General Hospital's Best of the Week, December 1-5, 2025: Sidwell Declares War on Laura and Sonny

It was a crazy week on General Hospital! Sidwell managed to get a photo of Laura and Sonny looking at dead Dalton in her trunk. The angle was from over their shoulders, so either he had a silent drone floating around, or there was a nearby tree or pole with a camera on it. But to have somehow gotten her to stop in that exact spot so he could grab a pic was a bit of a stretch. This tells me there was something high-tech going on, which means Sonny’s going to have to call in Spinelli for help. If they can track where the photo was taken from and where it went off to, they can get rid of any data and any existing printed pics.

Spotlight scenes

So, after a drunken Professor Dalton revealed to Joss that he had a second, hidden lab where he experimented on animals, the WSB wasted no time in finding it. Joss looked at a classified file and found the address, slipping it under Emma’s door.

Next, Emma and Gio broke into it and rescued all the dogs, bringing the poochies to Sonny’s. Ric wasn’t too happy because Rocco was there, and now he would be implicated in the dog heist. To top it off, angry ol’ Dante showed up and pitched a fit. But seeing the dogs in Sonny’s house, complete with our favorite racketeer’s reaction, was a nice bit of much-needed comic relief.

Blasts from the past

In a shocking moment, Laura opened the door only to find Cyrus on the other side! In that split second, you knew it had to be a dream as Cyrus was dead. Laura's brother invited himself in and began telling her how she needed to take responsibility for Dalton’s murder. Poor Laura was beside herself and starting to come unglued. And while we knew she was dreaming, what we didn’t expect was to see Evil Esme coming down the stairs!! Looking as wonderfully scary as ever, I have to admit I wasn’t prepared for her visit. It’s always good when past actors, even if their character was killed off, can return in some way. It was nice to see Jeff Kober and Avery Pohl at their menacing best once again.

That got me thinking…I’ve speculated before that there are enough uncharted islands off the coast of France that Spencer and Esme could have been stranded on one. When they eventually can return to Port Charles, they’ll have a little kid in tow, a la Blue Lagoon.

And Cyrus…we know that Josslyn shot him, seemingly dead. And the WSB came in and cleaned up everything, including Cyrus’ body. But what if he wasn’t quite dead? What if he was hanging on by the barest sliver and the WSB nursed him back to health and had him hidden away somewhere? I mean, the DVX had Kevin Collins for years and only dumped him off in Port Charles when he was too much to handle. What if the same thing happens to Cyrus? The WSB sends him out into the field, but then he gets unruly, and they ship him off somewhere so they can wipe their hands of him. It could happen.

Wardrobe MVPs

Willow’s dress was basically a long-sleeved lace dress, nothing wild or fussy. It fit her in a normal way, not too tight, just kind of easy on her. The lace looked pretty standard — simple pattern, soft texture — and the whole thing came across like something she grabbed because it felt right on her, not because she was trying to impress anyone. And the sheer panels across her shoulders and arms gave it this strange mix of soft and exposed, which honestly suited her better than anything she’s worn in months. The bouquet helped too — those peachy flowers warming the whole thing up so she didn’t look washed out under the candles. Even with everything swirling around her, the dress felt grounded, like the one calm detail in a room where absolutely nothing else was calm.

Best camera moment

Michael’s been doing a lot of skulking lately. He was at General Hospital at one point, peering around the corner, watching Willow tell Liz about her wedding to Drew. Michael knew he wasn’t going to believe it until he saw it, so he went to Drew’s house and lurked outside. During the ceremony, we could see him peeking in from outside. Much like last week with the rack focus when he saw Willow showing off her engagement ring, we got a similar shot of Willow and Drew during their ceremony, with Michael unknowingly looking on. If he ever finds that Aurora’s not making him enough money, he could have a new career as a Peeping Tom.

Observations, complaints & unhinged theories

Genie Francis is a great actress, and her face can be very expressive. Her eyebrows often move to accentuate what she’s feeling, and she’ll often have several varied expressions in the matter of a moment or two. This week, she had the best look when Sidwell and his flunky, Ezra, were leaving her place. Sidwell waved the blackmail photo, and you could see the outrage on her face.

I’m a little worried about what’s going to happen next. I don’t have any kind of anxiety, except when my beloved GH friends are in trouble! And Sidwell putting the screws to Laura and Sonny has me on edge. I really hope Sonny doesn’t give in and hand over his piers to the villain. We’re at the point where Sidwell needs to be rubbed out.

I’m just hoping his work with Faison’s final project is going to lead to another major Earth-saving adventure, and this time Sonny and Jason will be involved. They do a lot of heroic things, and it would be nice for them to be included on such a major adventure this time around. I’m afraid for the characters, but trust that the good guys will ultimately prevail.

Things I yelled at the TV

I laughed out loud and yelled, “Good for you, Nina!” at the wedding of Drew and Willow. Nina spent the entire ceremony looking like she was physically allergic to every choice Willow was making. Every time the camera cut to her in that bright orange dress, she had a new face ready — part disgust, part confusion, part “did I really skip Thanksgiving for this?” She wasn’t even trying to hide it. Willow said, “I do,” and Nina’s expression dropped so hard you could practically hear it hit the floor. She looked like she was going to hurl her breakfast at any moment. By the time the kiss happened, she looked like she needed a lie-down, a drink, and maybe a quick text to her therapist, because nothing about that moment sat right with her soul.

EPILOGUE

By the time the week wrapped, I felt like Port Charles needed a citywide nap and maybe a federal audit. Sidwell was out here acting like the Walmart version of Cyrus Renault, blackmailing the mayor with HD crime-scene photography and somehow thinking Sonny Corinthos would just hand over his waterfront like it was a Costco sample. The teens accidentally started an underground dog-rescue coalition. Britt was one medication alarm away from throwing her phone into the Port Charles River. And Laura—God love her—looked like she was two seconds from telling everyone to solve their own crimes because she'd been through the wringer! If next week doesn’t start with someone staging a coup, a séance, or a mandatory intervention for half the town, I’ll honestly be shocked.

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