Mini Surgery Rant

 Saw this on Twitter. It’s the 45 people that are in the opening credits of the show. 45. What are they thinking? and they just keep adding....

PS--I'm out of the office today and probably the next 2 after that. Please put your comments on today's show in each filler blog! Thank you

James, Kristina and Cassius are gone . We've added Tristan, Quinn, Simon, SORA'd Scout, Serena, Hudson and... Joe. Three of those are contract players. Not sure what's going on with Carlo Rota or JPS at the moment. But dang--YES, GH's canvas is just a sea of faces. 

It hit me the other day we hadn't seen Michael in so long, I forgot about him. They don't seem to have much use for Jacinda, do they? *sigh* . I suppose his new Deception shares will give him more to do. 

While I appreciate the fact we need new characters now and again, I'm just flabbergasted at all of the influx at this time. Joe the cop is a bust--so BLAND. Simon, who could have been ANYTHING is another bland guy. Copy that to Tristan. Another doctor when you could have recast TJ? I guess Serena is at least a 'legacy character' but dang. Getting rid of Maxie's entire family sucks imo, especially with her rich history and the fact we love James and Spinelli. What about Georgie??! She's a TEEN! I'm not even looking forward to "Hudson" who's due to come on at some point. I'm glad to see Quinn in a way because that 20something set sure needs a boost. 

They really should be tightening up the families on this show and creating new drama for the existing players.  Stories take too dang long to tell because there's just so much bulk involved. It's taken almost a month to get every character up to speed on the whole "who knew what when" in the Cold Fusion story. Well, except for Liesl who's only on a day or two here and there. You'd think Britt could at least be living with her right? 

Also-- we need to see Brad, Terry, Yuri, N'neka and Deanna around. They are the colorful background characters that really fan everything out. We know they don't cost an arm and a leg, they are day players. 

UPDATE: And yesterday we got a whole new Ethan. An actor who by all indications has NONE o Ethan's qualities. Remember when they tried to have him be all blonde? At least he had an Aussie accent. This guy could have looked zexy-dashing-- but... Cody Lite? Why? WHYYYY!!? No sparkle, no anything. I was thinking of Maura who had to switch partners when TC left that first time as well. Yes, she's a true professional. 

Just looked him up.. he's a stuntman making his "daytime debt"... and he's BRITISH. Why the hell not have him keep the accent? Or at least do an Aussie one? We know Brits can do them! 

DEALING WITH DREW

 

Didn't think I'd be here but--I am!! I will hopefully be traveling tomorrow but we shall see-- things have gone a bit wonky. 

TODAY'S SHOW (here's hoping no new faces, right)?

Meanwhile on the boat dock. Gio's all "OMG Drew can swim really well !! AND HE WAS WALKING AND TALKING" ......PFFFFFFFT. Cripes! OH! Get this, Drew didn't want to go to GH so Gio put a towel on the seat and drove him home. Nina and Brennan are like: UT OH. They try to call Willow then run off the docks. 

Willow sees Drew's dirt on the floor. He is at the door "HI HONEY, I'M HOME"! She looks at him like he's a zombie. He says 'I've been dreaming about this moment for MONTHS". Willow's like: HUH? HOW? He says he's going to talk and she's going to listen and blink like he had to "While You still CAN"!!  OMG Cam M is having the TIME OF HIS LIFE with these lines! ahahahaha. WOW. You have to watch it He's so GLAD THEY ARE ALONE-TOGETHER and he tells her her mother pushed him off the docks. Willow asks if he's going to kill her. He says no, but she will wish he had. Says she'll go to jail forever and Michael will get the kids and they won't know her anymore. She tries to grab something to fight him. He says: you think you can take me? She's like: you've not been walking for awhile--then Brennan and Nina bust in. Brennan has a gun on him. He tells him that he has evidence he bribed the German nurse, misused funds and gave money to a judge that turned up dead. Drew says: FINE! Turn me in, it will be worth it to get YOU ALL. Anyway, they talk about Drew/Scout--jail yada yada. Willow says we forget everything in the past-- you give me a divorce and I take nothing. Nina says: Yeah, and you don't run for congress again. Deal? 

Carly and Sonny are talking in her kitchen. Jason walks in. Carly hugs him, so does Sonny. He's sorry he didn't come right over but he needed to be with Danny. They talk about the fact Rocco shot Cullum. Carly didn't know. He tells them all about that night on the docks. Then Sonny talks all about his Sidwell thing and the ADA being taken by him and how he saved her. Jason is confused as to why Sidwell would take her and not Ava. Sonny says: Ava's too much trouble. hahaha

Joss goes to The Metro Pool to meet Trina. Guess they are all pal-pal now. Oh Emma's there. Joss isn't happy. She tells Emma she's working at the WSB. Emma gives mad face. Wants to know if her grandmother knows that Joss is WSB. She says yes but she was undercover. Emma goes off on her and says the WSB is BAD BAD...and wants Trina to tell Joss that too. Trina says she loves Joss and wants her to be happy. Joss goes and answers her phone. Then Gio comes in and tells Emma and Trina that Drew is walking and talking.

The kids are at the Qs: Danny, Char and Scout. Danny's going to live there with Jason. Rocco walks out and is not happy. Oh wait they are all cool with each other now, it's allllllll good. Danny wants to take the boat out to the island that Scout swam to-- Rocco says bad idea. Scout doesn't want to go. Danny and Char take off. Scout and Rocco talk about her swimming for charity. 

Marshall comes to see his grandson and meets Isaiah. Marshall is all: You look so good!! To Portia. He says he missed Curtis' boyhood but won't miss Desmond's...he will be around. 

