First impressions: “Lost and Found”
A few quick thoughts on last night’s Brothers and Sisters episode. Tune in during the coming week for a recap, memorable lines, and five questions.
• On the candy or a rock scale, this one was kind of like a rock through your window. Given how much this season has wandered, I’ve been bracing myself for episodes with lots of Big! Dramatic! Plot! Developments! and no room for fun, and this was one of ‘em. I’m happy that we’re finally getting a two-hour episode, but I hope there’s more to it than this.
• Ryan has a job! Right there, he’s ahead of Justin, and Rebecca when she joined the family. If you’re going to bring another Troubled Youth aboard, one that works and goes to school is a step in the right direction.
• Couldn’t Tommy have given his holding company a name that sounded at least a little like Crawford? If it’s going to be that easy to prove the holding company’s yours, a little more subterfuge in advance sounds like a good idea.
• I missed Sarah.
• Hey, Justin, just some relationship advice here: When your girlfriend, who you’ve been worried about, finally returns your call, you might not want to throw the same thing at her that made her bolt in the first place.
• I appreciated Kevin’s valiant attempt at comic relief with the ticking time bomb business, but it didn’t really take. This is about the most dour episode in recent memory.
• If someone’s really going to die next week, and it’s not just the usual inaccurate promo hype, I nominate David as the Most Likely to be Bait-and-Switched — only because I can think of absolutely no other reason for him to pick up out of nowhere and go to L.A. Perhaps someone throws Rebecca under that bus Sylviane was talking about, and he dives in front to save her.
• Another skipped week before the next episode! Darn those Oscars.
Photo: ABC
Brothers and Sisters, Lost and Found, ABC
February 17th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I’m a little worried about next week’s episode because I keep hearing that a “Walker” is going to die and that would exclude Saul, Robert, David, et al because they’re not Walkers. And are we supposed to assume that the person you quickly see on the ground is the person who is going to die? I’m going to be so anxious watching it.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I don’t believe a word of the promos. I’ll just wait and see. I’ll get a bus schedule and give it to anyone willing to throw Rebecca under that bus… and maybe she can take her mom with her.
Great observation about Ryan. I was prepared to hate him but the Ryan/Nora scenes were my favorite parts of the episode. At least his emotion was believable.
I missed Sarah also. And Justin needs a storyline.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Did anyone else notice how similar Ryan looks to Kitty and Paige? Amaging casting, and so far a good story line with Nora, even the decision not to accept her invitation to come to LA immediately rang true. The kid seems pretty well grounded overall considering he lost his mother and found out his father wasn’t his father recently.