‘General Hospital’ News: Performer Of The Week – Kathleen Gati

I am admitting that I’m having a love/hate relationship with ‘General Hospital‘ right now. It seems the further ahead we get, the more we slip backwards. It’s May sweeps! Big things should be happening to push stories ahead or even wrap a few of them up, clean up the canvas – get rid of the dead wood, and move on.

But no.

Every character seems to be giving these mediocre scenes their all though. I appreciate that. I don’t know that if I were asked to play the exact same thing over and over, week after week, that I’d be doing it as enthusiastically as they are.

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This week’s best performer – in a week of plenty of good performers – is Kathleen Gati. Dr. Liesl Obrecht, all fierce and frightening most of the time, is never more relatable, likeable, and user friendly than when she’s faced with a crisis involving her son, Nathan. His head injury brought out the terrified mother (again) and gave Obrecht and Maxie a bonding moment that was both sweet and tender. It seems that Nathan and Obrecht’s backstory is a bit of a fluid one, or that perhaps Madeline kept her in the loop all those years, but whatever the case, Liesl sharing the story of a young Nathan, and then that cute photo with Maxie was a nice moment – but allowing Maxie to go in to see him first was huge!

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This, of course, left Liesl free to chat with Franco in the hallway.

This was perhaps my favourite scene of the week, and only because I didn’t see it coming. Franco, missing the obvious clues as to Obrecht’s current state of mind, selfishly launched into his “woe is me…” thing and was shredded by Liesl for it! He missed an opportunity to be a friend and to offer her a shoulder to cry on. Let us not forget that Obrecht is usually a sappy, fawning mess around Franco. She adores him, and on some level even worships him. She respects him, and in a world where she has so few friends, she needs him. She always has his back. When she walked away after telling him he was all on his own, he seemed genuinely baffled by it all. It was a great scene! Kudos to Obrecht for slapping him down, and to Gati for pulling that off!

Here’s hoping that the upcoming sweeps week stories actually further things!

Until next week!

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