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I feel like they could've also just explored more with LilliMae's background and why she was so against proper mental health care... they seemed to hint a lot that there was something very wrong going on there during the Chip storyline, then of course Val's breakdown, then Joshua's religious fervour. I think it would've given Julie Harris Emmy-worthy material (even if she wouldn't have won anything of course lol), but maybe it would've been too heavy-handed for Knots at that point?

It definitively feels like something changed between seasons six and seven for his character - they seemed very much to focus on the fact that he was detoriating mentally and that there might be some issue in LilliMae's past surrounding mental health (which would've tied nicely into Val's breakdown that season), but suddenly he became very one-note villain until he died imho. I also don't think he got physically abusive with Cathy until season 7, which was a line too far.

This. I'm generally fine with being back from the dead if it's the usual vague soap opera death, but if you have them die on screen that should be it, as regrettable as that is for some characters.

It's always sounded to me like Loving needed to choose what they wanted to focus on - young adults from different backgrounds at a university, with maybe parents as more of a recurring presence, or the class struggles of different families? If it's the later, then they needed to cut down the main families to two to be able to make a coherent 30 minute soap. If it's the former, then they could have students from varying families, but mostly keep other family members off screen and just have them drop in as the plot dictated. It just sounds like trying to do too much and not really ending up with much at all in the long run.

I just don't buy Candice Bergen as the vunerable type who's just been hurt by husband. I think she was also just miscast in the part and needed another actress to pull it off.

I have such a hard time getting upset at the Horton house "burning down" because you know it'll be the same set with a new coat of paint, maybe reupholstered furniture if they really feel like making a splash in the budget.

I'm sure it'll be like most other soap fires where it "burns to the ground" and then is magically rebuilt with just a coat of new paint on the walls (if that).

Yup, I've heard claims that it was initially supposed to end around easter I guess to be as sacreligious as possible to have Marlena be free of the devil and "rise" from the dead when Jesus did. JER had issues, man.

Worth remembering that the possession only lasted as long as it did due to OJs trial and it being able to keep people's interest. A lot of things that JER did probably wouldn't have happened at that point due to not being necessary, plus the possession being able to compete during the OJ trial really seems to be a reason why he got such a strangle-hold of the show. Wasn't his stories on Guiding Light somewhat normal? I'd look towards what he did there to see what he'd do on DAYS.

I swear, every time I see a promo or read a description of this show it just seems to be a different show each time.

She was on the 90210 reboot for five years - for daytime, especially for budget fraught DAYS, that's a name. And yeah, it looks like she's almost made up to look like Nicole. I'm buying into this conspiracy theory for now.

Good Lord. Just... no. As for Ari - good luck to her, but I assume this means we'll never see her again on DAYS. I agree with the poster that AnnaLynne McCord might be a recast - it makes sense to go for a "name" to try and recast a long-running cast member like Nicole, especially if they suspected that Arianne might end up with a lawsuit against the show (though she'll be de-aged with McCord).

It was always scheduled at noon though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996–97_United_States_network_television_schedule_(daytime) That's why it could never gain any traction in the ratings and was doomed from the start. It's a show that clearly targeted the 18-34 year olds who watched the Spelling prime time soaps... yet they put it in a spot where few of those would be home to watch it.

Especially since Sunset Beach did the tongue-in-cheek thing much much better, while also playing a straight soap. I've said it before and I'll say it again - if it had at least premiered later in the afternoon it might've had a chance to get that 18-34 audience that it was actually written for watching. It was always bizarre to premiere such a youth-skewing show at noon.

Yes, and it seems like such a no-brainer to do. The issue is that Quibi seemed to think they could also cut these things into full movies / 45 minute episodes, which of course meant that they couldn't utilise the strength of the 10-15 minute format. Like @All My Shadows said about the recently resurfaced 1957 Secret Storm episode - it showed off the strength of the format and it breezed quickly by without dragging, while at the same time being easy to watch for a first time viewer. But if you're writing these things with the intention of later pasting them together as a full movie or episode, you just end up with parts. And who the hell is interested in watching 15 minutes of a movie each day for a week? It's awkward.

Not even in his last few episodes. I think he was credited as a main cast member until his last episode. RIP Don Murray, have a nice rest. 94 is a good run and he seemed to have his wits about him in Twin Peaks when he was in his late 80s, so hopefully that continued into his 90s.

We've had similar on-going commercials here that essentially have a running storyline. With that said - if they're going to invest in something I'd rather have the 10-15 minute format back. Something that you can watch on your coffee break, essentially.

💀💀💀💀 Bless your heart for thinking they had the budget for that kind of set. Plus - it has a ROOF! Sets never have those lol

Bless people for thinking that's a real set - especially with a 60s soap opera produced on the cheap!

WOW! Ted looks great. Whatever he's doing, it's working.

Models Inc might've largely been a stinker, but I still to this day quote this scene when things are bad: Hell baby, you're in hooker hell! I also like poor Carrie's (who seriously is one of the most tortured soap characters ever, considering it lasted only 29 episodes!) line "This is kidnapping!". This is also the one cliffhanger that didn't get resolved in the tie-up final scenes they did, so I guess we're to assume Carrie's just stuck in white slavery forever since in that universe Greyson's dead and everyone thinks she left town. Poor Carrie indeed!

Unrelated, make note the difference adding some ambience to the scene with some background noises + slight blow of a wind machine makes.

Episode from 1957 has popped up, not sure if it's been available before:

To be fair, it would be the other way around probably - Karen would have her doubt about having the baby, while Mack would've pissed about that.

I've said it before, but they should do a storyline adressing the housing crisis in Salem where half the town has to sleep in a hotel or in the TARDIS known as John and Marlena's ever-expanding unseen apartment corridor with infinitive bedrooms (but no kitchen).