Brothers & Sisters

Today we conclude our search for inconsistent or comment-worthy moments in the Brothers & Sisters first season with a look at the fifth and final part of Episode 12. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 if you need to catch up, then dive right in here with Part 5.

33:18
There’s a cough medicine that knocks Cooper out? Joe and Sarah might want to keep that on hand.

34:41
Joe says “You have your job” like that’s some oasis for Sarah to go from the stress of raising kids. C’mon, man, have you been paying any attention at all to our story thus far? Compared to finding out your dad was an embezzler, nearly losing the company, and then having to work with his mistress, even being cooped up with Coop looks good.

34:59
Joe says, “Sarah, you’re my wife. And there is no one else that I’d rather be with.” Why do I now think that sentence continues in his head, “But when you’re not here, Vanessa will do.”

36:54
Nora doesn’t know what to do with the rest of her life. Looks like perhaps she will devote it to taking in her husband’s illegitimate children and making them like her better than their own birth mothers.

37:35
Too bad Nora’s man-fast didn’t last long enough to spare us the professor storyline.

38:32
For a woman who’s just bemoaned her lack of purpose because her children are all grown, Nora sure has a lot of people in her kitchen expecting breakfast.

39:37
The closed-captioning helpfully informs us of the following sounds in Kevin’s gym: “music playing” and “straining.”

40:27
After introducing his girlfriend, Chad tells Kevin they should get together later and grab a smoothie. Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

41:58
Seeing all these entirely anonymous people aswirl around Robert’s office makes me wonder whether they recycle extras. I mean, these could be the same people at the restaurant and at the gym and at various Walker parties, and who’d know? Seems like kind of a waste to hire somone to play Fifth Guy With Tie and nobody else. A few of them could even move up to being illegitimate Walkers somewhere down the line.

And that’s five days of catch-up on Episode 12. Next up for Retcon Patrol: “Something Ida This Way Comes.”

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