54 minutes ago, MontyB said:

Haha! The Allante........

That's it! That's the car, lol! Thank you, @MontyB !

3 hours ago, Khan said:

That's it! That's the car, lol! Thank you, @MontyB !

You're welcome!

12 hours ago, Antoyne said:

I’m so annoyed that Sonny is so ready to blow Ric away without even once having a conversation with him. He’s talking to all these people that don’t like Ric so he can get his confirmation bias. I’ve literally only enjoyed Sonny recently because of the truce with Ric and they’re already mucking it up. I truly think whatever Ric has been working on is going to show Sonny to be a total damn fool for immediately wanting to kill him. And this show would be so stupid to get rid of Rick Hearst again who is a literal walking chemistry magnet with all of his costars.

It all escalated so quickly. As someone who has been acquainted with Sonny since 1993 even I thought he was being super irrational. He's going to kill Ric, but let's Sidwell prance around town?

It doesn't make any sense. It's purely plot, even by this show's low standards. This will spur him to kill Ric? He's let Ric off for so much worse lol

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Is Sonny off his meds again?

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Is Sonny off his meds again?

Doubtful. Mo won't play that story.

2 hours ago, carolineg said:

Doubtful. Mo won't play that story.

Sigh.

I truly hate how GH actors in particular can dictate which kinds of stories the writers can and cannot write for them. Just STFU and act - and if you can't do that, then do us all a favor and quit.

1 minute ago, Khan said:

Sigh.

I truly hate how GH actors in particular can dictate which kinds of stories the writers can and cannot write for them. Just STFU and act - and if you can't do that, then do us all a favor and quit.

I agree. I think it's a rough road because Mo stated he struggled before with the material and it affected his mental health.

Just see how long the show kept Kirsten Storms.

With Mo's open mental health diagnosis, I am not sure the show can actually do anything about it and in general I don't think GH wants to take that hit because Sonny has fans not named Carolineg, I swear!!!

On 5/8/2026 at 5:13 PM, Vee said:

Did Paevey slightly raise his voice again and get snarky? Real Emmy shít.

I'm teasing, I'd just forgotten how incredibly boring this show can be live or caught up (as I am) when you're not at least 2-3 behind to binge. And it's not like Cody/Molly, Sidwell, baby Phoebe, etc. are pulse pounding excitement no matter how behind you get lol.

On 5/8/2026 at 5:20 PM, Vee said:

I will say I actually did think RP and Alexa going at each other hammer and tongs a few days ago over Rocco had life in it. She was fiery and he was very locked in with her. Frankly given what I've heard in the past about him and how I've seen him behave on social media I think Cassius being a bit of a sarcastic dick is more in line with who Paevey is, lol. He's not a great actor but watching him be a dick is reasonably more interesting than St. Nathan the Cardboard Standee. Not enough to keep him around, but diverting at times. Now if it could translate to (onscreen) angry sex I'd watch that, followed by her finding out the truth.

Are Willow and Nina gonna stack Brennan and Drew on top of each other in the closet like cordwood? Please say yes.

It’s not going to translate into angry sex as long as Alexa Havens refuses to film kissing scenes.

35 minutes ago, SamandWillowFan said:

It’s not going to translate into angry sex as long as Alexa Havens refuses to film kissing scenes.

Lol! We have info on Alexa HAVINS refusing kissing scenes? That does not seem to be the case. She doesn't have that power as you can see by the writing of Lulu. The show cast a pretty wide net to try to find a new Lulu. I highly disagree she is coming in with huge demands especially since her husband is an actor and gets it.

Oh, not this again lol.

The big 'evidence' for this theory is an interview where Havins said she felt awkward about kissing someone other than Justin Bruening during her first kiss scene with RP after being out of daytime, and tried to get it over with quickly. She made light of it and joked that she only wanted to be kissing her husband. The rest of the supposed evidence is the fact that Lulu and Cassius haven't really been intimate since and have yet to have an onscreen love scene, and that their second kiss was filmed weirdly/from a distance (because it was filmed from Felicia's POV catching them together). But unlike Amanda Setton we don't have anything explicit whatsoever that confirms AH refuses to do kissing scenes, love scenes, dress a certain way, etc. Yet you have some corners of fandom insisting it's 100% fact based on this and totally real. Over on PTV it's a whole running debate.

