Days of Our Lives Review for the Week of 10-17-22: New Woman in Town

Let’s discuss Wendy.

She’s solely been in Salem per week, and viewers both love her or hate her.

On Days of Our Lives throughout the week of 10-17-22, Wendy progressed towards discovering out what her brother Li’s secret was, whereas Tripp and Joey fought for her consideration, and Johnny could also be smitten along with her too. Let’s hope she would not get dragged right into a silly competitors for her affection when she has a lot extra potential.

Days of Our Lives wants contemporary, sturdy characters to maintain the sequence going, and Wendy matches the invoice.

She’s a decided, clever, and feisty younger girl who refuses to just accept being handled as a second-class citizen by her circle of relatives as a result of of her gender.

Some viewers assume that makes her an entitled brat, however her frustration is comprehensible. She’s needed to work twice as exhausting as her brother to show herself as a result of she’s a girl and was shoved right into a place in Fairbanks to close her up.

She is aware of she has the talent- in truth, she’s in all probability extra clever than Li- however her father and brother won’t ever let her shine as a result of they might think about it a vastly shameful factor if a sister had been to outdo her brother. Good for her for not accepting that with no battle!

Wendy’s making one mistake, although, insisting on working for Dimera Enterprises.

Despite her battle to get out from below Li’s shadow, her employment at Dimera will depend on him. It could be rather more liberating — and compelling for viewers — if she and Gabi determined that since they’d each been squeezed out of positions they might excel in, they will begin their very own firm.

If Wendy labored independently of the household enterprise, her father could be unable to cease her from reaching her potential, and it might be thrilling for her and Gabi to out-compete Dimera Enterprises.

That would trigger some implausible drama if Gabi discovered herself caught between desirous to do a stellar job at her new firm and desirous to salvage her relationship with Li.

The downside is that Wendy wants some approach to discover out what Li is as much as, and the job he all of the sudden gave her at Dimera will permit her to do this.

It sucks that she was given a job out of the blue relatively than making one thing occur for herself, but it surely matches the plot, so that is what the DAYS writers made occur for her.

Wendy: So who’s CEO now?
Gabi: EJ Dimera
Wendy: Another straight white man. Of course.

Although Wendy is correct that she’s being shunted apart in favor of a white man (and one with rather a lot of cash and assets to drive his approach, besides!), Days of Our Lives must be cautious about being too on the nostril with its dialogue.

EJ certainly has a LOT of privilege, and these varieties of conversations about how hiring selections are made and who will get to be at the high are ones we badly have to have.

But when it is mentioned that bluntly, it turns folks off, and so they dismiss the story as “woke nonsense” as an alternative of contemplating the level. Surely there was a approach to say it that’s simpler to digest.

Wendy’s additionally been thrust again into the foolish competitors between Joey and Tripp for her affections that may hopefully go nowhere.

She made it clear throughout Beyond Salem 2 that she was not in a relationship with both of these guys, solely for them to strive once more to get her consideration as quickly as they bumped into her in Salem.

They aren’t fairly as obnoxious as Alex, however nonetheless. At least Tripp confirmed some curiosity in Wendy’s life or did till Joey confirmed up, anyway.

Then the brotherly bickering and one-upmanship started. These two will push Wendy into Johnny’s arms with this repulsive habits.

Let’s hope this love triangle stays a facet story. Wendy is simply too sturdy a personality to get slowed down in this ridiculous excuse for a love story.

The complexity of her relationship with Li is fascinating and provides layers to each of their characters. She’s jealous of him, and he finds her annoying, but she’s additionally the first particular person he referred to as with the information he was getting married, and he’s eternally grateful that Tripp and Joey saved her life in Hong Kong.

When issues implode between Li and Gabi, what is going to Wendy do? She’ll in all probability have a hand in it since she and Johnny are trying into Li’s involvement with Stefan. But nonetheless.

Gabi is Wendy’s pal, and Li is her brother. What will she do when compelled to take a facet between them?

Meanwhile, the conclusion of the poisoning story was lower than thrilling.

There had been huge flaws in this story, to start with. Orpheus stole a vial from Rolf’s lab with none tried repercussions from the Dimeras.

