General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Holly to Sasha, “Cody is Your Cousin”; Sam & Dante Tell the Kids She’s Going to Save Lulu
On Thursday’s October 17th episode of General Hospital, Sasha (Sofia Mattsson) who is not happy to see her mother, who lo and behold now is Holly Sutton (Emma Samms), wonders why she showed up at the Q’s now. Sasha thinks she must want some money or is pulling off another one of her scams. Hmmm, seems Sasha is quite familiar with her mother’s penchant for ruses.
Holly says she’s here because she is worried about Sasha’s wellbeing. They tell the backstory of how Sasha was left with that “creepy” Vickers guy in Llanview (what?), while Holly was off finding her half-brother Ethan and getting him out of trouble.
Apparently, Holly knows about Valentin’s idea that brought Sasha to Port Charles to scam Nina Reeves and to pretend she was her daughter. Finally, Holly spells out the reason she is here now. She tells her daughter that Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) is her father (which is news to Sasha), so therefore she cannot remain in a relationship with Cody Bell (Josh Kelly), because they are cousins.

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Next, Holly gives the reason she did not come forward with this information sooner as she was trying to protect her since Robert and Mac (John J. York) had many enemies. Sasha doesn’t believe her and demands to know why she wasn’t told sooner. She points out that Robert has a solid relationship with his other daughter Robin, and danger never kept them apart. Holly says she betrayed Robert and should have come forward sooner. Sasha tells her mother to leave as she does not believe her (or does not want too) and heads over to the stables and plants a kiss on Cody.

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Elsewhere, Sam (Kelly Monaco) and Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) break the news to Rocco (Finn Carr), Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Scout (Cosette Abinante) that Sam is the donor match for Lulu and will undergo surgery shortly to save Lulu’s life. Rocco is so relieved and thankful and gives Sam a big hug. Everyone is optimistic about the upcoming surgery which is the day after tomorrow, except Scout who is worried something could happen to her mother (Oh, Scout!). But everyone is happy and reassured that all will go well and Lulu will live. The episode comes to a conclusion with Lulu’s bed in the hospital and the monitors she is hooked up to beeping.

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What do you think of the backstory told thus far that Holly and Robert are Sasha’s parents? What do you think GH will do now that they have made Sasha and Cody cousins? Do you think Holly is lying, yet again? (Check out the scenes below).
Meanwhile, it seems like Scout may turn out to be right that her mom could be in danger from her transplant surgery to save Lulu, given what we know that Kelly Monaco will soon exit the soap opera. Share your thoughts via the comment section.
Soaps often stretch the limits of logical thinking but usually don’t venture into preposterous territory.
Viewers are supposed to believe:
1. Two brothers we’ve known for over 30 years both have suddenly discovered adult offspring with a few months.
2. Said offspring have been dating each other.
3. Holly is only visiting Sasha now – not when her newborn or husband died, or when she was institutionalized.
4. Sasha is the daughter of the town’s most notorious conwoman, yet was conned by amateur Gladys.
5. Based on the timeline presented, to conceive Sasha, Robert would have had to cheated on Anna not long after their second wedding ceremony.
6. Holly hid a pregnancy despite being in Port Charles on screen living with Mac & Robin at the time.
I’m sure I can think of another half dozen or more illogical issues, but lord, this storyline has inklings of poisoned pancakes or an unabortion.
Great points. I guess writers no longer care about character history or they assume viewers are too stupid to notice, remember or care. Shame.
Holly came back January, of 1992. Robert was with Anna all of 1991 – most of it spent chasing his brother Mac. There was that memorable scene when Robert and Anna had sex during the earthquake – yes the earth shook.Allowing Mac to bust out of jail.
So Holly would have to have slept with Robert between January and February 25th.
Tell me Robert cheated on Anna while she was kidnapped and missing. Oh and yes they had a torrid affair while 9-year-old Robin was underfoot who was totally tic’d at Holly for playing dead.
