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This episode would have made much more sense if they had shown more of why Jen had been going through before it came to that. This could have been a good sl involving a lot of characters.
We saw Jennifer taking pills after the car accident, and within a week it was made to seem like she was sneaking pills and addicted. She was basically hiding taking the pills as soon as she was prescribed them, which is bizarre because she did have an injury. We never saw her with any follow up doctor visits about what exactly was wrong with her. We never saw her trying to get more prescriptions for the pills.
Who was this doctor writing all of these prescriptions, or even the pharmacy filling them? There are way too many regulations now surrounding narcotic prescriptions for her to keep getting them legitimately. It would have been interesting to see if she had to resort to illegal ways of getting the pills.
We also never saw any life disturbances from her drug use. She messed up one report at work, snapped at her daughter a couple of times, and Chad and Lucas mentioned seeing her in the Town Suare wasted but it was off camera. Eric immediately accused of her of being an addict basically as soon as she took the first pill. Then we saw her and Eric get wasted, sleep together, and then Marlena scolded her like a child.
I feel like they used the one off episode thing to just quickly tie up a sl that they never really even got going in the first place. Now I bet that after one trip to an AA meeting that she will be miraculously cured. Even a pill addiction couldn't make Jennifer interesting!
You summed it up exactly right. I was so glad this story line was not in today's episode. My brain needed a rest before I saw it again.
Okay so today's episode all about Jennifer was an hour I will never get back in my life. From the sappy loud music to the sappy acting to the sappy story-line and dialogue, I nearly turned off the TV before it was over.
I fast forwarded through most of it until I ran into the flashback scenes with Jen and Jack. Wasn't waching then so it was interesting to see her as a young woman. Were she and Jack teens on this show and then he left and then came back and then died?
I fast forwarded through most of it until I ran into the flashback scenes with Jen and Jack. Wasn't waching then so it was interesting to see her as a young woman. Were she and Jack teens on this show and then he left and then came back and then died?
I didn't know much of Jack'story other than coming, going and coming back again dying. So I GOOGLED it and came up with this.
The story of Jen's drug addiction was so hastily told in flashbacks and allusions to things happening that we never saw it make it hard to fall into it now.
When Brady Black became addicted, we saw him go through the ordeal. I think it was the same with Lucas and Maggie although I wasn't watching those times. Now we are just supposed to swallow what looks like a very contrived backstory about Jen.
There is an old adage in the theater, "Don't tell me, show me."
"Days" is trying to tell us Jen's story in a rushed and sometimes confusing way. They should have been showing us all along to make it believable.
Yeah, I have but I subscribe to a web site where there is a forum devoted to "Days" so I tend to post about it there.
I have found the show to be boring, repetitive and just plain silly. I guess a lot of people are leaving a few returning and there are some new writers so I hope there will be some improvements.
Yeah, I have but I subscribe to a web site where there is a forum devoted to "Days" so I tend to post about it there.
I have found the show to be boring, repetitive and just plain silly. I guess a lot of people are leaving a few returning and there are some new writers so I hope there will be some improvements.
Its harder to watch Days now since the writing has so diminished.
I dearly love the character of Steve Johnson and used to love Steve & Kayla until Kayla morphed into an unrecognizable character lacking compassion and her dialog is the same on every appearance. The character of Steve is now in storyline limbo. He keeps trying to change himself to please a woman who apparently can no longer be pleased and its so wrong to diminish a character so original in conception.
These writers want to render Steve a boring stereotypical character for a new version of Kayla lacking in spirit. That is so wrong on so many levels.
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Days and the writing
