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General Hospital’s Adam Huss and Nicholas Chavez Deliver the ‘Power Performances of the Week’
Last week, much of the buzz was all about the highly-anticipated emotional reunion between Nikolas Cassadine (Adam Huss), and his son Spencer (Nicholas Chavez) on General Hospital. Would Nikolas actually go through with it and try to make amends with his oldest son, and would he finally meet his younger son, Ace?
Well, the scenes lived up to the hype and with a HUGE assist from Joey Clay (Ace) who is one half of the fantastic twin siblings who play the part, the other being Jay Clay. Needless to say, it was riveting drama where we are sure many in the viewing audience reached for the hankies.
When Nikolas comes to Laura’s and Spencer opens the door, after the shock of it all, Spencer hears his father out. Nikolas says, “I did abandon Ace, but he wasn’t the only son I walked out on.”
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Spencer replies with disappointment, “I’m used to you disappearing by now.” Nikolas admits he failed at letting Spencer know how much he loved him, but that some of his favorite times were when they were together when Spencer was younger. Then, in a heart-tugging moment, Spencer breaks down in tears and tells his father, “You were my whole world. I loved you so much.”
Later, Nikolas overhears Ace crying. Spencer goes to get the little one and hands him to Nikolas saying, “Ace, this is your dad.” What happens next are the moments that had many GH viewers talking about; just how little Ace leaned into his father’s chest with such comfort and reacted to the drama playing out before him. It gave Adam Huss even more to draw on for his touching performance.
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Next, Nikolas gets Spencer to hand over Ace in his plan to leave town with the young one as the best way to protect him from Esme (Avery Pohl). In yet another heartbreaking moment in the scenes, Spencer tells his baby brother how much he loves him and then threatens his father; that if he ever hurts or abandons Ace he will make him pay.
When Ace’s baseball cap is left behind, Spencer runs to retrieve it to catch-up with his father, only Esme is at the door. What ensues is Spencer letting Esme know that Ace is gone and Nikolas has him as he stands up to Esme for all her lies, and manipulations. He even calls her out knowing she is now pretending not to have her memory back when she does!
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Adam Huss and Nicholas Chavez played the history of the relationship of this volatile father/son relationship, and made it work effortlessly. That is not an easy thing to do given they were not the original actors in their respective roles.
Nicholas Chavez showed once again why he is an actor with the brightest of futures with his effective and nuanced work. While Adam Huss also shined as the conflicted father, trying to make amends, showing us Nikolas’ heart, but always seemingly having an agenda. And as for our little MVP’s Joey and Jay Clay, they certainly have taken to Chavez and Huss and amped up the drama perfectly.
For all these reasons mentioned above, Michael Fairman TV names Adam Huss and Nicholas Chavez work as the Power Performances of the Week.
Now below, check out the key scenes again. Then let us know what you thought of Adam and Nicholas, and the Clay brothers, in last week’s episodes of GH via the comment section.
You already know how we feel about these scenes., your amazing!
Unpopular Opinion, I would have given this to Cynthia Watros. She was stellar on Friday. These two were great too though. GH just has the strongest group of actors on their cast!
I agree. The cup runneth over last week with three power performers.
Yes, you are right. She did show her real miserable self, didn’t she? Hope this is the beginning of the end of this terrible character.
Nina is not a “miserable” person but she has had a lot of misery, most recently because of bch Carly. I have no desire for “Nina” to leave the show. What I’d like to see is her FINALLY have a relationship with her daughter, which would mean the writers have to undo the mess the current writers made of Willow, who is not less a bch at this point than Carly.
Agreed about Cynthia—I do not like Huss—-and, Spence’s light has been spent for me. He and oh-so-boring nuTrina are both trying to act like sophisticated adults—a wash!!
Esme is being accused of something she, most likely, didn’t do. She has been kidnapped—does that sound feasible? Who did this? Nikolas? Spencer himself? How about her mother? Sonny? Maybe Cyrus arranged for Esme to look for Ace with an “escort”.
Another week, another great performance by the cast. I would love to see “GH” bring back Adam Huss as an on-contract actor. He was amazing in the scenes with Ace and Spencer, but he and Ava’s (Maura West) scenes had great chemistry. It seems Nik has a lot of storylines that would capture us, from Elizabeth, Spencer, Esme, Ava, Laura, etc.
A few more comments:
Please make Anna a strong character again. It seems the storyline with Charlotte and Valentin has disappeared. For months, she was at the Metro Court talking to Sonny about everything. Now, she is sitting by herself at a bar sharing stories with Drew (?). Finola is a gem and deserves more.
I hope the show is ready to move in a different direction now that Nina has been outed for her part with Drew going to prison. It seems too much time is spent obsessing about Sonny, trying to build a relationship with Willow or exchanging hate with Carly. Again, an amazing actor, but it beginning to be one note.
The book Anna was reading is a real book, “Never Get Angry Again” I did order a copy as it looks like a good read.
Should play up Sonny character more now that he’s found Nina out. Nina is always the victim of her own villain ways. Let’s see her get some of her own medicine back for what she did. To move on without any consequences or ending the storyline would be disappointing. As she’s still in bed with Cyrus and about to be with Valentin. Drew move with firing and replacing her with Carly was EPIC!! I had to watch the show 2x cause it was so amazing. Sonny needs to find out Ava’s role too since he’s been protecting her. Let the real Esme come out so she can finally pay for her crimes. She’s gotten away too long and now fooling Laura who’s helped her. Laura now turning on her family for Esme. Willow should have more compassion & understanding for Michael. He was protecting her, so she is turning on him for the first problem in the marriage. I feel bad for Michael. He’s tried to protect his family and everyone except his mom understands. Kudos to Carly.
