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Give them time. I'd put money on Carly--or maybe Liz, but probably Carly--finding Ric locked in the basement before the month is up.

Unlike P.J., I'm one of the few people who actually liked Hunt Block's Craig on ATWT. But Ben Warren didn't work for me either. He was clearly meant as one of those "love to hate" villains, but Block played him as this toxic combination of slimy and smug, which just wasn't any fun to watch. Block isn't bad-looking, but it just seemed insane that Blake (or any woman) would be attracted to that guy.

Today's episode wasn't very promising on paper, but I ended up really enjoying it. I usually feel like Chris McKenna's Brennan is sleepwalking through his scenes, but he finally came alive in those scenes with Valentin. And even though Charlotte could have stayed up in the attic indefinitely for all I care, I thought the young actress playing teen Charlotte did a good job with the material and had a nice rapport with Alexa Havens. I also really liked the scenes with Ava, Kristina, and Alexis scheming how to cover for Ric's disappearance; those three work really well as unlikely allies. The Five Poppies storyline gets sillier and sillier, but I enjoyed all the campy spy movie touches, like Britt's ankle bracelet set to explode in an hour. The only part of the episode that didn't work for me was the Molly/Cody storyline; I'm not sure if this means they're really over, and I can't bring myself to care.

I basically agree with you, but I try to focus mostly on what I enjoy rather than what could be improved. Given the state of soaps in 2025, I'm not optimistic that "new blood" on either the writing or producing side would actually improve the show. In fact, I can think of many ways they could make it much worse. Given how much of the show's heart was gutted during the 11 years that JFP served as EP, I frankly think it's a miracle that GH is watchable at all these days.

Good visual casting--he looks like he could be Nick and Sharon's son. But Adams tends to be such a low-key actor I suspect he'll just fade into the background at Y&R, like most of the younger actors do.

Maybe that's Ryan Quan's influence? Agreed that it felt a little too campy at times. Those scenes with Ava, Kristina, and Alexis didn't quite work for me. They reminded me of similar scenes on Days years ago, where Kate, Sami, and Gabi dispose of Nick Fallon's body, but there the camp was totally in keeping with the tone of the show and those particular characters. Here it felt a little forced, with Alexis in particular acting out of character to keep with the jokey tone.

I think so too, although I hope the show doesn't make the mistake of actually killing him off. They could get a lot more story out of a "Who shot Drew?" mystery where they put him in a coma for a few weeks then have him wake up and return to being a total prick.

I liked today's episode, but I felt like the show was cramming a few weeks' worth of plot developments into a single day. It sure seemed like they were closing the door on Cody/Ava, but I hope they eventually circle back to it, since Maura West and Josh Kelly have chemistry in spades.

Based on that last scene where Liz overhears Willow talking to Drew, she might not be such an ardent Willow supporter for much longer. But I got the sense that standing up for Willow was only a secondary motivation for Liz. I felt like her primary motivation was to shut down Kristina for being so sanctimonious.

I think the show has been really uneven this week, but I did really like today's scenes between Willow and Kristina and then between Kristina and Elizabeth. Willow and Kristina are each deluded and entitled in their own ways, but it was fun to see them butt heads. And then I loved how Liz played hardball with Kristina; sometimes the show writes Liz as nothing but sweetness and light, so it was nice to see her tougher side coming out.

Maybe that's the mysterious technology Professor Dalton is developing and testing on animals: something that will make your teeth glow blue.

I'll share one of my favorite Vaughn scenes, which starts about 2 minutes into this clip. I think this might illustrate what I mean when I talk about the potential for the character, especially if he starts mixing it up with other Port Charles residents beyond Joss:

I'd agree that Bryce Durfee and Evan Hofer have enough of a physical resemblance that they could be playing brothers. But beyond that, Vaughn and Dex don't feel very similar to me. I think Vaughn is a huge upgrade because he's a more complex character, someone who's so used to lying and slipping into a role that it's become like second nature to him. With the right writing, you could get a lot of good stories and scenes out of a character like that, because you'd never quite be able to tell where his true agenda might lie. Dex, on the other hand, was just another in a long line of Frank's derpy hunks who look good shirtless.

