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Tonight on "Brothers & Sisters," Ryan is an even bigger jerk than I could've imagined.Ojai Wine
Saul loves the new inexpensive wine and wants to enter it in a festival.
At the festival, the wine goes over like gangbusters. It wins the top prize for the Table Wine class. Yay cheap Ojai wine! Ryan immediately calls his shady guy because he's a creeper. He meets with Dennis York, who says that if this wine does well he'll never gain control of Ojai and Ryan should help him make sure it tanks.
So what does he do? Drains the wine out of the vats. Ass.
Kevin & Scotty
They have to search a database of eligible egg donors. Haha. Scotty says it's weird to be choosing different aspects so specifically and he's concerned that Kevin's anal-retentiveness is going to translate to the child never being good enough for him.
They narrow it down to to a Top 20 and asks for Nora and Saul's opinions. Saul talks Kevin down from the find-the-perfect-donor ledge and he lets Scotty randomly choose the donor because their child will be the product of their parenting.
Nora & Simon
Nora insists there's no hanky-panky because he's "20 years younger" than she is. Hmmm. Simon says later that he's 47. So is Nora supposed to be 67? That doesn't seem right. Hmmm. She goes to dinner at his house and he invites himself to the wine festival, wondering if Nora is embarrassed to be seen with him because he's younger than she is.
So Nora takes him to the festival to prove she's not uncomfortable but then she's a totally uncomfortable and weird. And also jealous when he talks to a girl, so she just blurts out that he's completely in love with Nora. It's hilarious. However, when a photographer takes a picture of them he says, "Little closer to your mom please." Ouch. Later, Simon says it doesn't matter to him but that it obviously bothers her and it won't work because she lives in a safe little box.
Nora advises Sarah that in finding Luc, she found the a guy who supports her, likes her and likes himself and that's the holy grail of relationships. Nora then vows to tell Simon that she doesn't live in a safe little box. When she does so, they make up.
Sarah & Luc
Sarah wants Luc to do the label for the wine bottle and he balks, saying he doesn't "paint on demand." Oh c'mon, don't be such a prima donna. He says he'll do it for Sarah but as he paints, they fight about what's good enough and angsty artist stuff. It's boring and we all know Gilles Marini isn't sticking around, so I can't really care that much.
She talks him up at the festival but is acting like his agent, not his girlfriend. They fight because he wants to be creative and it's not enough for Sarah because she wants him to get a Visa so she knows what is going on. He asks her to just be happy and she can't. After a talking-to from Nora, however, Sarah decides to make it work with Luc. She tells him she loves him but he still goes back to France.
Justin & Rebecca
Justin is stressed over a test and can't make time for Rebecca. Rebecca's kind of a snot about it because Justin doesn't KNOW that the news is BABY. She eventually cries to her father about how she's six weeks along and that Justin doesn't want a baby. Justin finally gets home from school and explains that sometimes he's not going to be there for her because he's so busy. So she doesn't tell him.
Kitty & Robert
Kitty dons a sassy shaggy blonde wig and Robert says, "Shh. We need to be quiet. My wife may be here any minute." Heee. Kitty is afraid for Robert to see her without her hair and when he eventually does, she cries and doesn't want him to see but Robert doesn't care. He says he loves her and it's a nice scene.
Thoughts & Tidbits
- I'm sorry, but I just couldn't get too worked up about Sarah and Luc. There's no emotional investment when it's a guest star that you know is leaving. Speaking of guest-stars...
- I hope Simon Craig isn't a three-off character. Nora needs a man to stick the eff around.
- Scotty: Wait, is this a joke? Or does your OCD actually run on some sort of fuel that you're out of?
- Nora: This is the step where my son Justin split his head open when he was wasted out of his mind. Out there is the swimming pool where my husband drowned on my daughter's birthday. Up there in the very first bedroom is where I'm nursing Kitty through chemo. It's the very same bedroom that Sarah stayed in when she was going through her divorce. In there is the living room where my son Kevin married his partner Scotty. So this is the box I live in. It's not med school but it's not playing it safe either.
- Robert: I love you... for reasons that have nothing to do with your hair.
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Seriously, where are they going with this Rebecca/Justin baby thing. Not loving any of that. Seriously.
So maybe this is totally out there, but I am wondering if Rebecca & Justin + baby neither is prepared for = perfect fit for Scotty & Kevin who are desperate for baby.
??? Maybe ???
I't not like the writers haven't headed in that direction before: Tommy's got Kevin's kid after all. Totally different circumstances, I get, but still. Anyway, that just popped into my brain while I was watching and I was curious if anyone else got that feeling.
Loved the Kitty/Robert/Hair moment. =)
Sally Field is 63, Rachel Griffiths is 40, Callista Flockhart is 45--not that they're playing those ages, but reasonably the youngest Nora could be is around 60. When she said there was a 20-year age difference it was a guess, plus Simon being 47 was (I think) a little older than she was guessing.
If I was involved with a male equivalent of Sarah, I'd take leave too. Gad - she's such a pain and incredibly self-centered. I am (obviously)not a fan of the character. She doesn't even know this man - who seems to be pretty clear about who he is and what motivates him as an artist and all she can think about is what she needs.
The show is far too soapy for me now - I think I'll read about it for the next few weeks and see if something happens that isn't so predicatable - pregnancy that woman doesn't tell the father about; the evilness that is this new found son; is there something lurking in Nora's new lover?
I liked the show the first year before they fired the creator. I liked that it was topical and had more of a political/social edge to it.
I hope to hear soon that the evil half brother has hit the road.
Nora's 60th birthday party was in the first season ep with Ida, which makes her approximately 64.
Loved Kevin's neurotic behavior in this ep, and the whole K/S storyline. Love Nora's new boyfriend.
Completely done with Rebecca and the pregnancy, Ryan and Ojai, and Luc (the woman has two kids and a family business to think about. She deserves to know if her non-citizen, live-in boyfriend is going to be a responsible, committed partner).
I know Gilles Marini wasn't sticking around from the get-go, but last night's storyline felt so amazingly rushed it was almost blatantly obvious that the fight was about to lead to him leaving. Gilles only had 1 or 2 scenes last week, they should've at least began to hint at this issue then and then conclude it last night. Well, at least he's coming back later in the season it sounds like.
I try not to keep up on the behind the scenes news as far as who is guest starring and for how long, that what I'm not expecting anything and it keeps an element of surprise.
The last two episodes have slowed down a bit, which is okay, but I agree that Justin needs to find out about the pregnancy.
I too had the thought that Kevin/Scotty would want Rebecca and Justin's baby but I thought it was too weird to actually happen.
And why is Ojai have all of the wine in their cellar? Why isn't it at Walker Landing?
So sad Luc is gone, so so SOOOO Easy on the eyes...
And I agree, some guy has GOT to stick around for Nora for SOME type of more involved story line...although from the coming attractions, look like he might be a bad egg....
@Ryan....Ojai had the extra grapes they didn't know what to do with. too expensive to store or off load. They decide to make wine out of them but because the wine would be questionable they didn't want to use the Walker Landing name but just a generic name. I guess kinda like the 360 wine you can get at Whole Foods. Sad thing is that it was Ryan's idea in the 1st place and now he's sabotaging the whole thing cuz he's got issues.
I think Rebecca is going to have an abortion and not tell Justin.