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Why not though? 🤔

Well the last episode is 56 minutes long - at around 41 minutes the screen goes to black and I'm pretty sure it was the original cliffhanger. The last 15 minutes wraps up the show in a nice bow. It's a shame it didn't catch on, but hey, if you want to watch a 10 episode prime time soap that isn't left with cliffhangers, it's on Hulu right now.

She could also have a future vision of an aged Sami (played by Deidre Hall) telling her grandchildren what a wonderful person her mother was. And in the vision there's a visit from Belle, also played by Deidre. This all leads to a very dramatic moment where Marlena yells (passionately) I want to liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

There was a drone filming around the apartment - Amanda tracked down who it belonged to and surprise, surprise, it belonged to Farnsworth "Dex" Dexter's nephew who had happened to film Adam arguing with Dr Larson on the balcony that night, putting him right at the top of the suspect list. Amanda delivered the footage to Alexis who told Adam that she wouldn't show it to the police if he signed over the company to her. He unwillingly signed the company over to Alexis, but claimed that Dr Larson fell off the balcony by accident. Alexis later revealed that the drone had actually filmed Dr Larson lunging at Adam and falling off the balcony by accident and of course when she showed it to the prosecutor, they had to set her free. Grateful to Dex for providing her with the footage that set her free, she agreed to go out on a date with him as he'd always had a crush on her since meeting her as a college student when his father sat on the Carrington boards. Alexis and Dex went Dubai in the previous episode, hence why they weren't in this one.

I think me and @carolineg would enjoy this story very much, thank you. I can't wait to see Deidre's acting prowess in full force, saddling four roles if we include Hattie!

Yes, I believe Angela had a throw-away mention that they got away. IIRC, they wanted the actress to appear in a few episodes of season 6 but the actress said no thanks.

Not saying that Ron can't screw up on his own - because he certainly has during his current run on DAYS - but I feel it's more of a tip the scale thing. So far he hasn't really suffered from viewers turning off their sets in masses (or at least more than broadcast is suffering from it in general) because there's at least been some storylines viewers felt invested in and of course, I do think DAYS usually has talented break-down writers that try their hardest to make the day-to-day shows work. However, having someone encouraging his worst tendencies on the writing staff that's also been a bit of a fanboy of him back in the day... is not great news. It is of course still on Ron for not seeing that the SaRenee mess was a bad idea. I assume Ron has some influence who is on his writing staff is so if he's surrounding himself with sycophants that's on him.

I'd argue that Ken Corday tends to panic if the network is unhappy with the ratings, however linear ratings are in the dumps for even prime time programming these days so that seems less of a worry (unless we're talking about them suddenly taking a dive under 1.5 million). I'm one of those who doesn't think Ron is the worst fit for DAYS, but he does need someone to divert his worse instincts (masks, SaRenee). The implication these days is that Giddens seems to be getting too much ear from Ron though and that seems like a recipe for a disaster and possibly Ron's undoing. The show is borderline unwatchable right now and usually the saving grace of DAYS is that their day-to-day scripts are better than the overall plotting. But even the talented break-down writers can save the current dreck.

Hm, I wonder if they filmed an April 1st episode this year and if it's been nixed due to the Olympics?

$7000 on make up per MONTH?

Like the Olsen twins, Dee and Andrea are clearly not identical and looked more and more different as they aged (of course with the help of Dee getting "help"). I think it worked initially with the Hattie storyline though, but that was because the intent with Hattie was that she initially sort-of looked like Marlena even if the show was such a mess at that point that they couldn't do anything meaningful with it.

Considering the rather dark history at times about how we've treated people with some form of developmental disorders (just look at Rosemary Kennedy!) I'm sure there'd be a lot to unpack how Angela reacted to it and treated Emma - I always thought it was in the subtext that it was the reason why she being kept so sheltered. And yeah, Wyman would've sold the hell out of a storyline where Emma's justified anger over the treatment she'd suffered through the years was adressed.

