General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Lucky is Revealed, Kristina and Molly Have a Showdown, Lulu’s Loved Ones Hold Out Hope
The Friday, August 23rd episode of General Hospital delivered viewers beginnings of the next arcs of several storylines, especially with the return of Jonathan Jackson as Lucky Spencer.
Although it was the very last seconds of the episode, the five-time Daytime Emmy winner is back on our screens. In the story, as Laura (Genie Francis) laments she wishes she knew where Lucky was, while speaking to Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst), the scene shifts to Lucky with a burlap bag over his head in captivity somewhere. Next, a man removes the bag to reveal Luke and Laura’s beloved son.
Back in Port Charles, Lucky’s sister, Lulu has been moved to General Hospital from the longterm care facility, in lieu of better medical attention. Lulu now has an issue with a failing liver, putting in question whether she will pull out of her coma. However, Laura tells Elizabeth she will not give up hope, because Lulu is a fighter.
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When Maxie (Kirsten Storms) comes to see her best friend, she recalls never telling Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) that Lulu still loved him and tells her comatose bestie, that she did that because she was sure Lulu would want him to move on, which he has with Sam. Dante is also upset and conflicted once he learns Lulu has been moved to GH. Eventually, he shows up to see his ex-wife, as Maxie is trying to will Lulu to wake up for everyone that loves her especially her children, Rocco (Finn Carr) and Charlotte (Scarlett Fernandez), and the man she loves, Dante.
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At the cemetery, following the funeral of TJ (Tajh Bellow) and Molly’s (Kristen Vaganos) baby, a massive and emotional verbal fight ensues between sisters Molly and Kristina (Kate Mansi). It’s at that point that Molly lashes out at Kristina that it her fault her sweet innocent baby is buried. Molly goes on to call Kristina selfish and self-absorbed. Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) begs Molly to back-off which prompts Molly to lash out at her mother for always defending Kristina.
Molly asks Alexis, if the baby is why she was so eager to get her law license back? In order to steal her baby for Kristina? Next, Alexis breaks down in tears, as well. Then in a shocker, Molly pulls out the affidavit that was in Alexis’ briefcase. Thinking that Alexis threw in with Kristina to take her baby once it was born, she continues to lash out at the both of them.
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While Kristina cried that the baby was part of her, Molly fires back that she killed her! Molly says mothers protect their children, and she is selfish and caused her baby’s death. Kristina collapses on the ground. TJ leans over and medically checks on her, before leaving with Molly and her dad, Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst). In the aftermath while back home, Alexis tells Kristina she needs to find a way to reconnect with her sister. However, Kristina says she will never forgive Molly for blaming her for her baby’s death.
So, what did you think of Friday’s GH? Who is holding Lucky captive? Will Lulu wake up soon? What did you think of the showdown between Molly and Kristina? With Ric back are we heading towards a court battle over the death of the baby? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
What an episode! Great acting from all involved. And Lucky is back, hopefully quickly to Port Charles. And GH, please cast Lulu so we can see her face.
I’m sure Laura will be off ” looking for a Liver transplant” so as to get her usual summer vacation. I have a hunch that brother Cyrus will turn out to be the one with the Liver.
I was team Molly and Tj, but no more. They are being EXTREMELY selfish, for failing to acknowledge everything this woman has gone through . Siding with Ava, give me a break. Kristina needs to heal herself and put her selfish and self-righteous sister on hold!
Boy, do I agree with you! Did Molly think a piece of paper bought her a baby? Yes, T.J was the bio father but that didn’t make Molly the mother, nothing can ever change the fact that Kristina was that child’s mother, not certainly Molly’s incessant “my baby,my baby” carrying on with her usual spoiled brat tactics.Their mother tried telling the two of them that this might happen and sure enough it did!
I am thrilled that Lucky is back and that Lulu will wake up soon. With Emma Samms coming back to GH and her return is tied to Lucky, I wonder if she is holding Lucky captive somewhere. Wyndemere perhaps? It could also be Valentin Cassadine holding Lucky hostage on Cassadine Island. I hope we some clues on Monday. I’m excited to see where Lucky has been the last ten years and how he will make his way home to Port Charles. I just hope it’s sooner than later.