I don’t get it. Unless they are breaking them up so Sasha can go to Michael – there are no options for new potential lovers for either of them. I am wondering if GH is going to go down the Cousin Couple road. GH has been doing high levels of ick lately (Willow – Drew – Nina and Jason & Anna together)
“high levels of Ick” indeed.
Holy cow what a memory. I was wondering how they were going to justify Sasha not being close to Mac in the DNA results. A lot on GH has been bugging me …the Nina/willow/drew (the eww) triangle and where the hell is fin..the Anna and Jason kiss when I clearly remember Jason carrying Robin off of the nurses ball stage while in
tears, the sad tired sonny/Carly thing .either be together or not. I kind of like Carly with Brennan…and the one new fun couple are apparently cousins? Wtf..I wish for more Tracy and Luke
I don’t think they would seem to that level
She’s a con & a waste she’s after something always
Stupid storyline I agree
I think he daddy is the pyscho who was supposed to be Cody’s daddy
That con dossier holly is not even worth having in the screen
She went there bc she found out what Cody does & didn’t think there was any value in him
Where it’s she that has never amounted to be anything or anyone of any use
What a waste of filming
Is everyone become a Spencer? Thru blood, 1/2 blood, and sibling with different fathers ?
As crazy as all this seems…it finally dies give Sasha solid roots to the show.
Gosh, I hate all of this. We all know Kelly is leaving and Sam will be killed off, which takes the suspense out of the story and removes any potential emotional gut-punch her death could have had if it took us by surprise. Instead, we got weeks of frustration and disbelief that GH is really doing what they’re doing to the character.
As for Holly and Sasha… the story makes no sense. Sasha’s history and upbringing have been completely retconned, and for what reason? To ruin her relationship with Cody, something that fans actually like? And why bringing David Vickers, of all people, into this story? Wasn’t Sasha left with her grandparents? Such a joke…
GH needs new writers, ASAP. The story directions for the past few months have been terrible.
I am so hoping that Sam lives through the operation. That would be a twist since the entire GH Universe is expecting her to tank on the operating table.
My vision would be for Sam to go out a real hero in a hail of bullets via Jenz Sidwell. We all know he is coming to Port Charles with his tribe of hitmen dragging along some serious automatic weapons.
Then this will all be Holly’s fault for stealing those diamonds.
Sam going out in a hail of bullets would not be good for the story. A liver with bullet holes in it would not be viable for donation. Everybody is expecting Sam to die on the table now that she’s the designated donor, but that might not be exactly how it plays out.
Apparently Friday’s episode (hasn’t aired down here yet) ends with Sam being frustrated after trying to referee a shouting match between her two sisters. This could leave Sam a little brain-rattled and cause her to make a mistake while driving. Possibly she gets in a terrible accident and by the time she arrives at GH, they find that she’s “brain dead” with no chance of recovery.
Thereby leaving the option open for Lulu to get a full new liver, instead of just half.
No Satan – after the donation is over – then the bullets – or an explosion or anything that is less dull than her heartbeat just flatlining.
Well, after recovering from half your liver being removed, one would probably be staying at home and resting for a while, so presumably if that were the path they took with the story, Sam would be avoiding dangerous situations for a while.
Unless Sidwell was trying to track down Jason based on old contact information and broke into the penthouse, expecting to find him there. Though that penthouse is right across the hall from Sonny’s, so it should be a reasonably well guarded building.
Satan – you are trying to make way too much sense. These soap writers pull stuff out of the air. She could die in a car crash on the way home. How’s that? Or Sidwell could just take a random hostage – although I’m not sure why I’d expect these writers to get creative. Just that everyone is expecting Sam to die of a liver donation – to me a real twist would be if she didn’t.
WHAT grandparents could have raised Sasha? Who the devil are Holly’s parents? Isn’t Holly from England? Wouldn’t her parents most likely have lived in England? Or did Robert’s parents raise her in Australia? They would be 1,000 years old (ha) No! How/where did Valentin find her to start with to pose as Nina’s kid? These writers have written themselves into a big mess.
