{"id":68569,"date":"2026-01-26T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=68569"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:57:29","slug":"days-opinion-for-the-week-of-january-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/days-opinion-for-the-week-of-january-19-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Opinion For The Week Of January 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Opinion Article<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/bios\/michelecheryl-bio.shtml\">Michele &amp; Cheryl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68570\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gwenfromdays.jpeg\" alt=\"Gwen from days\" width=\"162\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The writers are going overboard manipulating the audience into thinking Gwen is the villain when it comes to Dimitri and Leo. Were we supposed to forget that Dimitri was the one who used Gwen to get an inheritance? He was also the same one who cheated on her with her best friend. Now that she wants to make Dimitri pay for what he did, she is suddenly the villain? Don\u2019t get us wrong. Gwen is a villain. She\u2019s just not one in this storyline. No matter how annoying the writers make Gwen, she is not the bad guy. Dimitri deserves everything Gwen does to him and more. We don\u2019t sympathize with him just because he fell in love with Leo and can\u2019t be with him. It serves him right that he can\u2019t be with Leo after what he did to Gwen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trey\u2019s christening was missing some people. Johnny didn\u2019t have any of his relatives at the christening. It\u2019s not like he doesn\u2019t have family in Salem yet none of them were there. The writers came up with a way to explain some of his family being missing, but didn\u2019t explain why the rest of them weren\u2019t there. Roman, in particular, should have been at the christening. There was no mention of him being out of town the way Marlena and Belle conveniently were. The christening may have been short notice but that doesn\u2019t justify why people weren\u2019t there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Javi showed that he has a bitter side. He refused to listen to Leo when he tried to save their marriage. Javi must have forgotten that he was the one who told Leo to go to Dimitri. Leo did what he wanted him to do. He chose Javi but it wasn\u2019t enough for him. We know the writers had to come up with a reason to write Javi\u2019s character off the show, but they could have done a better job than that. Javi could have left town to be with his father and still stayed married to Leo. We read that Javi\u2019s character was getting recasted so there was no reason to have him break up with Leo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is anyone else sick of watching Stephanie play the victim in the stalker story? We know she\u2019s being targeted, but we find ourselves rooting for the stalker. She doesn\u2019t seem to care much about her life being on the line. All she\u2019s worried about is having sex with Alex. She doesn\u2019t even appreciate the efforts Steve is doing to protect. He put his life on hold to make sure she was safe, but all she whines about is wanting to be alone with Alex. Steve should leave the apartment and let the stalker get Stephanie. We know he wouldn\u2019t do that because he loves her, but it would serve her right if the stalker got her. The stalker story isn\u2019t a bad story, but they put someone in the story that we don\u2019t care about. We like how Steve is involved in the story, but he\u2019s not in it enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were proud of Chad for standing up to Jennifer when she told him to stay away from Cat. Jennifer had a lot of nerve expecting him to follow her orders in order for him to keep his children. We understand that she has issues with Cat, but she didn\u2019t have the right to tell him who he should see. Chad shouldn\u2019t be with Cat after what she did to him but it should be his decision whether or not he wants to be around her. Jennifer is lucky he hasn\u2019t tried to keep the kids from her. If he wants to be petty, he could take the kids on a private island and keep them from her. He chose to let Jack and Jennifer be in the kids\u2019 lives yet that\u2019s not enough for Jennifer. She wants to control him as if she has more of a say with the kids than he does. We enjoyed watching tell her that he would fight her for the kids if she didn\u2019t agree to his terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68571\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/chadfromdays.jpeg\" alt=\"Chad from Days\" width=\"162\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The opinions in these articles are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of TVMEG.COM or its other volunteers.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/05\/daysart\/\">Back to the Days of Our Lives Articles Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/daytime\/days\/\">Back to the Days of Our Lives Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion Article &nbsp; by Michele &amp; Cheryl The writers are going overboard manipulating the audience into thinking Gwen is the villain when it comes to Dimitri and Leo. Were we supposed to forget that Dimitri was the one who used Gwen to get an inheritance? He was also the same one who cheated on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[79,393,552,394,126,450,125,359],"class_list":["post-68569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days","tag-article","tag-days","tag-days-of-our-lives","tag-dool","tag-essay","tag-nbc","tag-opinion","tag-peacock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68573,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569\/revisions\/68573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}