Days Of Our Lives
DAYS OF OUR LIVES: John Takes His Last Breath as Bo Wakes Up in Heartbreaking Tearjerker
The Monday, June 2nd episode of Days of our Lives will go down as an historic one in the history of the beloved soap opera which will turn 60 this fall. As one man’s life comes to an end, another man gets another chance to return to the living; such is the story of beloved heroes, John Black (the late Drake Hogestyn) and Bo Brady (Peter Reckell).
The juxtaposition of the two stories that intersect make this all the more heartbreaking, and it gave longtime series heroines, Deidre Hall as Marlena and Kristian Alfonso as Hope, extraordinary emotional material in which to sink their teeth into.
Throughout the episode, if you didn’t reach for the hankies, and by the end sobbing your eyes out, that you may have been watching a different show than we were.
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JOHN’S STORY COMES TO ITS CONCLUSION
Steve (Stephen Nichols), Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) and Marlena are watching John seemingly rally from this life-threatening injuries and complications. He is still holding on to life. Meanwhile, Kayla worries if the drug that John secured to save her brother Bo’s life is working and he is coming out of his coma.
Marlena at John’s bedside tells him she could stay there with him forever. She flashes back to a time (now with clips featuring Drake Hogestyn) they tossed a coin in the fountain in Italy and the deep meaning behind it which is “he would make it.” She puts that coin from Belle in John’s hand, and he whispers,.“I’m still here.” Next, Marlena recalls John’s myriad of identifies over the years and we see a flashback to a time she thought he was Stefano. In the present, Marlena says, “You were the man who protected me even in my darkest hours.”
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Later, Kayla and Steve return to the room as the nurse comes into give John some morphine for his IV. Next, Steve recalls the conversation they had in which started they started their PI agency, “Black Patch.” Steve gets every emotional. Marlena flashes back to her wedding night with John when she accidentally pushed him off the bed.
Suddenly, things take a drastic turn. John starts choking unable to breathe as he grasps for air. The alarms goes off on his monitors. Kayla gets him started on oxygen as Marlena tries to get him to breathe with her. Kayla thinks that John has just gone through so much lung and bodily damage from the explosion that all they can do now is make him more comfortable, and she feels it might be best to call in a priest.
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Marlena is beside herself with grief, and asks Steve and Kayla to leave her alone with John. Before they exit, Steve and Kayla say the most heart-tugging tear-filled farewells to John. Next, Marlena and John are somehow are are able to tell each other how much they love the other. As tears stream down her face, Marlena tells John, that it’s OK if he needs to go. He’s fought so hard and she knows he’s suffering so much. She promises to John that everyone he loves will be OK, and he will always be in their hearts. He can rest now.
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Outside John’s hospital room, a panicked and heartbroken Steve asks Kayla if there is anything she can do to save his best friend. But there isn’t anything and they cry in each other’s arms.
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Back inside John’s room, Marlena lays in the bed with John, remembering their life together in flashbacks with John’s voiceover (Drake Hogestyn’s voice) telling Marlena that their love has always endured and survived everything thrown in their way. As she lays next to him, John takes is last breath, his heart stops and he dies as “Doc” holds him until the very end.
BO WAKES UP
Hope, Ciara (Victoria Konefal) and Shawn (Brandon Beemer) are at Bo’s hospital bedside. Next, they flashback to Bo telling a young Zack a bedtime story. In the present, Hope notices Bo’s eyelids flickering and thinks perhaps this is the moment he will wake up out of his two-year coma. Hope calls the doctor, but she says his condition is unchanged.
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Now, somewhere between the present and heaven, Bo bursts into the Brady Pub that was previous locked. He is shocked to see a grown-up Zack (Brandon Butler) behind the bar working there. Bo is confused as he knows he isn’t in Salem. He says he vaguely remembers a dream with Zack and Hope with a lot of white (referencing Beyond Salem: Chapter Two), and then wants a hug. Zack tells his father it’s not a good idea. He’s not supposed to be here.