Agree about Sam. I hate knowing too much in advance. Kelly deserves way better than this. I still can’t believe they are killing her off. I am sick of seeing that hand in Lulu’s bed. Does getting a new liver wake someone up from a 4 yr. coma? Or will she stay in a coma for another 4 years with dead Sam’s liver? Anyone thinking of Sam’s kids? Mother? Sisters? Spinelli? He will be devasted when she dies.
Well, I can say for a fact that the Devil is not one of Holly’s parents! Though the idea that Holly’s mother is the grandma that Sasha was living with when Val the Bastard hired her to be Nina’s fake daughter seems like real sloppy writing, since historically, Holly was never that close to her mother and was more or less raised by somebody named “Nanny McTavish”, if my Fuzzy Devil Memory recalls correctly (that is a 40 year old story, after all) . So one day Granny Sutton (or whatever her name is) just up and leaves merry old England for upstate New York, and yet Holly has never mentioned her mum living in the States during any of her visits to Port Charles. Let alone having a daughter who was being raised by said mum.
As far as the new liver waking Lulu up, the fact that there’s a Lulu recast would suggest that is exactly what will happen. I’m a Devil, not a doctor, so I can’t speak to whether or not that’s within the realms of a realistic medical outcome, but this is the show where Nina previously woke up after being a vegetable for 20 years, and was out of her wheelchair (though still faking it) within a matter of weeks.
Robert and Mac’s parents died in a plane crash where Mac was the pilot – causing a decade long rift between the brothers. Robert blamed Mac and wanted nothing to do with him when Mac showed up in PC in 1991.
And yes, as story goes, Holly (and Anna to some extent) were both raised by Nanny McTavish (who later seemed to have some nefarious connection).
The idea that Holly’s mother was living in upstate New York is pure idiocy. Will make an exception if they get Joan Collins to play her in flashbacks.
Well. they managed to get Morgan Fairchild and Donna Mills, so why not Joan Collins?
I watched this play out on my screen yesterday in utter bafflement. There’s Emma Samms (God bless her!) doing her best to sell it, and I’m twisting my brain to try to make it make any kind of sense, because it just . . . doesn’t.
When news came that Patrick Mulcahey had departed, didn’t we get quotes from somebody on the show (I want to say Steve Burton, but I could be wrong about that) about how Elizabeth Korte was so familiar with the show’s history and could be counted on to write in a way that honored it? You’d be hard pressed to prove it, if any of this colossal mess was her idea.
I also hate what it’s doing to the character of Holly, who I’ll admit was never a saint, but I don’t remember her being this deliberately uncaring of her actions and how they affected those around her. She used to be likable and fun; now she’s . . . neither. It’s enough to make me wish ES hadn’t come back after all.
Bring on David Vickers, GH needs some comic relief.
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David Vickers – I had to laugh when Sasha mentioned his name. Yes, anything would help right now. If I am still watching after GH breaks up my favorite couple.
Hoping this test comes out negative. I do like how Sasha just blew into Robert’s office and asked him right up front. Of course he had a DNA WSB testing lab on speed dial.
If they are actually cousins – it is not unheard of for cousins to be a couple. It is legal in 24 states including New York for 1st cousins to marry.
I am just so incredibly upset that after 2 years of waiting for this couple to finally be together – GH rips the rug out from under us. It makes me think that fans are really unimportant in the scheme of things and they really don’t care about us.
This is something that makes me want to stop watching the show altogether. Why watch if your favorite character or couple will either end up dead, missing, or are forced to break up because of the latest DNA test.
Ironic thing about cousins on GH….
Lucky and Elizabeth are technically cousins, as Liz is the daughter of Jeff Webber and Lucky’s mom Laura is the daughter of Rick Webber (who is now in Hell, because he took a really bad turn the last time he was in Port Charles). Of course Rick was Laura’s adopted father, so fortunately no biology there.
