13 minutes ago, BrendaB said:

Trina's stupid singing storyline was the dullest of the dull storylines. The show constantly propping her up as a selfless goody-goody is totally unnecessary to justify her stupid new career especially since her prior art selling career was also stupid.

Pivoting Trina into singing was a illogical storyline idea. I really loved Trina's career goal of an art museum curator, I think it's intelligent and unique.

14 minutes ago, BrendaB said:

The Britt-Rocco mother-son dynamic was compelling and interesting given their history, plus that actor playing Rocco is the best in the teen set now that all of Elizabeth's sons are all older and off-screen

The Britt-Rocco storyline is disgusting and offensive.
There is * no * "mother-son dynamic". There is only selfish machinations by Britt. The actor Finn Carr who plays Rocco is the best but that storyline is gross.

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by janea4old

6 hours ago, Vee said:

It is wild that they let her dip with Lulu and Dante's child again and everyone is supposed to be cool with it.

This is the kind of storyline that makes me move on from the show without wanting to get caught up.

3 hours ago, janea4old said:

Pivoting Trina into singing was a illogical storyline idea. I really loved Trina's career goal of an art museum curator, I think it's intelligent and unique.

The Britt-Rocco storyline is disgusting and offensive.
There is * no * "mother-son dynamic". There is only selfish machinations by Britt. The actor Finn Carr who plays Rocco is the best but that storyline is gross.

Thank you for saying this. Emplanting yourself with your patient’s embryo doesn’t make you a mother, it makes you a psycho. She didn’t even care about Rocco for the last decade but some writer suddenly had the bright idea that Rocco’s first seven months as a toddler were so wildly important to him it doesn’t matter how it effects his parents that were actually violated. Rocco is officially on the fast forward list after willingly running off with Britt. Honestly I hope something terrible happens to him while he’s on the run with her. And if this isn’t a sign how neutered Sonny is now, I don’t know what is. This man used to be family obsessed like Victor Newman and now he’s just like well at least my grandson likes his kidnapper.

Just now, Antoyne said:

Thank you for saying this. Emplanting yourself with your patient’s embryo doesn’t make you a mother, it makes you a psycho. She didn’t even care about Rocco for the last decade but some writer suddenly had the bright idea that Rocco’s first seven months as a toddler were so wildly important to him it doesn’t matter how it effects his parents that were actually violated.

You ain't missing much! I am skipping around a lot since too.

And no, the show glosses this over but Britt never took Rocco out of 'love' for him or Patrick Drake. She took him because her terrorist parents wanted her to steal Luke and Laura's grandchild and also steal Robin Scorpio's husband. It was all just a big revenge ploy and Britt was a useful pawn.

And yeah, Sonny letting this slide is crazy. But again we see how far he's fallen and the mob canvas in general with him. Sonny and Jason spent most of the last year talking about what Sidwell, Britt, Lucas, Laura, etc. were doing in other storylines while not actually doing much themselves. Now we have Sonny taking his cues from Laura and Lucas about Pascal the evil gay butler dayplayer. Lucas!! Imagine that even 10 years ago.

This show has gotten really cartoonish, especially with Sidwell and gang. Why would Cullum brutally murder Sidwell's son? Why would Sidwell turn to the police to get justice? Why would Sidwell think his mousy timid butler did it? Why would Sidwell keep blackmail only as film negatives and paper prints? Why would this all powerful criminal have no video surveillance covering his tiny safe with all this blackmail material and other valuables in it, or have high-tech fingerprint access to it? Is he stuck in the 1970s or something? It's all pretty silly. The writers aren't thinking through the motivations or the little details.

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by Jdee43

It's pretty wild to think Sonny killed an unarmed FBI agent, who was at best a minor threat, point blank in the chest and got away with it a few years ago yet is too afraid to make a move against Sidwell.

23 minutes ago, carolineg said:

It's pretty wild to think Sonny killed an unarmed FBI agent, who was at best a minor threat, point blank in the chest and got away with it a few years ago yet is too afraid to make a move against Sidwell.

This continues to blow my mind. Like I’m still waiting for him to call a meeting with Sidwell and he just blows him away because that’s what the show conditioned us to for 20 years. Hell he was angrier at Ric for getting Liz a secret gift than this supposed all powerful threat in Sidwell.

7 hours ago, Antoyne said:

his is the kind of storyline that makes me move on from the show without wanting to get caught up.

But you miss some of the hot dishes. ;)

But I feel that. I was getting annoyed as heck last week as I've been catching up. However, it has a good momentum in spite of some of the stupid stuff (I know this trick did not lay hands on Liz!).

