Five Questions: “Mistakes Were Made Part 2″
Five questions from this past Sunday’s re-run episode still rattling in my brain today.
1. Has anybody in the family noticed that Tommy’s usually right? The guy doesn’t seem to get a lot of respect at the office, but he was right about hunting down the land, he was right about checking with the bank, and he was right about everybody babying Justin excessively (himself included). It’s too soon to tell if he’s right about the wine business, but holding his track record up next to Sarah’s, I’d put my money on him.
2. Was Nora’s dalliance with David really necessary? Let’s see, in this two-episode arc, Nora goes on a date with him in which she mostly talks about her husband, sleeps with him, and then breaks up with him. Were we supposed to see some sort of emotional growth from Nora based on this, or some purpose for those minutes that could have been applied to another story line? I’d gladly have given up that whole plot point for more time with Sarah and Kevin and Tommy in the bar.
3. Why is the senator offering Kitty a job? Hiring someone who just admitted on national television that she tried to bribe you and compromised her journalistic integrity doesn’t seem to be the keenest choice for a politician to make. We’ve not seen any evidence that she’s any kind of an ace communicator, and she doesn’t seem to be all that much of a Republican, either. Maybe he just really, really wants to buy her that espresso.
4. Does the resolution of William’s embezzling scheme make sense to anybody? Don’t get me wrong, I am ever so glad to see that particular plot development put to rest. But … he stole the money to buy the land that would be worth a lot of money and that his children would have to play Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew to figure out how to get? All right, I guess he didn’t know he was going to die, and maybe he had plans to make things clearer, but … I don’t get it. Kind of feels like the writers wanted to get rid of that plot development, too.
5. Is everyone in Nevada a hick? This episode originally played right after a Studio 60 episode that also had civilized coastal folk caught in a desert backwater with locals who do not embrace the ways of the 21st century, like them newfangled credit cards. Oh, you city slickers, racing down our highways and putting Evian in your engines. We gonna bring you down!
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