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General Hospital May Have Just Shaken Up Its Entire Teen Scene Without Even Meaning To
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Josslyn’s classless classmate is a wildcard begging to be played.
We know that Maurice Benard’s son Joshua was only supposed to appear once on General Hospital, but we’ve gotta admit, his performance left us wanting more. Though Adam is a grade-A scuzzbucket, there is a place for him in Port Charles’ teen scene.
What do we have right now? We have in Josslyn, Cameron and Trina three really nice kids. Even Spencer, underneath the angst, is basically a good guy. As for Esme… well, she’s in a creepy category all her own. (Like daddy Ryan, she seems to be headed for supervillain territory.)
What we don’t have is a card-carrying jerk. Spencer can be one, but at heart, he isn’t. Adam, on the other hand, just might be. And that would make him a most valuable player among the youngsters, kinda like All My Children mean girl Liza once was to Greg and Jenny, Jessie and Angie, or like James Spader’s d-bag character was in Pretty in Pink.
More: Joshua Benard’s message for the fans — and haters
Of course, General Hospital being a soap, it could over time peel back the smarmy layers of Adam to reveal why he is the way he is. Who knows? Maybe his father is sleazy Dr. Bensch. (Remember him?) Maybe he’s being teased at school about his own lack of experience with the opposite sex. Maybe he comes on so strong and tackily to cover for the fact that he isn’t actually into the opposite sex.
The possibilities are practically endless.
“I have a way with the ladies. Not a good way, mind you.”
Credit: ABC screenshot
More: Trina issues Spencer a romantic challenge
In our dream scenario, Adam convinces Trina to give him a chance to prove that he has some redeeming qualities. While her friends reel from the shock, Spencer is forced to finally step up and admit how deeply he cares for Trina. But by then, she — and we — have seen that perhaps there’s more to Adam that we first thought. Suddenly, we’d have ourselves a complicated new triangle!
What do you think, General Hospital fans? Would you like to see more of Joshua as Adam? On your way to the comments, stop off at the below photo gallery, our newly updated collection of General Hospital cast portraits.
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<p>… plays Sonny Corinthos, the dimpled don who can impregnate a woman by doing no more than flash a smoldering gaze like… Ack! Like <em>this</em> one! Look away before it’s too late! Look away!</p>
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<p>… cranking up the heat on Sonny’s smoldering gaze.</p>
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<p>… now with more pepper in Sonny’s hair than salt.</p>
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<p>… serving up a reminder that Sonny is always “one to watch.” Get it?</p>
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<p>… is Carly, Sonny’s mercurial ex-moll, who can go from “till death do us part” to “if looks could kill” faster than you can read this caption. And that’s even if you’re a <em>mega</em> fast reader.</p>
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<p>… doing Carly’s best “Who, <em>me</em>?” expression.</p>
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<p>… flashing a warm smile that says, “Eh, who needs the Metro Court, anyway?”</p>
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<p>… never fails to turn heads. In this case, her own. But you know what we mean.</p>
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<p>… competing with the sun to determine which of them is more radiant.</p>
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<p>… brings to life Dante Falconeri, the PCPD detective who is… Oh, awkward. He’s the firstborn of the city’s most notorious mobster. Let’s focus on Mom instead, shall we? Next picture…</p>
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<p>… portrays Olivia Quartermaine, the Bensonhurst babe who married so far up, she now lives in <span style="text-decoration: line-through">her Richie Rich husband Ned’s</span> Monica’s mansion.</p>
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<p>… is money, as the kids would say, as Ned Quartermaine, the heir apparent to grandfather Edward’s fortune — <em>and</em> his testiness. Good luck with that, buddy!</p>
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<p>… striking a pose that lets the world know that Ned is an ELQ MVP.</p>
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<p>… is Leo Quartermaine, Olivia’s son with late mobster Julian Jerome and Ned’s adopted son.</p>
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<p>… builds a bridge to Brook Lynn Quartermaine, the feistiest firebrand this side of her mama, the much-missed Lois Cerullo.</p>
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<p>… issuing a reminder that Brook Lynn doesn’t have to wear bright colors to be a colorful character.</p>
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<p>… serving glam to the nth. Maybe even whatever comes after the nth.</p>
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<p>… walks mile after mile in the shoes of Michael Corinthos, the corporate-minded offspring of Carly and <span style="text-decoration: line-through">A.J. Quartermaine</span> Sonny. Never mind that scratch-out; those in the family or its “business” know better than to discuss it.</p>
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<p>… is Michael’s girlfriend Willow, a sweet-hearted former schoolteacher who learns every day that in a town like Port Charles, it’s easy to get it wrong when you’re trying to do right.</p>
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<p>… offering us the sweet smile that’s going to make Willow such a great nurse.</p>
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<p>… looking for all the world like the calm before the storm.</p>
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<p>… demonstrating how Willow takes news that’s best received sitting down. There’s a <em>lot</em> of that kind in Port Charles!</p>
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<p>… plays Wiley Corinthos, Michael’s son with the late Nelle Benson and, for a time, the kid most likely to be the potato in a game of parental hot potato.</p>
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<p>… played Harmony Miller, Willow’s late mother who, even after leaving the cult in which she raised her daughter, was still keeping plenty of secrets… like that she wasn’t actually Willow’s mom. </p>
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<p>… rocks as Carly’s chip off the ol’ block, Josslyn Jacks, a Ms. Popularity with enough fire in her to reduce to cinders anyone crazy enough to hurt her nearest and dearest. While maintaining a 4.0 GPA, we might add.</p>
