Days of our Lives

By Becca Yeesh, what a difference six weeks makes. I was in such a good Days place, I even busted out the Awesome Alert Scale. But since then, it's all kind of...fizzled. There have been a few highlights, and the daily dialogue isn't bad, but I just don't understand where the show is going. As far as I can tell,...

By Gordon EJ goes to see Victor about the deal that had already expired. On DOOL, there's no such thing as a really expired deal. That could be used as a metaphor for so many different aspects of the show. They manage to work out a deal, getting Nicole half of what she wanted; well, at least she is going to lea...

By Becca It's actually five weeks in review. Yikes. I know I have been falling down on the Days-blogging job. I had been so uninspired by this show of late. My revulsion at the Daniel/Chelsea relationship -- and their hair (since half resolved) -- perked me up enough to briefly blog, but other than that i...

By Becca This week of Days was a rollercoaster of soap-viewing emotions for me: On the one hand, the dialogue has gotten SO AWFUL that I start looking for things to do while watching the show, including but not limited to sorting my socks by season and color (true story). But on the other hand, about a t...

By Becca Bad news for Salem, readers -- apparently Days has fired Head Writer Hogan Sheffer and most of his staff (more info here; thanks to longtime reader esp13 for the info). I'm genuinely sad about this. The show hasn't been perfect under Sheffer but it was absolutely leaps and bounds above where...