29 minutes ago, carolineg said:

It's pretty wild to think Sonny killed an unarmed FBI agent, who was at best a minor threat, point blank in the chest and got away with it a few years ago yet is too afraid to make a move against Sidwell.

Speak on it!!! This is the man who put AJ on a meat hook but he can't get over one on Sidwell? REALLY??? REEEEAALLLLLLY??? ok.

5 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

This continues to blow my mind. Like I’m still waiting for him to call a meeting with Sidwell and he just blows him away because that’s what the show conditioned us to for 20 years. Hell he was angrier at Ric for getting Liz a secret gift than this supposed all powerful threat in Sidwell.

EXACTLY!!!

34 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

This continues to blow my mind. Like I’m still waiting for him to call a meeting with Sidwell and he just blows him away because that’s what the show conditioned us to for 20 years. Hell he was angrier at Ric for getting Liz a secret gift than this supposed all powerful threat in Sidwell.

It’s ridiculous. Even if I buy the conceit he isn’t acting to protect himself, Jason, and Laura from the dead professor being blamed on them (the cover up certainly should be), show that to us!

We had an opportunity to tie the body coverup to Jason’s disappearance. To tell a story within the larger plot about Laura’s history of witnessing/experiencing trauma and disassociating. A story within the story about Sonny actually losing power and maybe even reflecting on knowing when to give it up, or is the power so important he is running the risk of becoming Frank Smith, Rivera, Joe Scully, etc. As in the old men he took power from on his way up that didn’t know it was their time to go and all got killed. But that would involve telling a story, with enough meat on it to cover several people in major ways. Sidwell doesn’t even turn the screws on Laura himself! He sends Ezra to do it.

My complaints remind the same as they have been for years with GH. Is it overall better than it was just before and after COVID? Yes. I don’t know how you bring back a fan favorite serial killer in Ryan Chamberlain and somehow make it boring, but GH did it! Right now the show is even entertaining and exciting sometimes! But the ingredients are there for it to be actually good, with just a few tweaks here and there and a little more detail in the writing.

8 hours ago, Vee said:

And no, the show glosses this over but Britt never took Rocco out of 'love' for him or Patrick Drake. She took him because her terrorist parents wanted her to steal Luke and Laura's grandchild and also steal Robin Scorpio's husband. It was all just a big revenge ploy and Britt was a useful pawn.

This entire thing is driving me crazy right now. I take some comfort in the larger audience clearly still doesn't want this because the Nielsen ratings have dropped as they went back to forcing Britt into everything again and forcing the Rocco angle again. I am sure the slow erosion will be blamed on the story featuring the Black folks, but I think they continue to misunderstand the audience that isn’t on Facebook.

3 hours ago, carolineg said:

yet is too afraid to make a move against Sidwell.

It's ridiculous. I knew they would do it this way though. It's exactly how this regime handled Cyrus, etc. with kid gloves just so Frank could keep the actors he liked on the show (while also writing terrible, ineffectual stuff for poor Jeff Kober) and made both sides of the canvas look weak for not dealing with each other.

It also betrays FV, CVE, etc.'s fundamental discomfort with mob stories in general over the years. They just aren't good at it or excited by it. Not that I mind that per se - I think the recent refocus from the mob to the WSB is potentially more interesting long-term, particularly if Jason ends up there which I think they've flirted with before. But the actual WSB saga they are telling onscreen, with these boring dayplayers like Cullum and Pascal, tedious recurring characters like Jack and Sidwell and annoying returnees like Britt and Cassius (to say nothing of Joss and Valentin), really really stinks.

I don't mind that doddering Sonny is now taking his cues from Lucas and Laura - I kind of find it hilarious and such a sea change from the Guza era. But it's still such a ridiculous, awkward storyline.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Vee

Credits for Tuesday, June 9, 2026:

Created by: Frank & Doris Hursley
Executive producer: Frank Valentini
Head writers: Elizabeth Korte and Chris Van Etten
Writers: Emily Culliton; Stacey Pulwer and Cathy Lepard
Director: Denise Van Cleave

2 hours ago, Vee said:

It also betrays FV, CVE, etc.'s fundamental discomfort with mob stories in general over the years. They just aren't good at it or excited by it.

In a way, I don't blame 'em. I've felt for a long time that the mob element needs to be phased out. But, how do you do that without writing out Sonny? He made it clear to Brenda a long time ago that there was no way he could give up that much power, not even for her. So, what's the alternative? Frankly, I'm stumped, lol.