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David Boreanaz has had a similar run, starting with Buffy (1997-1999), Angel (1999-2004), Bones (2005-2017) and SWAT (2017-2024). This year is the first time he's not had a lead role on a television series in 27 years!

Considering his family was involved with Mike Horton in the past, I feel like they'll make him Mike's son and Jeremy's half-brother. Just my guess, and unfortunately it makes me wonder if we're in for another Charlie / Tripp situation where it'll end up being a case of mistaken identity. Just my gut feeling and not based on spoilers.

Anyway... Kristen should have a prison lesbian story arc. And then come out and become obsessed with Marlena so we can move her on from the Brady nonsense. Is that secret room still in the DiMera mansion?

Thanks @DRW50! I don't think I've seen the properly cut episodes before, just the Homestead version.

I mean, unless soaps start paying equal to prime time, then doing a soap when you've made it above that pay grade will always be seen as a step down. I think it's probably easier to at least step up from doing soaps these days, but everyone knows that someone whose done prime time and goes back to soaps only does so because work have dried up.

CBS was in such a state in the 90s that they were basically at this point trying to recapture what had worked 20 years earlier - ie Larry Hagman (Orleans), David Jacobs (Four Corners), the Dallas movies and Knots mini series... they were really lucky that NBC cancelled JAG and they then landed CSI.

Oh yeah. Painted Dreams will be a 100 years old in October, 2030 (!). That's definitively something that's worth planning for.

I'm not a huge fan of recasting, but I agree. Neither really "popped" on screen and it made all storylines with them kind of DOA. While Nicolette wasn't Emmy material, you can see why they started leaning into her character. And also, obligatory whining over them killing off Linda, who was just getting started as a young 90s vixen, only to be killed off and then replaced by Vanessa who just wasn't very charismatic.

I just assume it's the same deal with Deidre and her suit jackets - it's something she's comfortable in, likes and is at the age where she DGAF.

Peter Stormare has the most random career ever.

Pre-taped or is an event actually being held today?

Hoping that the gala will finally bring some oomph to the writing.

If Corday Productions kept DAYS, you'd wonder if they kept Morning Star and Paradise Bay? I guess there was that fire mentioned, so they could've been unlucky.

I mean, it's realistic from how blackouts actually tend to look irl unless they're prolonged for days/weeks 😅 But I agree, they need to get better at creating dramatic tension and amp it up. I actually appreciate most of the things they're doing with the overall writing - ie characters actually having grounded real emotions and conversations, but they need to bring it all up a bit. If people like Ron goes way too far into space, they're right now playing it far too conservative.

I feel like Krista is a bit too glamourous for Jan, plus would likely require a higher salary than your average recurring character.

I do enjoy how there seems to be an entire subplot of Leann Rimes being a nasty mother to the hot stripper and wants him to scam his father (the firefighter) for money. I'm guessing there's more to that but still, writing it out makes it sound sort of ridiculous.

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This has to be the genuinely dumbest thing I've watched today, and I've been watching Days of our Lives. So, you have hot male stripper, who happens to don a firefighter suit during his shows, happen upon a person in need and then the real 9-1-1 crew happens upon him and it turns out to be his long-lost father and brother. Also there's a tornado. That's not mentioning all the other campy trash that is happening here. Yet I sort of want to watch this, despite never having watched anything from the 9-1-1 franchise. I know it'll go to hell because it's from Ryan Murphy, but this might actually be good for about 13 episodes before it goes into the depths of absolute plot convoluted hell.

GMA3 being beat by NBC News Daily in everything but total viewers.

I think that's about it. Catching up on Wednesday and I noticed that he's dropped the mumbly thing, but he's seemingly trying to make Theo look off screen a bit and not focusing on who's he's talking with. The issue of course is that Theo's autism has gone the way of Philip's fake leg - it's only ever relevant when the writers decide it is. It's not present in the scripts, but kudos for him for trying to implement it. He's decent and improving thus far.

I think helicopter mom Amy is one of the reasons why a post partum depression storyline for Sophia would be interesting. In a lot of religious circles, mental health still bears a stigma, so her finding out out about her going off the rails but refusing to get her health would be another layer to a potentially interesting story. With that said, like you point out they've skipped a lot of interesting perspectives on Sophia's situation which gives me the impression she's not long for this show as they're clearly not that interested in her point-of-view despite having a front-burner storyline. I fully expect her to end up in Bayview or worse by the end of the year.

Yeah, they could've definitively thrown in two-three scenes (at least) pre- and post-birth to show that she's upset at them messing up the adoption. It's not like DAYS is such a tightly written show where it wouldn't be feasible (and for that matter, they're on streaming, so length of episodes are very much adjustable). With that said, it could be a product of the writers switch and setting up new storylines. Though it's been a while now for that to be an excuse.

Also, on a somewhat related (and shallow) note - they need to make Holly go blonder again. It's probably annoying for the actress, but there's a bit too many dark haired / brunette girls among that set and it makes her stand out in the crowd.

I agree that this is probably what they were going for, but this seems to be a general issue with BTG - they seem to be missing the "beats" and thus build up to certain things. Maybe the fall out will justify what they were writing, but the issue seems to me like the writers seem to think that playing the beats before the event is boring and we should just skip straight to the dessert. Except the full meal is always what makes the dessert so satisfying. I really hope they learn to pace things better but being essentially six months ahead in writing it'll take a while yet.

It could be this, but my speculation is that this will all tie into the whole Marlena / Susan experiencing Stefano and Tony's behavior is a red herring. I kind of assume that it'll be eventually revealed that Rachel is carrying on Stefano's "spirit" (not in an exorcist / sci-fi way, just generally being a real bad seed) and she did shoot EJ fully aware of what she was doing. That'll lead to her being sent off to "boarding school" until they're ready for the next set of teens. But maybe that's just my wishful thinking. But at least the shows writing is giving me some hope that it's not all just random plot threads thrown together.