General Hospital Performer of the Week: Katelyn MacMullen as Willow Tait

General Hospital's Little Miss Weeping Willow had the public meltdown we've all been waiting for, as Willow's mountain of delusions finally caught up with her in one glorious courtroom moment. And Katelyn MacMullen knocked it out of the park, taking the character she has played for the last seven years down the path she should have gone down long ago.

Willow's fantasy General Hospital world

Willow didn't even understand what just happened on General Hospital | Image: ABC

Even before Willow's surprising reaction to learning she lost her kids to their much more responsible and sensible father, we were ready to choose MacMullen as Soap Central's Performer of the Week. Thanks to MacMullen, Willow seemed to have everyone fooled during her testimony. Since she didn't waver from her truth — that Michael was a deadbeat dad who abandoned his kids so he could seek treatment in a burn clinic — and seemed confident on the witness stand, even Michael worried he had lost.

In fact, Willow's (and, in turn, MacMullen's) performance on the witness stand was so good that Michael was ready to skip town with his kids in case the judge handed them to Willow.

Even before that, her confidence gave us all whiplash after she told Felicia (Kristina Wagner) that Michael (Rory Gibson) had lost anyway, thanks to Sasha's (Sofia Mattsson) baby secret, so she didn't have anything to worry about. Willow was so nonchalant about it that we should have suspected the reaction to end all soap custody reactions. Maybe that's why MacMullen played her with so much sheer confidence: It made her crash seem even harder when it happened.

Willow's reckoning finally arrives

Willow's delusions landed her at GH | Image: ABC

General Hospital wisely went to a commercial break after the judge's decision was announced. When it returned to the courtroom scenes and we saw a calm Willow, we had no idea what was to come next. However, when Willow confusedly asked Ric what was happening when it was very clear what had just happened, we said, "Oh, boy, is she gonna lose it?" And lose it, Willow did.

In a tour de force performance that we feel MacMullen has been waiting months to release, Willow cumbled in a way that had our jaws dropping and our eyes wide open. Every wall and mask Willow has had up came down in just a few shocking moments that had the Corinthos clan feeling sympathy for her, while much of the audience felt she got exactly what she deserved.

When a performance can elicit that much passion in fans in one direction and move the even Carly (Laura Wright) in the other direction, then you know it was one for the ages.

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