Dateline Port Charles: Brain Trust

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Only way the Austin character can be salvaged is to pair him with Ava AND turn him bad. If he helped Nik escape in exchange for help with his boss lady problems that would be interesting and leaves the door open for Nik to return. When Nik returns and Ava realizes Austin betrayed her, she can exact revenge.

Only way to salvage dull as dishwater Finn is to have it revealed he's in cahoots with Austin and the mild mannered doctor leads a double life. He said yesterday "Nik skipped town", build on that.

I still think Cousin Mason is involved with the Nik situation, too. When we last saw him, he was already in the process of following Ava to Spoon Island, yet somehow Austin got there first. Maybe he witnessed them fumbling around with Nik's "body" and decided it would be a great thing to hold over Austin to make him toe the line and ditto for Ava since she had been getting kind of mouthy and low-key threatening with him.

GH is becoming more ridiculous than Passions.

The first 15 minutes on Tuesday, especially the scenes between Finn, Nina and "Aunt Liesl", were pure farce.

They are definetely moving past the Austin-Maxie pairing. In the hospital room, Felicia didn't even mention that Maxie would be relieved to find out that Austin survived his hook attack

I just remembered something from a few years back: Wasn't there a secret room under the stables at Wyndemere where Anna and Robert were holding Faison captive? Betcha any money that's where Nik is holed up right now. He probably regained consciousness and went there on his own, just to fuck with Ava. Maybe he'll stick around and play little tricks to torment her, like ghostly haunting type stuff. Or get his revenge by setting her up for his "murder" while he sneaks off to hide out halfway across the globe.

Just die already, Willow. You are too dumb to live.

Chad's been looking pretty rough. He must hate this shit as much as the rest of us.

Adam Huss has a movie on Amazon Prime, My Best Friend's Wedding Planner. Good photo of him.

Team Huss.

I want Huss deep in my Hooey.

So, as I suspected, Cousin Mason has Fredo Cassadine in his custody. The question is, then, what's his goal? Would anyone care enough to pay a ransom for his sorry, sniveling, weak ass? Victor has other problems to deal with right now and seemed quite happy to be rid of his messy dramas. Is this why they're suddenly having Spencer feel all kinds of guilty about driving away his poor papa? He'd be an easy mark. Or, if the lady boss Mason and Austin answer to is really Olivia Jerome, as speculated, maybe it's leverage for keeping Ava in line. She may see her as a legitimate threat, being the only other living Jerome left of the family dynasty.

The Nik is dead again storyline helps drive new couple Ava and Austin together. Also, once it's more known that Ava is accused of killing him, it will drive a wedge between "supercouple" Spencer and Trina over defending Ava.

The gaslighting "ghost"-ing of Eileen has got to be one of the worst storylines in years!! I wonder if they had to do extensive retakes because the actors couldn't stop laughing at their dialogue.

I can imagine Genie complaining, "You'd never get away with making Tony Geary do this dreck!"

Corpse Anna's makeup was pretty fab.

[quote]They are definetely moving past the Austin-Maxie pairing.

The only pairing that works at all for Maxie anymore is Spinelli, and that only works because of the long history and his dweeby devotion to her. I don't think she'll get another love interest as long as Storms is in the role in her present state. She'll just get a lot of seated conversation scenes as someone's friend.

I for one would ship Maxie with a glazed ham.

Is Planned Parenthood not in Port Charles? In real life I think Willow and Esme would have aborted their spawn.

A rational Willow absolutely would have had an abortion and prioritized her chemo and radiation.

Esme, in fairness, was either on the run or locked in Wyndemere for her entire pregnancy.

They killed ME off and kept THAT mess?

Did FV finally realize that Violet's babysitter Gonzo Greg is too expensive to have on contract and is going to kill him off to rectify the matter? Whatever Greg has I hope it's infectious and he spreads it to Hat Daddy who also needs to go. Why these two were ever put on contract is a mystery.

Is NLG still writing her tell all autobiography that she plans to release when she retires? Is she on Frank's shit list? He should put her on recurring, she's just a filler at this point and not needed full time.

I hope Lane Davies writes a tell all full of truths about NLG.

