Serial Drama

Maybe This Was Not The Best Advertising Venue...

If it weren't for my obsessive reading of Us Weekly and Us Weekly's obsessive coverage of all things related to The Bachelor (seriously, I know more about this Vienna character than I do some of my friends and I have never seen even one second of the show that wasn't featured on The Soup), I probably would have had a full-on panic attack at this on-screen advertisement.

I WAS very startled, though, and had to calm myself by pointing out that the ad was for something airing in primetime. It probably would have made more sense to calm myself by pointing out that Jason is an adult and the show probably wouldn't have him take a child bride, but you never know with GH. If they are okay with him being a murderer, maybe they'd be okay with him breaking all sorts of laws and societal taboos...

More thoughts to come on the latest in Port Charles, once I hire an interpreter who can tell me what the hell was going on in all of Ethan's scenes. Oh, sweet, inexplicably Emmy pre-nommed Nathan Parson, you don't make things easy for me.

A Quick Note

Things were quiet on our end this week, a week that included all sorts of soapy goings on, both good (Marcy Rylan and Eden Riegel to Y&R!) and bad (...pretty much everything else currently happening in and around daytime). A variety of unfortunate real-life circumstances led us to an impromptu hiatus, but tomorrow, we will be back to blogging bitchily and getting overly excited about alliteration. Thank you for your patience!

What This Show Lacks In Quality, It Makes Up For With Hilarious Facial Expressions

Sometimes, I write General Hospital off as completely terrible, with no redeeming qualities at all. And then Sonny and Jax will be having a heated confrontation, and Maurice Benard will make this face

and I'll have to revise my opinion and state that General Hospital is mostly, not completely, terrible because genuine entertainment is genuine entertainment, even if it is both fleeting and unintentional.

What brought on that almost cartoonish portrayal of anger, you ask? Actually, you don't ask that, because you know that Sonny is always angry and have ceased to care about the reasons behind the anger, but if you had asked that, I would tell you it was because he and Jax had one of the "You're the worst person in the world/No, you are" arguments that they've been having for well over a decade.

Sonny: You're a coward, okay? Admit it! Own up to what you did!
Jax: I'd be glad to.
Sonny: You're not defending your family. It's your chance to get back at me.
Jax: Oh. yeah, I hate to break it to you but I don't care how you end up. All I want is for my family to be safe.
Sonny: What about my family? You knew the truth about Dante, didn't say a word. You let the investigation continue knowing it could ruin everybody's life. And what about Michael? You say you love him. You risked his sanity and his freedom blaming me for what he did.
Jax: No, Sonny, it was your idea to cover up Claudia's murder. That's the secret that's going to ruin the kid's life. 
Sonny:The only reason you're breathin' is because you're married to Carly. When are you going to dump this son of a bitch? Because I've waited too long to put an end to this.  

Remember that time when we were all grossed out by this show having its hero shoot an unarmed cop in the chest, and the show was all, "You're missing the point! Sonny is a good man!"? I guess threatening to kill people for upsetting him (with the truth) is better than just outright shooting him, so...progress!