This is worst SL that Maurice every had, I’m sorry but also worst actress. Can’t wait this stupid SL is so over and done.

Disagree. Don’t miss Jason or Sonny and his mob business one bit. Bring back more vets and give them more airtime, that’s whats got me watching!

Definitely think Sonny needs a professional focus. Feature more of the mob (many of us miss it) or give him a different direction. Focusing only on the DID story is not enough. Maurice needs to have a Sonny directed story again. He is far too good an actor to be without one like he has been for months.

Of course he wants more mob, that equates to more air time for him. I would have been surprised if he had said anything but that and don’t blame him. For me, and for a lot of my friends we stopped watching the show because it became too much about the mob. The show is called General Hospital and not because the mob sends people to the hospital. Ron and frank are doing the best thing possible for the show. They need to keep up the good work.

I liked that they cut back the Mob story, I could never get into GH at all because of it.. It’s like when AMC became the Ryan and Greenlee show. I love what Frank and Ron are doing, bringing back the vets and having everyone having a storlyline..

I love the direction GH is going.The mob thing got old and the Sonny now is more caring.I just totally love GH.

This is the best GH has been in years. I think playing down the mob right now is great. We can get over Jason’s death and get to know Sonny as a human being again. The spotlight is on the 50th anniversary and the full canvas, including returning favorites. After that they can reintroduce the mob sans Jason.

I do miss a litle more mob action, or at least show Sonny working at his coffee importing, I am tired of seeing him pin over Kate. But Kelly has become and excellant actress, but I do miss the old Sonny, so I would agree with him. Just because he would be back in the mob does not mean he would have more airtime. I think everybody is given enough airtime, but some are not.

Right now there are to many stories going on but loving it. More Alexis, Sam, Molly, AJ, Tracy please!

The mob has been a part of GH since the 70’s,and it would be a mistake to eliminate it entirely from the show.

The mob stories are what keeps me from watching GH. Besides, I’ve never been a fan of the show in the first place. So, Maurice needs to shut up and do the work he’s given or he’ll be out of a job before you can say, “Jumping Jack Flash”!

At the end of the day, the show is called “General Hospital,” not Mob Wars. I liked the Sonny and Jason characters but their storylines had run their course. Show became focused solely on them and was rather boring and repetitive. I love the job Frank and Ron have done. Who doesn’t love seeing all our old favorites come back to PC? As someone said earlier, the show is now about all the characters on the PC canvas, not just Sonny and his family/friends. It’s just a shame John Ingle is no longer around. Would have loved to see what… Read more »

Yes I loved the Mob stories. But I get. 2 see Maurice in he’s versality he’s talents are, being used. Let me put it out there I am a Big Maurice and Kelly Sullivan fan as well and this year their acting and the helping of Sonny and Kate”s DID has been interresting to watch because it brings out their talents

I stopped watching years ago because of the mob story… Now it is like a real Soap again. Romance, adventure, and a canvas full of interesting people. I like the mob being mentioned to keep Sonny being Sonny I don’t need to see it ever again. GH is Luke and lauras “turf” as they say

Stopped watching because the mob were the saviors and the police were bumbling fools. Having a mob boss and a hit man as the holy men of Port Charles turned my stomach. I wouldn’t mind having a little of it – Sonny is a mob boss after all, unless he decides to go legit – but as the moral center of the show, it turned me off completely.

There is no way in HELL…I want one more mob story…the last 15 years of GH has been mob centric and all about Sonny and Jason! Every promo was mob based, every relationship, every villain…we are over it and I am shocked to find Maurice isn’t over it too. I think they should get Sonny out of the mob!! Guza and his tunnel vision nearly got GH cancelled…I would take stories of character and love and friendship and family but not the Corinthos family over any one of the episodes that aired in the last 15 years. GH was horrible… Read more »

I personally dislike mob stories and mob movies so I don’t need to see it. I like seeing Sonny and his women better but I’ve grown tired of the Connie/Katie switch every week; it’s gotten old.

With all due respect, GENERAL HOSPITAL is centered around a hospital, as it should be. Bob Guza was a great head writer, but in terms of the show’s legacy it seems like Ron Carlivati has tapped into everything magical and genuine about GH. I still feel like Ron/Frank are finding their bearings, but they’re getting there. Frankly, I don’t want any more mob stories (unless Susan Lucci guest stars as a lady mobster and takes down Sonny like no man ever could!). Maurice sounds like he’s coming down from a high of being a full frontal leading male star who… Read more »

I think this is the worst storyline Maurice Benard has ever been in. He’s isolated and all he can ever talk about is is fake, made up history. How about letting him interact with the rest of the cast?

It’s a disgrace that Maurice can’t and won’t acknowledge Vanessa Marcil, who is back on the show, and Brenda Barrett who he has real history with.

