General Hospital

By Mallory OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS! How awesome is this day? First of all, it is Friday, which is awesome in and of itself. Secondly, I was undercharged for my latte at Starbucks, which is fantastic. Thirdly, my BFF James Franco is on General Hospital starting today, which...is not going to be awesome in the long...

By Mallory It is exceedingly rare that anything on General Hospital intrigues me enough to look forward to the next scene in order to see the fallout, but that happened twice today, and both times, the followup consisted of, "Remember when that thing happened and it bordered on interesting? We don'...

By Mallory There are days when I watch General Hospital and, quite frankly, don't understand anything that is going on. Like, at not one point over the course of the hour do I think, "Oh, okay, that makes sense". It's just question after question after question, and then I start to wonder if I've missed a...

By Becca You know what I don't have enough of in my TV-viewing life? A character I've watched grow up on screen since birth, now a 17-year-old girl, being called a "stupid bitch" and then getting backhanded by her boyfriend. Thanks for filling that void, General Hospital! Your misogyny and lack of c...

By Mallory If you happen to meet me, and I tune out during our conversation, please don't take it personally--I will merely be reflecting upon the pure, unadulterated and wholly unintentional amazingness of the ending of today's General Hospital. It was one of those soap moments where you can vivid...

By Mallory POP QUIZ When the theme song to this soap came on the other day, I said, aloud, to no one, "Oh, for the love of, I can't sit through this today" and hurried to change the channel to something more entertaining, which, in that case, turned out to be an E! True Hollywood Story about someone who was...

By Becca So, after Friday's General Hospital I was appalled (even a little more so than usual, which hardly seems possible or mentally advisable), and I chatted with Mallory, who was also appalled. The big "Claudia put the hit on Sonny that got Michael shot" reveal finally happened, and it was set u...

By Mallory Nothing can sum up my complicated feelings on Jonathan Jackson's return as Lucky better than this image: On the one hand: Jonathan Jackson! Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point! On the other hand: Written by Bob Guza. Like, "...oh. Right. Well, this will be a debacle by the...

By Mallory If General Hospital continues to play "Mad World" at the end of every episode, I will be forced to update my list of Things General Hospital Ruins Without Even Trying and add Tears For Fears, Donnie Darko and Adam Lambert to a list that already includes cake, babies, Facebook, smackdowns o...

Daytime Confidential's Jamey Giddens interviews The Young and the Restless star Wilson Bethel. They talk about his role as Ryder, working with Sean Kanan and Greg Rikaart and Generation Kill. (Daytime Confidential) Kimberly McCullough and Jason Thompson's General Hospital Scrubs Te...

By Mallory I won't ask what General Hospital related decision is the worst. Mostly because the obvious answers are, naturally, (a) our decision to continue watching this show rather than kicking it to the curb and filling the 3-4 PM timeslot with something far more entertaining, such as sitting thr...

By Mallory I...did not see this one coming. I knew it was a possibility, sure, but I thought it would go the same way Steve Burton's General Hospital negotiations go: magazine stories wondering if he's out, melodramatic Soaps In Depth commercials asking "Is this THE END for Jason?" and then a quiet, re-s...

By Mallory Concerned that General Hospital viewers were only merely revolted with the show, and not hugely revolted (why they want their viewers hugely revolted is a question for another time and one I'm not convinced we'll ever have the answer to, unless "Bob Guza is craaaaazy" counts as an accept...

ABC soaps had a crazy casting week last week. Tune in to hear Luke, Jamey, Regan and Belinda discuss all the comings and goings, including: James Franco, Jonathan Jackson, Beth Ehlers, Thorsten Kaye, Susan Lucci and Greg Vaughan. (Daytime Confidential) There's plenty about All My Childr...

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By Becca Thomas This Monday's General Hospital was pretty much terrible. In some ways it was even worse than usual, because due to some weird FIOS glitch, the audio on my recorded episode trailed about a second and a half behind the video. Ugh! As if you want to see and then hear, being doubly punished, crap li...

Somehow we both managed to forget our three-year blogiversary last week. Obviously, as would be the case in a traditional relationship, this has caused us to reexamine our connection and enter counseling. While we work through our myriad issues and contemplate whether this whole co-blo...

By Mallory 1. This morning, I got an email from news correspondent Beth R. saying that James Franco would be joining General Hospital. 2. Thinking I must have misread it, I leaned into take a closer look at my computer monitor. 3. It still said that James Franco would be joining General Hospital. 4. James Franc...

Some of daytime's storylines are really bad right now. Find out which storylines the Daytime Confidential gang think are the worst on the CBS and Days of Our Lives podcast episode. (Daytime Confidential) What was it like behind-the-scenes with Big Brother winner's Jordan and Jeff at "B&a...

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By Mallory When the news broke that All My Childrenwould be moving to Los Angeles, I became hysterical and prone to Byzantine conspiracy theories almost immediately, and was convinced that the ever nefarious powers-that-be would use this opportunity to force people off of the show while pretend...