END: 

Danny and Char went to the island and back in 4 minutes lol 

Drew says he'll make the deal. Willow takes off her ring and drops it. "Freedom" She's leaving and Drew says under his breath "enjoy it while you can you treacherous bitch"... 

new FACE

 

SO, It's MONDAY and Drew is in the lake and... I think we know he's not gonna die, right? Probably can swim at this point. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Another fine shot of Drew going into the lake. We see Nina crying and hesitating calling anyone. Then she yells for Drew.. DREWWWWWWWWW. AND RUNS ahahahahaha.

Britt slaps Jason but only to get him into an exam room. She's on probation and doesn't want to get in trouble (it's stupid). She missed him, he missed her. He's home for good. They hug. She tells him she doesn't have Huntington's. They hug. She says she did do horrible things and Marco is dead because of her all for nothing. 

WELL SADDLE UP BECAUSE... ETHAN is now being played by some OTHER GUY-- who has sandy hair and ISN'T AUSTRALIAN AND WTF IS HAPPENING. Good GOD this show... He's talking to Ava at The Metro but.. I just can't deal. He looks like Cody and I think it's his first day acting. They talk about Phoebe and the 'real father'...He can't tell her because the guy is DANGER. :eyeroll: Then Ava says Phoebe is where she needs to be. She goes to leave and HE TOUCHES HER WRIST. UGHHHHHH this can NOT HAPPEN. Gross.

Valentin gives the black box to Brennan. Brennan finds the info on Drew but Nina runs in and says she killed him. Says she pushed him into the lake after he talked to her and she lost it. Didn't call 911, just ran. PLEASE help me cover it up. They leave.

Valentin and Joss talk about her getting the charges dropped. He thinks she did it partly because he saved her life. 

Gio is singing to baby Phoebe. Brook walks in. Awww, adorable. They talk about nothing.

Gio goes swimming and sees something in the lake.

Chase goes to get Willow to talk about Sidwell. She's like: I'm in the middle of something, say you couldn't find me, ok? She finally says she will go. They ask her why Ezra said she had meeting with Sidwell. She lies that it was about his company and they'd better not hold her there. She stomps off. . 

Chase and Brook talk about Willow going into the PCPD and that he might get his detective job back again. She's happy. 

END: 

BRITT AND JASON LOVE EACH OTHER! 

Gio tells Nina and Brennan Drew is ok, he swam out of the lake HAHHAHA

Willow goes home and sees dirt on the floor. Then Drew is in the DOORWAY! Dun dun DUN. 

Sunday Surgery: Hell On Wheels

 

Roses are red
Violets are Blue
Who's going in the lake Drew? 
OH! It's YOU!

I guess we did get a real "lake-hanger" on Friday at least! Cam Mathison has sat in that chair long enough. The lake will either revive him or send him into a coma.

 This week had more newbies, a St. Jaysus re-return and softball mentions.

Grab your best breakfast and let's GO GO! 

Can You Swim?

 

It's Friday already... and I can't tell you what happened much of tis week!! A LOT of talking for sure. I also feel like shoving Quinn and Simon in there on top of Tristan and Joe is just too much for my pea brain to take in at this juncture.

OH WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OL' FASHIONED "on the run" SUMMER STORIES? 

This Sunday Surgery might be a bitch-fest 

TODAY'S SHOW:

Britt isn't showing up to GH on time. Liz isn't happy, wants Lucas to stay until she gets there. Then they talk about Lucas finding a place to live. BUT! Liz sees that Felicia is helping Maxie move so she has to go talk to Willow about why the hell she hasn't done the communication board for Drew yet. 

Joss and Britt are actually in Brennan's office. Brennan tells Britt she'd better play ball with the WSB or else. She has no clue where the black box is. They let her go. Joss is dressed like a Men in Black character. Jack asks Joss if SHE SAW the box. She says nope. Then asks if HIS secrets were in there. 

Britt goes into GH and snipes with Lucas *sigh*. Snipe Snipe. Lucas says she's as entitled as ever. 

Alexis is in Bobbie's meeting with Valentin. He apologizes to her about having the authorities question her when he was on the run. She tells him to behave. He says he wants to take back what is his. She says Ace is the heir-- and he says no his assets that the WSB took.

Scout talks to Drew about her swimming. Then Rocco comes out with a drink for her--then Danny gets there and brings Jason. Rocco isn't happy. Jason looks like Johnny Cash. Scout wants Drew to start a "new chapter" now.  Then he takes Rocco on a walk to talk. 

Jason tells Rocco about talking to Danny and Danny was wrong to go to the WSB. He also doesn't think Rocco will get arrested, it seems to be over. Rocco is still upset but Jason said the WSB treated him so badly because of HIS past...not because of the shooting. Rocco says Britt was the one that understood him.

Dante wants Chase to bring Willow into the station. He wants to trust Chase again. They might even be partners at some point.

Liz goes into Willow's office and confronts her about not contacting the communication board people. She wonders if she doesn't want Drew to communicate. Willow basically says it's a strain on their marriage and having him talk thru a machine would be awful. Anyway, Liz sets an appointment up for next Tuesday. Leaves. Brennan calls Willow and says he can't find the box and he's going to get a plane for her and her kids to disappear tonight. 

Willow calls Nina. Tells her she's leaving the country and getting new IDs and she can go too if she wants to. Nina is shocked. Then she walks back out to the docks. Scout and Danny leave. Nina stares at Drew. 

END: 

Liz told HR about Britt being late. 

Chase goes to Willow's office to take her into the PCPD

NINA TOSSES DREW INTO THE LAKE!!!!!! BAHABHAHAA 

Deception

 

Another stellar day here! Clear skies and in the 70s with sun! Nights are cool which is awesome. This is a decent stretch. 

