes at them the first time around - it felt like a C-pairing of desperation/timewasting in that era, and I was still raw about losing Erica and Dimitri, didn't care about Brooke in the late '90s and I knew the show was not prioritizing him (in hindsight, likely in part due to BTS reasons). But they did have chemistry, and had just as much on PP if not moreso. Given the obvious issues onscreen with David Canary in 2013 I suspect they would've soon paired Brooke and Dimitri up for real after giving Adam an offscreen death, with Adam's kids having the knives out for the interloper (something they teased before AMC 2.0 ended). And I think it would've worked. Barr and Nader were great together that second go-round.

I don't think Martin has been in that zone since the secret came out tbh.

There's no drama. He's just being respectful.

I know! At the time I thought both were crazy, and I was still a young teen fairly new to soaps. Like, who was gonna get behind those dudes for Brooke??

I agree, but I already complained about the lack of the old docks set and the rarely-seen Q study lol. Jason should stay at the Qs AFAIC. It's the best place left for him.