And despite Maxie’s protestations to Holly today about Sasha & Cody possibly being cousins, I guess she forgot how both she and her sister Georgie were both heavily crushing on their cousin Lucas when they were all teenagers. Of course nothing ever came of that, probably because Lucas wasn’t into girls anyway. But still kind of weird to be lusting after your cousin. And of course, Lucas isn’t biologically a Jones.
Another ridiculous story that is insulting the intelligence of the audience that has been with this show for decades in many cases. Another ridiculous rewriting of history.
The show is an absolute dumpster fire right now. The ratings are in the toilet, and have been for a while. You can change the writers as many times as you want, which is honestly starting to become like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic at this point. You can keep going to the well, getting increasingly dry by the day, of bringing back characters from the past. When is Frank Valentini going to start taking the blame for the mess GH has become? And the question becomes, would ABC even bother giving someone else a chance to resurrect the show one last time, or would it cut its losses and move on. A fate I don’t even want to imagine.
I don’t like TJ and Molly as a couple. They should break up quickly. And why haven’t TJ and Molly sought out any African American surrogates? After all TJ is Black.
All that Sasha when through-I lost sleep when she & Brando’s baby died-it was excruciating & then when he died-OMG. It was gut wrenching & her dear mother Holly never checked in on her during all that? I hate this-Cody is Mac’s long lost son & now Sasha is Robert’s long lost daughter? Too much even for soaps.
Now on to Lulu. Would anyone want to donate a body part & go through all the risk, etc. for someone who has been in a coma for 4 years & still is in the coma? I don’t think I’d do it. I mean, is Lulu gonna get the liver from Sam & suddenly wake up? And poor Sam will be dead? I absolutely abhor this storyline. They should have just let Lulu die. Sam’s death will affect way more people than Lulu’s after all this time.
I’m just glad all these vets are back: Holly, Lucky, Rick, Lois, Tracy…it actually feels like GH again. And, I’m on board for Sasha and Cody to stay together even if it turns out they’re first cousins. It’s legal in NY, it’s not incest, they didn’t grow up together and only just met a while back. The writers should keep them together and those of us who are okay with it can count how many heads explode online.
Might be legal.. but don’t first cousins have difficulties should they have a child? I don’t know.. but gees, GH certainly seems to loves to keep everything “in the family” lately.
I guess the question should be how would you feel if your daughter was sleeping with your sisters son?
Hi GH fan…Well; lets’ start with it’s a soap. 😉 And on this soap, Dante and Sam have the same brother (Leo) and the same sister (Kristina). Liz and Franco had the same brother (Steven Webber). Dante and Sonny both slept with Sam, Bobbie and Carly both slept with Tony, Sam and Alexis both slept with Rick. So there’s all sorts of “relationships” on GH, so to speak.
How would I feel in real life? Hard to say; could freak out. I guess that would be my impulse. But, still, they are not brother and sister and they were not brought up in the same family. I think it would be different if my sister and I were close and brought up our children together, and then they wound up falling in love as adults, as opposed to this GH family where both had no clue who their parents were, didn’t know each other, met in their thirties…
As for having kids? Genetic testing is available. I think people making it weird is when it becomes weird. Objectively, given how they met, the fact that they had no clue, weren’t in the same family, have no childhood history…and it’s a soap? Good to go with me. 😉
Thanks Rebecca1, I appreciate your in depth response and fully agree with your thoughts.
Thanks GH fan. I wish everyone was as open to it. There seems to me to be only a few outcomes; Scorpio really is Sasha’s father and they break Sasha and Cody up, or Cody finds out he’s not really Mac’s which would really piss me off. I was/am so happy that Mac was finally given a “child” of his own, so I hope the show isn’t going to mess with that. I can’t imagine the writers going with “yeah they’re cousins and they’re going to remain a couple” because I think that the majority of viewers would self-combust, lol! The only way out I can see is if Holly literally believed all these years that Scorpio was the father, but it turns out to be Luke.