POOL: Gio and Emma AGAIN. Geesh Boring meets boring. They make out. Charlotte walks up. Emma likes her suit! Char mentions Gio saving a little boy last week and how wonderful he is. Emma heard nothing about it. Oh brother. This is painful.

Sonny comes over to Rocco who's folding towels. He wants to talk to him. He tells Rocco he knows about Cullum and he's sorry he went thru that. He's there to talk to Rocco whenever needed.

Laura and Dante talk about the Rocco mess. She says Anna is digging for evidence which is not good.  Anna's suspicious there's NO evidence at ALL. Dante tells Laura he destroyed it. Tells her the whole story. She says that she probably would have done the same thing. Sonny talks to Laura next. He tells her what Ric said. She says there might be a loose end; Anna.

So, Anna's back in her office and sees Chase. Wonders why he's a beat cop now. She yells at him about undermining the Willow case and focusing on Michael. He makes excuses. He says he still thinks he did it. Anna says she's not sure she can trust him anymore. Then they talk and she says she can help him get to detective again but he has to get evidence of a Britt/Cassius/Cullum conspiracy. Dante goes in and tells Anna about the evidence being lost on his watch. Anna switches gears and says: Well, maybe we should DROP IT THEN. 

Tracey is trying to call Maxie --so is Lucy. Maxie divested her shares of Deception. They are all mad and Maxie isn't calling back. blah blah They figure out they have no idea who Maxie sold her shares to. OH! It's MICHAEL! He got her shares. Lucy is major pissed because he's a Quartermaine.

 CODY and Molly talk about Spinelli getting a job in Australia and the whole family moving there. WELP. There ya go. Temp james comes into Bobbie's with Fe and Mac to say goodbye. James only talks to Molly. They go to look at photos of WOMBATS. Mac thanks Cody for telling James the truth and they need to fix things before he leaves. Cody shows James a video of a mare having her baby last night in the stable. James is all happy. They fist bump. All looks well. 

Alexis, Drew, Michael, Nina and Willow are at the boathouse to watch Scout swim. Nina and Willow go in the boathouse to whisper about Drew. Alexis and Michael talk about him like he can't hear them lahahahaha. Drew makes a fist. Willow and Nina talk about the black box. Nina wants to run with the kids. Willow says no. She'll have to find another way. Willow figures out that Nina slept with Brennan. 

END: 

Anna's not going to get in the middle of the investigation. Dante leaves. Peter says good, you figured it out, now go after BRITT

Scout gets out of the water and Alexis tells her not to put his wheelchair too close to the edge. Nina gives an evil grin

DEAL

 

HUMP DAY!  How you feeling about the show? Me? Slow wheels are turning for sure. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Lulu and Dante are still talking about Charlotte visiting Valentin. Dante says she really should let her choose where to live Lulu thinks it will bring them further apart. 

Carly and Val kiss and then she puts the zip drive into a drawer to hide it from him. They talk about Nina and Brennan being at Wyndemere. He thinks they were looking for the black box and it's probably Jack's. He needs leverage to get his funds back to fight for custody. 
Lulu comes to the door. Tells them both she thinks Charlotte should decide who she lives with. Valentin is wary: WHY? YOU talk to you mother? She's like, no, why should I? she just did soul searching and thinks it's best. BUT they can't live at Carly's and not in a hotel suite. He agrees.

Isaiah is visiting Portia and the baby. Curtis watches through the window. Curtis walks in, Isaiah leaves. Curtis holds his tongue and says he's just happy to see the baby. They try out names: Nathanial? Nope..Miles ...NOPE.. then Curtis says he can give them a ride home. He'd also like to stay the night. Portia says: BOUNDRIES and no overnights. Curtis agrees.

Britt bitches about all her extra work to Stella. Stella says some patient just requested her. Portia wants  her to check her over for discharge. Britt and Stella continue to argue about Britt's duties while she's on probation.

Curtis is filling out paperwork for Portia's discharge and Stella and him talk about the baby and he's trying not to provoke Isaiah.

Britt comes in to give Portia her exam. Portia says she thought Britt could use a friend. Portia is okay and they have a friend convo about second chances. 

Michael and Jordan are in Aurora's gym/yoga room. She wants to know about the clinic and Michael says it was great for his burns but so hard to get into. Brennan had to call in a favor. She says Sidwell said he would but she turned him down. She says it was a good decision. 

The record producer Simon comes to talk to Brook, Gio and Trina. They don't want them as a duo, they want to sign them alone mostly because Gio is already well known. They are stunned. Simon steps out so they can talk about it. Gio is like NO WAY I won't do it without Trina!! Trina's like: YOU SHOULD! He called you BRILLIANT! They call Simon back in and say no deal unless you sign both of us.

Brennan and Anna are in the PCPD room. They talk about her disappearance and he should have known something was up. She's trying to find a Cassius/Cullum timeline and thinks there's a bigger conspiracy going on. Bunch of stuff about Sidwell/Cullum..and why Cullum would want to use Faison to drive her crazy. Also: Who shot Cullum? Brennan says he knows who did it. Then he says it's classified info. Anna brings up the missing evidence on the docks shooting. Things Cullum took it. Brennan says nope, Cullum was looking for it. 

Then ..Kai is meeting with his long lost friend in the Surf Shop place. Quinn is is friend from the football team and was on before. Kai says Quinn has to apologize to Trina before they can hang out again. Trina walks in, sees Quinn. Gives him the eyeball. He apologizes, Trina accepts

END: 

DESMOND ROBINSON is the baby's fist and middle name.

Brennan tells Anna to let the truth of the shooter go ...it will just hurt someone that just wanted to help.