I mean, the reason why Emma acted the way she did was likely because she had some sort of developmental disorder, even if the show never went into specifics.

Maybe we should have a watch party for the greatest made-for-television movie of all time instead of regular DAYS programming?

I agree and I've talked about it in the Behind the scenes thread - DAYS's first major mistake was basically aging Julie into her mid/late-30s when the character was essentially meant to be around 26-27 and SSH was in her early 30s. She became a "talk-to" character really fast - I also assume this is why Doug and Julie never had a kid despite it being an obvious storyline for late 70s/early 80s. Well, she had a grandson... I think the show also just got better with allow characters to be vaguely an age rather than push them into the "old" bracket. Sami, Carrie etc are also characters that's very much in the vague age category - I assume Sami's in the 40s category now, but thanks to not aging Will up she managed to go from a young villain to a young lead heroine for much of the 00s/early 10s and now she's back to being an occasional trouble-maker.

Yeah, you can blame Ron for a lot of things, but OLTL (and AMC) ending didn't have to do with ratings - it had to do with ABC thinking they could produce cheaper programming and get roughly the same ratings, thus increasing their profit. Ultimately, the replacement shows bombing pretty much saved General Hospital, otherwise it would've been gone by now too.

Yeah and he's not acted in about a decade so I suspect he's reached an age where he's not just acting. Not everyone is Bill Hayes unfortunately, so the only other option is probably to recast and in all honesty, DAYS has enough players on the canvas that are 70+. I think killing Neil off is the right decision in this case, since the character has no use without the OG actor and his kid is on the canvas so they need to adress it.

I'd argue that season 4 is when it starts falling apart a bit, mostly because of network meddling over the nazi plot.

Yeah, I mean, Barbara seemed in decent shape in the Thorn Birds, unfortunately at that age it can go downhill fast. It would've definitively affected her portrayal of Angela some time in the mid-80s though.

I mean, TR's only purpose at this point is to eventually get shot so that they can have the promo tagline "Who shot TR?".

Sure, I can get that some criticism can be annoying mostly because it's usually beyond his control - ie budget, availability of actors etc. But the truth is that a lot on the show is a bust at the moment - the possession story seems to be going nowhere, the Saranee plot makes no sense, Ava vs Rafe is a c-plot at best. I genuinely don't have a high standard for soaps these days either - my bar is essentially if I'm being entertained or not, and currently, I am not.

I mean, I've been a viewer of the show for 25 years - almost 30 if you take into account that 1993 episodes started airing here in 1997, and I literally have no idea who Renée is outside seeing a few clips on YouTube. It would definitively help to do flashbacks at least, if only so that viewers could enjoy high-quality clips of when the show had a budget. Now it's just random names; unless they're intending to re-cast Renée and bring her back from the dead (why?!), I don't see why we shouldn't at least be thrown some bones. That would've been a great idea since Peacock seems to be floundering a bit - upload classic DAYS featuring Renée and the Salem Slasher on there while this storyline is running.

I think the main issue with Renée is that while she was popular during her original run, she's also a character that kind of existed in a vacuum for three or so years of the shows run. They've literally made no efforts with keeping her alive since then, unlike let's say Addie, Isabella, even Paige etc. Alex Marshall is another character that's just lost in the mists of time despite a fairly long run of eight years. It's not like they're going to bring back 85-year-old Quinn Redeker, so what's the point?

Barbara Stanwyck was the original choice for Angela, actually. The reason she did The Colby's was because she and Aaron were close friends since they worked on a tv movie together (allegedly, it was running over budget and this was right at the start of Aaron's producing career, so Stanwyck helped him by bandying the cast together to finish it on time). She was also Tori's god mother, so I'm sure she's looking down from heaven in approval...

OMG, I'm at the episode where Johnny is just "casually" working out in front of Craig... at the mall... which is supposedly an indoor one - this is so bad 😅