Brothers & Sisters

Five questions from Sunday’s episode still rattling in my brain today.

1. Is Rebecca up to something? Honestly, it never occurred to me watching the episode that she might be lying. I thought Joe was very clearly putting the moves on her, laying on the “we’re both Walker outsiders” business pretty thick and intentionally invading her personal space. I bought her attempts to fit in at Game Night, and her reluctance to tattle to Justin. But I seem to be in the minority; many, many viewers, including commenters on this post, have their doubts about that girl, and over on the Television Without Pity message boards, they’re practically forming a lynch mob over her attempts to throw Game Night and wreak havoc in her mother’s footsteps. (By the way, how cool is it that there are now TWoP message boards for this show!) I don’t think there’s any way this plot line can turn out that I’m going to like, but we’ll see.

2. Has Kevin hit bottom yet? We love him, of course, but this Walker brother has been behaving pretty badly for the last few episodes. Granted, he didn’t know that he was making his anti-McCallister tirade to the senator’s own brother, but it was still pretty harsh stuff for a blind date, and he was completely tone deaf to Jason’s responses. Coming on the heels of his less-than-stellar ending with Chad, it’s making him start to look like a … heel. Lighten up, kid. We know you have it in you to be sweet, charming, and non-jerk-like.

3. What’s with all the “J” names? Justin, Julia and Joe seemed like just a little much, but now there’s Jason in the mix? Let’s hope Kitty’s old boyfriend Jonathan doesn’t come back.

4. What is it the senator sees in Kitty again? Boy, she just blew all that moral high ground she had going after their fight a couple of weeks back. It’s hard to see why such a well-spoken control freak would want to be linked to a flibbertygibbet who can’t get out a complete sentence without stumbles and head shakes and hand waves, and who blithely interferes in situations without at all thinking things through. Opposites attract, I guess, but if you look in the Successful Politicians manual, I think you’ll see a picture of Kitty with a line through it when you get to the section on Appropriate Political Wives.

5. Who eats turkey on Easter? It’s totally a ham holiday, people. And if you don’t dig pig, how about a roast, or even a chicken? Duck seems a mighty big way down the list. Unless that nefarious Rebecca, working together with the evil Joneses, conspired to steal every other animal product from every butcher shop in the greater Los Angeles area to stick the Walkers with duck-a-cide. She’s a bad seed, for sure.

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