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In the present, Bo’s eyes start to move some. Hope is convinced that he’s becoming back to life and tells him about their love story flashing back to when they first met and memorable moments from their life together.
Back at the Brady Pub, Zack tells his dad that his place is with his living family. Zack says he is doing OK, he has grandma Caroline and grandpa Shawn with him. Bo says he doesn’t want to leave Zack, but Zack says to go back to his family. He’ll always be waiting for his dad when it’s time.
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Next, Hope, Ciara and Shawn all appear at the pub telling Bo it’s not his time to leave this earth, but time for him to come back to them. Bo says he has tried for years to come back and nothing has worked!
Now back in the present, Hope tells Bo to think of all they have endured and that their lives together can’t end this way. All of a sudden, Hope gets the shivers and a terrible feeling washes over her. She clearly felt John’s passing.
Hope sits at Bo’s beside begging imploring him to, “Fight for us! You fight for your family!” Suddenly, Bo’s eyes open slowly for the first time in two years as he sees Hope and whispers, “Fancy Face!” Hope is beside herself with joy.
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As the episode comes to an end, it will be remembered for the performances of everyone involved from: Deidre Hall to Kristian Alfonso, to Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans, to Peter Reckell and Brandon Butler. It will also be remembered as the final moments of one of soap opera’s most iconic character’s, John Black.
So, what did you think of the final moments of the life of John Black’s life? What parts of the episode made you reach for the hankies the most? What did you think of Bo finally being back among the living? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
“Next, Marlena and John are somehow are are able to tell each other how much they love the other.”
I’m confused how they did this. Was it some other actor mimicking Drake’s voice? Or did they dub in old dialogue by Drake? It must have been very, very sad for “Days” fans.
He died 4 days after they shot that scene
I hardly ever cry, but I couldn’t stop crying in Monday’s episode, Drake was so loved on and off camera and it showed.
More casting news from Days of Our Lives, and for now, the soap opera seems to be breaking their new additions to Salem via their Instagram account. Now comes word and picture on August 24, that General Hospital and The Young and the Restless alum Brytni Sarpy has joined DAYS!
The Peacock soap opera’s Instagram account, showed a photo of Sarpy standing in front of her dressing room in the hallways of Days of Our Lives’ studios. The caption read, “Someone new is checking into Salem… Welcome Brytni Sarpy to the Days of our Lives family! Stay tuned.”
The casting of Sarpy comes on the heels of the announcement of Sydney Malakeh coming to the show in September, and earlier this year General Hospital favorite, Sofia Mattsson (ex-Sasha Gilmore, GH) joining the show in a mystery role when she began taping back around the end of March of this year. Now Sarpy is the “mystery role” category too!
In addition, the Days of Our Lives social team dropped a video ditty of the cast spoofing Love Island, where Sarpy appears as the new “bombshell” of the villa. Other cast members such as Rob Scott Wilson (Alex), Abigail Klein (Abigail), Casey Moss (JJ), Sal Stowers (Lani), Paul Telfer (Xander) and Linsey Godfrey (Sarah) pop-up in it too, among others.
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SOAP HOPPING
Soap fans first met Sarpy when she played Valerie Spencer, the niece of Luke (Anthony Geary) and Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) on General Hospital back in 2015. She made her final appearance on the series back in 2019 to join the cast of The Young and the Restless in the role of Elena Dawson.
Elena was introduced as a love interest for Devon Winters (Bryton James). She later cheated on him with his cousin Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic). Elena began to be back-burned by 2023 with Sarpy’s last on-screen appearance in Genoa City in November of 2024.
Due to Days of Our Lives nearly year in advance tape schedule, viewers will have to wait till sometime in the early summer of 2027 to see Brytni’s arrival in Salem.
So, happy to see Brytni Sarpy has landed another soap role? Now that she is at DAYS, who you think she might be playing and paired with? Put on your casting director hats and let us know via the comment section.
