While watching all the coverage of Deidre Hall’s DAYS anniversary, there have been a lot of clips of her big moments. Something I think she doesn’t get enough credit for is she is really great at the smaller stuff. I believe her in every relationship, from Don to both Romans. She’s fun and flirty and has sparkling chemistry with all her major leading men. She does with John too, but some of that fun of the characters just talking left because the show goes so hard on the tortured part of their romance for a long time.
That’s also part of that feeling that is missing now. The characters rarely seem at ease, because they don’t write that way or let the actors be as playful because of the constraints of time and money. Humor is usually at the expense of a character like Lucy or clownish like Scotty, annoying like Leo, or snarky like Britt. Rarely it’s just people that enjoy each other, and that used to be pretty normal on soaps
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