Oh my word Jeremy Edwards has changed a lot since the 90s! I used to love Kurt (the Rob Hawthorne story was fab, he was Silas-level ham/sinister villainy). Did Kurt always talk like this? He sounds like he's bitten his tongue or something. I watched a clip of him talking to Mercedes and she seemed repulsed by him, him being the big swoon of the show back in the day
I hate the impact of when a soap character comes back from the dead, across all soaps not just HO. It's an episode or two of shock and fallout, then it's like they've never been away - never mind assumed dead - and the resurrected character is forever hit with mocking or insults from other characters for pretending to be dead! (See Beale, Kathy as an example).