I do miss having the prenoms, but it’s interesting to think about how the format and purpose of them changed over time, and looking at it that way, it’s a little more understandable to see the awards trying the process without them. I remember when they first started (in maybe 2001 or so), and the purpose seemed to be to keep any one show from…[Read more]

Yeah, I still think the show made a mistake in turning Gwen into this dark, revenge-driven character with a tortured past instead of just letting her be a fun golddigger and general schemer. Generally I don’t really mind that she’s Jack’s daughter — as long as that’s the end of it and there’s not an attempt to make her, as some rumors have…[Read more]

Friday, January 22, 2021
Days of our Lives
Outstanding Supporting Actress
Emily O’Brien — Gwen Rizczech

Gwen reveals that Jack is her father and lays into him for abandoning her and her mother and instead starting a family with Jennifer.

This story is somewhat bizarre for a number of reasons, but Emily O’Brien did a great job with Gwen’s fury…[Read more]

It’s been cited in the other thread already, but I wanted to echo the kudos for the performances surrounding the reveal of Ned and Alexis’s tryst.

I’ve really enjoyed the way this story has unfolded and the performances involved. Jane Elliot is always great, and for me Lisa LoCicero’s Olivia is really the heart of the show (no disrespect to…[Read more]

Yea!

Yeah, I like that idea a lot.

I totally agree, alokin, about Stephen Nichols. That storyline was just ridiculous and put him in a really tough position, but he navigated it incredibly well.

That’s one good potential solution for the Legacy Award. I was also wondering if we might want to institute a brief waiting period, like awarding the honor to someone who’s been deceased…[Read more]

Yes, they have to perform the magic trick of having Charlie face the consequences without just getting rid of him. DAYS has been good at shuffling people off and then bringing them back — even among the current crew Ben, Claire, and Bonnie have all served sentences in either Bayview or Statesville. A trick they liked to use before was to have a…[Read more]

I was looking back at some of our older lineups and saw that Don Hastings has been among the nominees for this award going back for a long way. Another thing I’ve noticed is how often the Legacy Award goes to a recently deceased person and often the most recently deceased of the nominees. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, as we have a great list…[Read more]

Actually, with there being fewer shows, we’ve had a few incidents the last few years where all the acting nominees in a category were from the same show. DAYS had all the supporting actor nominees a few years ago, and all of the guest/limited actor nominees a couple of times in the last five years. I also seem to remember GH one year having all of…[Read more]

Interesting! I’m looking forward to knowing more about what the vote breakdown was like among the nominees once the final voting is done. Maybe the most surprising thing to me is that nine different younger actors got votes. It’s the only category where I was struggling to justify having four people getting votes.

Thanks, Freeman! This is a good list of nominees. Most of these are about what I would have expected, though there are a couple of surprises. I’m very surprised the Lead Actor lineup is just the DAYS men.

Freeman, any inside tidbits you want to share about the nominations? Were a lot of the categories close? Were there any near-ties that would…[Read more]

I’d forgotten that my favorite version of Sonny is absurd action hero Sonny. Him taking out the robber at the bar was almost as good as him dramatically getting out of his wheelchair and walking to challenge that gunman at Alexis and Julian’s wedding.

While almost everything on the show is working quite well right now, it’s getting torturous to…[Read more]

I’ve seen a lot of ire online and people saying things like Charlie needs to die/be the center of a murder mystery, which really seems like an overreaction to me. I think a lot of people are pinning how much they dislike this story (as I’ve said numerous times, I hate this story) on the character, who should face consequences for his actions but…[Read more]

Agreed, great work from Mike Manning and a good performance from Lucas Adams as well.

Interesting suggestions, Freeman! I definitely agree with a few of them. For one, they need to rest the Brady character for a while and figure out who he is at this point in his life. Let him go to California for a while to spend time with the son he rarely acknowledges and give us all a break. I also think they’ve written Kristen into the toilet…[Read more]

I know I shouldn’t, but I do keep trying to think about where Port Charles actually is. Western New York, Phyllis says, closer to Pennsylvania (than to New Jersey, I guess) . . .

I’m not sure if anything is actually going on here, but Sam seemed high as a kite for the first half of yesterday’s GH, which made all the high-minded criticism of…[Read more]

Thanks, Freeman, that’s good to know. I was definitely considering her as supporting, but I guess if the majority think she should be in guest/limited, I should place her there. Any thoughts on this from others who haven’t voted yet?

One of the earlier posts says the deadline to vote is noon on January 19, which is Tuesday. Is the deadline Monday…[Read more]

I meant to also say that the North Jersey accent on the guy who picks up Sonny in the woods is pretty perfect. I do wonder, though, how far Sonny had to be carried down that river to get to an area that could be described as ‘the woods,’ haha.

That’s good if it’s not really an issue. My suggestion would be just put all of the votes toward the category where the person got the most votes, but I don’t know what others think of that. It could create an unfair advantage in a category that has a lot of scattered votes, where just few siphoned from another category could make a huge…[Read more]