I'd be okay with that, but only if a character like Sidwell gets to tell Sonny, "To lose one child may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness."

I feel like the real entertaining story--far more entertaining than the WSB/Britt story we're seeing onscreen--is whatever's been going on behind the scenes the past few months. Because first we get Daniel Goddard auditioning for the role of Brennan--which would have been perfect casting and he might have even been able to generate some chemistry with Laura Wright, which Chris McKenna certainly can't. But then the role goes to Frank's old friend Chris McKenna, although that means now Brennan is suddenly no longer Antipodean, but a down-home American son of a plumber. But then Frank likes Goddard, so he creates this entirely new role for him, Dalton, the college professor with a sinister secret. But before Goddard's character gets to actually do much villainy, the focus suddenly shifts to Croatia, where a back-from-the-dead Britt is using Dalton's research. And she's working for some unseen Big Bad, who's clearly going to be this new character played by Ryan Paevey (almost definitely Nathan's hitherto unknown evil twin). Which leaves Dalton doing very little in this story (and Goddard off screen for the past few weeks). So is Frank just like my cat, who comes running every time someone waves a shiny new toy in front of his face and then ignores the shiny toys he got just a few minutes earlier?

Just when I thought that Sonny's scenes with DA Justine couldn't get any worse...

Hopefully he's spent the past 7 years taking acting lessons. Or maybe we'll get lucky and his new role will be as a deaf-mute male stripper.

You're not the only one. I think the show has been dropping unsubtle hints about an impending Chase/Willow hook-up for the past couple of weeks now. The only question is what the fall-out might be.

I kind of see Court's point though. Yes, Vigard wasn't always the strongest actress but she was distinctive, and she perfectly fit the kind of teenage wish-fulfillment story Marland was trying to tell, with the innocent young girl falling for an older Prince Charming. Cooke was so far from that wide-eyed innocent type, it really changed the couple's dynamic.

The real sexual chemistry was between Kelly and his speedos.

I actually love how they've been writing Drew this week. It's not that he's a bad father exactly--he was clearly genuinely worried when he heard that Scout was missing from camp--but he's just a very selfish one, a guy who's able to swallow his own rationalizations about how he's doing what's best for his daughter even as he causes her pain by keeping her away from her family. In a show that's loaded with cartoonish supervillains like Sidwell (and whoever Britt's "big boss" is), Drew has managed to emerge as the show's true villain, but almost all of his villainy is mundane and domestic. Today he hit a new low trying to use his parental rights to keep his child away from her grandmother and brother. But his previous low came when he tried to make a little boy believe his father didn't love him anymore. And before that, it was his constant "love bombing" of Willow. All of which are quite realistic acts of everyday villainy and which, to judge from the reaction online, engage and enrage the viewers a lot more than any of the outlandish schemes that characters like Peter or Sidwell or Victor Cassadine came up with.

Yup, it's utterly depressing how Trina's storylines--and, seemingly, her whole sense of self--suddenly revolved around Kai, a character who 99% of the audience couldn't care less about. I feel like the only time Trina has been used well in 2025 is when she teamed up with Emma and Gio to prevent the Quartermaine crypt from being bulldozed. She should be mixing it up with the other young characters, and they need to give her some spunk back.

I agree with everything you said, but I also think that BrendaB has a point when she notes that the young actors playing Rocco and Danny feel more natural than Gio. I just think he's naturally very charismatic and charming, and that works for many of his scenes (like his ones with Emma). But when they ask him to express anger and resentment (as in his scenes with BLQ), he tends to be pretty one-dimensional. He's got a very limited set of "angry" facial and vocal expressions, and it often doesn't feel natural. Of course, he's still growing as an actor, but it does make me hope that Gio reconciles with the Q's soon, because this storyline is not playing to his strengths.

He partly misinterpreted the situation, but I think Lucas wasn't entirely wrong when he described Willow as "an addict trying to get her fix" when she was around Drew. I mean, the Willow/Drew scene ended with her consoling him and then asking him to call her immediately (as soon as he got information on Scout). From Willow's perspective, she's just being caring, but it also demonstrates how she still has trouble laying down firm boundaries and staying away from Drew.

I could see Ron Carlivati doing that twist. But not the current head writers.