Where’s Andre once you want him? He’d like to go toe-to-toe with Orpheus over any perceived slight.

Once Orpheus poisoned the ladies, he was in a short time arrested, and after Steve tried to assault him, Orpheus disappeared from the canvas.

That’s not how a compelling villain story goes. It ought to have been about the guys taking motion to get the antidote whereas Orpheus opposed them at each flip till lastly, they defeated him and bought again to the ladies with the treatment in the nick of time.

Instead, the poisoning was nothing greater than a car for Kristen to blackmail Brady into dumping Chloe and reconciling along with her. We bought some intense drama out of the males’s frustration with watching their wives turn into sicker and sicker, but it surely was cheapened by the data that the ladies would one way or the other stay.

The serum magically appeared at the police station, the ladies got it, and two of them worsened for 5 seconds earlier than bouncing again and starting to get well—the finish.

The solely thrilling factor about that is making an attempt to guess who will catch on to Kristen’s position in this primary.

Kristen thinks she gained, however she’s being so apparent that she’s going to get caught. What occurs after that’s anybody’s guess.

Chloe walked in on Kristen gloating that Brady had no selection however to let her transfer in. It could be good if she had overheard, however both approach, she ought to bear in mind Kristen principally laying out this entire factor earlier than it occurred.

John additionally thought it was odd that Brady all of the sudden dropped Chloe. And what is going to he assume when he returns residence and finds her in his home?

And Stefan discovered already that Kristen might have brainwashed him in order that he may intervene with Brady and Chloe’s relationship. He additionally discovered it odd that Kristen already knew the two had damaged up.

Brady ought to by no means have agreed to this. He ought to have instructed Rex what had occurred and had him synthesize additional serum from the vial Kristen dropped off.

Instead, he gave in with out a lot of a second thought. Ugh.

Meanwhile, can somebody please make this Jada/Eric/Nicole/Rafe nonsense cease?

Nobody is performing like an grownup right here besides for Eric.

Nicole mustn’t have employed Eric for the sole function of overlaying a lie about why she went to go to him.

Jada mustn’t have spied on Nicole and Rafe’s battle (sorry, I do not imagine her declare that she was “stuck” as a result of they might have seen her strolling away.).

And Rafe mustn’t have determined to cover from Nicole as a result of he was scared of persevering with to battle for her.

Firing somebody over e-mail can also be very cheesy. Ugh.

This is all predictable now, too. Nicole will possible rehire Eric, solely for the two of them to cheat on Rafe.

This could be extra heartbreaking if we would ever been aware of Nicole and Rafe’s alleged happiness.

After she and Rafe married, they did not share many scenes. Rafe was all the time working off to the crime scene, and Nicole was all the time discovering a motive to consolation Eric.

It’s exhausting to really feel unhappy a few relationship ending that did not exist on-screen, even for folks like me who’ve shipped Nicole/Rafe for years.

It’s additionally exhausting to imagine that Gwen has reformed this time.

We’ve heard this music and dance earlier than. Gwen is all the time sorry when she will get caught and swears she’s discovered her lesson, solely to do one thing horrible that angers Jack when he lastly finds out about it.

Viewers had been burned out on this story about three cycles in the past, so she’d higher keep reformed this time!

Gwen turned Ava down, however she did that earlier than, solely to alter her thoughts when she needed to play a infantile prank on Abigail. So why ought to anybody imagine that this time shall be any completely different?

Strangely, Sarah and Rex have not had greater than a scene collectively since they each returned to city, and Gwen’s making an attempt to maintain her promise to depart Sarah and Xander alone.

Jack refused to present Xander a job as a result of he did not need him to repeatedly cross paths with Gwen and tempt her into dangerous habits.

Could Sarah and Xander truly be allowed to maneuver ahead as a pair? So far, the solely bump in the highway is Xander owing cash to the Salem Inn and Maggie having a wierd response to them deciding to maneuver into the Kiriakis mansion.

Ava has now focused Xander to assist her get EJ again. If he does it, Sarah will not be completely satisfied. Let’s hope they’ve a greater storyline than that deliberate for these two!

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