Brothers & Sisters

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

1. How low will Sarah go? I’ve always liked Sarah. But she has a blind spot a mile wide when it comes to Holly, and it causes her to make bad decision after bad decision after spiteful cruel bad decision. The decision to try to cheat Holly out of money caused Holly to blackmail her way into the business. The decision to keep Rebecca’s existence a secret caused Sarah to lose her close relationship with Nora — and that would have happened eventually, whether Saul spilled the beans or not. And her decision to tell Rebecca about her parentage is just cruel. If she were doing it out of compassion for a girl that had been lied to, maybe. But that scene, where she calls Rebecca into her office? Spider-and-fly stuff. She was doing it solely to hurt Holly, and who cares about the innocent girl caught in the middle. That’s beneath Sarah, way, way beneath her, and sneaking close to the borderline of unforgiveable. She needs to have an epiphany about the way her repressed rage at William is clouding her judgment and choking out everything good in her life, and she needs it fast. Also, a prescription sleep aid.

2. How naive is Kevin? You don’t really even have to have any knowledge of the Web or gossip bloggers to know that threatening someone over a rumor is going to come back and bite you. Of course, knowing when to shut up and when to speak up seems to be a hard-to-acquire life skill for all the Walkers, over two generations, so maybe we can give him a pass on this one. I’m surprised Chad did, though.

3. Is McCallister rethinking his run for the presidency? If he wants to stay with Kitty, he’d maybe be better dropping out of politics altogether — and not because they can never have a “normal” relationship. Secrets are like explosive devices in a political campaign, and the Walker Clan is like a Secrets R Us emporium. Who knows what these folks will be found to have lied about next?

4. Do local restaurants go on alert when the Walkers come in? Because they seem to spend a lot of meals yelling at each other, or storming out, or making declarations of love, or some sort of drama. There should be a special “Walker Room” always on call so as to avoid disturbing the other patrons.

5. Doesn’t Tyler have an apartment? Because if she does, Justin, dude, why are you bringing her to your mother’s house for sex? Nothing good can come of that, unless you enjoy having breakfast with Mom the next morning.

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