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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Mac and Cody Hug it Out

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In a very touching moment on the Friday, August 16th episode of General Hospital, Mac (John J. York) finally buried the hatchet with Cody (Josh Kelly) and accepted and acknowledged him as his son.

The moment is played out after Cody rescues James (Gary James Fuller) from drowning. After he saves the little boy, Mac, Felicia (Kristina Wagner), Sasha (Sofia Mattsson) and Maxie (Kirsten Storms) are all present. James explains he ran away because he doesn’t understand why he has to stay away from Cody. Maxie explains he doesn’t have to anymore and then Mac pipes up that it was his fault that that he couldn’t take riding lessons with Cody.

Mac tells James that his feelings were hurt and he was angry, so he took it out on Cody. Next, James asks his grandfather, why he is upset with Cody. Eventually, Mac tells James that Cody is his son. James asks, “Does that make Cody my uncle?” Cody confirms its true.

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Next, Mac explains that he recently found out that Cody is his son, but everything that just happened with James, reminded him that family always forgives and loves one another, even in the face of making each other angry at times.  After Maxie exits with James, the moment many viewers have waited for goes down.

An emotional Cody and an emotional Mac, look at each other, when Mac says his gratitude toward Cody knows no bounds for saving James’ life. Cody jokes he sounds like Spinelli, the son he never had. However, Mac says, “But … I do have a son and l’m looking right at him,” to which Cody responds, “And I have a dad.” The two men share a warm embrace as Felicia and Sasha look on.

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That very small moment between father and son was a very big moment in the story. It was played to perfection by John J. York and Josh Kelly. Most of that performance as all in their eyes, making it all the most heart-tugging for viewers of the show.

This moment in the storyline was a long time coming, since the story was put on hold while John J. York was recovering from treatment for his battle with two blood cancers: myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS, and multiple smoldering myeloma. York returned to GH on-screen back in June of this year.

What did you think of the moment when Cody and Mac truly became father and son to each other? Did it live up to your expectations? Comment below.

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The scenes were well played out. The lead-up, with Felicia recapping Mac’s arrival into Port Charles, was well written. Now, where do we go from here? Felicia needs a storyline. Maxie needs a love interest. And, Natalia just needs to go.

I agree with all your character points, although Natalia unfortunately is not going anywhere anytime soon.
GH’s writing team seems to be solidifying core families and bringing them back together. The Scorpio/Jones clan has been fragmented in the past with Anna rarely joining the fun. Now with the addition of Cody (and Sasha eventually), Felicia and Mac hopefully won’t be left to sideline Maxie’s action.
Since James seems to be headed for front burner status with his “Kiss” secret – I am looking forward to GH writers having fun with that one.

Best hug-out ever ! Hope Josh Kelly’s role grows. He was great as Cutter on OLTL and now even better as Cody on GH.

I agree he’s great and he’s a very good looking guy ❤️

Couldn’t care LESS.

We all knew these scenes between Mac and Cody would be terrific – which is why one of the longest waits for DNA was so hard, Kristina Wagner’s rant pulling up Mac’s history when he first came literally out of the water onto the Port Charles docks was superb. Something she rarely gets credit for. An interesting fact: both father and son arrived in PC out of the water – taking another body of water to bring them back together. The ending came as a period on the old GH writing team’s tenure. New episodes after the break supposedly start on the 19th (Monday).

I sincerely hope this story with Cody and Mac doesn’t get dropped like a “Blaze” of a hot potato. There is so much history and questions to uncover with Cody’s birth. GH writers can certainly send Cody and Mac on a mystery hunt to find what happened all those years ago. Did Taub steal him away as a baby and tell Dominique her baby died? Because it does not seem like Cody’s parents were the nurturing types.

The writers have been missing a ton of connections along the way with Dominique’s history. In the short time, the character was on screen – she made an impact and touched many families. That includes the Quartermaines. From what I remember she was Lila’s Goddaughter and they were close. Yet her name hasn’t been brought up in probably a year.

