Could Days of Our Lives’ Leo and Cat become Salem’s next great bestie team?

Nobody on Days of Our Lives ever really plans to become friends with Leo Stark. Usually, it just sort of happens while he’s insulting somebody’s shoes, spreading gossip across Salem like glitter in a windstorm, or calling people pet names that should honestly qualify as emotional trespassing. Now, the show has quietly stumbled into something unexpectedly fun with Leo and Cat.

Comedy gold with Leo and Cat

Cat (AnnaLynne McCord) caught Leo (Greg Rikaart) pretending to be bird watching (complete with binoculars) outside the DiMera mansion on the day of Stefano’s will reading. After some back and forth, the two partnered up to find out who had secretly entered the mansion, and their banter was hilarious. The two definitely had chemistry.

Part of why the dynamic works is that Leo instantly decided Cat (AnnaLynne McCord) belonged in his orbit. The man hands out nicknames the way Marlena (Deidre Hall) hands out therapy appointments, and his calling her “Kitty Kat” somehow became weirdly perfect almost immediately. It is playful without feeling forced, which is rare in Salem, where half the friendships start because someone kidnapped someone else at some point.

The energy between them also feels loose in a way the show sometimes forgets to let itself be. Their scenes don’t carry the exhausting weight of “world-ending secret” conversations every five minutes. They actually feel like two people who enjoy talking to each other, which on this show practically counts as supernatural activity.

And Cat weirdly balances Leo out. She doesn’t shrink from his chaos, but she also doesn’t completely feed into it either. There’s this nice middle ground where she lets him be ridiculous without looking exhausted by him. That matters because Leo works best when he has somebody who can volley back instead of just reacting like he wandered in from another television show entirely.

Days of our Lives friendships usually become dangerous eventually

Of course, this is Salem, so there is roughly a zero percent chance that things will stay uncomplicated forever. The second Leo and Cat started clicking, you could practically hear future jealousy storylines warming up somewhere backstage like microwaves full of emotional damage.

Gwen (Emily O’Brien) especially feels like the obvious powder keg here. She already treats Leo with utter disdain half the time, and watching him suddenly bond with Cat could absolutely send her into one of those “smiling while plotting social destruction” moods she wears so well.

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Still, there’s something refreshing about this pairing. Not every relationship on the show needs to spiral into betrayal, secret twins, or courtroom trauma within three episodes. Sometimes it’s enough watching two chaotic people unexpectedly click while chaos reigns around them. And honestly, Leo calling her “Kitty Kat” while they trade gossip and emotional support already feels like the beginning of exactly that kind of friendship.

Days of our Lives is available on the Peacock streaming app.

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