It was difficult and sad watching the Davis family implode. The surrogacy story could have been beautiful and brought the sisters and families (Davis & Ashfords) closer together, but instead it has driven a wedge between them that won’t mend anytime soon.
They’ve mentioned Wyndemere a number of times and got me thinking of how many people could hide out there , right in plain sight as they say, well almost. You would think that someone with any imagination would go and check it out.
The role of Lulu Spencer, will now be played by Crystal Hunt. That’s my prediction.
I would be ok with that. Loved her on OLTL
Yes I loved Crystal Hunt, on OLTL. She is a wonderful actress.
The cemetery fight was a bit extreme even for a soap. Kristina wailing on the ground while Molly lays into her. Talk about kicking a dead horse. All the actors did a terrific job delivering the material though. I may start fast forwarding through the Davis girls though. I wasn’t looking forward to a drawn out custody battle but now I think I would prefer a custody battle instead of this. It’s so sad and dark.
Please tell us the rumors of Lulu dying are not true. I can see GH doing this to us so soon after killing off a baby. We waited so long for her to wake up.
The rumors are saying that the casting call was for Hayden’s position not Lulu’s.
Since the character was born, Molly has always been “the other Davis girl”. Even so at the start of this surrogate story (granted the multiple recasts contributed to that).
Over the past month, Kristen Vaganos’ performance has brought Molly to the forefront. We finally see Molly’s perspective. She and Taj Bellow’s TJ are a younger couple that should drive stories for the foreseeable future.
Great seeing Rick Hearst back as Ric supports his daughter. Looking forward to the eventual confrontation with Sonny.
As per your last sentence, me too, especially since Sonny’s ‘back on his game
Beautifully said, Steve. Molly is that good girl who gets ignored by her parents because she has a sibling who constantly screws up garnering all of the attention.
Was great episode very soap opera vibes finally n cliffhanger at the end with lucky
Molly totally Molly and TJ they were awesome. I am totally on their side. Christina is a bitch a selfish attention seeker and she lies all the time she promised and begged to be there surrogate when they all knew what would do and went ahead and caused trouble again, just like she always does, Molly had every right to her and her mother Alex is always protecting Christina and making Molly baby Christina well Molly has had enough baby TJ sperm and baby Molly and TJ. I don’t care 100 times carried the baby. She was not supposed to attached to it she knew the rules and she had agreed to them in the very beginning and then goes and changes her mind and causes trouble again. Never listening to TJ and Molly about what they wanted her to do in order to protect the baby during the pregnancy she Christina Always went and went against what they said and caused trouble all the time and she did that never listening and that is what got the baby Killed as far as I’m concerned Christina is at total fault. She should’ve known better than to go and visit Ava. She could’ve made a telephone call to her. TJ and Molly told her to stop putting stress on the baby and she never listened and she kept doing it. No it is completely Christine’s fault and then to find out that Christina and Alexis were planning to steal Molly and TJ’s baby and that is exactly what they were doing. Look at the whole thing for what it is people and anybody who doesn’t see it this way. Is blind and you’re no better than Christina
Christina is true to her usual entitled behavior. She was going to betray her sister by taking away the baby that she agreed to surrogate for Molly. T. J. was right to be worried, and Molly was absolutely justified to blame Christina for causing the baby to die. It was Christina’s impulsive decision to go confront Ava. If she had just stayed home instead of having a temper tantrum and confronting Ava, the baby would have survived. It seems Christina needs to be assessed for bipolar disorder. Her behavior is erratic, and she never takes responsibility for her mistakes. She always sees herself as the victim. Classic bipolar behavior, just like her father when he gets off his meds.
I really didn’t like the way you described Kristina in wanting to keep her own baby, she didn’t sell her you know, but that’s why in real life they advise people, especially relatives not to make these agreements. On the second horn, as Satan would say, you have a point about the Bipolar thing, like Sonny and Morgan have also, being hereditary, she has shown this behavior other times.
