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Oh how I hated when they started doing the devil stuff on Days!!
But I have to say seeing that ad again now did make me laugh!
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Oh how I hated when they started doing the devil stuff on Days!!
But I have to say seeing that ad again now did make me laugh!
Wasn't this storyline around the time of the O.J Simpson trial?
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Yes, it actually began before the trial itself but it was during the entire O.J. madness. Marlena’s infamous levitation scene was on Christmas Eve of ‘94 and the trial began just a few weeks later.
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To me, this is when DAYS jumped the shark. I was embarrassed for the show.
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I’m trying to remember what their reason was for going this route? Certainly I would think in 1994 and still “pre-trial of the century” the ratings still had to be good. Did the devil stuff help or hurt the ratings overall?
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James Reilly (the Head Writer) was trying to push the limits of the genre through assorted crazy stories like this during his Days tenure. There was a feeling of "Wow, that was quite a story...now what do we do to top it?" and the network was egging him on because stories like that DID create short-term buzz. It actually hurt soaps as a whole, since other soaps were soon being pressured to do OTT stuff like that in the name of publicity/ratings. And of course Reilly's wacky reputation led to him creating Passions to take the OTT-ness to spoof/satire levels of ridiculousness.
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