I could see the writers quickly switching Sasha father to be Luke, not Robert.
Seems us viewers know and care about the shows history more than some of the writers.
Let the dna test prove Robert is not Sasha’s dad dont mess with Sasha and Cody damn gh get better writers let Luke be her dad why dont you let this couple alone let’s go back where family last like lila and Edward damn chill
I think Sasha needs a blood test, she should Not believe her mother! She is up to something. Holly is just looking for an in with Robert to hang on to him. Then she will leave again. As for Sam, I think she should live through the surgery so no is left traumatized. Sam should leave because she loves Dante so much and can’t watch Dante and Lulu as they grow back together.
Realistically, if they were going to retcon anybody into being Robert’s kid, it should be Lucas. Because that possibility was always there, and the explanation of a faked paternity test would be far more credible than this entire Sasha clusterphuck, where the timetables simply don’t line up with Sasha’s age.
It actually would be cool for Robert to have a son who was raised by Bobbie Spencer and named after his best friend, Luke.
Well, we know who the writer should be, bravo! It’s sure better than this other crap.
With Bobbie, Tony, Luke, and Julian all dead – there’s no payoff in switching Lucas paternity any more. The story supposedly back in the day was that TR didn’t want Robert (who was the lead male character at that point) to have a child with Cheryl. Not sure if that’s entirely true.
I don’t like what the writers did to make Sasha and Cody cousins I was hoping that they have them to be boyfriend and girlfriend that’s wrong I don’t like these writers.
Beyond the Gates
2026 SDSA TV Award Nominations: All Five Daytime Dramas Score in Best Achievement in Set Decoration
The Set Decorators Society of America has revealed its nominations for 2025-26 SDSA Awards for Television, which recognizes the work of the set decoration and production designers in primetime, streaming and daytime series.
This year, all five soap operas: Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless all received nominations in the Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Daytime Series category.
In its official SDSA rule book, to qualify for the category of a Daytime Series, which includes daytime dramas, daytime talk shows, daytime game shows, and daytime children’s programming, all episodes must air before 6:00pm and must have a credited Set Decorator. For daytime dramas, the content must contain multiple plotlines that are carried over from episode to episode.

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WHICH EPISODES CAN BE INCLUDED IN THE COMPETITION?
The eligibility year for episodes runs June 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026. Founded in 1993, the SDSA is an international nonprofit professional association dedicated to promoting excellence and preserving the legacy of the art of set decoration in motion pictures and television.
Several popular primetime and streaming titles that have wrapped their final seasons also received nods including Euphoria, Stranger Things, Hacks, Outlander, and The Boys. Popular titles such as Bridgerton.
Take a look below at the nominated scenic design teams from your favorite soaps:
Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Daytime Series
Beyond The Gates: Set Decoration by Cynthia Slagter with Production Design by Bruton Jones
The Bold and the Beautiful: Set Decoration by Prim Rosales, Beth Wooke, Prerna Chawla, Charlotte Garnell, Chelsea Mondelli, Michelle Hall, & Linda Louise Sheets with Production Design by Lou A. Trabbie III
Days of Our Lives: Set Decoration by Adele Caine & Sarah Holmes with Production Design by Tom Early & Dan Olexiewicz
General Hospital: Set Decoration by Jennifer Elliot with Production Design by Andrew Evashchen
The Young and the Restless: Set Decoration by Jennifer Haybach, Justine Mercado, Maria Dirolf, & Monica Lowe with Production Design by David Hoffmann
So, which soap opera from the calendar year of basically June of 2025 to a week ago in 2026, do you think has had the best looking sets? Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, or The Young and the Restless? Make you pick and drop it in the comment section below.
General Hospital
Marc Forget Exits ‘General Hospital’
The Thursday June 4 episode of General Hospital paved way for the end of the line for Jenz Sidwell’s (Carlo Rota) butler/fixer, Pascal (Marc Forget).