Are you serious! The scenes with that vile toxic character were awful!! Hopefully under Patrick Mulcahey Carly will finally get her comeuppance. Better yet maybe he will write her out and bring her back with Sarah Joy Brown!
Unfortunately the rumors of Tamara Braun returning don’t have legs.
What are you watching!!!! LOL. Nina is and always has been a victim, and I’m sick of her constantly paying the price. Her mother hurt her, Harmony hurt her, Sasha hurt her, Carly hurt her and since she’s been out of that coma the most important thing to her has been to find her kids who were taken from her while she lay helpless IN that coma. Nina’s been through enough; she deserves to finally be happy.
Carly is possibly the most vile character on the show. Has been for decades. It’s time she pays.
What? Where do get this stuff? Nina is no saint, and as I said before, she’s an angel compared to Carly Succubus..
The little boys who play Ace should be included in this.
Yes, they were amazing weren’t they and it was all natural reactions, no acting here!
I don’t think the little actors who play baby Ace are acting; I just think they’re mellow, sweet, kids who are affectionate and trusting. And seemingly always tired, lol.
Hate this Nicolas
Really such a harsh term. And you should know it’s spelled Nikolas – pointed out numerous times in the article.
Ace is a Quartermaine not a Cassadine Michael is his real father.
That’s 666% complete dragonshit.
Ace is definitely a Cassadine, fathered by Nikolas or Spencer, and Esme is his mother. In what world do you think Michael was ever with Esme?
LOL; I think you’ve posted this somewhere else. What are you on? Must be good. 😉
When is Carly ever gone get ALL her paybacks. Like she has been a saint… She IS definitely NO Saint. ALL of the years of manipulations, hatred and nastiness she has issued. Let’s not forget ALL the years of deceptions. She needs to do some major reaping. I’m tired of how everyone is wrong and does everything wrong. Except for her “special” self. Keeping life changing, life altering secrets from others. While being a freaking hippo…crite…
I totally agree, Lisa. Watching her strut into CRIMSON like some conquering hero made me ill. It just means yet ANOTHER Carly-centric tale with her latest swain Droop. And her first CRIMSON feature article should be “Clumping Shoes – Empowering or Embarrassing?”
I agree. Carly entered the show as a hateful and conniving young woman. She has continued as such throughout the years. She I always redeemed and forgiven. However let someone cross her or stand up to her because she has wronged them and Holy H*** hits the roof. I would love to see Carly suffer for her wrong doings. She may then actually change and be an honestly good person.
Thank you Lisa! One hundred percent agree. On a side note, I loved AJ and it always bothered me how she got away with everything she did to him, and now it’s rinse/repeat with Nina. I can’t stand how Carly isn’t even called out by the other “people” in Port Charles, while Nina is the one who’s always hurt and ostracized. It’s hard to watch.
Good talk Nic and Spencer. Hope ya’ll find your way back.. Both older now. And hopefully a more mature and lovin family oriented storyline will be displayed betwixt you 2..
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Are Chris & Dan out? Twitter has numerous posts listing Korte as interim HW.
You had me crying! You were amazing and this little guy is so precious.
I guess I put my foot in it. LOL—I so want to make Esme the good girl—Wishful thinking!!
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Ava’s (Maura West) daughter Avery looks quite different, starting on today’s November 9 episode of General Hospital. That’s because GH has made Avery into a full-blown teenager and the role is now being played by actress Alya Bullington.
In her debut, the Tennessee native was thrown into the deep soap waters with Daytime Emmy winners, Maurice Benard and Eden McCoy (Josslyn). Bullington weighed-in to TV Insider about her first scene which featured Avery overhearing a fight between Sonny and Josslyn.
She explained “It was something I have never done before, I did not have a lot of experience with the screaming and the crying stuff, but I got my first script, and I was like, ‘OK, this is a huge opportunity to learn so much about how that stuff works and to become this character that I have never even tried playing before.’”
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THE TEENAGED VERSION OF AVERY WILL HAVE A LOT TO CONTEND WITH
Speaking of working with McCoy, Bullington shared, “She’s incredible. I remember her just laughing and making jokes on set, and then the minute that they started taping, she just locked in and she cried immediately, and my first thought was, ‘I want to be able to do that.’
The soap opera newcomer added, “I think she just inspired me so much because she is so great and she can just lock into whatever character she wants to in the moment.”
The character of Avery was born back in 2014, but as recently as the October 8 episode of General Hospital, the character was suddenly referred to as a teenager. This is the second young female character in recent months to be aged up following the casting of Kayden Brenna Tokarski as Scout Cain.
As for her take on Avery and what’s ahead, Alya said,“She’s emotional, and she’s curious, and she’s a really fun person to play because so much stuff is happening in her life. I think she’s kind of confused about what’s happening and what to believe.”
So, what do you think about General Hospital making Avery a teenager? Are you excited to see the conflict between Sonny, Ava and Avery now that they have aged up the character? Share your thoughts and welcome Alya to GH via the comment section below.
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