The spy games are heating up in Port Charles, but will justice ever prevail? Now that Willow has gotten away with attempted murder, will Michael become the prime suspect? Let’s discuss in an all-new General Hospital commentary for the week ending January 6, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear readers, Valentin made a pertinent point this week on General Hospital<\/em>. He pitched his plan for Carly to break into Jack\u2019s suite and take photos of the documents Jack was hiding. When Carly hesitated, Valentin said, \u201cWe could just stay the course, and you could continue to sleep with a man you despise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But does Carly despise Jack? I think she is furious at him for recruiting Joss, but I don\u2019t think she despise him. Not in the gag-reflex way that Killow(Willow) despises Drew. But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carly let herself into Jack\u2019s suite and accidentally overheard Britt and Jack scheming. She quickly put on a bathrobe and tried to make it seem like she stopped by for secret sexy time with Jack. When IS the last time the spy actually shagged her? Carly has been pretty dodgy lately, like Pepe Le Peu\u2019s cat girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though Carly was mostly naked, Jack was furious that she was in his suite. He made it clear that she could never do that again. So, whatever photos Carly took are the only ones she will ever get. No doubt Jack will move his hiding place, and Carly won\u2019t dare go back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am so happy that James Patrick Stuart is back. I know he has other projects and he comes and goes, but I get downright giddy every time he is on my screen. He has that je ne sais quois <\/em>of Tony Geary. A little lethal, but with a twinkle is his eye. I can\u2019t adequately explain that quality, or why I am so drawn to it, but suffice it to say I\u2019d let Valentin hide out in my attic, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Readers, I loved Anna and Valentine. Hopefully, he is the one who finds and rescues Anna from Pascal, the new slimy WSB Director Ross Cullum, and Sidwell, but do I think they will reunite as a couple? I don\u2019t. I think I\u2019d rather see Carly and Valentin have a fling. Their chemistry is unique and I\u2019m invested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is JPS back for a long time or a little? I hope long. If we have to get rid of the whole lot of them, Jack, Pascal, Sidwell, Marcos, and Cullum to keep Valentin, I am okay with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I really like Marco, but he\u2019s not good enough for my sweet Lucas. The worst part is, I am rooting for Brad even though I know he is also up to some shady things. But helping Selena run a poker game in a bar is better than holding people hostage in your basement, imho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have to admit, I feel a little sorry for Jack Brennan. He really can\u2019t trust anyone. Collette was a double agent, unbeknownst to him, Cullum is also dirty, and even Jack’s girlfriend — whom I believe he genuinely loves — is working against him. Did Jack recruit Joss for the WSB? Yes, he did. But she did, in fact kill Cyrus and Jack did cover up for her. What Carly doesn\u2019t know is that without Jack, Josslyn might have spent life in prison for murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I know that Joss killed him in self-defense, but she had no witnesses or proof of that, so it could have gone either way in court. Brennan offered Joss a way out, and she took it. Certainly, he has been lying to Carly all this time, but Joss is also lying to her mom. As Carly recently pointed out to Valentin, she is used to hanging out with criminals, all of whom have lied to her at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is what Carly is doing akin to Brenda wearing a wire on Sonny? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Carly could have just confronted Jack or Josslyn at any time, even though Jason warned her not to — because when did she ever listen to Jason? I feel like if Joss said, \u201cHey mom, I know you\u2019re angry, but I murdered Cyrus and Jack got rid of the body.\u201d Maybe Carly wouldn\u2019t be so mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But with all the lying liars in Port Charles, no one tops Willow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Willow shot Drew twice in the back and has managed to fool the entire town into thinking she\u2019s a poor innocent waif framed by her evil ex-husband Michael. The day the truth finally comes out, and Drew knows Willow shot him in cold blood and then married him to get away with it, I am going to toast the sky with Champagne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want Drew to know his angel Willow is a wannabe killer. I want him to know that Willow hates him as much as everyone else in Port Charles does. Oh, the look on his face will be priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the fact that Alexis\u2019 superb lawyering skills got Willow a \u201cNot Guilty\u201d verdict, we know that Willow is guilty. How can she ever be redeemed? How can we root for Michael to reunite with a psycho who is a danger to him, Wiley and Amelia? We can\u2019t. She is now in the Nelle category, unable to be rehabilitated. She has gone from heroine to villain with no clear path back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly, a clever writer could write a very soapy plot to get her there, a DID storyline, a brain tumor, a brainwashing by Helena\u2019s ghost, etc. But it would take something truly extraordinary to get Willow back to the troubled but sweet lady we once rooted for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All that having been said, Katelyn MacMullen has been playing whatever craziness