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Tonight on "Brothers & Sisters," Kitty is faced with two treatment options and Justin & Rebecca consider postponing the wedding.Kitty, Robert, Nora & Wedding Dresses
Kitty has Stage 3 lymphoma and there are two options for treatment: the regular treatment there in California and a new clinical trial in Boston. Rebecca has enlisted Kitty to help her pick out a wedding dress and is using that as a distraction from choosing which treatment to use.
At the dress shopping, the salesgirl says that everything looks good on Rebecca. As someone who wants desperately to hate Emily VanCamp because she's so beautiful... I agree.
Nora wages a bit of war on Robert because they disagree about which treatment she should choose (Nora wants Cali, Robert says Boston) and says that he won't be there for Kitty if she's in Boston because he's never put her first. When she finds out Robert "made a call" to get Kitty into the clinical trial in Boston, Nora goes ballistic and a big fight ensues, which Kitty has to stop. Way to make the cancer patient feel worse, Walkers.
Later, Robert makes up with Nora because they have to be together on this and Justin & Rebecca decide to postpone the wedding because it wouldn't be much of a celebration if everyone's worried about Kitty.
Kitty ends up choosing chemo and California and tells Robert that they should stay at Nora's during her treatments so that someone can cook for them and take care of Evan for them if they need it. Robert is totally agreeable and supportive, it's nice to see.
Kevin & Scotty
Kevin meets with the incumbent governor's PR guy who spills the beans about Kitty's cancer and how they won't use it against Robert. Kevin didn't know and storms over to Kitty's house, where Matthew Rhys has a great eye-welling reaction shot when she confirms it. She decides she has to tell everyone so Nora stages a family dinner, where Kevin and Saul hilariously start crying before Kitty can spill the beans.
At the dinner, Kitty wants to talk to Kevin and Scotty about surrogacy and their baby and Kevin can't handle it. He and Scotty discuss it later and Scotty says, "Let's have a baby." The cancer made him realize how short life is blahblahblah seizethedaycakes. Kevin pushes it off.
Saul & Holly
Saul and Holly shop some cheap wine to add to their excess and sell as cheaper wine. An "old friend" of Ojai is there, Dennis York. He's the man Ryan met with last week and he outbids Holly and Saul at every turn. Turns out he was indicted for price-fixing years ago at a competitor's food company and William Walker was a key witness that sent him away for 5 years.
Holly agrees to meet with him so she can keep her enemies close but Saul goes instead. Dennis claims he has proprietary claims on Ojai and then says he's waging some "friendly competition."
Justin & Rebecca
Justin starts Gross Anatomy in med school and gets saddled with a 16 year-old prodigy. The 16 year-old freaks about the cadaver and Justin has to talk him down, citing that some boy-genius like him is going to find the cure for his sister's cancer. I think they'll work well together.
When Justin & Rebecca tell Kitty about postponing the wedding, she says no way. She needs something to look forward to and something to celebrate. Life can't stop because Kitty is sick. Rebecca then asks Kitty to be her Matron of Honor, which she was going to do anyway but it's even more special now.
There's a big family gathering at the end of the episode and Sarah shows up and Kitty's reaction of relief just kills me.
Thoughts & Tidbits
- Matthew Rhys just kills me. He managed to make me both cry and crack up in the span of 5 minutes.
- When does that little gross creepy puke Ryan get strung up for giving documents to Dennis York? I am beyond ready for THAT.
- I love the final scene of the episode, it was vintage "Brothers & Sisters."
- Okay, so: Rachel Griffiths and Balthazar Getty's absences were MUCHO conspicuous this episode in particular. Edited to add: GLAD to see Rachel back at the end of the episode because it seemed weird without her.
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Another great episode, the good thing about brothers and sisters is it has been on for four years but has managed to be the show it has been from episode one. It is about family. Not many shows can do that like for instance, Grey's Anatomy. I love the show, the actors, and the family dinners.
Why is Robert being such an *** this season. Your wife has cancer yet you are still running for governor. ASSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin medical school storyline will be fun this season. Don't give up Justin, you can do it.
Now we all know Kitty wont die. obviously. I mean killing off Calista flockhart would be like killing Christina yang off Grey's anatomy. The show would seem too weird to watch without her. I like the way this show is handling it but I am sick and tired of all tv shows having their characters die or almost die from CANCER. Are their no life threating disease out their, yeah Cancer is number one but what is number 2,3,4,5 and so on.
Come up with an original disease TV writers. No offense to Cancer but I had to deal with that storyline in Season 4 of Desperate housewives and Season 5 of Grey's anatomy. I think i get it, Cancer is deadly.
Great acting as always.
Kevin mentioned Kitty as a big sister, but I thought Kitty was younger. What is the birth order of the Walker Children? (Nora's and William's that is)
By FAR both one of the best-written and best-directed episodes of Brothers & Sisters...ever. Every single cast member shined.
Birth order is Sarah, Tommy, Kitty, Kevin, Justin
According to the Wikipedia birth dates and this fits with what I remember from the first season the birth order of the Walker children is Sarah, Kitty, Tommy, Kevin and Justin. The computer password from season 1 was S-K-T-K-J-R and I always understood that Kitty was the older K.
Rachel is right, it's Sarah, Kitty, Tommy, Kevin, Justin, Ryan.
It's interesting because if you go by real-life ages of the actors it goes Kitty, Sarah, Kevin, Tommy, Justin, Ryan.
Thanks!!!
Last week I went off on how this show was lacking its usual excellence. Tonight's episode brought it back to the high standard this show has set for itself. Calista's acting with her mood swings was spot on. Rob Lowe, who seemed to be lacking the last couple weeks shined as well, as did Dave Annabelle.
-Thank you for making the connection that Dennis was the man Ryan gave the plans to, somehow I overlooked that.
-I like that they will keep Ryan around to be in an occasional episode. His presence serves a purpose but I think we all agree that he should not be a regular.
-B&S keeps managing ways for William to mess up their lives, even after he has been dead for years- genius. I love how the Ryan/Dennis story became intertwined- two of Williams mistakes come back to haunt Ojai.
-The scene between Nora and Robert in the kitchen = amazing.
-I'm so glad Kevin didn't gleefully except Scotty's acceptance of having a baby- it would have seemed too soon and too convenient of an excuse to move ahead with that story line. Save it for the end of the season when it can be more of a focus.
-After tonight's emotionally taxing episode next weeks looks lighthearted and funny, can't wait to see Rachael back on the show!
Oh my gosh, this episode was fantastic. Every ep is really great and always makes me cry but this one.... And the final scene with Sarah and Kitty... OMG, total sobbing. I loved that Robert was so supportive of Kitty. I knew he could do it. The scenes with Justin and his med school partner were excellent. I was so proud of Justin. And Rebecca did look gorgeous in that wedding dress but I really wanted to see her in the feather dress. Great show.
I was really, really dreading yet ANOTHER cancer storyline on another ABC show that I watch, but if ever a show and cast can pull it off so elegantly, it is B&S! Congrats, I look forward to seeing how it all plays out!