Brothers & Sisters

Surely we don’t want to revisit the mucked-up mutual-infidelity storyline these two got caught in this season. But these former partners are out there, poised to make trouble if our prayers to the writing gods go unheard. The series of check-ups of Tommy and family continues with a look at these misbegotten love interests:

Lena
Tommy’s new office manager was in the right place at the right time when Julia abandoned Tommy and stayed out of touch. When Tommy finally broke it off, just in time for Julia’s return, Lena took Justin as her consolation prize. But she still held a torch for Tommy until he snuffed it out, and she left town. Hooray! Prognosis: I hope I speak for everybody when I say good riddance, Lena, and get lost. I’m not looking for any stories from this Friend of Rebecca in the future, and I will imagine her residing happily in the Land of Lost Love Interests, maybe flirting with Nora’s sleazy old college professor Mark. But if Emily Rose has some sort of blackmail info on a B&S PTB that makes her return inevitable, there could be some small, sad amusement in having her come back pregnant and fixing to make trouble for Tommy, when everybody else will know the baby has to be Justin’s. Being a dad might not be a bad grow-up move for that slacker boy, but I’d much prefer she just leave the infant in a basket on the doorstep and get the heck back out of town.

Julia’s Old Boyfriend
While she was working off her depression with her parents in Arizona, Julia hooked up with an old high school boyfriend. And that’s a little confusing, because on the ABC.com B&S site, Julia’s bio says she dated Tommy in high school, and Tommy’s bio says this about the time after he dropped out of school to work in the family business: “By this time, he had gotten back together with Julia Ridge, his high school sweetheart.” So, was it the Ridges’ move to Arizona during high school that broke Tommy and Julia up, and introduce her to a new HS boyfriend? He’s got to be from AZ, because otherwise Tommy would have known him, and he wouldn’t have had a reason to be around to distract Julia from her grieving. Unless her dad had him flown in to woo her away from Tommy … nah, it’s probably just that the writing hand doesn’t know what the PR hand is doing. Prognosis: And that’s more than I hope we ever have to think about that fellow again. Though I’ll bet that, even as we speak, Mr. Ridge is trying to persuade the guy to pay Julia a visit. As befits the Father-in-Law From Hell.

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