When bad actors can’t reach down and pull something deep inside themselves in order to emote, they overact to compensate. Kristina shrieked and screamed with nary a tear or a flicker of facial emotion. Her shrieking and caterwauling was ridiculous and what should have been a heart wrenching scene turned into dark comedy.
General Hospital
Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award Preview: Genie Francis Talks Historic Run as ‘General Hospital’s’ Laura and Longtime Co-Star Tony Geary
On Friday, October 30, Genie Francis will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremonies. Ahead of her honor, Genie sat down with Extra host and Dancing with the Stars judge, Derek Hough to discuss her legendary soap career and enduring on-screen partnership with the late Anthony Geary (ex-Luke Spencer).
Speaking of joining GH as a young Laura Vining when she was just 14, Francis admitted, “It was so scary, I mean you don’t know what you don’t know. If I really knew what I was in for I would have been terrified.”
Genie will be presented with her Lifetime Achievement Award by her husband of 40 years, actor and director, Jonathan Frakes.
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Commenting on being the recipient of the Daytime Emmys highest recognition, Francis expressed, it’s “a wonderful feeling of accomplishment,'” and on receiving the award from her husband, “It feels incredibly safe and takes a lot of my nerves out of it because I know he’s another one who’s just not going to let me screw up, right?”
THE LEADING MEN THROUGHOUT HER LIFE: JONATHAN FRAKES AND TONY GEARY
Speaking of feeling safe, Francis echoed that sentiment when getting teary-eyed over reflecting on her time as the all-time soap opera super couple, Luke and Laura with Tony Geary. Genie reflected, “I’m going to cry. He (Tony) made me who I am today. I learned so much from this man. He was so loving and so kind. She added about the famous dance at Wyndham’s department store between Luke and Laura, “If I was in his arms I could do it.”
That sentiment carried on for decades with Geary. Francis even admitted to Derek Hough, a secret, “I wear Tony Geary’s cologne. I just remember hugging him and smelling him and I said, ‘Oh, it smells so good.’ And he told me what it was and he said, ‘It’s unisex. You can wear it.’”
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Up until now, its hard to believe that Genie has only won once at the Daytime Emmys. It was back in 2007 in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category, where once on-stage to accept the gold statuette, she acknowledged Geary.
Genie continues to be humble regarding the impact and lasting impression she’s made on the soap genre saying to Hough, “I’ve never gotten my impact. I just don’t get it.”You can check out Extra’s segment with Genie Francis below.
Now weigh-in; are you happy and excited to see Genie being honored for her decades of work in the soaps? What has been your favorite storyline of Laura, or Luke and Laura through the years? Let us know via the comment section below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Chase and Brook Lynn Sign Divorce Papers; Are You Glad They Ended Their Marriage or Hoped for a Reconciliation?
Any hopes for a last minute reprieve were dashed when filled with sorrow, Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton) and Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers in front of a judge in the Dominican Republic on the Monday, October 26 episode of General Hospital.
The judge asked if they really wanted to go through with this, as a teary-eyed Brook Lynn and Chase both hesitated to sign the court documents. They admit that neither of them wants to get divorced, but they both came to the conclusion that too much mistrust has permeated their relationship, and too much has happened between them to stay married.
With that, Brook Lynn decided to put her pen to paper first. She signs the divorce papers. Next, Chase follows suit. They look at each other with tears in their eyes that their marriage is officially over. When the judge went to filing their divorce papers, Chase and Brook Lynn agreed to split custody of baby Phoebe straight down the line 50/50.
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THE END OF THE ROAD
Next, the judge returned and gave each a copy of their paperwork. Chase says to Brook Lynn that he thinks that they should each fly back to Port Charles separately, and that he would take another flight home. Chase says goodbye to Brook Lynn and exits. Now alone looking at the empty room, Brook Lynn utters,“Goodbye, Chase.”
Later in the episode, as Brook Lynn flies back home to Port Charles alone, she listens to the message from Tracy (Jane Elliot) telling her she is doing the right thing by divorcing Chase.
Cut to: an emotional Chase who went to the beach. He looked at his wedding ring. Mourning the loss of his marriage, Chase buried his ring in the sand, at the same time Brook Lynn was removing her wedding ring on the airplane.
