General Hospital

In the 90's, there was a fenomenal called "eftermiddagsserier på TV4". That means series in channel 4 in the afternoon. It was a special feeling coming home from school, putting on the TV to watch whatever TV¤ was showing then. TV4 both gave me Dynasty, Dallas, Road to Avonlea, 90210, Little house on the prairies and lots lots more. And General Hospital. Even though I think General Hospital was more around lunch time, so maybe it was more a series to watch when you were home sick.

I haven't seen General Hospital since then, and to be honest, I didn't even know it still existed. But anyways, a couple of days ago, I got the tip from another swedish "faghag" on instagram that there were gays in General Hospital, and that it's on youtube, I just had to check it out.

Felix DuBois portraited by Marc Anthony Samuel.

There are three gay characters in General Hospital at the moment. Felix DuBois, who is played by Marc Anthony Samuel, has been in the show since late 2012. Felix is a nurse who seems to have been the love interest of Brad Cooper for about a year before they eventually go out on a date. A quite boring character actually, if you ask me.

Brad Cooper portraited by Parry Shen.

Brad Cooper, played by Parry Shen, is the lab technician at the hospital who was craving for Felix for about a year before he med Lucas Jones. He is also the biological son of a mobster, and he also helped his best friend Brit Westbourne to steal an embryo to impregnate herself, just to get himself a promotion. He is a quite fun character actually. He has been in the show since February 2013.

Lucas Jones portraited by Ryan Carnes.

Lucas Jones was introduced in the show in 1989, and is one of those characters who has aged rapidly, and has been played by no less than ten different actors. Ryan Carnes, who plays Lucas Jones right now is both the ninth and the eleventh Lucas Jones. Lucas Jones is also the biological son of a mobster, and came out in 2005, before he left for Seattle in 2006. In 2014 Lucas was back in Port Charles (where the series takes place) and immediately met Brad Cooper who he fell for. Brad on his hand got asked out on a date by Felix who he had been craving for for about a year the day after he had spent the night with Lucas. Bad timing. A love triangle between Lucas, Brad and Felix started where Brad was dumped both by Felix and Lucas (partly because of the embryo-stealing) which went on until there almost was a threesome (a gay threesome in an american soap opera, blimey!) and Brad and Lucas ended off together, at last. And there we are now.

Lucas and Brad at last.

I really adore the character of Lucas Jones, he is hilarious, and Brad is not that bad either. Felix is boring. But this seems promising. I really hope for some more humour and steamy scenes with the two. But General Hospital. What a ridiculous series it is! Oh my god, what was that nurses ball thing? Strained dialogue, silly stage performances, strip tease with Lucas and Felix AND improvised singing by Brad where the background singers knew all the words? Ridiculous! Really! But at least, it is not such a slow and boring soap as Days of our lives. But it is quite funny, while watching General Hospital on youtube I realized a recognized more than one actor and then I realized it was actually from General Hospital! There are still some characters left since the mid 90's! And I also realized that it is the same actors in all the american soaps. In General Hospital you can both see the detective from One life to live and Sonnys father from Days, for example.

And if you think you recognize Ryan Carnes who plays ucas Jones, you might do. It is the same Ryan Carnes that played the boyfriend Justin of Andrew van de Kamp in Desperate Housewives, and he was also in the first Eating Out movie. And I have to say, he is quite nice looking at.