In the pick of the June 3 cliffhanger, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) was the hero and stopped the evil-doer from fleeing Port Charles for his part in aiding and abetting his boss with the cover-up of the murder of Professor Henry Dalton (Daniel Goddard) among other crimes.
Today’s episode did indeed mark the final appearance of Marc Forget who joined the ABC soap opera when he debuted back in July of 2025. Viewers met met Pascal when Kelly Thiebaud returned to the soap opera as Britt Westbourne and she was being blackmailed to work on Faison’s final project while at the Five Poppies in Dalmatia.

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A General Hospital rep confirmed to Soap Opera Digest, that the June 4 episode, “Will be the last viewers will see of Pascal for now, but notes that in the world of Port Charles, comebacks are always possible.” So, how did Pascal get written-off the canvas? Here’s what went down:
PASCAL GIVES LUCAS KEY INFORMATION BEFORE BEING DRAGGED AWAY
After Sonny intercepted Pascal on his desperate attempt to get out of town, Sonny informed him hat Sidwell would stop at nothing from trying to get retribution for whoever killed his son, Marco, and promptly turned around and said that he would help Pascal flee the country, only if he turned on Sidwell.
An absolutely terrified Pascal had evidence for Sonny that he could use against Sidwell. However, he feared he would get killed on sight if he tried to retrieve the incriminating photos of Sonny and Laura from the safe at Wyndemere. So instead, Pascal gave the combination to the safe to Lucas (Van Hansis), so he could get the blackmail photos himself. But, did Pascal just set up Lucas to be killed since he loathes him for being the man to win the heart of the late Marco?
In the end, Sonny had one of his henchmen drag Pascal away and whisked off to an airfield to fly away to parts unknown, and hopefully never to be heard from again. But what now? Is Lucas going to end up being pegged as Marco’s killer and taken down by Sidwell if he gets his hands on the incriminating photos for Sonny and Laura? Stay tuned.
So, what did you think of Marc Forget’s run as Pascal? Sad or happy to see the character go? Do you think he will be back down the line? Share your thoughts via the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Is This Congresswoman Cain’s New Chief of Staff?
In one of the more far-fetched soap opera moments in recent memory, while Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) and Willow Cain (Katelyn MacMullen) are chatting at the Quartermaine boathouse in swimming trunks for him and a bikini for her, the two exes have a heart to heart on Wednesday’s June 3 episode of General Hospital.
The moment was set-up by Michael (Rory Gibson) and Jacinda (Paige Herschell) who want to find a way to push the exes together in order to get incriminating evidence of the two, so Michael can gain leverage over Willow for full custody of their children. once and for all. Jacinda notes how Chase definitely has a savior and white knight syndrome going on.
During Willow and Chase’s chat at the boathouse, the subject turns to how Chase was demoted at the PCPD in his efforts to help get Willow acquitted of attempted murder charges at her trial for the shooting of Drew. He has since gone from detective to patrolman. However, Willow comes up with an idea! Why doesn’t he come to work for her as her chief of staff. Willow feels he would be perfect, because he is only one of the only people she can trust.

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WILLOW LAYS OUT THE BENEFITS OF CHASE ACCEPTING HER JOB OFFER
A surprised Chase, says he isn’t qualified, but Willow thinks otherwise. She urges him to consider the position she is offering, because it would give him a more regular schedule that would be befitting for him being a new father to baby Phoebe.
Chase’s want to know why it was so important to Willow that he take the job, she continues to explain how she trusts him, but Tracy (Jane Elliot) spots the two in a close moment and hides behind the boathouse. Willow exits, but asks Chase to promise he will think over her offer.
Next, Tracy threatens Chase that this is the last time he will cheat on her granddaughter, Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton). Knowing he didn’t “cheat” on his wife, Chase looks pissed off.
So, can you imagine, Chase as Willow’s Chief of Staff? Weigh-in if you think he will be stupid enough to take this job knowing the issues it would cause for Brook Lynn? Will the police officer ever get the clue that Willow is manipulating him like she does to everyone else? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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