I came over with team Cartini. If GH focus goes back to all mob crazy, I’m not sure I can continue to tune in. That is prob the reason I didn’t watch before. I love the shows direction, and believe in team Cartini 100%! A cast is just that, a cast. No contract players should be sidelined.

And I ditto Jeffery McGraws comments!!

Maurice is 100% right. We need to see Sonny doing more mob business…
I like Sonny & Kate. But it’s time to give Sonny more to do. Some of us really miss the mob. Maurice doesn’t want the show b e all mob, just wants the mob to be shown at times. And I totally agree.

The mob storyline was so yesterday. Hello, the mob is dead. Let’s try to legitimize Sonny. He becomes a publishing icon with a shady past. The coffee business wasn’t doing it for me.

I am so glad the mob stories have been silenced. To much Sonny Jason and Carly. GH lost site of what made it a good show. Past shows of the 80’s had villians and mob stories but they would leave the show after story lines ended but this Sonny mob thing wore out its welcome many years ago. I so love the new GH a welcome to my eyes. Please GH staff keep up the balance and the great surprises along the way.

Glad the focus is off the mob. Totally. But do agree that Sonny needs to be shown in other aspects of his life.

Mo is being the good soldier here. It’s only natural that he would want a more mob-centric storyline, but at the end of the day-he wants what’s best for the show. It’s doubtful whether we’ll see a pure mob storyline again, but having Sonny as an eagle-eye for threats wouldn’t be a bad idea

It doesn’t matter if we agree or not. This is the story the writers are telling, and we can choose to listen or not. As he said, they know what they’re doing. If we don’t like it, we don’t have to watch. But it’s their story to tell. Simple as that.

The less I see of the MOB the better the show. The show is so much better now that it is not Sonny & Jason centric. Bring on more of the vets!

I totally agree with Maurice! There needs to be a balance of bad ass mob Sonny and Sonny who is evolving and hopefully in the near future fighting for the woman he truly loves BRENDA! Hate his current storyline, DID, and his current pairing. No chemistry, no banter, no adventure, etc… For that matter there is none of that with any of the couples on GH currently. That’s what I miss. LOVE the vets and hope many stay and get great SLs.

A liitle bit of the mob wouldnt hurt but i rarely watched it when it turned mostly into Gangster Hospital. I like what FV and RC have done and the ratings prove many others agree. I am getting a little tired of Kate and Connie going back and forth too quickly.It would be better if she’d stayed one personality a lot longer. Patrick and Elizabeth should have been paired while she helps him with drug addiction and to help him as he continues to grieve Robin until she returns to him, and Sabrina should have been paired with Milo while… Read more »

As someone who left GH just when the mob stories started, and came back with the hiring of Ron and Frank, my response would be “no, just no” to going back to the mob stories………

It’s really not Ron’s style anyway (unless of course, it was done aka David Vickers style)….

I don’t miss Jason,and I would not miss Sonny. The show right now is the GH we all knew and loved.

I love where GH has been going this past year, keep it up.

If I remember correctly, Claire Labine never intended on Sonny becoming a lead character on the show, just a supporting low life criminal. The “Mob” aspect of GH ran people away after ten years of trying to tell us that Sonny who once hooked Karen on drugs and had her stripping, is some romantic mobster with a heart of gold crap. Jason was a brain damaged man who ended up holding Carly’s purse and taking in Sonny’s pregnant mistresses.

i don’t care to read any negative feed back on my post because it is just my opinion – after reading the interview with him on marinij.com, maurice seems not so 100% on board with where the new regime has taken gh at the present time especially with the mob & return of the vets……..i have watched gh since 1963 & i am so loving what the new regime has done with the show – to me it’s the best gh has been in the last 10 years………….

I have seen no mob stories in a long time, zero..
I liked the mob and hope it gets revived but with a lower key, not a constant thing..

The mob peoples are mostly gone, not in PC any longer..
But, I would like to see it revived somewhat.. I like the crime drama..

In past the mob was to upfront, but some mob would be great..

I find Maurice to be adorable, but have been so over Sonny and the mob for eons. After multiple decades of watching faithfully, the mob, and especially their molls drove me away 5 years ago. I just started watching again in the last few weeks with the return of the vets for the 50th. I refused to watch them waste the talents of Lynn Herring on that horrible vampire tripe, however. The DID story is too over the top. The Jess, Tess, and Mess story line on OLTL is what made me turn that show off, never to return years… Read more »

I like Maurice/Sonny and I love Steve Burton/Jason… but I am ok exploring more of Sonny outside of the mob or having him try to get into more legit businesses. However with Duke back he could give up on Anna and want to go back on the fringe with Sonny. The other thing is that we have a great Commish and I am hoping that she hires Frisco to get him to stay and then we need peple for them to tangle with. For some reason the Helena’s and Faison’s don’t engage with the cops that much. I also would… Read more »

Claire Labine and Wendy Riche new what they had in Sonny and Brenda. Claire wanted Sonny to leave the mob for Brenda and he should. He has no storyline. The mob may be tired but so is Sonny in this current, joke of a storyline.

