We’ll drink to that

All the attention this week has been on Sally Field and her Best Actress Emmy, but the ensemble of Walker Family actors did actually receive a group award as well: A Tubey Award of Questionable Cachet for “Best Ensemble Drunkenness” from Television Without Pity. As Coach Baron writes tribute:
“You’d think that after the perpetually besodden Justin went into rehab, the amount of alcohol consumed on Brothers And Sisters by his family, the Walkers, would have significantly diminished. Not so, as siblings Sarah, Tommy, Kitty, and Kevin, along with Uncle Saul and mom Nora, combined to pick up the slack, thereby ensuring that the vineyards of California wouldn’t have to cut their employees’ pension plans. All these drunken scenes might have tested the actors’ ability to act half-to-full in the bag, but they rose to the challenge, to which we at TWoP answer: Kudosszzzhh!”
Forget the vineyards of California — there’s a vineyard in the family this season! From what I hear of the Season One DVD set, which was released on Monday but hasn’t yet reached my mailbox, there’s an alcohol-swilling montage among the extras. How did they find room for anything else?
Photo: ABC.com


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