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Days of our Lives to dedicate upcoming episode to Veterans dealing with PTSD!
In a very special announcement on this Veteran’s Day, Days of our Lives, NBC’s longest-running scripted series, will honor current and retired U.S. troops by dedicating an upcoming episode to veterans returning home and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. Scheduled to air in January, this will continue the show’s long history of exploring real life social issues and representing the show’s vast variety of viewers and their struggles.
Actual veterans will appear as themselves in the episode, which focuses on psychiatrist “Marlena Evans,” played by Deidre Hall, taking Matthew Ashford’s “Jack” to a veteran’s hospital and visiting with patients struggling with returning home and their memories of war. A journalist who was kidnapped and held in Afghanistan while on assignment, “Jack” has returned to his home in Salem, but struggles to fit back in to his former life and face the reality of what he was put through, leading to issues dealing with stress and the pressure of strained relationships with his ex-wife and daughter. Joining the cast are a group of actual veterans, including Captain Leslie Nicole Smith, a former Army Public Affairs Officer, who retired due to a blood virus she contracted in Bosnia which resulted in the loss of her left leg, complete vision in her left eye, and some loss to her right eye’s vision. She currently speaks around the country to veterans and other victims of post-traumatic stress disorder.
“With President Obama’s recent announcement that we will bring home our troops we thought it was an important issue to address and let our family of viewers know we care about them,” said Co-Executive Producer Greg Meng.
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On Wednesday’s episode of Days of our Lives, Ben (Rob Scott Wilson) has brought Ciara (Victoria Konefal) to a very familiar place to him, the old abandoned cabin in the woods where he had: tied up Chad (Billy Flynn) and Abigail, where he had traumatized Abigail, and where she had given birth to Thomas, and where he murdered the midwife, Wendy (Denice Duff). Throughout the episode, Ben flashes back to all those moments in time, and the heinous acts he perpetrated.
For this episode, DAYS re-created these key scenes in Ben and Abigail’s back-story, by having Marci Miller redo the scenes, originally played at the time by Kate Mansi. Both Wilson and Miller were riveting to watch.
In present time, as Ben tends to Ciara’s wounds, he looks around the cabin and flashes to kidnapping Abigail. When Ciara finally starts regaining consciousness and starts to moan, it brings back memories of Wendy aiding Abigail in the birth of her son, Thomas. He recalls murdering Wendy and burying her. Ben begins to relive more and more moments, and then the horrific time he wanted to set Chad and Abby on fire. Ben continues to get more beside himself, and begins to pant recalling it all.
Later, Ben is standing in a corner, staring at the flame of the lighter that had been used to start the fire that had nearly killed Chabby. Just then, Ciara wakes up and takes a look at Ben. and she screams,”Oh my God.”
What did you think of the performance of Rob Scott Wilson? What did you think about Marci Miller redoing the scenes originally that aired that were played by Kate Mani? Comment below.
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“A journalist … struggles to fit back in to his former life and face the reality of what he was put through, leading to issues dealing with stress and the pressure of strained relationships with his ex-wife and daughter.”
Sounds like an awesome storyline, until you add in the ridiculous part about the ex-wife deciding to date him and her new boyfriend until she can decide which one she wants. Sad.
I hope Days can execute this up to it’s potential. They have an unfortunate history of having a good idea for a story on paper, but when it plays out something is missing.
I have to give Mathew Ashford credit when Jack first came back to Salem, I thought he was not acting right and might have post tramatic stress. Great forshadowing of story to come.
i agree, on paper it seems awesome..but i don’t trust Dool they manage to make all their storylines BORING whereas the concept is good and more realistic for once (finally the doppelganger, beds flying, alien twins, melanen garbage ect seems over at least for a time…lol), let’s hope with theSami/Ej drama coming (although this feud is tired but the characters and their portrayers together are golden no matter what) and this Jack story Dool can be less boring because right now this ‘reboot’ is a HUGE FAILURE.