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This is GH. Who knows? Ugh, yes. She's always been obnoxiously proud of her Bensonhurst roots, so for this to suddenly pop up is beyond stupid. Lois is the last person I want to see get Eliza Doolittle'd.

I wondered if that phone call was from one of the staffers who was sneering about Lois's accent. When she was giving Portia and Curtis some background on Ric, I love how she says he works in "a gray area." As if Jordan has been squeaky clean all of her professional life. And then she says he's estranged from Sonny like it's a bad thing. Shut up, Jordan. All the actors in the graveyard scenes must have gone home completely exhausted.

If there was little effort of TJ and Molly trying to get to know the baby, there was equally little effort of Kristina accommodating that. We never saw her ask them if they wanted to feel the baby kick, etc. The writing for everyone has been abysmal.

For some reason, the show refused to write any scenes of this. Molly and TJ had supposedly started thinking of names, but we didn't learn this until after the baby died. And they apparently had a nursery set up, but ditto. Maybe the show didn't write these scenes because they thought it would undercut what's happening now?

At least 90 percent of the problems that have popped up could have been avoided if these dingbats had hammered out a surrogacy agreement.

I think Alexis was smart not to mention it. It's something for the sisters to work out. I think she's done a decent job of staying neutral in a very fraught situation. That was in response to Alexis's sniping that it was good of him to show up at the last minute. I was a bit surprised their first exchange was on the hostile side, but I guess the show is setting up conflict between them. Will Ric take over from Scott as Ava's lawyer? It would stick it to a lot of people Ric hates. But that's not Molly or TJ's fault. Neither of them can physically carry a baby, so they'll never have that kind of closeness. Kristina was a bit insensitive when she went on about knowing every kick, what food she ate that the baby liked, etc.

In the '90s (I think that's when it was), they were selling jewelry.

Same. I don't care if that means I have a shriveled walnut instead of a heart. This story is so galactically stupid (and badly written). Looks like we might see JJ tomorrow, or at least be teased that Lucky is on his way to PC.

I had to laugh at the minister. No one thought beforehand to clue him in beforehand who's who? TJ and his family are supposed to have such a strong faith—don't they have a regular clergy? Cody, you suck for letting James ride without a helmet. So much for safety first. Lois stepped in for Lucy on TV when all Lucy could do was yammer on about how she created Deception. By all accounts it was a huge hit, so everyone should not be acting as if this is the first time.

No one should not be comfortable with noted bigot Natalia being in Deception, but I guess everyone has forgotten about Natalia being a noted bigot. I HAVE NOT. What happened to KeMo that Lindsay Hartley is pinch-hitting? I'm surprised Drew isn't at the funeral so he and Willow can eye-bang in church. Rick Hearst! Welcome back, you silver fox.

Weirdly, I find LW a warm presence, even if Carly isn't usually. KM is a cooler customer, but I also think Kristina has been written mostly adversarially since she took over the role, so it's appropriate for that. Anna was railing at Jason about his choices, so I think he had standing to push back about hers. But yes, no more tears about this from Anna. Ugh. Who is telling FH to make this choice? It makes no sense (TFGH). I guess they wanted to amp up the drama for the surrogacy story? It didn't work—everyone, for different reasons, comes off unhinged.

I also wonder if they wanted to recast to get someone who looked a bit older. LA has always looked so young.

It really was. It's also at least the second time Trina has had to tell her that she is going to have a relationship with Ava on her terms, not Joss's. Joss keeps saying she respects why Trina feels a bond with Ava, but it's clear she doesn't when she keeps ragging Trina about it. Joss needs to butt out. (As if!) Oh, Anna. Asking Jason to choose between your world and Sonny's is only going to disappoint you. He'll never choose yours! You should know better. I don't care what the tock's name is or who it honors. If Wagger isn't dead by next week at the latest, I will be shocked.

theoretically he should be the perfect match because he donated to Lulu before. It's what brought him to Port Charles in the first place, FFS. These writers!

Ava continually shoots herself in the foot in the heat of the moment, to mix metaphors. I don't think telling the truth would change anyone's mind that she wasn't responsible for Kristina going out the window, but it would have made the business about the luggage moot, and not lying means she won't have to recant her statement and give a new one.

I haven't had a c-section, but I have had major rounds of abdominal surgery, and I wasn't in a tremendous amount of pain. Everyone has a different threshold. For me the bigger medical issue was that Kristina was discharged, what, two days after the surgery? The hospital is supposed to be better than that. Sonny would cover any expenses insurance wouldn't. My point was that people were swanning in and out of her room as if it wasn't in the PCPD. I know that's pretty par for the course here, but people are always supposed to be suffering like they've never suffered before, when the worst thing is maybe they have to sleep on a four-inch mattress with 100-count sheets. Carly was in jail overnight and everyone acted as if she'd spent a year in the gulag. It's ridiculous.

If Michael can call Sonny "dad," Molly can call Jordan her MIL.

Cyrus! Brad! Sam! Is this old home week? Wow, Kristina is really suffering. She's upstairs in an interrogation room, her brother brought her soup, her dad can visit her seemingly at will. Maybe Wagger will end up the victim of a whodunit. The character has been so destroyed I'd rather they get rid of him for good than have him scuttle out of town having been bested by Sonny. Sonny feels guilty about Karen? Sure, Jan. That's why it's always someone else's fault.

Brad gives a good jolt of energy to a show that desperately needs it.

Olivia banned them from having sex at any time, the buzzkill.

I love that formal British riding kit.

Wow, Brad and Teri, and it's not even Pride. I had to laugh at her reference to his "extremely checkered past as a GH employee." That's certainly a polite way to phrase it. I liked how Brad owned up to all of his shenanigans. Too bad he's one of the few who does. Could the desk sergeant be more of a Jason toadie? Who cares if he's been waiting patiently for Anna? So gross. I love how Wagger said he wouldn't litigate (figure of speech! the case against Kristina in the middle of GH while doing exactly that. It would be vaguely more interesting to watch this if the deck wasn't stacked quite so high against Wagger. We know Sonny and his side will win anyway, but it would be nice to see him have to make even a small effort beyond the usual posturing. Sigh. The pearl-clutching about the kids seeing adults have sex cracks me up. It's always as vanilla as can be. Sasha and Cody were in his room, not going at it on the stable floor. Jason is an idiot to give Anna any more grace periods when it comes to Valentin.

I think James is owed an explanation in this instance. He loves riding and being with Cody, yet Mac unilaterally and suddenly decides James can't do either, for no reason at all. Absolutely this. Running away—again!—is not the way to deal with frustration, and James is old enough to understand that. He should have some genuine consequences, but the show really punts when it comes to parenting. For kids of any age, heh. Maxie did yell at Mac for making that decision, and Mac admitted it wasn't his place, but that was the end of it.

The writing for and about the kids is generally awful. They are excruciating to watch. That was in the heat of the reveal. Mac hung on to his anger and didn't talk to Cody after that. Be mad for a while, sure. But Mac isn't going to get to know Cody or trust him if they don't talk more. Whatever. They're besties now that dumbo James brought them together.

An estranged brother isn't the same as an unknown son. Once Cody admitted he was Mac's son, he confessed to everything else about the lie and was remorseful. Mac ignored Cody for weeks. He deserved a "snap out of it!" from Felicia. When was he going to be a grownup and start using his words? All he had to do was tell Cody he needed some time to process everything, but instead Mac stomped his feet and took out his anger on his dumbo grandson. His 8-year-old dumbo grandson.