Just for fun, let's analyze NB's "10 Reasons to Watch DOOL" point by point, shall we?
10. Ken Corday doesn’t micro-manage NBC’s lone soap anymore — and it shows!
Trading Corday as a micro-manager for Tomlin as a micro-manager is no major accomplishment.
9. If you are missing Passions, show runner Gary Tomlin took the best parts of it, actors like Lindsay Hartley and Eric Martsolf, and transplanted them into Salem minus the intersexuals.
If you cringed and turned off the TV set every time James E. Reilly’s trashfest came on the air, now you get the privilege of watching Reilly “possess” us all from the grave on DAYS with the leftover dredges of his canceled soap taking over our show.
8. From Jay Kenneth Johnson to Galen Gering, DAYS boasts the sexiest men on the boob tube.
Sure…if you’re into underwear models with minimal acting abilities.
7. The unlikely yet inspiring convenient marriage between rivals Kate and Stefano has surprisingly stolen the show! Add in Victor’s one-liners, and you’ve got the making of a Cocoon-inspired love/sex triangle!
Congrats to NB for getting one point right. But I don’t think we’ll see Victor and Kate or Steffy and Kate do the scrump onscreen anytime soon.
6. Although Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell have become the matriarch and patriarch of the show by default, their recent marriage woes have made the super-duo surprisingly exciting to watch. I’m itching with anticipation to see how the Carly/Bo/Hope/Justin quadrangle develops.
I’m itching with anticipation to see if any of the current DAYS writers can actually make me care about a love scene on the show anymore.
5. The younger crowd can act! Stop the presses. The teen set on DAYS is the most promising since the Last Blast crew.
They can? I must have been sleeping through one of Taylor Spreitler’s many expressionless scenes with Will/Chad/fill-in-the-blank and missed that.
4. Hands down, the underrated Suzanne Rogers has become the quintessential supporting actress in the business.
It pays to be BFF with Gary Tomlin!!! Way to go, Suzanne!
3. Richard Culliton is proving (like his wife Carolyn, who is editing at One Life) to be one of the finest scriptwriters in the business.
Was he the brainchild who had Justin get over a gun shot wound over the weekend with superhuman powers?
2. Thanks Thorsten Kaye: James Scott is not only drop-dead gorgeous but he’s also as equally as talented as some of the best older actors in the business.
Just don’t pay attention to all that blinking.
1. We’re not in Springfield anymore: Watching the most beautiful, popular, and talented actor in the business, Crystal Chappell, work her magic as Carly Manning on DAYS is a little surreal but it’s also a welcomed treat.
Other than seeing ten million flashbacks of Carly gutting her spouse into a filet, I must have missed the magic. Quite frankly, there hasn’t been enough of all the piecemeal five-second scenes for me to make any kind of remark about Crystal Chappell’s work on the show yet. But I don’t exactly remember a massive cry out of outrage when Carly left Salem in the 90s. Nelson, repeat after me. Carly is not Olivia…Carly is not Olivia…Carly is not Olivia…
I just have two disagreements. JKJ isn't simply an underwear model, but totally agree GG is & I don't think James can help his blinking and he's such an amazing talent I don't even notice it until I'm reminded of it.
ReplyDeleteOther than that Nelson's still a douchebag & I'd like to remind him that outside of JKJ the last blast crew wasn't all that great, either.
I wonder if Nelson is watching for the wee wees.
ReplyDeleteOf course Nelson is watching for the wee wees.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest WTF for me on the list is "The younger crowd can act! Chad is tolerable, but Mia is beyond bad.
I've been too distracted by James Scott's frowny mouth to notice the blinking. I do think he's one of the show's best actors, but I hate the way he's being written these days.
I agree that so far it's impossible to assess Carly's return given her frustratingly piecemeal "blink or you'll miss them" scenes.
Is this list for real? This man is insulting the intelligence of everyone on the planet. Does this man really believe what he is wrting? It is insane! All of it is crazy, but what stands out for me the most here is him comparing The Last Blast crew to the teens now. He is saying that these actors are comparible to Kirstin Storms and Jason. There were a few actors in that crew that were not very good but they are no where near as bad as these actors. He also should have said, "We are not in Salem anymore, we are in Harmony"! No one is missing Passions,but they are missing Days! All of the transplanted actors from the other soaps look bored out of thier mind and out of place,(except maybe for Eric when he acts with Ari Zucker). Lindsay looks so bored. Also, Crystal and the rest all look like they are smelling something really bad. Maybe it is Gary's Old Spice. The W.K.R.P. look on the actors is far from hot. I must say that I do think JAK can act. He does put emotions into his scenes. If he is smart, he will get the blank out of Harmony as soon as possible. The show has turned into a bad seventies porn movie with actors who act like they are andriods on Sar Treck.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the good actors were fired (save for Dee and Drake), it is not easy to be a good actor on the current show.
ReplyDeleteBut, I do not care that Nelson is gay, I hate that his articles are all about his lusts -- gay or straight do not tell me about your lusts, report about the soaps, and report facts not to get laid by thinking if you praise someone you are hot for it will make you get lucky.
My guess Nelson's article are mostly about getting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from K C and I am not talking about him being sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken!
ReplyDeleteThis is off-topic, but NBC's decision to air "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" in syndication could be bad news for DOOL. See the "Uh Oh, More Trouble for Soaps?" post at Daytime Confidential for more info.
ReplyDeleteI heard about that.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why they don't put DOOL on Bravo since Bravo is affiliated with NBC. They should put same day reruns on there instead of soapnet.
Don't forget The Hills franchise is hitting syndication next fall too.
ReplyDeleteNelson is a complete joke, his list is stupid, I cant stop laughing. He is such a douchebag.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but when Lindsay Hartley came on the ratings went up. So you'll just have to such that one up
ReplyDeleteCrystall Chappell also raises the ratings. funny how the other actors who were let go didn't do squat for the ratings.
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