Likely, I will return to Young and the Restless, although I am deeply dissatisfied with the course it is taking, but for now, I am tuning into Days of Our Lives. Why? Because they are finally going to deal with Frances Reid's death via Alice Horton's slow and inevitable decline and death and so far, they're doing a pretty good job.
Pretty good... but not great.
The thing that I really like is how the Horton relatives are trickling into Salem to pay their final respects. Coupling that with old clips featuring Alice Horton, at various ages, offering her steadfast advice and support to her family and Salem's strays, TPTB are conducting a respectful tribute. And unlike with MacDonald Carey/Tom Horton, Alice's death will not come as quite a shock. And the added element of Alice's health declining after the death of her son, Mickey, makes sense.
However, I think that the Alice tribute is taking the backburner to stories that seem irrelevant, given the circumstances. I honestly don't care about Arianna (who's that?), Melanie (who's that?), Nicole, scheming for Brady's affections (yes, I know about that and that was the reason why I stopped watching Days), Carly interfering with Chloe (oh, Chloe) and Daniel (who's that?).
Chloe, Chloe, Chloe...
You know, it didn't help when the writers decided to scar Chloe via a car accident, fake her death, and eventually reunite and marry Brady in what had to be the most hastily put together supercouple wedding ever. That didn't bode well for Broe's future. When Nadia Bjorlin's foray into movies didn't work out, the @$$hat writers decided to salvage Phloe (Phillip and Chloe), which I was always thoroughly against, since Phillip was possessive and obsessive towards Chloe. But Chloe had to do something...
But Chloe still being tangled up with Phillip and cheating with Phillip? Come on!!!! Chloe has some pucker to her, which was the reason why I gravitated to her, but this storyline is just cheap. CHEAP!!!! When Alice finally goes, I'm outta there. It's demoralizing that Days took what, potentially, was an interesting character type and made her a insecure, bedhopping slut.
Channeling Broe... stat!!!!
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