If it comes out that it's true or lasts another six months then sure, I'll criticize the hell out of Alexa. I don't find that shít acceptable on daytime unless you're playing a rapist like Roger Howarth did. But I don't see any real proof that she's made these kind of demands. There's a lot of corners cut on onscreen intimacy in general on GH lately with many couples, including Cody and Molly, Jason and Britt, Sonny and Justine, etc. Given how plot-driven this storyline in particular is Lulu's lack of onscreen sex doesn't really stand out to me. There's really been no time taken for it with Lulu and Cassius after their initial get-together.

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9 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I highly disagree she is coming in with huge demands especially since her husband is an actor and gets it.

I agree. This isn't the Bruenings' first time at this particular rodeo. They've worked on other soaps in the past. (Well, ONE other soap). They know the assignment.

Of course, Amanda Setton knows the assignment, too. Yet, there she is, star of the latest GH spinoff, "I Married an Inuit."

4 hours ago, carolineg said:

Just see how long the show kept Kirsten Storms.

Yep. And all they really did in the end was enable her rather than force her to receive the help she obviously needs. No one, not even the Almighty Frank Valentini, should keep someone battling mental illness employed just because they're afraid of that individual harming themselves or others if they don't. That's not fair to that person or to their colleagues.

Furthermore, while I certainly appreciate how hard it is for Maurice Benard to give his all performance-wise while managing HIS delicate mental condition daily, again, it's not GH's or the network's responsibility to keep him employed or to make the workload easier for him just because Maurice himself is afraid he wouldn't be able to cope with it all if he actually were let go. It's as if Maurice is on the roof of the Prospect Studios and threatening to jump as everyone begs and pleads with him not to. It's selfish and it's not at all something that I, myself, would respond well to either. (Which explains why I don't volunteer to work on suicide hotlines, lol).

If your work is the only thing that's keeping you from eating your gun, then guess what? You need help. Seriously. And after you've gotten that help, you need to decide whether, in fact, you're cut out for that line of work. If you are, great. If you're not, then go do something else.

16 minutes ago, Vee said:

There's a lot of corners cut on onscreen intimacy in general on GH lately with many couples, including Cody and Molly, Sonny and Justine, etc.

I could be wrong, but I feel like a lot of that is in response to the #MeToo movement and concerns throughout the industry about actors being forced to perform in awkward and uncomfortable positions. IOW, better to cut down on intimacy between actors than to look the other way and be accused later of fostering an unsafe workplace.

Just now, Khan said:

I agree. This isn't the Bruenings' first time at this particular rodeo. They've worked on other soaps in the past. (Well, ONE other soap). They know the assignment.

It's entirely possible that in the intervening years out of the business Havins, like Setton, has gotten prudish and conservative about basic soap stuff. But unlike Setton where she's both confirmed it and it shows glaringly onscreen every month, I just don't see enough evidence yet onscreen to have this attitude people are throwing around where it's 100% a fact that AH is definitely doing this. It's like when people throw around the supposed 'fact' that Laura Wright is terrorizing everyone BTS because folks don't like who she plays on TV. It's just something people say because of how they feel about watching her as Carly, a character who pisses a lot of us off regularly. But in terms of claiming LW is throwing her weight around to get her way, it doesn't have much evidence to back it up.

Some folks claim it extends to Lulu's clothes and that's definitely not true. However GH poorly styles Lulu at times, in the afterglow with RP they had Alexa in a tiny little tank top with her boobs out. You won't get that from BLQ over at the Quartermaines! So yeah, I'm real skeptical.

And yeah, the situation with Mo is frustrating. It's not a Kirsten Storms problem, but it's ridiculous they couldn't play that story in '24 after he initially was enthusiastic about it in the press. His energy is very low onscreen and I'd hope he has some other outlets to keep him keeled, and obviously I don't know his personal life but I'm not always sure he has them outside of the work.

3 minutes ago, Vee said:

However GH poorly styles Lulu at times, in the afterglow with RP they had Alexa in a tiny little tank top with her boobs out. You won't get that from BLQ over at the Quartermaines!

No, you won't. Chances are, BLQ would be wearing the same thing John Travolta's Boy in the Plastic Bubble wore when he attended school in-person for the first time. And poor Josh Swickard would have to pretend he'd never seen his wife look more sexy.

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