🗑️ Scraping the Bottom: The Shameless Resurrection of Sam McCall to ‘Save’ Scout from Drew Cain’s ‘Danger’

The rumor mill of Port Charles is once again churning out stale, recycled garbage, and this time, the writers of General Hospital have decided to insult the audience with a two-for-one deal: the desperate resurrection of Sam McCall to “save” her daughter, Scout, from the manufactured menace that is Drew Cain. This is not high drama; it is a nauseating display of creative bankruptcy and a stunning example of how little the show values the emotional intelligence of its viewers.

Let us be brutally honest about the hypocrisy here. Sam McCall was written off the show—dead, gone, a definitive end to a twenty-year run—only for the current regime to immediately backtrack and re-engineer her death into a temporary inconvenience. The show is attempting to evoke a sense of cathartic heroism, positioning the miraculously returned Sam as the savior against the latest narrative scapegoat: Drew. This blatant, unearned twist utterly negates the dramatic impact of her death and demonstrates the producers’ complete unwillingness to commit to any consequences. No one ever truly dies in Port Charles, but the shameless haste with which they undo major plot points is insulting.

And what exactly is this supposed “danger” that Drew Cain poses to his own child? The search for context reveals only the usual soap opera machinations: a character moving, a custody spat, a political spat, or a business rivalry. Drew is being portrayed as the villain not because he is a mob boss or a serial killer, but because he is inconvenient to the desired narrative—a narrative that now needs a grand, heroic return for a beloved character. The show is fabricating peril where none exists, turning an everyday, albeit dramatic, co-parenting dispute into a life-or-death scenario purely to justify the reintroduction of Sam.

This is the very worst kind of judgmental television writing: it uses the deep, genuine love between a mother and her child as a cheap emotional tool, cynically leveraging the viewers’ desire for Sam’s return against their forced distrust of Drew. The entire plot is designed to be an emotional sugar rush without any nutritional value. Sam’s “heroism” will be celebrated, but the act itself is based on a foundation of lies—both the lie that she was truly dead, and the lie that Drew is a danger needing saving from.

The show should be ashamed of relying on such transparent, manipulative stunts. The integrity of the storytelling died the moment they decided that Sam McCall was worth more to them alive, even as a plot device to attack another character, than the respect they owed her exit. This entire arc is nothing more than a desperate scramble to reset the chessboard, using the trauma of a dead mother’s return and the manufactured villainy of a father as its pathetic engine.