With gay characters so sparse on network television, it is understandable that viewers get so invested. I got hooked again into watching Days Of Our Lives with Will Horton's powerful coming out storyline. Chandler Massey put in some great work, especially in his scenes with TV grandmother Deidre Hall. His early romance with Sonny (Freddie Smith) was also engrossing and for awhile Days had a storyline I not only related to, but enjoyed.
But... time goes by. Massey seemed to get bored with his job and his role and eventually left the show. His replacement, to me, was and is a horrible mess. Guy Wilson has so many annoying mannerisms, (the least of which is clutching onto Smith) the once powerful couple became unwatchable. Guy and Smith have chemistry when in bed only, other than that, Guy has next to no chemistry with any of his cast mates. Smith, still appealing, is not a leading man and without Massey around could not sustain the power and energy required to lead the couple in story.
I was lured back to the Gays of our Lives this summer not by Will and Sonny but by the shows clever (if intended) way to continue a strong gay storyline even though their two main gay characters had become so weak. Slowly and subtly over the year the ultra hot Christopher Sean became the one to watch and his chemistry with adorably sexy Spencer Neville is making up for the heat so long lacking on the show.
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Freddie Smith has recently left the show and hopefully Wilson is quickly behind him. I still love the character of Will but unless they get Massey back, or find an actor up to the role, Will is better left off screen. I hope the show realizes how Sean and Neville have rescued the failure of Wilson to keep the gay characters alive. Sean seems secure in his role but Spence needs to be given a contract stat so that we can continue enjoying the gay goings on in Salem.
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OMG!
ALL those American soaps always show so «cute-white-wealthy» upper middle class people...
ALL even the decors are so «idealistic» that it doesn't show «normal» people or dramas...
(My mom is following «The Young and the Restless» and I cannot get over when I visit her.... She's addicted for many years... )
Sure it's nice to see but so exagerated... Even old people are «glamourously beautiful»..
I'm not a fan of those shows because they're so «unrealistic»...
Cute young men, in the kind of love that is so artificial...
Sorry but not much to see there but «cute bodies» and unreal relationships way out of our normal lives...
DREAM is what we are offered here.. Only DREAMS...
I think slowly we will see Will and Paul ushered off the show and there will be no more gays. The producers have probably been scared off by the low ratings and want to be more like Y&R which avoids having any gay storylines and are always killin it in the ratings. I've already stopped watching Days and now just watch Hollyoaks and Emmerdale. Two shows that frequently maintain gay characters in big storylines.
I agree. Guy Wilson's perpetual duckface is annoying and unpleasant. I seriously doubt Chandler will be back due to the way he left (was forced out). And, don't forget this: during his fourth Emmt nomination (and third consecutive win!), Days submitted the work of Guy Smith for his Emmy show presentation reel--and made him sit in the back of the room a way from the Days table. That was disgusting of them to do that.
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