The drama won’t stop from here for Brook Lynn, because as teased in the GH video spoilers preview for the week, Jude (Wil Traval) will come calling wanting to see his “daughter,” and potentially staking claim to baby Phoebe! As for Chase, now that he is a free man, will he begin a relationship with his ex-wife, Willow Tait (Katelyn McMullen), with whom he has been completely duped? Stay tuned.
So, were you happy that Brook Lynn and Chase actually ended their marriage? Were you hoping that the two would reconcile at the last minute and realize love can conquer all, or do you think they were being adult about the situation that they couldn’t get out of their own way and feelings to make their union work? Share your thoughts in the comment section. But first, check out the scenes from Chase and Brook Lynn’s divorce and its aftermath below.
Things continue to look up, up, up for CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates. Now, in the latest Nielsen ratings picture, that 15-time Daytime Emmy nominated drama has moved into the #3 spot over legendary soap opera, General Hospital in the key women’s demos, 18-49 and 25-54.
In addition, according to data from Soap Opera Network, Beyond the Gates is closing the gap on General Hospital, even among total viewers. Let’s take a look at the week in question which are reflected in the latest ratings report.
For the week of October 5-9, 2026, Beyond the Gates is inching closer to an average of 1.8 million viewers tuning-in with the ratings week at 1,756,000. While down slightly from the previous week by -9,000, the series taped in Atlanta, is still up year-over-year +161,000.
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BEYOND THE GATES
As for the all-important demos, Beyond the Gates delivered a 0.22 ratings share in women 18-49, which is up +0.02 week-over-week, while General Hospital fell to fourth place in ratings share for the demo with 0.21, which was on par from the previous week. Then, in women 25-54, Beyond the Gates scored a 0.32 ratings share; that’s 0.05 points more than GH who came in with 0.27 of the ratings share and up + 0.02 week-over-week.
So, what had viewers tuning-in to Beyond the Gates the week of October 5-9 2026? For starters: Hayley Lawson Hamilton’s (Marquita Goings) blackmail plot falls apart as Vernon Dupree (Clifton Davis) and Joey Armstrong (Jon Lindstrom) intervene to stop her in her tracks. Meanwhile, Ted Richardson (Keith D. Robinson) proposed to Shanice (Ernestine Johnson) in the Big Apple.
In addition, Smitty (Mike Manning) refused to participate in Martin’s (Brandon Claybon) upcoming political press conference due to liability concerns, and Andre (Sean Freeman) confronted Dani (Karla Mosley) about her near-death experience the night of the tornado and what it has to do with her ex-husband, Bill (Timon Kyle Durrett)!
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over in Port Charles and General Hospital, the ratings week saw a slight uptick in total viewers of +6,000 with a total viewer average at 1,898,000, and up overall +20,o0o year-over-year.
In story, GH brought viewers, ADA Justine Turner (Nazneen Contractor) breaking off her secret romance with Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) as she seemingly struggles to believe his professed innocence in the prison beatdown of Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota). Then as Sonny cannot get a single person to believe that he is telling the truth, his ex-wife, Carly (Laura Wright) shows up and stands by his side.
Elsewhere, Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase’s (Brook Lynn) marriage continued to crumble, as Lulu (Alexa Havins) published explosive allegations that Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) drugged Drew (Cameron Mathison), after recording Sidwell in his hospital room, who later denies he said anything about Willow and Drew to Lulu.
As per usual, the number #1 and number #2 soaps of the week were The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. The sister soaps also saw the gap close between the two for the top spots with Y&R adding the most viewers for the week with both soaps losing the most viewers for the ratings period.
In total viewers, Y&R came in with 3,015,000 while B&B 2,628,000, which means there is less than 400,000 viewers separating the two.
So, what do you think of how Beyond the Gates outperformed General Hospital in the key demos for the week of October 5-9, 2026? Do you think its just a matter of time before Beyond the Gates overtakes General Hospital in total viewers for the #3 spot, or do you think the iconic daytime drama series can stave them off and maintain its hold on #3 in the viewership? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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