Mirabelle

How else are you going to know she's an Italian mama from the old neighborhood?

This is why Cody should be running a con or scheming to get money from a Quartermaine via BLQ or Tracey or Willow. Sasha could be someone he befriends in furtherance of that goal but then they genuinely become friends and he catches feelings which are contrary to his agenda. The con man/woman genuinely falling in love with their mark is a soap staple for a reason.

She once tried to put a hit on Nelle - she wanted Uncle Jason to take care of the Nelle problem and while she didn't use the word kill it was obvious what she wanted to have happen. Joss' self-awareness is in the Andromeda galaxy.

I would drop Cody being Dominique's secret kid entirely. Make him Catherine Bell's. Of all the stupid retcon kids, Cody being Dominique's is the most stupid.

Paging Serena Baldwin who did not, after all, donate her entire inheritance to the whales.

The lastest episode of They Call Us Bruce podcast has interviews with Alexander Wood and Derek Tsang (producer and director, respectively). Some interesting stuff including Netflix only had the English rights so the majority of the dialogue had to be in English. They needed to get permission from to use Mandarin in the flashback sequences.

Anna lived with Sonny after the gun shot that temporarily inconvenienced Curtis. Since when does being a cop mean that the mob won't go after them? It might give the mob minor pause but if the benefits outweight the risks, they won't hesitate to kill. It's not like the PCPD is an adversary to be feared.

I still don't understand why Jeff's mistress had to be Finn's wife. There was like 6 billion people in the world when that affair happened. Chances are really good that these people know humans who are not related or connected in any way to people living in Port Charles. I wonder if the show was actually going somewhere with that or if they thought it'd make the story more intriguing [IMO, it did not].

Maybe he took the same "Easy Ways to Make Money For People Who Don't Personal Finance Good" that Carly did. She sold her hotel with the idea that she'd use that money to buy stock and when that stock made money she'd buy her hotel back. I would have just gotten a loan from the bank but I'm not brave and strong like Carly and I only love with most of my heart, not my whole heart, which is probably why I don't have millionaires offering me money for existing.

Did Steven Lars get sent to jail? Shouldn't he be out by now?

I feel Cody should be scheming to get money whether it's by marrying into it or trying to con someone out of it. It'll make things more interesting when Mac finds out Cody is his son*. *There's still time to pivot! Make him Katherine Bell's kid with a dude who is not Mac.

Michael and Willow could be interesting if the show would just embrace Michael as the budget Adam Chandler the character should be and have Willow come to the realization she exchanged one cult for another. Disagreeing over Nina would be a good start - Willow realizes Harmony was not that great of a mother and Nina is the monster Michael thinks she is.

Nina should have called Drew's bluff on shutting down Crimson. He himself said it was the only profitable magazine in Aurora's portfolio when he offered to sell to Nina. Let him see how much his precious Aurora stock is worth when he shuts down the only thing making the company money. How is he back as CEO or whatever after being imprisoned for insider trading?

I figured it had to be Carly for all the reasons y'all have already stated but also Carly is the only one stupid enough to leave copious amounts of evidence behind. She committed the most obvious case of insider trading the SEC has probably ever seen so I fully expect the FBI to have many emails or tapes with the words "Kidnap Cyrus' mother" along with "shipments of the fake luxury goods" and "you need to launder more money through Nonna Lottie's Pizza and Calzones".

Who's Jake? Of the interns, I like Lucas the nepobaby the least. I don't know if the actor is being directed this way or if that's just his face, but he always looks confused like Sam Beckett just leaped into his body and needs to take a moment to figure out what is going on.