Rebecca mentioned she loves Cynthia Watros. Jeff Kober also mentioned what a wonderful person Cynthia is when he was on Mo's show. The Willow actress recently sang Cynthia's praises in a podcast. I think it's safe to assume Cynthia is a nice person.

Rebecca did a short film about postpartum depression. Michael Easton directed and the film won some award. Rebecca suffered from postpartum for 3 1/2 years and Michael Easton was only co-worker who sensed something was wrong and asked her if she was ok. She didn't say so but I wonder if her postpartum is reason she never stuck around GH for any length of time.

She said Josh Duhamel would spread his legs really wide to make himself shorter when they kissed because of the height difference.

That was a good SoM. I'm no fan of Maurice (or more likely of Sonny) as he always over-controls the narrative. But I get what he's trying to do, and a lot of what is discussed really resonates. Budig seems quite broken.

Now, back to the topic at hand. GH sucks.

I never knew Budig was a backstage interviewer for WWE at one time.

Duelly is going to be a daddy! Smiles in the IG announcement look stiff and forced. She looks short and stout. This won't end well.

Snatched!

Duelly loves eating snatch! He’s a horndawg.

[quote]Smiles in the IG announcement look stiff and forced.

This is the photo I meant but this could just be what their joyous smiles look like. I don't know them personally.

He was only married and then faux "married" for five minutes. How long will this last? 15 minutes?

Mason seemed almost glad that Ava wants Sonny's help. Is he going to exploit that, like get Sonny to cede part of his territory or something like that (for his boss) in exchange for keeping quiet, or giving him back? It seems like they are biding their time and weighing their options as to whether Nik is worth more dead or alive, and who can benefit them the most by it.

Duelly’s dick of death strikes again! Just how big is that thing???

The fast forward button got a real workout today.

I guess Duell needs a girl with wide hips, what with his DoD and all.

Duelly can put his dick inside me, anytime!

Once again, more heat between Michael and Dex on that hospital roof today than either one has with their respective broads.

Well the guy who plays Dex is a flaming queen in real life. He prolly wants to jump on Duelly’s dick of death.

I'm sure Duell would hate to hear it, based on what I know of his politics and views, but his Michael always has had better chemistry with men. Dex, Chase...even his scenes with the prison rapist (was his name Carter?) had a charge to them. In romantic scenes with women, he's such a dud. Of his actual love interests, Nelle was the best of a lackluster lot.

I used to hate Nelle. Then Esme showed up.

Ace is one fucking huge baby. Are we really supposed to believe it slid through a vagina just days ago?

Is my favorite angry twink bottom being written off or will Cam still be seen on trips home from Stanford?

He showed promise when he first joined the show, but he didn't improve much. Seems that he's concentrating in college on music now and that 's probably a better choice for him. Also, the show may not have much Cam story right now and they could quickly recast if they want to bring the character back for a bigger story

I think Cam was wearing a wig today. It just seemed a little too floofy-girly and had very obvious highlight streaks in it.

I didn't realize Duell has remarried after his crimson wedding and 2 month marriage to Sally Spectra.

Duelly eats pussy every single day.

Cam’s hair is real and it is gorgeous.

Can't forget Brad also r37.lol

Why couldn’t the hook have killed Cody? That is one useless motherfucking character.

[quote]That is one useless motherfucking character.

He's Mac's son. There's lots of story potential in that.

FINALLY they're doing something with the Selina and Holly Drug Victor subplot. I know they said it was a slow-acting, sleeper drug whose effects would be triggered by a stressful event, but I thought surely Valentin's "death" would fit the bill as a pretty powerful stressor. Seriously, though, erectile dysfunction is the best they can come up with? Maybe they can do a tie-in with sponsorship for this year's Nurses Ball. Give him warts, anal leakage, the heartbreak of psoriasis, sudden baldness, permanent indigestion, wasting syndrome, etc., and you've got yourself shitload of free coin courtesy of Viagra, Compound W, Depends, Tegrin, Minoxidil, Alka-Seltzer, Ensure, the list goes on......lol.

Cameron should get some PreP before he goes to college.....