Peter pops up and asks Anna why she didn't ask him about Britt. 

Quinn watches Trina and Kai kiss--then they pan to his obsessive Pintrest type board with Trina's photos all over it. Ut OH STALKER! OR is the Stalker SIMON because he was saying "Trina is the one to watch"?? 

I don't know! Someone on Bluesky said that

Softball Talk

 

HELLO!!! Here we are again!! It's going ok here but we are due for bad storms. If I leave abruptly it's because I'm afraid for my life lol haha. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

POOL: Gio and Charlotte. Lulu walks up. Charlotte looks like she's going to throw up. Rolls her eyes. Tells Lulu she wants to live with Carly.  Lulu's like: NO WAY. Charlotte starts mouthing off so Lulu leaves. Charlotte tells Gio she thinks her mother hates her. Gio says no and they talk about parents, then music and he tells her his playlist BUT!! EMMA walks in and Charlotte looks mad lol. Emma and Gio go sit on the other side.

Anna's back at the PCPD shadowing Dante for a few weeks to get up to speed. She meets Joe and wants info on the whole Sidwell case. She wants stuff on Britt too. I think that's her target --the revenge that Peter is talking about. Dante says he realizes how hard it is to come back after a difficult absence and he's there for her. She starts to tell him when LULU walks in and interrupts. She's there to interview Anna because the PR team thought it would be a good idea. BUT Lulu starts to ask about Anna's relationship with Robin, especially after Robin's kidnapping. She's asking as a mother. . Anna tells her it's hard because she was gone so long but to keep being there for Charlotte no matter what and soon it will be behind them. Lulu cries, says she has to reschedule and thanks Anna. Leaves. 

Later, Anna's going through the files and finds that the ones about Cullum's shooting are missing. Joe goes to check on them.

At GH, Liz and Stella laugh with Dr Tristan. Britt walks off the elevator and sees him. Lucas is like: Um, he's the new cardiologist. She is not happy. Tristan tells her the room is available Carly gave him the same rate at The Metro and it's more to his taste. Then Liz comes out to get Britt to go in and talk about her job. They say the board is willing to hear Britt's side of the story. Start with locking Liz in the closet. She apologizes...they bring up all she did in a year that was bad. Liz says she DID deliver Phoebe and that was a miracle. They DO give her job back but on probation and with a bunch of extra work. SHOCKER. You knew it was going to happen.

Lucas tells Tristan he should join the GH softball team to get to know everyone. 

ADA and Sonny talk about softball teams. He asks her if Valentin has any outstanding charges against him. When he mentions Carly, ADA gets pissed and he's like DONNA ! IT'S DONNA I'm worried about. He tells her Carly hid Valentin the whole entire time he escaped. She's like: WELP! The WSB cleared him so...too bad. No outstanding warrants either. He basically wants her to manufacture something against him and she gets angry. This whole talk is just DUMB btw. UGH. They end up making out. 

Valentin goes in to see Laura. She hopes he's on the straight and narrow. He says he is. He wants help with Charlotte. Laura's like, um you need to admit you made Charlotte's relationship with Lulu worse. She says to back Lulu up once in awhile and maybe she'll help him a bit. 

Lulu goes to the Qs and Dante says Rocco wants to stay there longer because things aren't good between him and Char. Lulu's like NO WAY!

Brick goes to see Carly. They are in the kitchen. Moss isn't happy. Brick is all: Stay away from Valentin! He's BAD!! BAD!! Carly says he saved Joss and got Cullum. Brick says that doesn't excuse his other past deeds.  He has a flash drive she could use if she ever wants to get free of him. She says no, she doesn't need it.  He leaves and we don't know if he gave it to her or not. 

Val comes into the kitchen. Carly tells him about Brick offering her all of his WSB bad secrets. 

END: 

Carly DID take the flash drive from Brick! 

Anna figures out someone took all the records about the Cullum shooting. Laura flashes back to Lulu talking about Rocco shooting him. 

Dribble

 

I posted this on Bluesky and thought I'd bring it here. Maurice has NATURAL HAIR lately!! It looks SO much better than that awful black whatever they use. Also, if you don't follow StoneColdandTheJackal on IG, you're missing out!! 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Nina wakes up after zex with Brennan at the Metro. She's not happy. HE sure is! They talk about the night...flashback to the wub making. Nina asks about the black box and he thinks she slept with him to get it. She rants and raves. Gets mad. He says look, he's sorry he really enjoyed their night. Nina looks at him all gooey eyed. 

Lulu goes to Sonny's to talk to him and Ric about the trouble Rocco might be in. She tells them he shot Cullum. Tells them the whole story and many people know so he could be going to the authorities. What should she do? Ric says there's only 2 witnesses and everything else is hearsay. They already charged Jason and let him go. It should end there. He thinks Rocco is in the clear. Lulu talks about Valentin and wanting Charlotte to stay away from him. Ric finds out Carly is dating him ahhhaa Big EYEBALLS. Sonny says he's taking care of it. 

Molly talks to Laura at the PCPD about Sidwell's case. She's cancelling her book tour to take it. Laura tells her about the plan to nab Sidwell. She will testify in court.

Outside the PCPD office, Ezra tries to get Laura's attention. Joe tells him to quit it. He has questions. Ezra doesn't have a lawyer..maybe they should wait. Joe says what do you have to hide? Then Laura comes out and he hustles her into the lounge. He says I'm about to be arrested! HELP ME! Laura says tell the truth and maybe she can get him immunity. He's scared. She says he can provide evidence that can help him. Then Molly comes in and Laura tells her Ez has information for a plea deal. Molly and him talk and Laura leaves. 