they throw at her with mad skill. All this time there was plenty of reasonable doubt that Willow shot Drew. We knew it was possible, but not everyone was convinced. Like in Primal Fear<\/em>, when Ed Norton goes from shy, stuttering boy to maniacal killer, Willow had the flashback of shooting Drew, and it took my breath away. All that time she spent speculating on who may have done it, knowing full well that she did it. Willow has ice water in her veins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am also looking forward to the day Chase discovers that Willow is guilty. He jeopardized his career and made waves in his marriage by trying to help and protect Willow. Everyone in town, up to and including Sonny, cannot conceive of the fact that Willow could have done this. When Chase with his sweet, innocent eyes looked at Alexis during Friday’s episode in the courtroom and thanked Alexis for getting Willow off because he firmly believes that Willow could not have possibly done such a thing, I bet Alexis threw up in her mouth a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Across town, a genuine heroine, Anna Devane, is fighting for her freedom. She tried to convince Pascal that she needed medical help — and was successful in getting the best of him — until an entirely new villain, Director Ross Cullum thwarted her efforts. I thought for sure Valentin would come barreling around the corner and find her, but that was not in the cards. It\u2019s not that Valentin didn\u2019t try to get into the secret tunnels of Wyndemere, it\u2019s that Ava took his button away and sealed the entrance. A very unfortunate circumstance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pascal has apparently given Anna something that caused her to hallucinate Liesl Obrecht and to hear Faison\u2019s voice. Since there was a cigarillo burning in the ashtray, I can only assume they are purposely trying to gaslight Anna and drive her mad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Readers, maybe I am na\u00efve, but is it possible that Sidwell is unaware of this side project that Pascal is working on? Sidwell is holding Anna hostage, yes. However, he’s made her fairly comfortable, ensured she was being fed, and as kidnappers go, wasn\u2019t such a terrible host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think Pascal and our new creepy WSB Director may be the ones conducting experiments on Anna or gaslighting her into fearing a dead man. I will say it was lovely to hear Anders Hove\u2019s voice, and I hope Pascal has some AI program that lets us \u201csee\u201d Faison like a giant Wizard of Oz head on Anna\u2019s wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna got a blood treatment, and I was glad someone finally remembered she was sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have a new doctor that Anna thinks is Obrecht. However, the real Obrecht was at General Hospital<\/em> making peace with her daughter Britta and making plans to cheer on Rocco\u2019s hockey game. Definitely not doing anything diabolical at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved Jason and Britt\u2019s date. I was very surprised that Carly was able to contain herself and not blurt out what she overheard Britt saying to Jack when Carly was eavesdropping. Thankfully, Britt and Jason got to have a nice evening out to remember those feelings they once shared and start rebuilding their relationship. I can\u2019t be mad at Britt for keeping Jason in the dark about all the Faison stuff. She understands that he would be in danger if he knew. Jason keeps offering to help her, but Britt wants to keep him far away from Sidwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Readers, I am sorry that this is already so long and I have so much more to discuss. May I just say that General Hospital <\/em>is so riveting to me right now. I am interested in every plot, and there are zero storylines that I am fast forwarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love the budding romance between Gio and Emma. I enjoyed Friday\u2019s episode where they both spoke about one another\u2019s lives and offered comfort, support, and help getting unstuck. Gio was so tender when Emma admitted that she missed Anna. I wish I could scream into the TV \u201cYour grandma didn\u2019t leave you on purpose! Go find her and spring her like you did the lab dogs!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Emma helped Gio see he could return to school and take some classes without committing to a future in music. He gave her the safe space to announce she has decided to become a veterinarian. They have such a healthy and sweet relationship. I love them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Truthfully, Emma and Gio are further along in their relationships than Molly and Codym who have just barely stumbled into the beginning of a real relationship after months of near misses. It took me a really long time to warm up to Kristen Vaganos, but I have come to embrace her portrayal of Molly. I needed to see the softer side of Molly and we are finally here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The girl who wrote love stories in her teens is back at it and she has found her own real-life cowboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My one issue is not with this storyline, but with General Hospital\u2019s<\/em> penchant for disappearing characters never to be mentioned again. Molly was married to a guy named T.J. Did I miss their divorce? Did I miss him quitting his job at General Hospital? Where did he go? Maybe he\u2019s hanging out somewhere with Trina\u2019s father Taggert. The man who raised Trina for her entire life and then just got tossed aside the day Portia said Curtis was Trina’s dad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That bugged me. Real Andrews deserved a better send off than us watching him chug liquor with a broken heart only to never be mentioned by Trina again. Now that Trina\u2019s so mad at Portia for lying, it seems like Taggert would have been her first call. \u201cHey Dad, Mom\u2019s at it again, cheating on Curtis and getting knocked up.