Love Interest Check-Up: Holly
Holly hasn’t had a lot to do in the love-interest department — maybe because, as Scott suggested in a comment earlier, her story is only of interest as it intersects the Walkers’, or maybe because producer/director Ken Olin doesn’t want actors making out with his wife. Still, I’ll try to carve out a last little check-up here.
Saul
I suggested in Saul’s love-interest check-up that maybe his relationship with Holly was nothing but a ruse to get information from her; and now, from the other side, maybe Holly was just dating him as a way to tweak Nora and create a connection with the family. Regardless, all concerned — viewers included, most certainly — are probably just as glad that it ended when it did. Prognosis: It’s doubtful that Holly’s ever going to have a genuine friendship with any of her dead lover’s clan, but if she was, Saul would be the most likely.
David
I guess if the script calls for your wife’s character to have an old love interest, one way to handle it is to cast yourself. It was nice to see Ken Olin in front of the camera again, even the scruffy current version. But the relationship still went nowhere. Holly was ambivalent about David when she wasn’t pleasantly hostile, and he seemed to be up to something other than a love re-match. Prognosis: I think David’s only supposed to be around for another episode or so, which should be more to the point of Rebecca’s paternity than Holly’s dating status. Still, this is an actor who should be pretty available to the producers if David needs to pop up again in the future. (But not as a Pop, let’s hope.)
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, Holly, Patricia Wettig, Ron Rifkin, Ken Olin
April 11th, 2008 at 2:53 am
I doubt she can return to a love relationship with Saul. Too much has happened. And I think Saul has reached a point where he accept that he’s gay.
I don’t know how I feel about David. I didn’t like him at first, but then I warmed up a bit to him in 2.12. We share an interest for photography. I wonder if his departure in 2.13 will be a permanent one. Maybe he returns in season 3. I wouldn’t object to his return, knowing what I know now. I don’t know if 2.13 will make me change my mind
April 11th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Actually, slight correction - 2.14 is his last ep.