General Hospital Daily YAPP Recap, August 19: Drug-induced heart attacks are so 2024

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General Hospital's Maxie | Image: ABC

Welcome to the General Hospital Daily Y.A.P.P. (Your After-Program Ponderings) for a quick — and by that, I mean you’re already halfway done — recap of the most amazing or what-the-heck-did-we-just-watch moments on today’s episode. Let’s get to it:

What happened on General Hospital

Lucas and Liz worked to save Maxie on General Hospital | Image: ABC
Lucas and Liz worked to save Maxie on General Hospital | Image: ABC

So, it looks like Maxie did indeed have a heart attack. It's also pretty clear it was induced by a jar of sabotaged, poisoned face cream. Sidwell's interest in Maxie last week, his quest to watch the Deception appearance on Home and Heart, as well as the close-up of the face cream, made this obvious, but boy, is this not original. Just last year, Cyrus Renault killed Sam McCall (and tried to kill several others) by using Digitalis to induce a heart attack. While giving a heart transplant recipient a heart attack is a great use of history to help usher Maxie and Kirsten Storms off the canvas for a few months, the timing could not have been worse. Watching Lucas and Liz work to get Maxie's heart started again only reminded us of those awful scenes when Sam died, not even 10 months ago. If GH had Sam die via a different method, this new story for Maxie would be playing better. Instead, it just seems way too weird and coincidental that there is yet another bad guy in town who can give our favorite scrappy heroines heart attacks at will. A few years back, Cyrus even gave Sasha a heart attack with some tainted street drugs. Maybe it's time to ease up on giving all these women heart attacks because the scenario is getting to be a little played out at this point.

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