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Days of our Lives: A View from the Critic
Call it an homage instead. How can TPTB at Days of our Lives [I’m looking at you Ron Carlivati and Ken Corday!] justify celebrating Deidre Hall’s landmark 5,000th episode with the inclusion of a few pitiful scenes within a regular broadcast episode rather than devoting an hour to the majesty that is Marlena Evans Black?
There was still a ton more content they could have highlighted, even if they insisted on sticking with the [ridiculously] jokey wrap-around assumption that Marlena had treated around 5,000 people. But no.
No Jed Allan’s Don Craig. [Recall how they first ranted at one other about her treatment of Mickey?]. There were no memories of Mar Mar’s time working as an on-air therapist (who wouldn’t have wanted to see clips from the episodes where the Salem Strangler called in and gave the hostess a shiver?). Nor the time—make that several times—when Doc Evans unwittingly became a patient at Bayview Sanitarium.
And how could they pass up the chance to think back to when Marlena and John first met, when John wasn’t Drake Hogestyn and his face wasn’t fully covered in bandages.
Really, that was a disgrace. A serious slap in the face to a legendary actress, a legendary character, and the admiring admirers of both.
Days of our Lives can be shown on The W Network or Global TV App in Canada and Peacock+ in the United States during the week. Check out the most recent DAYS spoilers for more information about what will happen in Salem, and go here for a detailed look at the show’s history.
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