Mac can be kept quite busy introducing Cody to the other half of Port Charles characters he hasn’t met yet. And Robert will not be happy to find out Cody is his nephew. We can all easily see Brother Robert trying to trip Cody up and push a wedge between Mac and his son.

FYI – This is the “new” writers work. They’ve been credited since the August 7 episode. Was nice to see Wagner have a great monologue.

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‘General Hospital’s’ Finn Carr Weighs-In on Potential Rocco and Scout Teen Romance

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Finn Carr, who delivered powerful performances on General Hospital, when Rocco shot WSB director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and its aftermath, may be headed for his first on-screen love story on the ABC soap opera.

Ever since it was announced that the long-running daytime drama decided to age-up Scout Cain, and in a few recent scenes between Rocco and Scout, it’s clear these two share similar interests and like each other.

Scout is now played by Kayden Brenna Tokarski, who made her GH debut back on July 20 as the daughter of Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) and the late Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco).

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In a newly-released virtual segment with ABC11 North Carolina’s GH virtual insider, Dearon Smith, both Finn Carr and Asher Antonyzyn talked about working on a soap opera, while finishing high school, and teasing what’s ahead for Danny and Rocco. While Finn and Asher couldn’t give too much away, Smith asked Finn Carr if there is something brewing between Scout and Rocco?

WHAT’S NEXT FOR ROCCO AND DANNY?

Carr responded, “That’s an interesting question. Kaden is great to work with, and I love working with her. There definitely is some great stuff coming up that people are going to want to watch. It’s good stuff and really fun.”

Apparently, Danny and Rocco will also find themselves once again in some trouble, but as Finn tells it looks like this time, Danny will take the brunt of it. “We get into a lot of trouble … well, Danny gets into a lot of trouble … but I do a lot though.” Very cryptic indeed!

You can check out the full conversation with Finn and Asher with ABC11 below.

Now, let us know, would you like to see Rocco have a girlfriend, and that it would be Scout? Do you think Finn and Kayden work well together on-screen? Share your thoughts via the comment section.

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Laura Wright Signs New Contract with ‘General Hospital’

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While there have been plenty of on-screen newcomers in recent weeks on General Hospital, no need to worry about one of its mainstays, with the news from Daytime Emmy winner, Laura Wright, herself. Wright who plays Carly Spencer on the ABC soap opera has revealed on X, that she just re-signed a new deal with the soap opera to remain in Port Charles.

Wright is the fourth actress to play Carly, following in the footsteps of the OG Carly, Sarah Brown, Tamara Brown, and Jennifer Bransford. In fact, Laura left her major role on Guiding Light as Cassie Layne Winslow to take over the role of Bobbie Spencer’s (the late Jackie Zeman) complex daughter in November of 2005. Now almost 21 years later, Laura has made Carly her own and has delivered memorable performance after memorable performance throughout her run.

When a fans commented on X, “Can I just say if you ever leave General Hospital as Carly I will stop watching the show. I honestly have loved you and think that you are the best person to play Carly,” Laura Wright jumped in to the thread and assured her and other GH fans, that she has no plans to go anywhere else.

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LAURA WRIGHT STAYING PUT AT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND FANS ARE HAPPY SHE’S STICKING AROUND

Laura expressed, “I’m not going anywhere, just signed a new contract!!!” Since she made her public statement, many GH fans were thrilled with the news with comments such as: I would’ve been devastated if you weren’t sticking around. You’ve truly made Carly your own after so many years, ” and Happy to hear this, I always enjoy #GH more when Carly is on,” plus “So glad you’re sticking around as Carly. Love Carly and can’t wait for more #Caradine and #Jarly”

One fans hopes Laura will be on for years to come a la Jane Elliot’s tenure as Tracy Quartermaine saying, “Awesome. It’s so fun getting to see the full life of a character. Hope you stick around for many more years. I think Carly will be a hoot in her Tracy Quartermaine era.”

