While it sounds like Days of Our Lives‘ Bo and Hope return is extraordinarily good news, I’m scared to get excited.
We’ve been down this road too many times with this iconic couple in recent years, starting with when Bo returned after being presumed dead for years just in time to rescue his Fancy Face from a suddenly evil Aiden… only to die of a brain tumor less than a month later.
Bo’s latest return wasn’t much better, so how can I possibly trust that the latest news about Bo and Hope is going to be a real reunion for them?
The Last Days of Our Lives Bo And Hope Return Was A Huge Disappointment
Bo Ended Up In A Coma Before He Could Reunite With Hope
It’s been a couple of years since Bo and Hope’s last return, which is something that I wish I could put out of my mind.
It started with a lot of promise. Bo was magically resurrected, and his story afterward was the sort of thing that only happens in Salem: he was brainwashed to believe that he was evil because he was Victor Kiriakis’ illegitimate son and that the Bradys hated him.
The setup here should have been obvious. Hope needed to be the only one who could get through to him and then, once he remembered, they could ride off into the sunset until their next guest appearance.
Instead, they ended that last Days of Our Lives’ Bo and Hope return in the cruelest manner possible.
After suffering through weeks of Bo not remembering who he was at his core and doing horrible things, his breakthrough with Hope turned into a heartbreaking tragedy when Shawn Douglas shot him, believing he was protecting his mother.
Bo quickly lapsed into a coma, and doctors couldn’t say when he might come out of it, leaving fans furious.
The Latest Return Could Redeem The Writers … Or Be Worse
It’s Impossible To Tell What Bo And Hope’s New Story Will Be
The coma story would have been all right if Bo and Hope had stuck around, with Hope being as upset about losing the man she loves AGAIN as her son was about shooting him until Bo miraculously woke up.
It would have been somewhat of a tired TV trope, but who cares? Bo and Hope would have had their happy ending.
Instead, the writers did a bait-and-switch, promising us that we’d get a bona fide Days of Our Lives Bo and Hope return but delivering a stupid story that left them in the same place as usual, with Bo hovering between life and death and Hope devastated.
That’s why I can’t trust this latest news. I want to be excited, but every time these two return, it’s the same old thing.
Hope is always left brokenhearted because Bo disappears or dies or is left in a coma, and I have to wonder what new torture the writers have in store for us when she and Bo return in May.
Meanwhile, Bo has missed both Victor and Doug’s funerals, and viewers have been cheated out of anything meaningful on the rare occasions these two are on-screen.
Over to you, Days of Our Lives fanatics! Are you worried about Days of Our Lives’ Bo and Hope return being another huge disappointment, too?
Or do you have more faith than I do?
Hit the comments and let us know!
Days of Our Lives’ Bo and Hope return will begin airing on Peacock in May 2025.