Tracey sees Willow in the stable house and cracks the horse crop.  Willow says she's only bringing New Giant Improved Scout over. She leaves them to talk. Scout wants to spend more time at the Qs this summer. Brook comes in and finds out Scout wants to use the lake for swimming. She's doing a charity thing for Monica (Breast Cancer). Tracey feels like there's a catch. There is. Scout wants Drew to watch and Tracey banned Drew from the estate. 

Brook and Chase are at the breakfast table being boring bores who bore. Brook gets up to take a call from Deception. I'm sure so Willow can come in. OH YEP. She comes in and asks Chase to go to DC WITH HER. ahahahaa. There's a one day conference on police stuff and she sure could use his help. He's like: Um, not a great idea.

Charlotte comes into Carly's kitchen with her suitcase--wanting to MOVE IN lahhahaa. Carly's like: UM not a great idea, kid. Char says her mom is trying to cut her dad out of her life and she just might CUT LULU OUT OF HERS! Carly says she and HER mom fought a lot (but doesn't tell her why lol). Then Charlotte says she can't talk to Danny because he's off with his DAD on a trip. Carly's like WHAAAAAAAAAT? Char: Oh you haven't heard? Jason's back in town! Carly: WHAT!! WHEN!!! WHat? She looks at her phone. Huh why didn't HE TELL ME? Charlotte says he went to the boathouse and then he and Danny left. Shows Carly a selfie> >AHAHHAHA. Carly is like: WELP, ok, I GUESS I get why he went to his son first. 

Valentin is playing BBall outside, on a real court and BRICK comes up "I guess the movie is right WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP" :EYEROLL: Oh my goodness. Gross. Brick gives him basketball tips and then tells him to get out of town. Valentin wonders if Sonny sent that message. Yep. Then Brick hammers on about him getting gone. Calls Valentin the runt of the Cassadine litter. 

END: 

Ezra gets immunity

Tracey will let Drew watch Scout Swim

Chase turns Willow down

Brick threatens Valentin "it's not ovah until it's ovah'

Carly tells Charlotte to go back to her mother's house

PS. New Scout shows potential.

SUNDAY SURGERY: SIXTEEN CANDLES

 

In case you didn't realize all the "16" references, our paparazzi pal Sloan got them for you. Clever but really not a huge celebration of the show. 

Grab your 16 scones and jam and let's GO GO ! 

UM.. not sure this is a FRIDAY

 

So, many people have said the Portia/Jordan birthing scenes are awful. Is that what you thought? I STILL haven't seen Wed show-- I will have to before Sunday for sure. 

THE SKIES HERE ARE BLUE!! I hope my Canadian friends are doing ok-- I'm so sorry about your fires. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Carly drops off Donna's overnight bag at Sonny's. He wants to know where she's going and who she's meeting. She's like Back off. He says Valentin was living at the house WITH HIS DAUGHTER! BLAH BLAH. Then BRICK comes in and Carly leaves. Sonny is concerned about Carly hanging out with Valentin. He wants to protect Donna. 

yes, you can't see it well but that's the black box

Carly goes home and Valentin is cooking dinner for her. Kissing. They show the black box on her wine rack. She asks about Anna. He compares their relationship to Sonny and Carly's. He also says Anna was his first love. She asks if he was going to get help from Anna first. He says yes but then he found her. They kiss and she trips OVER THE STUPID BLACK BOX AHAHAHA

Jack and Nina go into the Brown Dog. He has several drinks. Nina says she will do ANYTHING for her daughter. She whines about her daughters being taken from her. Brennan wishes he didn't blackmail her long ago, he should have asked her to dinner.

At another table, Lulu and Ethan talk about Charlotte, Val and Cassius. So boring. SO boring. He asks her about Ava. She's like: YOU LIKE HERRR? She says Ava is lethal and watch out.

Cody's all sad about James being mad at him. They talk about him... and Cody's sadness. Molly wants to cheer him up.

Ava stops by the Qs to deliver a baby present for Phoebe. So happy about the adoption. Ava was glad to help find the father. Brook wishes she could tell the dad herself how grateful she is. Brook is afraid the father will change his mind. She wonders if Ava knows who the daddy really is. Ava flashes back to Ethan saying he's not the father so she truthfully says: NOPE 

Trina stomps into Joss' room, yells at her for not telling her she was in the hospital with a gunshot wound. It's about FREAKING TIME. Joss tells her she's WSB. Trina's angry. Asks her why she'd do that. Joss says Dex. Trina says Brennan took advantage of her grief. Joss says no. Trina's angry and says she has sensed Joss pulling away for a long time. Josslyn says she's lost so much and hopes she doesn't lose Trina too. Trina tells her she knows nothing about her life. Says she's gone no contact with her parents, had a brother and signed a record contract. They aren't sure what this means for their friendship

END: 

Joss and Trina make up and will use a code word: POPCORN when Joss can't talk about anything. 

Nina and Jack make out at the bar

Val tells Carlly he took the black box so he can get his funds released from the WSB faster but it's all booby-trapped if he tries to open it. 

Back In The Saddle

 

It's disgusting outside which I figure a LOT of you are facing right now but damn, I've had a headache For DAYS! 

I missed the BABY BOY yesterday! I KNEW it would be a boy, right?? No, I haven't seen yesterday's show, I just checked Bluesky 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Trina and Gio are signed as a duo and they tell Emma and Kai. Boring. Emma looks concerned about this "Duo" thing. Trina finds out her mom had the baby. Everyone cheers. She leaves. Emma wonders if Trina's dream is Gio's dream too. Does he want this? Gio says that he knows contracts and can help Trina. BUT Emma says Does HE WANT THIS? It will be a good chance to test it out Gio says and he's happy.

