
The episode wrapped with Bonnie, Maggie’s one-time rival for Mickey’s affections, bringing her a cup of tea and noting that she’d never stood a chance with Mickey, because his heart always belonged to Maggie. Julie promised Maggie she would get through this difficult time just as she’d overcome so many other struggles over the decades (learning to walk again, staying sober, returning from the dead). Julie stopped by to offer comfort, and Maggie reminisced about all the happy, sad and everything-in-between moments of her life, accented by sweet vintage clips of her romances with Mickey and Victor, as well as tragic footage of Julie catching fire at Maggie’s farmhouse, and Maggie bravely saving her life. Filled with flashbacks and friendship, the episode began with a teary-eyed Maggie resting in her bedroom, trying to come to terms with Victor’s death. Thumbs up! DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Fabulous At 50ĭAYS paid touching tribute to actress Suzanne Rogers and her character, Maggie Horton Kiriakis, on the 50th anniversary of her first appearance on the soap. While it could have been executed better from the start, we’re relieved that this story has finally gained some momentum, and is providing overdue insight into Austin. That said, the reveal scenes themselves were fantastic - intriguing, suspenseful, and perfectly played by Howarth and Jeff Kober (Cyrus), a combination of actors we’re excited to see more of - and as a bonus, we learned that Austin secretly saved Nikolas’s life.

So, it was jarring when each of these established facts was cast aside so that the boss could be revealed to be Cyrus (who, not for nothing, was safely tucked away in federal prison back in August 2022, when Austin agreed to meet said boss in Pautuck and told Mason to tell her he was coming). In well over a year of watching Austin and his cousin having vague rinse/wash/repeat conversations about who they were answering to, the show revealed only three things: that the baddie was a woman, someone they were related to and based in Pautuck. GH gave fans little to go on as the criminally underdeveloped Austin (and his criminally underused portrayer, Roger Howarth) plodded along in possibly the slowest-moving mystery in soap history (whose thumb were Austin and Mason under?!). Thumbs up!/ Thumbs down! GENERAL HOSPITAL - Who’s The Boss? All in all, Y&R delivered a satisfying launch to the Abbott/McCall marriage.

She was immediately on guard, convinced there was a catch, but he insisted it was “a genuine effort to end the war between us” and at Tucker’s insistence, she accepted. Once the duo was declared husband and wife, Ashley and Diane made a tickling attempt at a kumbaya moment via a brief, stiff-armed, awkward embrace, but the good vibes screeched to a halt when Jack presented Ash with a wedding gift: documents returning all of Ashley’s Jabot patents, along with a promise to buy her out of the company as she’d requested. Abby got the sentimentality rolling by honoring the “something old, something new” (despite Ashley reminding her, “This is not my first rodeo”), and though the ceremony got off to an amusingly rocky start when bride and groom were invited to share their personal vows - which neither of them had prepared - they decided to wing it instead, and if their promises to one another were far from storybook material, they were also heartfelt and sweet. Thumbs up! YOUNG AND RESTLESS - United StateĪshley and Tucker’s intimate wedding at the Chancellor mansion was unconventional and entertaining.
