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General Hospital’s Who Shot Drew?

The state of storytelling on our soaps right now is more than a little disheartening, to the point where a tale as well-crafted as this one feels almost novel. Fantastically paced, this story has made excellent use of this genre’s long-game format, taking their time in turning Drew as despicable as possible, taking time to cultivate believable and highly emotional reasons for nearly everyone in town to want the guy dead. Every bit of this has been well-constructed, including throwing innocents like Trina, Kai, and Tracy into the long list of suspects so it’ll actually make sense if the PCPD takes some wrong turns here, they won’t have to be dumbed down in order to prolong this investigation. This story is a long way from done, GH will eventually have to point the finger at someone, and given the ridiculousness of how the hook killer turned out, I’m concerned this won’t culminate in a logical way, meantime though, watching these actors squirm and look shifty is fun and it’s good acting, too, skillfully straddling the line of maybe I’m guilty, maybe I’m not. With this (attempted) murder mystery plot, GH is delivering intrigue and suspense, and as an added bonus, for a little while at least we won’t have to hear Drew say anything obnoxious, so this one’s a win all around.