Nora Walker is a what now?
Well, isn’t this just the kind of thing Luther Reeves would have a field day with. Turns out Senator McCallister’s communications director and fiancee referred to her mother as a “Gold Star Mother” when in fact she is nothing of the sort.
As it turns out, though, this won’t be the goof that finally gets Kitty fired. In a post on the writers’ blog Bloggers & Sisters, the Brothers & Sisters writers have apologized for writing that line in the episode “An American Family,” and not realizing that a Gold Star Mother is someone whose child “served and died in the line of duty.” So the woman in the fake-out funeral at the beginning might be a Gold Star Mother, but Nora is not.
Writes the writing staff, “We are truly sorry for our gross oversight during the writing of this episode. As ever, the writers and producers of this show are in awe and indebted to those serving our country as well as the people that love them.”
In other writerly news, the second edition of the “Writer’s Room” video interview features Molly Newman and David Marshall Grant talking about their collaboration on “An American Family.” There’s also a new installment of TV Guide’s version of the writers’ blog, although since it came out before Sunday’s episode it’s the sort of lengthy exposition about nothing you’d usually find on “Bloggers & Sisters.”
Maybe the writers should spend a little more time doing research and a little less time in blog activity, hmm?
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