Perfect, another sponsor! Truvada®, Descovy®, let's go!

[quote] Dateline Port Charles: Brain Trust

I keep thinking that title reads Dateline Port Charles: Brian Frons

Brian Frons is the polar opposite of Brain Trust.

I wonder if FATshionista Maxie colored the cover of her Nurses Ball Trapper Keeper herself?

Focus on obesity and diabetes during the Nurses Ball and make it a Maxie-centric episode.

I can't stand Carly's laugh. Don't like the character or the actress.

I’m going to miss the bromosocial chemistry between Spencer and Cam.

That William Lipton guy sucked as an actor. We’ll never hear from him again. Buh bye!!

[quote] I can't stand Carly's laugh. Don't like the character or the actress.

No one likes Snaggletooth

It’s a race to prison for Sonny and Carly. Orange is indeed the new black.

Carly will never serve time for insider trading. Idek why they’d tease the audience like this.

Marcus Coloma has been added to an appearance Charles Shaughnessy and Kathleen Gati are doing in May in New Jersey. Why give this guy a platform to spin his story? I know TPTB at GH have no control over these appearances which are booked by a separate organization but are fans really clamoring to see this guy again? Is he looking to continue his damage control tour backtracking on how he pulled his little scientology power play of refusing to do his last scenes? He figured out too late after he pulled his little stunt that he would never work for ABC/Disney again. He started his image rehab tour after the realization of his epic screw up and started giving interviews to all the soap publications about how he had covid and couldn't do his scenes and also no idea why his contract wasn't renewed. The fact that not one of his scene partners wished him well on social media upon his departure spoke volumes. Only his egomaniac dance partner Mo and Finola (bff of his scientology buddy Michelle Stafford) wished him well and neither was a scene partner. His unfollowing of everyone on GH was so juvenile. His former cheerleader Maura had already unfollowed him months prior so something was definitely not right between them.

Marcus is also doing a joint appear in April with his new scientology recruit Johnny Wactor in NYC. They are doing karaoke and "The CaliBX Experience" sounds like some covert Sciento preaching. I

Here's Marcus and Johnny appearance info:

Weren't there rumors that Johnny was kind of an asshole behind the scenes? None of his co-stars wished him well either.

I saw Kelly Thiebaud and Kathleen Gati at a fan event right after Brando got the hook and KT expressed frustration that Wactor had been let go—said he was a really sweet guy.

Coloma is very much missed by us GH fans!!

[quote]The fact that not one of his scene partners wished him well on social media upon his departure spoke volumes. Only his egomaniac dance partner Mo and Finola (bff of his scientology buddy Michelle Stafford) wished him well and neither was a scene partner. His unfollowing of everyone on GH was so juvenile. His former cheerleader Maura had already unfollowed him months prior so something was definitely not right between them.

Maura West did wish him well, in a comment under his Instagram post. The others I remember who did so, besides Finola Hughes, were Tanisha Harper and Josh Swickard. I didn't keep going back and checking it after reading it once, so there may have been others.

[quote]Maura West did wish him well, in a comment under his Instagram post. The others I remember who did so, besides Finola Hughes, were Tanisha Harper and Josh Swickard.

What about his other actual scene partners such as Chavez, Genie, Avery, Shaughnessy, JPS, Becky (although I know she's not big on social media)?

I hate to belabor the point, but I have a special disdain for his cult as they fleeced a young, naive aspiring actor/roommate of mine back in the 90s when I lived in L.A. Not to mention the fact the cult seeks to "cure" homosexuality.

L.A. Scientos target young/aspiring actors with promises that their courses will give them an edge over others so MW, Genie, Charles and JPS wouldn't have been targets. I commend Chavez for backing away from MC and not blowing his money on the b.s. Stafford targeted young actresses Sasha, Willow, Jordan #2 and OGValerie Spencer and had them endorsing her skincare line that benefits the cult. I wonder if she's still friendly with OGValerie who is now on Y&R. I also wonder if FV asked MW to make a comment so the hoopla around the MC's firing would die down? Someone here on DL did say MW and MC had a falling out. Scientos have two speeds: either over-the-top intense friendliness/love bombing (see: Tom Cruise) or up in your face screaming (see: Kirstie, Stafford, Jenna Elfman and sometimes Cruise).