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Sydney Malakeh Joins the Cast of ‘Days of Our Lives’ in Mystery Role: Who Do You Think She’s Playing?
There’s a new gal coming to Salem, or is she new and a recast? That’s what inquiring minds from Days of Our Lives fans have been trying to figure out since the Peacock soap opera dropped an Instagram video heralding actress‘ Sydney Malakeh‘s arrival in Salem.
The soap did confirm that viewers will first see Malakeh on the September 9 episode. In the video, Malakeh is seen going set to set from her dressing room and in to the halls of Days of Our Lives studios.
What we do know id that Sydney has been acting professionally for 6 years and had appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Apple TV’s Shrinking and the HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Plenty of Malakeh’s DAYS castmates jumped into the comment thread with positive emojis symbols or written excitement including: Paul Telfer (Xander), Linsey Godfrey (Sarah), Sal Stowers (Lani), Conner Floyd (Chad), Eric Martsolf (Brady) and Christie Clark (Carrie) and more now that fans will finally see her on-air. Since Days of Our Lives tapes 10-11 months in advance, Sydney would have started taping the show sometime back in 2025.
DAYS fans think perhaps because the actress’ name is Sydney that she might be playing the grown-up daughter of Sami and EJ. That character hasn’t bee on the canvas since 2021.
So, who do you think Sydney Malakeh might be playing on Days of Our Lives? Drop your casting director thoughts via the comment section below.
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Peacock Hikes Subscription Rates for Fourth Time in Four Years; ‘Days of Our Lives’ Fans Sound Off
While recently the streaming service Peacock reported turning a profit for its first time since its infancy, now comes word that the company is raising their prices for all customers, and in some cases it stared today on August 18.
The news of the subscription rate increases marks the fourth time the NBCUniversal streaming platform has done so in four years. So, on August 18, Peacock is increasing the prices for new or returning subscribers and customers, while current subscribers will see the rate increase on or after September 17 depending on their billing cycle when they initially signed up.
Here is the new pricing to follow along: Peacock Premium (which includes ads) will be $12.99/month, up two dollars from $10.99; Peacock Premium Plus will be $19.99/month, up three dollars increase from $16.99; and the Peacock Select tier (which includes current and past seasons of NBC and Bravo shows but excludes movies, live sports and Peacock originals) will increase a dollar from $7.99 to $8.99/month.
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SUBSCRIBERS CONTINUE TO PAY MORE ACROSS THE STREAMER LANDSCAPE
It was back in June that the streamer reported that aid subscribers were up to 48 million adding a 2 million net gain during Q2 in of 2026. The subscription price hikes are rampant now in the entertainment streaming industry where over the last two years for example, Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV, Paramount+ have all raised their fees to consumers.
Peacock’s tier-levels feature not only Days of Our Lives, but reality hits such as The Traitors and Love Island USA, Bravo series, and a vault of Saturday Night Live, Law & Order, The Real Housewives franchise, and Below Deck episodes as well. Pecock Premium and Premium Plus subscribers have access to sports and live events, as well.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES SUBSCRIBERS HAD A FEW CHOICE WORDS FOR PEACOCK
As Days of Our Lives fans know, the soap opera moved from NBC to the streamer back in September of 2022 after 57 years on broadcast television. When the news hit X on the price increase, DAYS fans had a lot to say about it. Here are just a few of the comments below:
“I can’t believe Peacock and can’t come to a deal with Cordya to air old episodes of #Days. That alone would bring a ton of subscribers,” to If Peacock actually cared about #Days of Our Lives, gave the show the budget it needs for better sets, cameras, background actors and enough time to tell proper stories, I wouldn’t mind paying more. If the money actually showed on screen, the higher price would be worth it,” to “I will continue to pay for a Peacock subscription as long as #Days is on it, but did we know there was another price increase coming?” and more.
So, what do you think of the new price hike increase to watch Days of Our Lives and your other favorite shows and events on Peacock? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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