Cody has to tell James that Cassius wasn't Nathan. Maxie and Spinelli WON'T BE THERE. WTF!! Recast Maxie THIS MINUTE! Cody says it's better if he tells him anyway, because he might hate the messenger and better him than family. OMG Felicia brings him and HE'S A TEMP JAMES! The real kid was in a bad bike accident and was out. WHY DIDN'T THEY WAIT SOMEHOW????? WHY? Cody tells James that Cassius pretended to be his father. James won't accept that. He runs out just when Dr O walks in. Dr O tells him that Cody isn't lying.

Anna wants to know if Britt knew Cassius was holding her in Wyndemere. She drags her into the stairwell of GH to do that. Britt says no. Anna says but you KNEW it was Cassius, why didn't you tell us as soon as he  got into town!? Britt tells her about the Huntington's lie. Anna says that's someone Faison would have taught his son. Britt says they were both tricked. Anna says that Britt and her brother was just the same: they prey on human beings. She was manipulative and Anna gives examples. Britt's like: HEY! Anna says she's selfish and probably did the prototype for herself. 

DR O goes in to yell at Josslyn for saying her son is a villain. Joss says she's telling the truth. Dr O yells and says she can understand why the WSB would do it but not her. Joss says welp, that's the way it is. Cassius SHOT ME! I saw him do it!! HOOOO HOOO. Dr O still won't believe her. She leaves. 

Jordan tells Stella about delivering the baby. They hug. Jordan admires Portia so much. Then Stella tells Isaiah but also says give Curtis and Portia some time alone.

Curtis goes to see his bonny baby boy who's adorbs. Curtis hold him. He is so happy. He asks if she's thought about a name and Isaiah walks right in. He says congrats and leaves. Then Trina walks in and is all happy. They haven't decided on a name yet. 

END: 

Stella tells Curtis and Portia to get their ish together for the baby's sake

Anna thinks BRITT will decieve her Britt promises to stay out of her way

Dr O explains about Nathan/Cassius but James still hates Cody and throws his hat on the ground. 

Joss feels badly about talking trash when it comes to Cassius

POOL DAY

 

Going to the POOL Today!! Which is good because it's still hot AF and now the darn Canadian wildfires are coming-- it's already a messy sky this morning. Tomorrow is supposed to be worse. UGH The smoke has  come every year for 3 years now and we are in the path! 

So maybe baby today-- and what do you think of Tristan? I wish he had a different look or longer hair or SOMETHING. Plus, already starting out with the Britt test-chem? :eyeroll:

OK! See you on Thursday-- I will try my best to be home by 2. 

CHEERS and KERSPLASH! 

BLACK BOX

 Brennan, Willow and Nina are all in Willow's living room AGAIN. . Brennan wants to find his black box. Willow is like: We have NO PARALYTIC! Brennan tells Willow the whole case about her GPS is being dropped by the ADA. Then he and Nina go to Wyndemere to find the black box. 

Drew is touted out. Willow's telling him Scout is living with Alexis because she can't trust him. Then Kai comes to the door to get some paperwork. Willow has to go to the den to get it. Then Drew knocks over a bag and stares at Kai lol.

Valentin walks into Wyndemere while Dante is bagging and tagging evidence. He is buying the house back. Dante's like: UM, WSB seized it because of Sidwell so.. not so fast. Still the lawyers are working on it. He and Char are going to do a 'walk through'. (they are looking for the black box). Then Charlotte yells at Dante that she's going to live with her FATHER. Dante leaves. Then Brennan and Nina come in. Brennan tells Valentin he's the reason WSB let him go. Valentin is like: Um..not quite.

Danny and Jason reunion. He tells Danny he didn't escape, they let him go and he's home for good. Tells him he was in Jakarta. Danny realizes he's home too soon to have gotten out because of his information. He tells Jason he told the WSB Rocco shot Cullum. Jason wonders who told him, Rocco? He says no, but why did you lie? Why did you let them take you?! Jason explains. Danny says he thought he'd never see him again. They talk about what happened. Jason wants to know who he talked to at the WSB. Danny says Brennan. Tracey comes out to say hello. Jason tells her he'd like to take Danny away for a few days to sort things out. Danny is happy.

Britt is yelling at Carly on the phone to let her have her room back. Isaiah comes in and says hello. He says he understands what she did and why she did it.

Liz is going to give Dr Tristan a tour but Tracey interrupts them. She tells the new doc to be nice to her. Wants to talk to Liz alone. Doc goes up to HR. Tracey tells Liz she's still upset about Sonny. She says they've given him the benefit of the doubt time and time again and it's been a disaster. She leaves. Dr Tristan comes back. He's staying at Bobbie's. He thinks it's a BB. Liz is like; Um NOOOOOOOO. 

Dante comes into GH he needs a physical for the PCPD. He flirts with her a bit. Cute

Later Tristan goes to Bobbie's to get his room. Britt finds out it's HER old room and has a fit. OMG she's like MY ROOM! MY ROOM! Isaiah tries to intervene. She says she needs a shower and has no money. Just a banter 'meet cute'.

Jordan comes over to Portia's to tell her to tell the truth and say Curtis was provoked. Jordan is insufferable. I think her face scars are worse. They argue and Jordan tells Portia that Curtis was ALWAYS "hers". heh.

END: 

Portia goes into labor

Willow thinks about killing Drew

General Hospital Daytime Emmy Nominations 2026

 

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES, WRITING TEAM, DIRECTING TEAM, CIMEMATOGRAPHY (Ep 15719), LIGHTING DIRECTION, HAIR/MAKE UP DESIGN (Ep 15719) and CASTING. 