I'll ♫let it go♫ now.

Is this the last we've seen of Alley Mills' Heather?

God, I hope so.

According to SOD, she’s wrapped filming R67

Thank GOD! Alley was terrible. Be gone!

Oh NO! That crazy cunt KooKoodora from SON is having a meltdown because that selfish bitch Anne Heche wasn’t mentioned on the Oscars In Memoriam segment. Bitch should be forgotten.

WEHT that hottie Rick Hearst? Is he still selling spaghetti sauce in Georgia? Is he still hot? Bring him back to GH!!

The guy who plays Dex is a homosexual. No chemistry with chipmunk faced Joss.

Holly is returning. Her low energy last appearance was underwhelming. Yeah, yeah I know she has long covid. But if she's not up to the task why do the viewers have to be subjected to her sleep inducing acting. The chemistry is gone between her and Scorpio, so what's the point. Unless she's coming back to inform Robert that Ethan is his son and then they can all go off into the sunset together.

[quote]Holly is returning. Her low energy last appearance was underwhelming. Yeah, yeah I know she has long covid. But if she's not up to the task why do the viewers have to be subjected to her sleep inducing acting.

I saw Emma Samm's name listed in the credits on Friday, so figured she'd be showing up in the next few days.

This is clearly happening as part of the 60th anniversary celebration. I imagine other alum will be popping into Port Charles in the next several weeks.

It's nice they wheeled Bobbie out for the upcoming 60th.

Per tomorrow's previews, Maxie looks like she swallowed the nurse's ball. Maybe she thought it was a cheeseball.

Dex still screams FTM to me. Sorry, not sorry.

Dex is a homosexual. In real life.

According to twitter, ES is listed as back on contract.

Anyways, can we cut LW’s episode guarantee? JFC.

Is Lezlie Charleson sick or just done? I thought I read they took her off contract in August and she hasn’t been back since. Anyone know?

Lezzy’s dying. True fact.

They could tape ES during her afternoon nap and it would still be more interesting than many of the scenes with the show's current actors and stories

All that Luke talk in today’s episode makes me think he’s returning for the 60th. This show is on its last legs.

Did they really expect anyone to believe Luke was dead?

Geary coming back for 60th stint?

I’d say the show’s veteran cast (Laura, Felicia, Anna, Mac, Lucy, etc.) is strong enough—let’s not wheel out a bunch of corpses for the anniversary. I’m excited for Tracy though and would love Jonathan Jackson and Vanessa Marcil to come back and that’s it.

What Ron and Frank pulled off for the 50th (I can't believe it's been 10 years) was nothing short of miraculous. My expectations for the 60th are pretty low.

Boobie and Maxie Pad planning the Nurses Ball has become beyond insufferable within 2 episodes.

Tony Geary IS back!

Does anyone in PC know/care Lucy, Anna and Val are “dead”?

I was thinking that what Laura, Felicia and Anna are doing to Victor reminds me of when the Witches of Eastwick decided to turn the tables on Jack Nicholson and started torturing him little by little. Then I remembered, do they even know about the secret poisoning, or are Holly and Selina Wu the only ones who know about it? Felicia was helping Holly in the end, did she tell her?

It's pretty obvious that the diamond Holly gave Selina in exchange for her part in the plan is going to hold the missing piece of the code that remains just out of reach when the time comes. Wonder how that plays out, Wu isn't exactly the altruistic type. She did seem to share everyone's disdain for Victor, though, and I wondered if there's a backstory there.

Wu also knew Britt and implied some things happened while Britt was out of PC. They dropped that story though. This Victor story is dumb. He’s impotent so he’s doing to infect PC? Liv is sick and in quarantine. Donna Courtney had an ear infection yesterday. Another virus story is useless if they don’t kill off a ton of deadweight.