\u201d But no, he never seems to cross her mind. Poof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now readers, don\u2019t be mad at me, but I think we have another potential new romance on our hands. Lulu and Nathan have been spending lots of time together, and Maxie is still in a coma, while Lulu is free and clear of all commitments. I just feel like one of these long and lonely nights, Lulu and Nathan are going to kiss. (Which will probably happen like a month before Maxie wakes up, comes home, finds Nathan alive and kissing her BFF.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Every time Lulu and Nathan talk about how similar their circumstances are, being taken from their lives and dropped back in years later only to find the world kept moving on without them, I feel like it\u2019s setting the stage for that. I wanted Dante and Lulu to reunite, but he\u2019s still reeling from the grief over losing Sam and trying to run the PCPD in Anna\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If Michael gets accused of Drew\u2019s shooting, Dante will have to recuse himself from the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But we know that Kai and Trina know the truth about who shot Drew. Kai is kind of a wimp and may not come forward, but Trina would not be able to live with herself if she let Michael go to prison for a crime she knows he did not commit. This story just keeps getting messier and messier! <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was glad to see Jacinda stuck around and didn\u2019t take the money and run away. It would be very tempting to do so. Anytime I mention a place to travel, my husband always says, \u201cI can be packed in 20 minutes.\u201d Ha. The fact that Jacinda opted to stick around means her feelings for Michael are legitimate. And after having to sleep with Ezra Boyle for money, the girl deserves a happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another happy ending of sorts, Laura convinced Martin and Tracy to call a truce because she can\u2019t bear their one upmanship bickering anymore. It\u2019s kind of a shame that Martin and Laura are siblings because Michael E Knight and Genie Francis would make such a fun couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You know who else needs a love interest? Alexis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean this woman has been through so much in the past few years. Didn\u2019t Neil die in 2020? Has she had a love interest since then? There was a flirtation with Gregory, but that never went anywhere. Sure, she had Ric locked in her basement, but no one in her bed. I loved the scene with Alexis and Sonny. Maurice Benard and Nancy Lee Grahn have always had that chemistry, it\u2019s never faded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sonny absolved Alexis for casting doubt on Michael to free Willow. He understood that Alexis was trying to save Scout. Could the two of them team up to save Michael if he is charged? After all, Alexis knows that Michael is innocent. That might draw Kristina\u2019s parents back together again. Who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will Drew keep his promise to Alexis and let her see Scout, or will he snatch Scout away again? Will James get into more mischief that requires Lulu and Nathan to tag team parent him? Is Olivia going to get her newly gifted rifle out and finish the job that Willow started once Olivia stews a few more days about Drew leaving Ned to die on the sidewalk? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Will Liz and Jason get to have another conversation this year since they already had that one? Is Britt going to end up Chief of Staff again when Portia goes on maternity leave since Terry has vanished along with TJ and Taggert? (Hey, why is it all T names???) Will Liz\u2019s kids ever come back home since summer is over and they should be back in school by now? (Jake should be 17, and Aiden should be 15.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Will General Hospital just randomly decide they want Mercy Hospital and take it by force if they won\u2019t sell? I hear that\u2019s a thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe spy who (hasn’t) shagged me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Spy games<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The spy who loved me<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Lies, spies, and Marco <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Revisiting General Hospital’s<\/em> past <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
No killer consequences on General Hospital<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
No redemption<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Primal fear<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Eyes wide shut<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Trouble on Spoon Island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Head games <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Doctor, doctor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
General Hospital’s<\/em> love in the afternoon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Molly and Cody <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
You know I wish that I had Maxie’s guy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The truth is out there <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Martin and Tracy bury the hatchet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Alexis needs a love interest <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
What will happen tomorrow, dear readers? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n