Brothers & Sisters

Today continues our summer-long journey through the first season of Brothers & Sisters, from our perspective here at the end of Season Two. As with our re-view of Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, I’ll be looking for contradictions between where the Walkers were then and where they’re at now, and also commenting on how the episodes look in retrospect. I’ll time my observations to the playback of the DVD, for those who want to view along. Share your own reflections in the comments.

And now, Part 1 of Episode 15, “Love Is Difficult.”

0:43
This show really likes opening the teaser on a sex scene. This is the third in the last ten episodes, after Tommy and Julia trying to conceive and Justin and Tyler playing lick-word. Add in Tommy and Julia in the shower and Kitty waking up next to Robert, and that’s five out of ten sex-related openers. What is this, Gossip Girl?

1:05
Closed-captioning informs that the song playing over Sarah and Joe’s bedroom problems is Rosie Thomas’ “Since You’ve Been Around.”

2:28
I wonder how people in marriage counseling are supposed to let things out in therapy and then tuck them back in when the doctor says, “Time’s up!” It doesn’t seem like it would make a relationship better during the time in between sessions.

3:25
Is McCallister really such a high-profile senator that People magazine would care who he dates? Or is Kitty supposed to be famous enough as a TV talking head to merit coverage?

5:36
Ooh, Sarah? When you’re trying to make peace with your little brother, who you leapfrogged to the top of the company power structure, rubbing his nose in how much experience you have and why you were brought in is probably not the best way to go about it. Better than calling him snot-face, but not by a lot.

5:57
Wow, William is laying it on pretty thick with Sarah’s wonderfulness in this flashback. Tommy’s just standing there like chopped liver.

6:56
The trials of being the gay son in the family: You have to date your mom, and you’re expected to compliment her on her terrible artwork.

7:20
We’re going to North Light Coffee again! Figueroa and Sixth. Maybe the Walkers should forget the winery, and buy that place.

8:17
Kevin says to Chad exactly what I was thinking: “You’re an actor. You’re acting.”

8:28
Then Chad says exactly what I was thinking: “I’m not that good an actor.”

9:20
Whatever the senator says, this scene with the polling data? Straight out of Malibu High.

Continue on to Part 2.

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