Laura Wright’s road to General Hospital started back on ABC’s Loving when she first played  Allison “Ally” Rescott on Loving (1991 to 1995) and then its spinoff The City (1995 to 1997). She later joined Guiding Light as Cassie, who was revealed to be the sister of Reva Shayne played by Kim Zimmer. She played the part from 1997-2005. From then on its been all GH scoring a Lead Actress Daytime Emmy win in 2011, along with eight total nominations throughout her daytime career.

Currently, Carly is involved in a romance with Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), but it’s on shaky ground with Anna Devane back in the picture not so happy to see the two canoodling, and Carly having been warned by Sonny that Valentin is not trustworthy.

However, after seeing Laura’s post that she has signed on to stay at GH, James Patrick Stuart commented on X  reacted by stating, “Phew!”

So, happy to hear Laura has re-signed with General Hospital and will continue her role as Carly Spencer? Let us know via the comment section below.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Willow Feels The Effects of Jacinda’s Drugs; Josslyn Find Out She’s CEO of Jasper Jacks Enterprises

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On the Friday, August 7, episode of General Hospital, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) unknowingly has put her children Amelia and Wiley in danger, Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Ava (Maura West) appear to be in collusion against Sonny, and Josslyn (Eden McCoy) and Hudson (Troy Lennon Appel) get off to a rocky start (which as you know in soaps could be a love match down the line!).

Here’s what went down as most of the action took place at the Metro Court pool area: First, Josslyn meets with Hudson, who reveals himself to be none other than the VP of Operations for JJE (Jasper Jacks Enterprises). Hudson tells Josslyn he was sent to Port Charles from Australia, while her dad was sailing around the world as he had named her the new CEO of his company.

Josslyn immediately puts her foot down and tells Hudson she is not accepting the position. He asks, why? She informs him that she works as a WSB agent. Hudson seems stunned and his interest is piqued.

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HUDSON DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF JOSSLYN

In turn, they get into a tiff, where Hudson is annoyed that he flew all the way around the world and wasted his time. Meanwhile, Josslyn is annoyed that her father didn’t even bother to ask her if she wanted to run the company. In the end, Josslyn tells Hudson to get her a list of qualified candidates, one of which she can sign the company over to.  She then storms off.

However, Hudson spots Ava Jerome, whom he knows was speaking with Ethan in Norway, and who knows about Ethan’s involvement with baby Phoebe. Ava is busy talking with Drew on how they mutual disdain of Sonny, and it should be the driving force for them to work together to take him down. Ava wants no more threats over her head of having Avery taken away from her by her father. Drew is all ears!

Michael (Rory Gibson) meets up at the pool with Jacinda. She shows him the restraining order that Willow got from the courts against her to stay away from the children. Michael promises to get his lawyers to fight it.

However, Michael knows something is up when Jacinda said, “Willow is about to make a public mistake,” hoping that pills she put in Willow’s iced coffee have begun to spin the congresswoman out of control. Michael demanded to know what Jacinda had done to Willow.

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WILLOW’S ABOUT TO GO FOR A DANGEROUS DRIVE

Elsewhere at Nina’s, Willow got a surprise when Amelia and Wiley showed up. Now, she will have them for the afternoon and decides they are going to have fun day. After a slight scare when Wiley picked up her iced coffee, Willow told her son to put down the drink because it has caffeine in it. However, then Willow began to drink it herself unaware that Jacinda spiked it with drugs.

In the final moments of the episode, Willow’s behavior changes as she is now over-excited about taking the kids to the arcade. A drugged Willow grabs her car keys, and she and Amelia and Wiley head out to the car. We fade to black.

So, did you feel on-screen chemistry between Hudson and Josslyn? Do you like Drew and Ava teaming up? Do you think Willow gets into a car accident with Amelia and Wiley in the car, which in turn, will kick Jacinda to the curb with Michael? Share your thoughts on what happens next and more in the comment section below. But first for some clues, take a look at the General Hospital preview that aired for Monday’s August 10th episode during the closing of today’s GH.

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