LEAD PERFORMER: 

Steve Burton (Jason)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: 

Amanda Setton (Brook Lyn)

OUTSTANDING EMERGING TALENT: 

Braedyn Burner (Emma)

Giovanni Mazza (Gio)

GUEST PERFORMANCE 

Jeff Kober (Cyrus) 

Eva LaRue (Natalie)

It's 16,000!

 

And NO, I haven't been here for all of them! LOL... IT FEELS like it some days but nope. I watched a bit when I was little when Mom did but then got into it big time in 1977-78. 

HERE WE GO: 

Laura wants to talk to Tracey before the board meeting. Tracey freaks out when she finds out Laura wants Sonny on the board. She's saying how bad he is when he walks in the door. They talk about Sonny and Tracey finally says "he killed Alan and Monica's son". Laura says that was tragic. Sonny says the board needs to be united so he won't be on it. Leaves. 

THEN LIZ comes in and talks about Audrey and STEVE and 63 years of GH and they'd want Sonny on the board. THE FK WHAT? UGH

Carly sees Brennan in the hall. She's mad. They argue about Joss (again) and Valentin (again). They keep yapping. Funny thing is, when Carly talks about Valentin,  they cut to him and Anna. HAHHA. When Brennan goes to leave he says: Didn't he tell you? ANNA DEVANE IS BACK IN TOWN! oooooo!!

Val comes in to see Anna. Anna's happy to see hm and they talk about each other and what's been going on. He says he knew she was at Wyndemere. She finds out he was at Carly's. Then she shows him the room Liesl drew for her and she's glad she wasn't delusional. THEN Peter steps out from BEHIND Valentin "See, you were right all along". She's shaken. Val looks behind him and asks if she's ok. She says yes. Tells him about her escape to find out if Fasion was alive, then she found the info on Cassius. They talk about Cullum and such. Then he says goodbye. They hug. Awww.

Pool: Rocco is angry with Gio for outting him to his Dad. Char and Emma look on, then Danny walks in. Rocco doesn't want to talk to Gio. Danny's mad Charlotte didn't tell him Rocco was there. Rocco and Danny talk about who's more at fault. Charlotte gets mad. Tells them to stop arguing. Danny says that Rocco shouldn't have accepted it when Jason took the rap for him.

Brook and Chase are still arguing. She asks him if Willow called right now, during this convo, would he go? He says "Of Course" (that idiot). He says Brook has a huge family but all Willow has is Nina. She needs him more than Brook. Chase also admits he was disappointed when she wouldn't get married until the Gio thing was solved. Chase says no, he's happy because they got Phoebe. He's sorry and didn't mean it. Or whatever. She wonders who should tell Willow she framed her. He says no, no one is telling her. The cops let her go-- no crime, no foul.  IF they tell, Brook will go to jail so they'll keep it quiet. "until death do us part".

Britt and Lucas are at Bobbie's. He had to pick her up. Brad is off visiting his Aunt! Whoo hoo. LUCAS asks about what Britt wants to do with her future. She goes upstairs to take a shower. She hid a key so she could go in. Then she screams from upstairs. Frustration, the lock is changed LOL  "your bitch of a sister changed it". Lucas laughs and is like Was she supposed to keep your room when you left the country with a MINOR? She says that he's just the same. He says she's selfish. "I liked you BETTER WHEN  YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DYING"!! HOLY HELLO!

On a plane, someone is reading "The Guide to Port Charles" and I --is he a newbie? OH! JASON IS NEXT TO HIM!! SURPRISE! Geesh, I thought that would take DAYS! Oh the newbie next to him is Dr. Tristan Roberts Jason has bad flashbacks. Twice--yelling and such. The guy next to him asks if he had nightmares. Jason remembers being beaten BADLY and then being told he's free. Jason asks what the new guy is doing when they get to PC. He says  "I said I'd accompany you here, that's it... Have a good life". 

END: 

Val leaves and Peter reminds Anna of her "mission"

That newbie on the plane was Dr Rogers; he talks to Liz

Danny and Jason meet at the boathouse. Hug it out.

GOOD EPISODE TODAY! 

Sunday Surgery: The Book of Revelations

 

Usually the week after a humdinger like we had is mostly narration and boring. While there was plenty of narration, it was far from boring--mostly because not all people knew what other people knew. Revelations all over Port Charles! 

Grab anything you like today and settle in---let's GO GO! 

FRIDAY!

 

OOFFF NOPE

So I watched yesterday's show...and FF'd through Sonny and ADA Turner. I'm just SO OVER him with law ladies. I did like Chase figuring things out and Liz playing detective. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Lulu confronts Carly about hiding Valentin. Carly explains that she HAD to go to Steinmaur and get Valentin's help. Lulu's not happy she helped him escape. They argue. Lulu's pissed Carly lied to let Char see Valentin at Christmas. Lulu also says Carly was kissing Val in the parking lot and did what she did to keep him in her bed! They argue more. 

Valentin goes to visit Joss at GH and thinks she knew he'd be out of jail. He says he saw her statement saying Cullum was a hero and they BOTH KNOW that is FALSE. He thanks her but wants to know why she did it. Joss says to protect Carly. She could be arrested for aiding Valentin and with the charges dropped, she can't be blamed. Val thanks her again. She asks him to give a message to Anna Devane.

Anna has a flashback to her bloody nose. Knock KNock Dr O talks to Anna about the situation. She's pissed that Joss is saying Cullum is a hero and her son isn't. She tells Anna that her mind manipulation was real. She knows because she was held in the same room. Anna's like WHAT? It was REAL? SHOW ME! Liesl draws it and tells her what she wrote on the wall. Anna is happy she didn't dream all that up. BUT She thinks Cassius is the bad guy--he dug up Nathan's body and changed the DNA in the database--just like his Father would have done.  Dr O wants to go ask Josslyn Jacks! Anna's like NO! I need to heal! As far as I'm concerned Cassius was a liar. Liesl says she'll clear his name on her own. 

