Brothers and Sisters 1.16: The Other Walker

"I told you that lamp was really gay! And ugly!"

Silly, silly Sarah. You stupid bitch. I love how I think I'm going to start every blog about Brothers and Sisters like that. Anyways, Sarah is being completely stupid this episode. Mainly because she meets Rebecca (which is actually a fairly poignant moment), and then spills the beans on the fact that she's her sister and she hates her on principle. This causes a huge rift between Rebecca and Holly, and Holly takes Sarah's actions as a declaration of war. Sarah's all "Bring it!" Except that I'm not rooting for either of them because a war between them, at least the way it's being handled, is competely stupid.

The rest of the family is also dealing with Rebecca's reappearance... and some of them are dealing with her existence at all. Sarah, Tommy, Kevin, and Saul swear an oath of secrecy about her and decide not to tell the others, but Saul relents when he takes Nora out to lunch and she tells him she's considering making Holly part of the family. "Oh, by the way, Nora, William had ANOTHER KID!!" Nora is rightfully upset, but I am glad that Saul did it and the way he did was very touching. Of course, the Three Musketeers berate Saul for telling Nora, but he's all, "What am I supposed to do? Keep it from her?" And they're like, "Yeah! That's what we promised!" Whatever.

Kitty and Justin find out, and while Kitty freaks out in her very verbose Ally McBeal-kinda way (except without the hallucinations of a dancing baby and Barry White), Justin is the only person who's all, "Hey, has anyone wondered how Rebecca's feeling about all this?" So, he's the only one who goes to meet her and has an awkward yet sweet half-sibling to half-sibling chat.

Oh, and some gossip website is targeting Chad of being a secret homo (which he is) after catching some photos of him and Kevin lamp-shopping (which they were) and this whole silly scenario is really because Chad wants to subconsciously get outted (which he totally does), and Kevin threatens to sue the rag, which totally implicates Chad. They agree to keep their relationship to late-night fucking. Apropos.

I very much like this show, and I'm totally interested in where it'll go now that the long-alluded-to Rebecca is now in the picture. What makes the show work better as opposed to other such family shows is the politics - be it the literal politics (Republican vs. Democrat, the Iraq war, gay marriage) or the personal politics (who am I siding with? who is right?), and now with the prospect of a war within the family, I'm pretty thrilled with the possiblities. Let's hope they follow through on them.

All in all: A-

Until next time, same bat time, same bat channel.

Brothers and Sisters 1.15: Love is Difficult

"Well, he said that I wasn't as smart as Hillary Clinton, but I was prettier."

Silly, silly Sarah. You stupid bitch. Honestly, Sarah, you think that just because your husband is talking to another woman doesn't mean he's cheating on you. Plus, didn't your ass almost have an affair with Noah in the pilot? Well, luckily for me, the continuity fairies also seem to remember this, as Sarah tearfully confesses during an extremely awkward couples-therapy session with The Sloane Clone (aka Joel Grey) as their therapist that she was planning on having an affair with Noah long ago, and felt that Dad's infidelity with Holly very well might have been passed down to her. Way to blame everything on your dead father, Sarah.

Speaking of: the writers present the Sarah/Tommy rivalry in a new light - I totally now see that Sarah and Tommy are supposed to be Cain and Abel, which I guess makes Tom Skerritt God. An interesting image, I guess. But honestly, the Cain/Abel slant on the story made things a whole lot more interesting and heartfelt, as I totally jumped on the Tommy bandwagon here. Sarah is a complete control freak, and for the first time, I have absolutely no sympathy for her. And now with Tommy leaving Ojai to go start the winery with Holly, Cain has symbolically killed Abel. But, the question remains, would I want to drink wine bottled by Grace and Dr. Barnett? (For those not in the know, Balthazar Getty and Patricia Wettig were both on Alias, playing Thomas Grace and Dr. Judy Barnett, respectively).

Speaking of Holly (who I guess would be Satan in the whole Bible analogy), I noticed a new cast member in the opening credits, which totally intrigued me - someone named Emily VanCamp, and I was like, "Who the fuck is that?" So, of course, I had to go to IMDB to check her out (in both senses of the word), and while her headshot and resume were there, there was no mention of her being a regular on Brothers and Sisters. I mentioned this to my parents, and my mom was instantly like, "She's their missing sister." Ahhh! Bingo! Holly's daughter Rebecca. Well, I guess this means that she'll be around for a while, and boy does she look like Sarah! Good casting, Casting Gods.

In other story land, Kevin breaks up with Chad because he refuses to come out of the closet (plus, the fact that Michelle's called him, telling him that Chad has left girls to be with guys, then goes back to girls again), which is totally fine with me. I'm all for Kevin finding a neurotic straight-gay like him, but all he finds are either sensitive femmes like Scotty (who I guess was kinda cute with him), or closet-case assholes like Chad. But I suppose the show is all about showing the wide range of current-day homosexuality. Coolbeans, I guess. But Kevin, meanwhile, is a single asshole, as opposed to being a taken asshole. Kitty discovers that the Senator's staff has done a poll on her, since they all know she's fucking him. She gets offended, but the Senator calms her nerves and makes it all funny and shit, which he does a lot.

I wonder if Republicans can be that funny. JUST KIDDING, REPUBLICAN(S)! It's just a joke, and this is just a stupid blog.

Since we're on the subject of the Senator, since he's running for President, wouldn't it be great if Brothers and Sisters did a crossover with 24, and have an assassination attempt on the Senator, all spearheaded by Reed? That would mean Chad Lowe is trying to kill Rob Lowe. That would make for interesting TV.

All in all: B+

Until next time. Same bat time, same bat channel.

- Cesar