Credits for Friday, April 17, 2026:

Created by: Frank & Doris Hursley
Executive producer: Frank Valentini
Head writers: Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte
Writers: Ryan Quan; Louise Rozett and Cathy Lepard
Director: Gary Tomlin

Already enjoying Ethan! The scenes with Ethan and Lulu were warm and they seem to already have good sibling chemistry.

Otherwise a bit of a slow day, although I enjoyed Carly/Lucas. Willow/Jacinda got good at the end and I'm excited to see Michael enter the scene on Monday.

Still not getting a romantic vibe for Laura/Ezra (hope I'm right), but starting to think they're trying to redeem Ezra and make him less of a greasy slimeball.

8 hours ago, Vee said:

Seeing how good Jeff Kober has been this season on The Pitt just makes me that much more angry about his role at GH as Cyrus. They styled and presented him poorly throughout onscreen, to the point that both in terms of physicality and in story Cyrus came off like a doddering old man quoting Bible verses or weeping for pity because he ran over Dad in the driveway, all the while vaguely terrorizing people like a Scooby-Doo villain or a hokey carnival barker.

Most of this is because this era's creative team fundamentally does not do well writing supervillains and especially mob-related villains. It is not their wheelhouse and never has been. They got a tremendous actor in Kober from China Beach, The First Power, etc. but did not know how to execute, whereas most of Guza's campiest criminals still had a sense of menace and lethality to them. This team and FV fall in love with unique character actors and are generally content to have them merely gesture towards villainy and then tread water for months or years, making both the villain and the lead characters look impotent and weak for not dealing with each other. Cyrus meanders around town whining about his mom and begging for Laura's love for months, then has silly connections to Roger Howarth, then he's maybe reformed maybe not and quoting scripture and so on. It's the same floundering, ambivalent approach with Sidwell today, though Carlo Rota is far too irreverent to project real menace in general and also does not do well with high dramatics.

If they'd leaned into letting Kober off the leash as in his classic roles, or gave him have the solemnity and soul he has had on The Pitt this season he could have been something really special - and scary. But they fell in love with having him around, with making him Laura's brother, and he came off far more toothless and past it on GH than he actually is. I have to apologize to Kober, who I've always liked a lot in other things. He's still got it but GH couldn't write it. This has been your pointless late night thought.

Yes! I thought he was a real get when they hired him, and then that is what they did with him?!? Even the idea of exploring Laura’s biological father had real merit, and ended up being useless. Tying Kentucky Fried Tad to it was beyond stupid. I was happy to see Jeff on The PITT this season too.

18 hours ago, carolineg said:

The years of trying to make Mac and Alexis happen were awful.

As was the attempt with Laura during the Carly/Laura Deception storyline and Felicia affair. On GH Genie, like Tony, had chemistry with pretty much everybody. NLG does too for the most part, as does Rick Hearst. GF even brought out a real sweet side to Brad Maule. But not as a couple, and the same with Mac. Even the pairing with Felicia was because they were both hot and there, and big enough draws that Wendy Riche needed at that time. As the years go by I think that Ryan story and Jagger/Karen/Brenda/Jason kind of saved her and kept ABC from interfering with her too much. They bought her time.

I can’t believe Ethan and Kristina are sharing scenes after all these years, and it’s not Lexi in the role of Kristina. 😭 Kate has been a terrible recast, but they keep trying to force it.