Would rather see Sonny go into a legit business and be able to go toe to toe (legally) against people like Todd, the Quartermaines, etc in real business dealings. They could always do a storyline in a few years with the mob trying to draw him back in. But, I stopped watching when the show became almost all Sonny & Jason. Time for a break…and glad the new regime gets that.

Maurice, I love ya and your portrayal, but dare I say the VAST majority of longtime GH viewers grew very tired of Mobcentric Hospital. (I’ve been an off again, on again fan for 41 years.) GH is *about* the goings on at a hospital in a metropolitan city. It’s about the Doctors, nurses and patients and the daily struggles of their lives. Anything that happened outside the walls of the hospital was always somehow connected to the hospital. As for Sonny’s love story with Kate / Connie . . I personally have grown weary of the constant back and forth… Read more »

I feel that Sonny needs to stop chasing after a crazy woman! Connie doesn’t want Sonny, it’s time to move on! Sonny’s character has been pushed into the background because of this horrible pairing. His current acting partner does not match him in any way, shape or form. Sonny and Maurice deserve much better!

I am loving GH for the first time in decades. I think Maurice Bernard is one of the most talented actors in daytime, BUT….I am sooo glad the focus of the show has shifted back. During the Guza regime, a show called General Hospital, was NEVER about the hospital or its staff. Heck, they had to do a Soapnet spinoff so that we could even see the hospital (and Robin, Patrick, Ephiphany, etc). The current focus is not only a return of the vets, whom I love, but also a return the show itself. I have seen enough things explode.… Read more »

I love the direction GH is going in with LESS mob. But I feel bad for MB because he really has been reduced to holding the purse (as someone put it so well) for the worst actress on the show. It’s a shame. I have been FFing through his scenes for months now!

I think there is room for Sonny–but they need to get rid of Connie/Kate and take him in an entirely different direction.

Maurice the ratings are stable for the show now. Going back to the mob will piss off fans and Gh will have the cancellation rumor going on again.

I agree with Maurice, look we all just want balance and as long as the show can balance the cast and storylines then I don’t have a problem with mob storylines.

While I have never thought GH should be heavily focused on the mob, I also don’t like the idea of Sonny being a total wimp chasing desperately after some stupid psycho like he is now. The Sonny I’ve watched for years when written in character would never put up with the crap he has from ConKate. He would’ve dumped and shunned her when he found her in bed with Johnny, not kept chasing after her for sympathy sex. The writing for GH as a whole is well balanced right now, and I’m enjoying all the vets being back, but sadly,… Read more »

As a viewer since 1973, I tuned out for the longest period of time during the Brian Fronz, Bob Guza, Charles Pratt, Jill Faren Phelps decade of mob, mob, mob, when the show centered around Sonny, Carly, Jason, Sam and everyone else related in any way–friends, enemies, lovers, kids, long-lost siblings of Sonny–ruled the show. It was silly anyway. Sonny came across as a big blowhard, always threatening and barely ever backing up his own word and constant shoot-outs and stabbings only threatened the latest mobster villain they’d throw at Sonny, more than one who returned with a twin. I… Read more »

Knock knocking on Y&R’s door. If JFP could sell it to Sony & CBS he would be over there in a heartbeat. You know it is hard when you have been the “Big Fish in a Little Pond” for how many years now you are just a “Little Fish in a Big Pond.” Sorry Sonny never scared me for a moment he was and never will be a Tony Soprano. The way he treated women on this show I could not tolerate so even though FV &RC have tried their best to soften him he in my mind the character… Read more »

Well, I will say I miss the mob stories from the 90’s (Labine’s era) – that was the Sonny I fell in love with. He was flawed but he always meant well. He so badly wanted to be good enough but he just couldn’t overcome his issues. You just couldn’t help but love him. He had a lot of depth – I credit that with great writing and superb acting. The mob stuff wasn’t 100% of the show since there was plenty of angst and love. It was a great balance! I miss that Sonny so much. I don’t care… Read more »

I always loved the mob stuff so of course I want more mob again! Jason Sonny (and Carly) have always been my favorites, and with Jason gone I now wish they would show a little more mob stuff with Sonny and have Shawn invovlved instead. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE GH and I like most of the storylines that’s going on at the moment, and I’m not picky with storys since I LOVE SOAPS, especially GH(except 2011 GH, it sucked). But a little more mob again wouldn’t hurt, I know in the beginning when Cartini took over it was… Read more »