In the 80s, I used to watch Days in the afternoons with my older sisters.
Took a long break from soaps, but when I started going out with my wife, she and her roommates and some of the girls from surrounding apartments would crowd into living rooms every afternoon to watch it. They would schedule classes around Days. I sat there, the lone guy in the room, and shocked them because I knew all of the characters and storylines they’d never heard of from ten years earlier. But the funniest thing for me was that it was like I never stopped watching: the same people were doing some of the same things for the same silly reasons.
Haven’t watched that show since that semester of college. But I bet it’s not very different.