A Critic’s Review of General Hospital: Praise Due & Storyline Pay-off

When it comes to General Hospital, every fan has their own opinion – and Soap Hub is no different. For five days, we sat and watched the good, the bad, and everything in between, and now we offer you a handy review, and a cheeky critique, of the GH week that was.

General Hospital: A Critic’s Week In Review

Sorry, Dan and Chris/Chris and Dan; the time to make Austin Gatlin-Holt (Roger Howarth) interesting has long since passed. I could say that I appreciate the belated effort, but I won’t, and I don’t.

I also don’t appreciate the mention of that enigmatic “she” because this is nothing more than setting up for yet another storyline that will take a fatigable amount of time to spool out if indeed we ever do get an answer.

My fellow General Hospital viewers and I are still waiting to find out just who it is that’s amassing against Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and who or what has got Victor Cassadine (Charles Shaughnessy) running scared. So, unless those storylines and the one featuring Austin are connected, I’m not holding out much hope of getting any headway, let alone solid answers anytime soon.

Further GH Musings

* I frequently dog Josslyn Jacks as nothing more than a junior version of Carly Corinthos (Laura Wright) – and readers of this column know that I don’t mean that as a compliment – but kudos are due actress Eden McCoy for her work during Joss’s questioning by the A.D.A.

* Praise is also due to Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Avery Kristen Pohl for the tour de force they delivered when Spencer and Esme dropped all pretext and went for broke.

* The Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) plot seems to be playing out just as I thought. I suspect it’ll be only a few weeks – or months, this is General Hospital after all – until Carly will have to confess that Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros) is Willow’s mother and then mommy will save the day, her daughter’s life, and the life of her new grandbaby. Then the drama will truly begin.

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