Plus, minus
For the second half of the review of last week’s GH we’re going to work on a plus-minus system. Thursday and Friday are combined, given I watched them back to back and they were basically one extended episode anyway.
Plus
Nikolas remembers that he was unfaithful to Emily and cops to it.
Minus
Nikolas employs the euphemism “what happened with Connor” to describe why Emily shut him out. It’s called rape, Nikolas.
Minus
The return of judgmental, conclusion-jumping Robin, my least favourite kind.
Minus
Not letting Greg Vaughan do a re-take when he accidentally called Sam “Courtney”. Because as low as Sam may have sunk, that is definitely not an insult she’s earned. Yet.
Plus
Nikolas, despite being irrational about pretty much everything else right now, is entire rational and capable of providing good advice to Lucky about his shambles marriage.
Plus/Minus
Sam: “If were dying would you help?”
Jason: “I would have, but now I’m going to have to see it to believe it.”
What Sam wants is beyond me, completely. She calls Jason up saying she’s in danger, he rolls his eyes but runs straight over there at which point she is fine and angry because he doesn’t take the bait that she’s planning to seduce Lucky in a hot tub, taking that to mean he doesn’t care it she lives or dies despite the fact that she’s talking to him at that moment is testament that he clearly cares if she lives or dies. So, plus to Jason for that comment, and minus to Sam the writers for whatever the hell is going on with Sam.
Minus
The budget is apparently so stretched that Milo has to wear Max’s cast-off suits.
Plus
“Neither was Jimmy Lee Holt, ha!” x2.
Plus
Tracy (covering): “Monica gave up a baby.”
Lulu: “You gave up a baby?”
Monica: “Oh, Dawn died years ago, it has nothing to do with this.”
Tracy: “And then there’s Jason. Alan’s son, not Monica’s.”
Lulu: “You’re not Jason’s real mother?”
Monica: “I am in everything that matters.”
Lulu: “So, who is his mother?”
Scott: “Susan Moore…I was married to her…”
Lulu: “So, Alan did your wife?”
Alan: “She wasn’t his wife when I did her.”
It’s Scott’s pause, and the history, that makes it art. Also, Monica’s reference to Dawn in the most dismissive, and, let’s face it, appropriate tone ever. I’m surprised anyone was even willing to admit that Dawn ever existed.
Minus
Sonny and Jerry.
Minus
Sonny and Trevor.
Minus (though hilarious)
Any outfit that in addition to making Sam look slutty also makes Kelly Monaco look wide deserves some kind of prize. I booby prize, I’d be guessing. Side note, so far in this “day” we have seen Sam wear virtually non-existent and still remarkably unflattering work-out gear, a t-shirt and jeans, a relatively stylish LBD of seduction and a completely unstylish half bikini half LBD of further seduction. Wearing your sleeves over your hands does not make you Brenda, Sam. I seriously hope that none of those things were in the 26 bags of clothes Maxie has delivered to her over the course of the last few days. But then again, given Maxie works for a boutique in a hotel owned by Carly, that’s probably exactly where these outfits came from.
Minus
These outfits in the same shot.
Plus
Minus
Jerry and Sam.
Minus
The ordering of yet another hit.
Plus
Patrick taking a stupid argument and turning it into an honest conversation.
Minus
The subsequent break-up.
Minus
Lucky. The writers turning Lucky from just stupid into a character who pretty much demands sex from his wife or he’ll be unfaithful because he’ll just have to be.
Minus
Sam, projecting. And self-victimising, again. And being completely delusional, again.
Plus
Nikolas, calling her on all of it.
Minus
“Lucky does happen to have a mind of his own, you know.” He just not allowed to use it any more.
Minus
Sonny, being clueful enough to know something’s going on with Kate, and yet sufficiently clueless not to seek to interrogate her about it in private. Moron.
Minus
Me, using the non-work “clueful”.
Plus
Edward: “Take the monkey and run.”
Minus and Plus
Trevor. Because he’s a dick. But then, he’s genuinely meant to be, so that’s not a bad thing either. I guess I’m conflicted about watching a villain who is actually acting like AND being treated like a villain on this show. It feels so foreign.
Plus
Patrick asking Robin out seconds after they broke up. It’s sweet.
Minus
Patrick asking Robin out seconds after they broke up. It’s depressing.
Plus
Kate. Just generally.
Minus
Sonny: “Jason, why is it (stutter, stumble over lines) when I ask [sic] that I want someone dead, right, I have to defend myself?”
Plus
Logan’s apartment finally looks like it would be Logan’s apartment.
Minus
Logan’s apartment never previously looked like it would be Logan’s apartment.
Minus
Someone let Michael on a jet ski? And he’s still alive?
Plus
“You know, I can just go to Bobbie’s tonight and then I hit up Nikolas for my own wing at Wyndemere.”
Plus
Jason and Robin hanging out in a purely friendly way. Don’t want ‘em back together under any circumstances but I like them interacting as friends because (a) it’s a nod to a 15 year history they’ve been studiously avoiding; and (b) they have great chemistry.
Plus. Biggest Plus Of All
Carly’s still away.
Good caps courtesy Clarissa.
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