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Could someone tell me why the show writes Trina like a 14 year old rather than a 21 year old? She came off as absolutely ridiculous in her scenes with Ava and then with Jordan today.

Frankly, ALL of Laura's scenes this week make me want Cosgrove's slimy character to win the election, including the scenes where she decides to skip the well-publicized mayoral debate to be with Rocco and the many scenes where she enumerates things that matter more to her than her job.

I realize they're using the Rocco court scenes to move some plot pieces in action (and probably kill off poor underused Daniel Goddard's Prof. Dalton character). But it's still so silly that they probably could have avoided the whole trial if Britt--who they've already established as being very concerned for Rocco's well-being--had just lied to the cops and claimed she gave him the keyfob and asked him to look for papers in the lab she shares with Dalton.

I've gotta give the show some credit for briefly giving us some actual medical drama in the scene with Britt and Portia. And it was perfectly in character too, with Britt acting in a wildly unprofessional manner in the service of a greater goal (acting fact to save a patient) and Portia being professional to a fault, following hospital protocol even when her inaction could cost Ned his life.

Agreed. They seemed to be competing to see who could pitch his voice lower and speak in a monotone to sound more manly. All I could think when I was watching those scenes is that there's no way you should have Dante AND Nathan AND Chase on the same show; they're serving such similar functions, you need to get of at least one of them.

I know it's a sweeps period for GH, so there's a non-trivial chance that Jacinda the Hooker will end up brutally murdered by the end of the month. But if they do decide to keep her around and put her in a love story with Michael, they really need to recast the part with a stronger actress. Paige Herschell might be great in a different role, but she doesn't have a lot of chemistry with Rory Gibson, and she's not selling some of Jacinda's sassier lines.

To me, it felt like they wrote the story according to Slezak's availability. It was paced so differently than the rest of the show, with major developments in the story happening practically every day, that I can only assume Frank gave the writers an order to front-burner it because he could only convince Slezak to be on set for less than a month.

I thought it was a great scene, because they each had a point. Jordan is absolutely right to call Portia out on being a compulsive liar. But Portia is right to mention Curtis's "impossible standards" because Curtis is a condescending prick who is just looking for opportunities to tell the women in his life, "I'm so disappointed in you."

Yeah, the Tracy/Qs scenes today didn't quite work for me either. Which, to my great shock, meant that my favorite scenes today involved the Portia/Jordan confrontation. A year ago, when I got back into the habit of watching GH, both characters bored me to tears. I thought they were symptomatic of how white soap opera writers and producers either weren't interested or weren't capable of writing black characters who had distinctive personalities and compelling flaws. But now, Portia and Jordan are each getting to show their messy and petty sides, and the actresses seem to be having a blast.

Really good episode today. Great to see Ned and Tracy plotting, just like old times. And I love how they're bringing out more of Michael's Quartermaine ruthlessness. Although I have no use for Jacinda, those scenes with Michael, Nina, and Ava were great. Rory has been playing the brooding "dark Michael" well, but it's nice to see this different side of him and the smug smile on his face as he spars with Nina.

The thing about Carly is that I don't think she needs her own storyline. For most of 2025, she's really been more of a supporting player in other people's storylines (especially the Michael/Willow/Drew affair), and I think that's played to Laura Wright's strengths. It hasn't felt like Carly is eating the show, as it has in some previous years, even though she's still on at least 3 days a week. Because Carly is already this nosy, rude, chaos agent, it feels organic when she butts into other people's storylines and creates conflict.

You've just hit on one of the major weak spots of this storyline: the writers don't seem to know what Rocco's motivation is, and the dialogue has provided very little explanation. As a viewer, I've tried to supply my own explanations: for instance, Rocco's mother Lulu was absent for years because she was in a coma, and then when she came out of the coma, she immediately focused on searching for her other child Charlotte (who was with Valentin) and mostly ignored Rocco. So maybe he's searching for an alternate mother who he thinks "wanted" him, as opposed to Lulu, who made him feel unwanted. But again, none of that is explicitly in the scripts. I think the writers came up with this storyline because they knew it would generate conflict scenes between Lulu and Dante vs. Britt and Obrecht, and they didn't bother fully thinking through the motivations of the teenage boy in the middle.