The whole erectile dysfunction thing is so oddly specific. Is it just meant to be psychological torture to throw Vic off of his game, or is there a bigger reason, such as impairing his standing in the family bloodline? It's not unheard of in the old, traditional rules of succession that those who cannot produce "issue" cannot hold higher status. Thus far he's been strutting around referring to himself as the "patriarch" of the family, but based on what, just his age? That's not how it typically works. And who is minding Cassadine Industries, anyway? With Nikolas out of commission, Valentin presumed dead, Victor distracted with world domination, Spencer is about to get a crash course in stepping up.

Yvette Nicole Brown is going to guest star on the March 29th episode. Which will be the Sonya Eddy tribute episode.

What is going on with Bobbie’s eyebrows? I can’t look at anything else when they are on screen.

The show starts at 2:00 in my market but Bobbie’s boobs were onscreen at 1:56.

Bobbie does have the big titties. Jessie Brewer would be jealous.

Days just got renewed for two more seasons on Peacock.

[quote]Liv is sick and in quarantine. Donna Courtney had an ear infection yesterday. Another virus story is useless if they don’t kill off a ton of deadweight.

And now Gregory's got something, too. Hmmm, are they really going this route? In his case, though, it could be something connected to his old Lyme disease, which can progress to causing inflammation in the brain and spine, or meningitis.

Maybe all these diseases will end up being on screen advertising for a pharmaceutical company.

Viagra can treat Victor's ED. Some specialized ear drops can treat Donna's ear infection. Surely Gregory's illness can be treated by drugs too.

I enjoy Nicholas Chavez’s acting but Spencer is quite the little bitch. How can anyone stand him?

^^ Those will be some gross gift bags at the Nurses Ball, for sure! Not like when it was sponsored by Olay or Aveeno, lol.

Can someone explain why Carly needs to be in on the planning of the Nurses Ball? Or why she needed to have those forced scenes with Liz after carrying around that portrait of Carolyn and Jeff like a weirdo. They really insist on throwing her into every beat on this show. Take a year long sabbatical, Laura!

With Cam leaving town the list of people who can stand Spencer is basically Trina, Laura, Sonny, and Victor.

I hope Cam sends some delicious full frontal soccer shower videos from Stanford.

Will Spencer and Trina perform Islands in the Stream at the NB?

They should tone down the queeny ness of Spencer. He always acts like a big ole homo.

Esme's milkers looked mighty empty today. No wonder Ace is the size of a 3 year old.

Maxie, on the other hand, appears to be a walking dairy farm.

Mr. Sheffield can't get it up. Way to ruin 1990s fantasies, GH.

Anybody else think it was kind of fishy that little Victor's peepee doctor wanted to go pick up the medication from the pharmacy himself? I wonder if Finn and this doc are in on it.

We’re still on this, Ingo?

The lawsuit is being pushed and funded by GOP hoping that IR's name will bring some publicity, which it has, to their cause.

Unfortunately, they picked someone who had a soap opera contract that clearly states that they can be fired by the network at any time without any reason.

Oh Ingo. GO the fuck away!

A link to the court documents. Interesting tidbits in there minus a lot of redactions.

Opposite court docs from Deadline

If Ingo was making $2900-3300 per episode, what are newbies like Chavez, Avery and Tabyana making?

NLG complained about Ingo AND Maurice's tweets? Interesting.

The post she complained about was a video from Maurice where he mentioned Ingo having to film with her and he visibly recoiled or something along those lines. Maurice called her, explained and apologized according to a tweet from her.

Ah yes, I remember that kerfuffle between NLG and MB. I felt bad for her.

Is it a coincidence that the MAGAts got a #FireNLG hashtag going right when Deadline posted the story about Ingo’s suit?

I could live without NLG on the canvas for a year, or two.

And take Sam and Molly with you.

Thaao says he was with Sal Mineo earlier in the evening the night he was murdered and he prepared Sal's last meal.

Twitter is dissecting the court filings between Ingo and ABC.

I didn't know Chad was a repug.

I thought it was common knowledge Chad is a MAGA

Are there other MAGA actors currently on the show?

r121, I had no idea. I suppose his pursed anus lips like tRump's should have been my first clue.

Never liked him anyway and his voice is highly annoying.

[quote]If Ingo was making $2900-3300 per episode, what are newbies like Chavez, Avery and Tabyana making?

