I've decided to start a new blog featuring commentary on several of the TV shows I watch, as well as movies I see or books I might read. But generally, this will be about TV, because I like TV. For those of you that may want to read about things in my life other than TV, feel free to check out my other blog.
Brothers & Sisters is a show that keeps getting better and better with each passing episode. I really enjoy the family interactions in the Walker clan. The family element really reminds me of my own family, although mine isn't quite that big.
The thing I really love about the show is that it can be funny one second and then heart-wrenching the next. Case in point, the scene at the Christmas tree lot. First we have Nora making a scene to get the tree lot attendant's attention (laugh), and then her granddaughter (whose name I unfortunately am having a mental block on at the moment) has a breakdown wondering if she got diabetes because she wasn't religious enough (heart-wrenching).
Of course that leads to Nora going completely overboard on celebrating Hanukkah so that her granddaughter can experience it. I knew that was going to be a disaster because it's already been clearly established that Nora likes to go overboard with everything, for example, the pool party she held when her granddaughter wouldn't go swimming. I am glad, however, that Saul was able to convince her to tone it down and get Sarah's daughter to participate.
Other things of note. I enjoyed the courtroom scenes with Justin and Kevin. I loved how passionately Kevin was fighting for Justin to get some extended time before going back to the army to get himself clean. It was very classy to have the army general guy step up and encourage Justin to go to rehab and take care of himself before returning to combat. My only problem with this is what they're going to do in six months when Justin will be forced to re-enlist. I'm guessing that that will be part of a cliffhanger, because six months from now (approximately) is conveniently around the time when the season will be wrapping up. That's just my speculation, though.
I like that Kitty is stepping down from Red, White, and Blue. It shows a lot of integrity for her to back away after doing something that is so clearly unethical. I think it will be good for her to work with Rob Lowe's character. I can see that leading to a viable romance.
I'm still not sure what to think about Holly. I feel that Sarah is justified in not liking Holly, although it was a bit underhanded for her to try to buy out Holly at a lower price. I can completely understand Sarah's reasoning, but that doesn't make me like it. Of course, Holly was just as underhanded in getting share of Ojai in exchange for keeping the company out of bankruptcy. I am intrigued to see how this will play out in the future, though. I'm sure board meetings are going to be very tense.
The only thing about this week's episode that I didn't enjoy is that we didn't see much of Tommy. I'd like to see his storyline play out a bit more, but with a cast as large as this one is, I'm not surprised that some characters have more airtime than other in any given episode. As long as this show doesn't start to go all Lost on us and only focus on a few characters, I'll be happy.
With that, I'm going to close out this opening post of my new blog and hope that some readers find their way to this site. I always enjoy talking about TV, so feel free to leave comments for me.
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