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Imagine if Frank actually gave a s**t.

I chuckled at the “Clint/Delilah” reference and don’t mind the OLTL callbacks in general but they do contribute to the overall “Frank playing with his dolls” sense of randomness that’s constantly undermining the show’s momentum. For example, rather than continuing to develop stories that were gaining steam (Lucas and Marco caught between Sidwell and Sonny, the Emma/Gio romance, Ava and Ric blackmailing Alexis, etc.) we’re watching: 1.) Sonny flirt with the ADA because Frank met Carlo Rota’s wife and decided to create a part for her. 2.) Everyone freak out over Maxie having a heart attack because Kirsten Storms decided to move to Nashville but didn’t want to leave the show. 3.) All of this Five Poppies nonsense because Steve Burton needed a love interest and his fiancee(?) suggested that Kelly Thiebaud come back.

How does the Metro Court still have a license to operate considering the number of assaults that happen on the premises, including by the co-owner?

Between Sonny harassing ADA Turner and Stella browbeating Trina into giving Kai the second chance he hasn’t earned, a theme of today’s episode was “No doesn’t really mean no.”

I really think it’s both. Spencer’s arrogant-but-lovelorn spoiled/lonely prince energy was a welcome respite from this show’s main male archetypes (conflicted mobster, crooked businessman, ineffectual law enforcement agent). But then I’m in favor of reconstituting the Cassadines: Nikolas, Valentin, hell, resurrect Victor and Helena. They’re fun!

The show is dealing with the fallout of relying on baby storylines for so many years. Jake, Aiden, Georgie, James, Bailey, Rocco, Charlotte, Danny, Scout, Avery, Donna, Wiley, Amelia, Ace, and Leo = too many damn kids on canvas!

YEP. It is completely insane that Spencer was basically the second male lead of the show for two years and they still haven’t recast him—a far more dynamic character than Mama’s Boy Michael.

To me, the worst acting on the show is usually done by (almost always male) veterans who seem like they’ve lost interest and are coasting. I won’t name names. Tanisha, for me, falls into the Josh Swickard camp of “models who also act.” I find them both likable, and they usually seem like they’re at least putting in the effort. I never really mind the younger actors who are growing and improving right before our eyes even if they’re not quite there yet.

Same, and hopefully that still happens, considering the confrontation we saw between Carly and Marco.

I had similar concerns, but I like that it occasionally feels as though Lucas shares some personally traits with his stubborn, combative sister. I love the line they’re walking with Willow. I had been worried that they would give her a nervous breakdown and make her simply catatonic, but she has more agency than that. She’s angry and humiliated. She was holding her own with Drew, actually, and Lucas misinterpreted the situation.

Broken record here, but the show’s biggest challenge at the moment is that its three most dominant characters in terms of screen time/episode count (Carly, Jason, Sonny) are just going through the same repetitive motions again and again.

If we must have Jason on 3+ days per week, I’m fine with him standing silently next to Sonny or occasionally having a nice scene reconnecting with Danny. I don’t need him to be involved in a front-burner romantic pairing. The show has promising romances that it refuses to advance (hello, Emma and Gio; I’m still mad about Isaiah and Jordan). I wish it wouldn’t cede that airtime to Jason and Britt redux.

Poster and trailer for Amazon’s The Runarounds, starring William “Cameron Webber” Lipton, are out. The show premieres September 1. GH fans saw them first when they played at the Savoy lol.

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but what malevolent figure is making Swickard shave his chest for every shirtless scene?

But this is the second time it’s happened, remember? There was a strange scene at the pool a couple of months ago in which Sasha noticed a weird spot on his thigh. It’s just odd that they’ve gone there twice.

People have noticed weird marks on Cody’s skin a couple of times now. Are they very slowly laying the groundwork to give him some fatal illness?

Anybody else actually get to see Camino Real? I really enjoyed it—the production was energetic and beautifully staged, with a large and varied ensemble. NAC, who is onstage for probably 2/3 of the runtime, is just a pleasure to watch. He captures the poetry of Williams’s florid, metaphor-heavy language, and he’s remarkably physical: the part requires dance, slapstick, stage combat. It’s kind of amazing that this is his first professional theater gig but I remember thinking it was kind of amazing that GH was his first professional acting gig.

I think Rory is certainly an upgrade from Chad in terms of presence and charisma. He’s a little bit lock-jawed, though, and you can tell he’s not sure what to do with his arms in wide shots. He also does that SoCal actor thing of adopting a vaguely East Coast tough guy style of pronunciation. But he’s been given a ton of material almost immediately; he clearly has commitment and stamina, and he’ll keep improving, unless he learns the wrong lessons from Mo and Steve.

Tell me you didn’t grow up around a lot of Italian Americans without telling me you didn’t grow up around a lot of Italian Americans.

Pretty much everything clicked in today’s episode, which was full of weird little grace notes, like Cody and Tracy making fun of Drew and Martin, Portia silently realizing she’s off the hook, Liz stepping up upon realizing that Willow has nowhere to go, Britt turning down her masseur’s advances, and Liesl getting sentimental as she grows wasted on schnapps. The show was unusually clear-eyed about the cold cruelty of Carly and mama’s boy Michael, leaving their beloved Wiley and Amelia’s mother to collapse on the street. I’m getting to the point where I think Michael and Carly, sycophants and apologists for Sonny who never show the slightest forgiveness for anyone else, are even less sympathetic than Drew.

By half? I can’t think of any off the top of my head. But it’s a rarefied group who are in that many eps to begin with. Maura West, for example, was down 23% as of end of June 2025 vs. 2024 (41 vs. 53).

LW has appeared in more episodes this year than any other cast member. I can’t remember a year in which she wasn’t in the top 3.

If they can do it to every woman on the show (except LW, I guess) they can do it to Mo.

I still think there has to be a happy medium between writing Sonny off entirely and centering every storyline around him. Brando doesn’t have nearly as much screen time as Pacino in The Godfather, after all (is what FV could say to Mo). Sonny would be more believable looming large as the PC kingpin if Mo were struggling to remember his lines and flirting with the latest Brendabot in 80 episodes per year rather than 160.

Reminder that, in Port Charles, the concept of Leg Day died with Spencer.