Brothers & Sisters

TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello has delivered a big package of Brothers & Sisters spoilers in the latest edition of his Ask Ausiello. They bear discussion, but for those who are trying to remain spoiler-free, I’ll go ahead and continue the chat after the jump.

I don’t think it’s ruining anything, though, to say that there are lots of transitions for our favorite dysfunctional family in these next two episodes. Name me any two episodes this season that haven’t packed in loads of transitions. At this point, the most stunning spoiler would be: “The Walkers get drunk in one episode, and sleep it off the next. No one marries, divorces, hooks up, breaks up, quits a job, starts a company, flirts with somebody else’s husband, gets pregnant, loses a baby, loses custody, gets custody, does drugs, detoxes, leaks a political secret, cheats, tattles, provokes or takes offense.”

But that’s not what these spoilers say, no, indeed. Let’s take them one by one and obsess about them, shall we?

[The Feb. 17 episode] features a guest turn by none other than Veronica’s pa, Enrico Colantoni! And that’s not the juiciest part, this is: He appears in what can only be described as a highly suggestive scene with another — hold onto your hats, Neptune Pirates — dude. And you’ll recognize this dude since he’s a series regular on the show.

Well, that has to be Saul, right? Kevin’s already juggling two guys, I don’t think he needs another one. Good to see they may be finally putting that Saul-comes-out storyline on the front burner … just in time to abandon it for months thanks to the writer’s strike.

Someone leaves the show, most likely for good.

Let it be Lena let it be Lena please please please please please. Guess it could be one of the other peripheral characters whose ties to the Walkers could be severed — Graham, Isaac, Travis, Scotty, even Julia — but it’s not. No. No. It’s Lena. Gotta be. Right?

Kevin chooses between Jason and Scotty.

You know, I really liked what little we saw of Kevin and Jason together, and I think in many ways they’re a better match than Kevin and Scotty. If I had my druthers, I’d dream up a really good excuse for Jason not calling all those months (”Because the writers were hedging their bets” would be accurate, but probably not persuasive), and get those two back together. But I know there’s a fervent Scotty contingent, and really, I’d be fine with that pairing, too, as long as it leads to a Kevin relationship that lasts more than a few episodes. We get that he has trouble with commitment. Work on it.

Multiple relationships end, but one of them permanently so.

I’m taking Sarah Jane Morris’s word for it that Tommy and Julia stay together. If you can call what Justin and Lena had a relationship, I’m all for that ending permanently, with extreme prejudice. If you consider Kevin to have two relationships at the moment, one of them needs to end, though giving his seesaw love life, maybe not permanently. Nora and Sarah seem to be on the verge of relationships with Isaac and Graham, respectively, and given the show’s current brisk pace they can be through with those guys in two episodes easily.

Sarah channels a gay icon, and, as a result, becomes one herself.

I’m assuming this has something to do with a scene at a karaoke bar I’ve been hearing about. Don’t know if a road trip’s involved, but it sure sounds like Road Trip Sarah.

A couple has sex for the first time.

Gotta be Nora and Isaac or Sarah and Graham, I’d imagine. Or maybe Saul and whoever Enrico Colantoni is playing. As long as it’s not Justin and Rebecca, we’re good.

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