By Mallory When trusty news correspondent Beth R. let me know the epic news that Greg Vaughan was let go from General Hospital and that the role of Lucky will once again be played by Jonathan Jackson, I didn't know what to do. I let out a muffled shriek and all I could type was "OMG!" (Seriously, when I poste...

By Mallory Carly: Call me corny, but I love weddings, especially oddball ones. Oh, Carly. You speak the truth. If Friday's episode of General Hospital had featured a wedding for a couple I was actually invested in, or a bride whose hair was not decorated with what I can only assume would be a ceremonial he...

By Mallory If you looked really closely at today's episode of General Hospital, there were two notable golden moments that made me laugh out loud. Literally, which is something that I rarely do. Unfortunately, you had to look REALLY closely, since it was easy to miss them in the midst of the crap that th...

By Becca Mallory and I have had a good run with our little co-blogging mutual admiration society. But soon, I fear, it will all end. What have I done to bring about this potentially tragic break-up? Well, I returned from vacation over the long weekend and had to watch three weeks' worth of my shows (I pr...

By Mallory I liked life so much better when I operated under the assumption that everything bad about General Hospital was solely the fault of Bob Guza, and that the lack of rioting by the cast was just an example of their professionalism. When a certain daytime icon began being destroyed in a systemat...

By Becca Mallory covered this week's highlights -- er, biggest happenings -- brilliantly already, and I had a pretty packed weekend (dyed my hair, bathed the dog, did laundry, cleaned the refrigerator, reorganized my handbag -- you know, the usual glamorous routine), so while the concept in ge...

Our latest My Take/My Take, Too column is featured in the March 3 issue of Soap Opera Digest, on newsstands now. This month, Becca takes on the utterly unfocused Days Of Our Lives and wonders about the characters of Melanie, Chloe and Nicole. Her questions include lots of anguished "Why?!" M...

Sorry to have delayed a couple of weeks in posting this column. We were just so swept up in the amazing sweeps storylines on our soaps that we lost track of time and . . . Okay, no. We were just kind of twirly and totally spaced. In this latest column, Mallory wonders how in the name of Agnes Nixon All My C...

By Mallory During our General Hospital: 2008 in Review, Becca was still gleeful over the fact that I outed myself as a former soap crazy last summer, admitting that I own a copy of Robin's Diary, the companion piece to the Stone/Robin saga in 1995 and have, for some reason, held onto said copy. IN MY DEFE...

Welcome to 2009, Serial Drama readers! We hope you had fabulous New Year's Eve celebrations. Did you drink chamgagne, like Jax and Carly did on General Hospital? No? Well, better luck next year! (You have to appreciate how committed GH is to failing on every single level.) We know many of you...

In the December 9th issue of Soap Opera Digest, we turned our attention to Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless. After the jump, Becca looks back on the quality entertainment that Days and GH provided (she is as surprised as you are that she made it to 500 words), a...

By Mallory I started writing this entry by typing, "The past few days of General Hospital have been so utterly great that I've had to consult a thesaurus for new ways to say 'adorable', 'fabulous' and 'soapy'" and, as I re-read the sentence, I realized that I have not typed a sentence like that since, l...

By Becca Not to pat myself on the back or anything, but I had predicted that General Hospital would win the best drama series Emmy, pretty much since the nominations came out. (You can never go wrong underestimating the taste and intellect of award show voters!) That may be why I haven't gone complet...

By Becca Do you sometimes wonder whether General Hospital is some kind of social experiment, in which we as viewers are being tested as to how much horribly crappy un-soapiness we can be subjected to without going postal and storming the studio? It seems like a risky strategy, but it makes far more...

By Becca Let's start with the biggest General Hospital news of late, the Daytime Emmy nominations. Mallory covered the high and low points brilliantly already, so I won't take up much of your time with this. (Mostly because knowing our readership, if I spend much space discussing GH being held up as...

By Becca I still don't really care about this show, but once you got past the cheesy "special" effects early in the week, without a stupid and implausible serial killer reveal or any more homicides of legacy characters, this week didn't suck quite as much as many. I'm not interested enough to do a ful...

By Becca At first there were scheduling issues, but now I'm just plain uninspired to write a Week in Review for GH, guys. I'm not sure why. The show hasn't been awful, and there have been some great moments. Just nothing all that commentary-worthy, you know? (Plus, truth be told, I was more interested i...

By Becca Thanks to a really awesome Super Bowl Sunday that involved disassembling almost the entirety of my dishwasher and ultimately discovering (and having to remove by hand) an enormous glob of greasy fat of unknown origin and age as the culprit of my filthy "clean" dishes and minor flood, I mu...

By Becca How boring is General Hospital right now? Why, with this cast and history, isn't this the best soap on daytime? Oh, right, the writing. I bet you wouldn't think that if you could watch the show on your Blackberry, though! ...