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<p>… here demonstrates the <em>Home Alone</em> OMG expression that the audience so often wears as they watch Nina Reeves make one questionable choice after another.</p>
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<p>… keeping Nina chill even as her storyline gets hotter, hotter, hottest.</p>
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<p>… missing the scarlet letter “A” that Carly would like to affix to Nina’s blouse for sleeping with Sonny.</p>
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<p>… is the real-life alter ego of Alexis Davis, a former attorney and occasional hot mess who knows the law inside and out. As in, she hasn’t just represented criminals, she’s served time herself.</p>
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<p>… plays Alexis’ oldest daughter, Sam McCall, P.I., mother and all-around action figure. She’s kinda like Nancy Drew with a better right hook and edgier wardrobe.</p>
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<p>… brings <span style="text-decoration: line-through">back</span> to life Drew Cain, the “late” Jason Morgan’s “late” brother. Until an accident and some serious plastic surgery rearranged Drew’s face, he shared not only his twin’s taste in love interests but his handsome mug, too.</p>
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<p>… reminding us that Drew’s always looking for stubble. Er, <em>trouble</em>.</p>
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<p>… <em>has</em> to have seen it all in her years as Monica Quartermaine. The actress is the soap’s longest-serving cast member.</p>
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<p>… is Elizabeth Webber, the nurse you most want to administer your shots, if only because she can distract you with tales from her bat-[bleep]-crazy life. Pro tip: Ask her about the time she married a serial killer whose homicidal tendencies were contained in a brain tumor.</p>
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<p>… demonstrating Liz’s preferred method for trying, always trying, to leave her troubled past behind her. Don’t turn around, whatever you do!</p>
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<p>… working the plucky expression that has seen Liz through the toughest of times.</p>
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<p>… makes it a point — see what we did there? — to enliven any scene as Cameron Webber, the teenage dream who’s life has been, not to put too fine a point on it, a nightmare.</p>
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<p>… scrubs in as Dr. Hamilton Finn — Finn to his friends. Also Finn to pretty much everyone else. No one wants to compete with the musical to be called Hamilton anymore.</p>
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<p>… threatens us daily with cuteness overload as Violet Barnes, Finn’s daughter with… Say, where <em>is</em> Hayden, anyway? By the time you read this, we may already be finding out.</p>
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<p>… plays Molly Lansing, the future RBG who longs to follow in mom Alexis’ footsteps. Minus the whole going-to-prison part, though. She could do without that.</p>
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<p>… is Molly’s significant other, TJ Ashford, possessor of what is arguably the winningest smile in Port Charles. Possibly even all of New York; we haven’t checked — yet.</p>
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<p>… that smile still utterly winning again.</p>
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<p>… nabbed two Daytime Emmys for her portrayal of Curtis’ scene-stealing Aunt Stella Henry. She tells it like it is whether you’re remotely prepared to hear it like it is!</p>
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<p>… slays as Curtis Ashford, not only the coolest cat this side of the freezer section of the grocery but the club owner whose presence is what makes his bar more than a spot, a hot spot.</p>
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<p>… making us wait to catch a glimpse of that dazzling smile again. Will we get it?</p>
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<p>… puts on the kind of happy face that’s so contagious… Wait, what? Are we actually in a better mood now? That’s one potent smile!</p>
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<p>… makes the rounds as Portia Robinson, a doctor whose romantic entanglements are likely to get her diagnosed with “acute twitterpation.”</p>
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<p>… flashing a Portia smile so bright, you’d swear the doc had just come from the radiology department.</p>
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<p>… adding “-souciant” to the saying “The doctor is in.”</p>
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<p>… held the “honor role” of Trina Robinson, the kinda kid you’d be proud to call your own — and in a town as prone to abductions as Port Charles is, might be tempted to! She was recast with…</p>
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<p>… who stepped into Trina’s shoes just in time for the heroine to be marched toward the ultimate trial. And also a literal one.</p>
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<p>… revealing the brilliant smile that poor Trina has had altogether too few excuses to pull out.</p>
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<p>… is rookie cop Rory Cabrera, an Officer Nice Guy that we can only hope won’t finish last.</p>
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<p>… is Jordan Ashford, Port Charles’ police commissioner as well as Curtis’ ex. It is, as you’d imagine, complicated.</p>
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<p>… proving that Jordan doesn’t have to whip out the handcuffs to create an arrested development. That gaze!</p>
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<p>… deserves a tip of the hat for his work as Curtis’ long-lost, newly-found father, Marshall Ashford.</p>
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<p>… bringing Marshall into focus. Or maybe in this instance, the camera did that.</p>
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<p>… played Shawn Butler, the ex-con who, like Alexis, was rebuilding a life for himself on the outside. Step No. 1: Score some of that chili at Kelly’s. What? Like you wouldn’t?</p>
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<p>… has run through almost all of the ABCs as Robert Scorpio, going from the WSB to the D.A.’s office while remaining every step of the way an MVP.</p>
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<p>… illuminates Port Charles’ dark prince, Nikolas Cassadine, heir to not just a fortune but enough blood-spattered family baggage to keep him on Kevin Collins’ couch for life. </p>
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