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The Never-Ending Nightmare: How General Hospital Is Suffocating Its Own Fanbase

General Hospital has officially crossed the line from a compelling daytime drama into a bloated, repetitive exercise in viewer endurance. The “Who Shot Drew Kane?” storyline, which kicked off with a spark of potential on September 2, 2025, has devolved into a stagnant mess that refuses to provide even a shred of satisfying resolution. We are now drifting toward the end of January 2026, and the writers seem to think that dragging a mystery out for five months without a single meaningful revelation is “prestige television.” It isn’t; it’s narrative malpractice.

The hypocrisy of the writing team is staggering. They spent weeks constructing a “spectacular” foundation where nearly every resident of Port Charles had a motive to erase Drew Kane from the map. They built a character so reprehensible and self-centered that he made the legendary villains of soap history look like saints. Yet, after months of social media theories and high-stakes buildup, the pacing has slowed to a glacial crawl. If the showrunners actually believed in the strength of their own story, they wouldn’t need to rely on circular conversations and tangential subplots involving Selena Wu to pad the runtime. This isn’t a mystery anymore; it’s a hostage situation where the audience is the victim.

A Masterclass in Missed Opportunities

The most glaring failure of this entire arc is the complete lack of character evolution for Drew Kane himself. Getting shot and nearly dying is the ultimate soap opera reset button—a chance for a character to reflect, find redemption, or at least change their tone. Instead, Drew emerged from his hospital bed as the same despicable, narcissistic monster he was before the trigger was pulled. The shooting served no narrative purpose other than to create a “Who Done It” that the writers are clearly too afraid to finish.

If the show takes the coward’s way out and reveals Willow as the shooter, they will have effectively spat in the face of every viewer who invested time in this mystery. Making the most obvious suspect the culprit is lazy, bottom-of-the-barrel storytelling. It reeks of “fan service” designed to punish a character who has recently become unpopular, rather than providing a sophisticated twist. If the writers want to save this sinking ship, they should look at Days of Our Lives and their handling of the EJ DiMera shooting. They had the courage to deliver a shocking, logic-defying twist that actually made sense. General Hospital, by contrast, seems content to circle the drain of predictability.

The Port Charles Web of Deceit

The upcoming weeks promise “explosive” developments, but based on recent history, we should expect more of the same manipulative stalling. Porsche Robinson is supposedly ready to confess her “heartbreaking” truth about her unborn child’s paternity. The idea that she is secretly pining for Isaiah Ganon to be the father while her husband, Curtis, remains in the dark is just another layer of the exhausting moral bankruptcy currently defining the show. It’s a tired trope that prioritizes cheap shock value over genuine emotional depth.

Meanwhile, we have Alexis Davis attempting to navigate a defense strategy for Willow that is being undermined by Drew’s own idiocy. The suggestion that Drew might “manufacture” a memory of Michael shooting him to protect Willow is a pathetic plot device. It showcases a total disregard for legal or ethical logic, even by soap opera standards. If the showrunners think a fake memory reveal is a “game-changer,” they are even more disconnected from their audience than Soap Opera Digest, which—hilariously and incorrectly—labeled this the best storyline of 2025.

Calculated Chaos and Holiday Hypocrisy

As we approach the New Year, the show is attempting to pivot toward romance and “fresh beginnings,” but it’s hard to swallow the sentimentality when the central plots are rooted in treason and kidnapping. Josslyn Jax is playing a dangerous game with the identity of Barbara Saunders, and the fact that her own mother, Carly, is the one behind the deception adds a layer of familial betrayal that the show will likely gloss over in favor of “maternal protection” excuses.

The upcoming party at Wyndemere Castle hosted by the menacing Sidwell is clearly just a stage for more unearned drama. When “uninvited guests” and “long-buried secrets” are the primary selling points, you know the creative well has run dry. The audience doesn’t need more lavish parties or cryptic threats from villains like Sidwell; we need the writers to stop treating the viewers like they have the memory span of a goldfish. Reveal the shooter, end the redundancy, and stop pretending that a five-month stalemate is “gripping mystery.”