Just above scale. Which isn't really surprising. What should be surprising is that an established character and actor, like Jax/Ingo started at $2900. I bet when he left GH the first time, he was pulling in $5000 TO $7000 an episode.

I'm going to assume that is a pretty typical 2nd tier character salary.

Vee, who’s in the biz, is dissecting it all. Vee is in the biz, you know.

Vee who is in the biz mandated a salary cut for IR. Vee is in the biz and makes every important decision. Vee is in the biz, you know! The biz!

Icky Vickytoria Fuckton feels left out. Creepy bastard! Vee is also ignoring Icky Vicky. And Pervsudz. Such drama!!!

Of course they have to insert Snarly into the Valentin/Anna/Lucy storyline.

CM needs to be fired. He is lame as happy go lucky Drew and he is even worse trying to be a tough guy. Isn't there some summer game show ABC can have him host? Acting is not his calling, he's better suited to game show host or entertainment show host.

Do I detect a set up for Dex being Lily's supposedly dead baby? Today they made a point of bringing up the timeline since the car explosion when Sonny told Nina "First I lost my pregnant wife and then twenty years later I also lost my son in a car bomb." If Dex is around 25 that fits in. Now let's see if he just happened to be born in Puerto Rico...

I thought Dex was supposed to be Jason's lost son.

I thought Dex might be Courtney's son from a teen pregnancy/adoption scenario before she came to Port Charles, and thus Spencer's half brother.

CM looked like he’d gotten a fresh eye job in today’s ep (and a new haircut to mask it).

Boobers threatening Victor at the MetroCourt was hilarious.

Maybe Boobers could leverage some of her professional expertise in getting Victor's sad, limping limb up and running again. Sorry, but when I look at her, I don't see a dedicated medical worker, I see an aging ex-whore who should be running her own brothel right about now. Maybe the upstairs at Kelly's? It's only right.

Speaking of "blasts from the past" LOVED Lucy's disguise that was a callback to her drab librarian look that she had when she first came on the show

Has Vee, who’s in the biz and knows everything, commented about Icky Vicky Fuckton’s post?

Well we know William Lipton is in the anniversary photo…. Any official word on his status if he’s leaving?

R136, I have moved on to twink porn.

I know people love him and he's an okay actor, but the part has sort of outgrown him. He can't walk around with that baby face and chubby cheeks, when you've got Spencer and Dex on the canvas. Even though Spencer has a weird face and some angles aren't his friend, he still looks like a man. Same with Dex. The Cam actor needs to be on the CW playing a lead in a show about a high school.

I'm confused, wasn't Sonny talking about Morgan? Was there another son that died?

R139 I haven't seen the episode yet, however Sonny has had quite a few sons (and daughters) who have died- his baby with Lily, who was pregnant when she died during the limo explosion (aka ClickBoom) in 1996; his son with Carly, after she fell down the stairs while pregnant, in 2000; his daughter with Sam, who was known as Lila, stillborn in 2004; his son with Claudia, who was pregnant at the exact same time Carly was pregnant with Josslyn, resulting in a miscarriage in 2009. Adding Dante, Kristina, Morgan, Avery, and Donna Courtney, Sonny would have a total of nine biological children. If Dex is his son, it would fit closest to his son with Claudia, chronologically.

I like the idea of Dex being Courtney's son from a teen pregnancy before she came to Port Charles. It would feed the disdain between him and Spencer and be a sort of Nik/Lucky 2.0.

R141 That's not a bad idea. Especially since we don't know for a fact that Dex is Sonny's son, there's just a hint of a connection to him. Some say he could be Brenda's son, which I've wondered myself, or to your point, he could even possibly be Ric's son. Then there's also the possibility of him being the son of one of Sonny's long lost enemies, which is a good explanation as to why he's so determined to take Sonny down.

Have you all heard? Y&R is recasting Kay Chancellor with an actress named Scoche Marin. Josh Griffith and Sony/CBS wants to goose up the ratings. They said the story will be that Mrs. C didn't really die and that Esther was keeping her on ice in the Chancellor mansion basement for the last few years.