That promo is so bad, it's low-key hilarious. Even Roger and Tamara look like they're struggling to keep a straight face.

It's not like this show is full of romance anyway, so I'm not sure that Carly even needs a romantic storyline. She definitely doesn't need to be rushed into one, because LW plays Carly with such a hard edge that it takes a very specific kind of actor--one who radiates confidence--who could make a pairing with Carly work. Until they find one, they should just keep giving Carly scenes with the people she really has chemistry with: the women who are her rivals and frenemies.

I actually bought that they were falling in love when Charles Mesure was playing the role, but that totally went out the window when they recast with Chris McKenna. He and Laura Wright generate all the chemistry of two strangers forced to sit together on a bus. However, after the scenes with Carly, her terrible wig, and Valentin this week, I'm actually looking forward to seeing this story play out. I'm so sick of watching McKenna's Brennan, I hope Carly absolutely destroys him, and I'm going to relish every minute of it.

I'll just say that based on where the gun was found, I also think it was a kid, but not Danny.

Today was full of juicy conflict and confrontation scenes. Of course, I loved the blow-up between Ronnie and Tracy, and the Jordan/Portia rivalry makes each character far more compelling. But my favorite adversarial scene of the day came from Drew and Alexis. If my suspicions are right about who actually shot Drew, it will be very interesting to have Alexis in the mix.

Great episode today! I loved seeing so many of the show's veteran actresses (and Erika Slezak) in a room together for the tea party scenes. Those kinds of big party scenes have mostly disappeared from soaps as budgets have gotten smaller, so I'm glad that Frank was able to work his budgetary magic to give us this one. But I have to say that Dante really sucks, both as a cop and as a brother. (And how does that whole "I'm still working on a murder investigation where you're one of the main suspects, but I'm interrogating you as your brother not as a cop" thing even work?) Michael looked like he was about to punch his sanctimonious big brother, and I wish he had.

Clearly Sonny secretes a pheromone that makes otherwise smart women fall foolishly in love (or lust) with him. Unfortunately, since GH is not in Smell-O-Vision, we can't sense this pheromone and so Sonny's charm is completely lost on us viewers.

DA-Bot was too distracted by the sight of sleeveless Sonny. She was the one who called in "65 Harborview Drive" when we'd been told in several previous scenes that the Quartermaine estate is at "66 Harborview Drive". Just in case we needed any more confirmation that she's terrible at her job...

The Sonny/DA-Bot scenes are terrible as usual, but they only last a minute or two. Otherwise, Sonny is actually used effectively for once, in some cute scenes with Gio (that were paralleled with some equally cute Anna/Emma scenes). In fact, for an episode that featured some of my less-favorite characters, I thought they were used very well. Britt had just the right level of tart bitchiness today, and I liked how she put herself in the middle of the Curtis-Isaiah confrontation. I also liked just how messy that quad (including Jordan) seems to be getting. And Erika Slezak hasn't missed a beat; her scenes reading the search warrant were just a masterclass of subtle soap acting.

It doesn't. So it's probably a forged will. They started planting seeds of this story months ago when Martin got hold of some letters between Monica and Ronnie. And then today he somehow knew that Drew had been cut out of the will--a little suspicious since he's not the lawyer handling it.

Given BTG's, um, creative approach to age-appropriate casting, there's no telling. He could be playing Smitty's little brother or Ashley's grandfather for all we know.

They tried to handwave it away in the dialogue, implying that Alexis's house was so far away from the city and that Ric didn't have his car, so he needed a ride from Elizabeth to get home. But still I was wondering the same thing--why he didn't just run out of that house of horrors while he had the chance.

Can you imagine how they would have handled this on Y&R? We wouldn't see any action, but would just have two characters sitting around at Crimson Lights, one saying, "I was so scared when Ric held that knife against my throat. Good thing you threw scalding water in his eyes then knocked him out with that tea tray!"