Ava gets Ethan a drink at the pool. He wants more rum in it. They banter, mention his ass--she ends up throwing the drink on him. She tells him he said Phoebe wasn't his daughter! He's like Come on now, not true. She threatens to go to Alexis. He's like: GO. Ava thinks he's running a scam for Q money. He says she doesn't want to know and it's better if Phoebe is with the Qs.

Britt is being questioned by Joe at the PCPD. He tells her they know she had saline in her syringes. She says she's an idiot. She tells him how Cullum duped her with the Huntington's. He says he's sorry for her. He says she's free to GO! 

Brook and Phoebe are playing at Qs. Chase walks in. He tells her he talked to Lucy Coe at the pool. He tells her he knows Lucy went to the PCPD and about the stocks and such. He asks her point blank if she framed Willow. She says YES>!! He's like WTF! She says Willow wants him back and she wanted to drive a wedge between them. He says well, you've driven one between US! 

Liz is at Willow's and says to Brennan that she thinks there may be a connection between him and Drew. She says as a nurse the common denominator seems to be the house. Willow acts shocked. Liz says maybe if they get Drew out of the environment, he'll get better. Jack says: I know what caused MY stroke. I was working that day with the WSB and got contaminated by a CLASSIFIED SUBSTANCE! Liz asks what it was he says: CLASSIFIED!! 

Brennan goes to see Josslyn. Is angry she got Valentin cleared. "He's bad for your mother"!! She says, don't worry I sent him to ANNA ahahahahaa!! 

END: 

Ethan tells Ava to DROP IT

Lulu tells Carly Valentin will betray her just like he did Nina and Anna

Willow vows to get the black box evidence on Drew

Brook has no where to go and got rid of all her money, credit cards, car and phone. Joe gives her 5 bucks lol 

Valentin is at Anna's door. 

Hospital Stuff

 

I'm meeting my brother for lunch and I'm not sure I'll be back so use this space wisely for today's show!

I want to point out ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the newbies and a recast that will be swooping down on us soon. Check out Soap Opera Digest to get the info. 

Tristan Rogers will be a surgeon

Scout Cain (SORA'd)

Serena Baldwin is coming in to help at Deception 

Hudson (no last name) is a sketchy business man

Mysterious "New Hire" --Diane and Alexis hire someone to replace Marco. 

Good GRAVY. 

Pool Party

 Nice blue skies here and I'm ready for the show! Tomorrow I'll be out to lunch and it's about an hour away so I'm not confident I'll be back.  Next week I'll have a hiccup too-- on Wednesday.  Can't make them all!! 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Laura is talking to Dante at the Metro. She tells him Anna is home. Dante is happy as he wants to take a step back and focus on his family. He leaves and Marty comes in.  All happy he won his case in Reno. Has a lot of money now. Laura has to tell him that it was Sidwell that set it up. He asks if Kevin/Ace are coming home. She says Kevin already started his summer session. She asks Marty to rep Curtis.

ADA Turner wants Molly to take the Sidwell case. Molly would have to give up the book tour though and make an enemy of Sidwell. Molly realizes that not only can the ADA not prosecute Sidwell, she can't do it to Sonny either because he saved her life. Molly is going to think about accepting the deal.

Lucas wakes up on Liz' couch. Ric is there too. I guess he was out drunk last night. Ric leaves. Lucas chugs coconut water.  He tells her about the medicine being saline and how Marco died for nothing. He'll never get over it. 

Trina is at the pool with Kai working on her setlist. Then her mom and Isaiah walk in. She's not happy.  Asks how Portia is. Then P and I go sit at a table. Trina is happy they respected her 'boundries'. Later, Emma comes over and they tell her Anna's home. They notice Ric is with Isaiah and Portia talking about the case. 

Curtis tells Jordan the plea deal for assaulting Isaiah is TWO YEARS in jail. tee hee. Parole maybe in 8 months. He might have to do that because there's new evidence that maybe Isaiah wasn't driving and yada yada. Curtis will be pissed if he missed ANY TIME with his new baby. They need to prove Willow was set up. They are going to talk to Nina and Chase about it.

Anna's home. Is hesitant to go in but does. Emma/Gio, Mac Daddy are there with Felicia. She's happy to be home. They tell her about Sonny's dog Fizz because he damaged an end table. Anna thanks Gio for watching out for Emma. He says easy, he loves her. After tea, Anna tells Emma to go to the pool with Gio and asks Felicia and Mac to leave. She needs a nap. Dante comes in next. Anna wants to know what he knows about Cassius Faison. She says she never should have been duped but Cassius DID convince her Faison was alive and he's the reason she was in a mental hospital all this time.

Carly and Valentin fool around in the kitchen. He's happy to be out of the attic. She's still mad about Joss. They kiss--Sonny walks in and tells Carly THIS is the WORST mistake you've EVER MADE! Carly's like WTF. Val's like WTF. Sonny's NOT HAPPY PEOPLE. Sonny tells Carly about Valentin switching his pills. Carly's like: I didn't know him then. hahahaaha. It's really good banter. Sonny finds out Brennan recruited Joss. Then Sonny tells them that Cullum fire-bombed his apartment and wounded Michael. Anyway, Sonny still hates Valentin and walks out. 

END: 

ADA AND SONNY are in the LOVE DEN. :eyeroll: 

Peter comes out to Anna "now you can get your revenge"