Brothers & Sisters

Today we continue our look for inconsistent or comment-worthy moments in the Brothers & Sisters first season with a look at the second part of Episode 3. Read yesterday’s post for the first eight minutes or so, then hop right in here.

8:42
Nora doesn’t care who dates Warren — could be Kitty, could be Kevin — but somebody in the family should be. Why doesn’t she just go after him? As it turns out, I guess Saul should have been in the running, too.

9:19
Nora wonders why nobody told her that Paige wouldn’t go in the pool. And again, I’m thinking, why wouldn’t Paige’s trauma at being alone with Grandpa when he had whatever attack he had and fell into the pool have been higher on everybody’s minds?

9:22
Kitty says that what the siblings don’t tell Mom could fill the Library of Congress. I don’t know. I’d say that what this gang doesn’t blab about pretty immediately would fill, maybe, a breadbox.

9:35
Kitty accuses Nora of making up childhood memories. It’s the Holden Lying Gene at work.

9:40
Justin says of Paige: “Like Tiki torches are going to get her to swim in the pool that Grandpa died in.” Though if you throw in a grass skirt …

10:08
One who positively did not inherit even a trace of the Holden Lying Gene is Justin, whose eyes practically bug out when Nora starts talking about the little house in Silver Lake and Holly. Let’s check the elapsed time between him hearing that Nora met Holly …

10:52
… and telling Kitty their dad had an affair with her. Forty-four seconds. Pretty fast, even by Walker standards.

11:16
Kitty’s last words to Justin on the subject are, “Don’t tell anybody else.” Mm-hmm.

11:28
Sarah says she doesn’t want to take her dad’s office. Do you suppose Holly is going to move into this space when the new deal goes down next season?

11:36
Kevin says Sarah and Tommy are like Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robots. Let’s remember that image as they co-president in the new regime.

11:40
Sarah used to eat Tommy’s diapers? How is that possible? Even if it was only once? Or twice, depending on who you believe.

11:51
Hey, Greg Berlanti’s aboard as of this episode!

12:05
Sarah fired the Ruika brothers! Apparently they don’t teach you about keeping bums on the payroll as a favor to suppliers in MBA School. Only in Gut School.

12:19
Normally I side with Sarah in these fistfights with Tommy, but she’s really being pretty condescending here. She’ll get her comeuppance, of course. Many many many times over.

12:56
Saul huffs, “What kind of person do you think I am?” and Justin asks what his siblings should, too, when their uncle pulls that defensive act: “I don’t know, what kind are you?”

13:12
When Kitty told Justin not to tell anybody else about Dad’s affair, she never said he couldn’t tell Saul he told her.

13:20
Justin says of Kitty, “Don’t worry, she’s not gonna tell anyone.” Not faster than 44 seconds, anyway. Justin, your record is safe.

13:52
Poor Warren. He’s flirting away here not realizing that pretty much this entire conversation has cheating-dad subtext for Kitty.

13:54
“The sex drive in men is a fiery diety,” says Warren. Maybe that’s what they should put on William’s tombstone, especially if many more illegitimate kiddos pop up.

14:11
Per the closed-captioning, we’re listening to Joss Stone with “Super Duper Love.”

14:20
When Kitty told Justin not to tell anybody else about Dad’s affair, she never said she herself couldn’t tell somebody outside the family.

14:41
Kitty had a boyfriend who cheated on her once. In college. His name was Alex Sapin. Another one to add to her love-interest check-up.

15:06
“The world is too fragile for people to be untrue. There’s too much at stake, and life’s too short for lies. And you’re the worst kind of person in the world, because you wasted my heart. My time.” That’s what Kitty said to her old boyfriend, and thinks about her dad … but it seems like there’s a lot of folks who’d like to say that to the Brothers & Sisters writers after that Rebecca fake-out.

16:04
“We don’t love the people we love because they’re perfect. We love the people we love because they are.” That’s what Warren says to Kitty, but it’s also kind of why I’m not going to stop watching this show even when it wastes my heart and my time. I love those Walkers because they are.

16:20
Ah, that Warren, he’s a clever one. If smarminess doesn’t work, sensitivity will get ‘em in bed every time.

16:25
“Express Yourself” by Mocean Worker accompanies Kitty’s Big Mistake.

Continue on with Part 3.

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