Oct 27 2008
Brothers And Sisters Episode 3-5
TV.com: You Get What You Need - Rebecca’s trust in her mother is put to the test when she discovers something about Holly; Kevin meets his conservative Scotty’s parents.
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Recap & Review: If there is one thing about Brothers & Sisters, we know the Walker family never makes things easy. This family is next to complicated in the dictionary. Last week, Rebecca found the file on Ryan, and this week she goes to Justin with it. He is less than helpful though. Another one that is less than helpful is Kevin as Scotty makes plans for the visit of his homo phobic parents. They are coming to town now when they wouldn’t even attend their son’s wedding. Kevin’s focus is on becoming partner. He even has to move the family dinner to later. It does look like he is being named partner though. However, Kitty still wants him to take Robert’s offer. The oldest Walker is also moving forward with her own project after cleaning out the office last week. With a few helpful tips from Sal, she is on her way. As for Sal, he is bored during his retirement.
Scotty’s parents arrive, and Kevin stretches things. He says that he is inviting Kitty and Robert to dinner. He practically has to beg her to come to dinner. The family is off on their day together, while Nora is off to her meeting. The people seem less than enthused to talk to her when she has no resume to speak of. That is until she mentions who her husband was. This earns her what she calls a pity meeting. She even asks for Sarah’s help to make sure all is in line. Sarah is still looking for a job, but in today’s economy, she is having trouble finding a job. I can already see where this might head though. Will Sarah end up working with Nora? Meanwhile, Rebecca and Holly also work together, and Holly comes clean about her search for Ryan before Rebecca can confront her on the file she found. This brings mother and daughter closer together, and the two talk over wine about Justin and Rebecca’s relationship, and the lack of sex. During all of this, Kevin hears the news that he will not be named partner that year.
This makes things awkward when Kevin shows up at dinner because they are all congratulating him for becoming partner. Nora’s own dinner meeting gets heated. She ends up telling the man how unappreciated a stay at home parent is. We can see where Kevin gets his temper because he also has a few things to say to Scotty’s parents when they focus all of their attention on Kitty and Robert. With the day he had, he explodes and he ends up taking Robert’s job offer. Meanwhile, Rebecca returns home, and she is a little bit drunk. When she tells Justin about her mother and their talk, Justin has his own words to say, but instead of leaving, these two end up falling into bed together. The bed just happens to be the couch.
Kevin is having issues dealing with his losing his job. He returns home and he apologizes to Scotty about dinner and not finding Scotty’s parents a hotel. All he wanted when he came to dinner though was his husband and a hug. A cute and touching moment here with these two. I have really loved how they deal with these two on the series. I also enjoy Rebecca and Justin. They are trying to deal with so much that has been going on, but they have worked through it. They end up bringing their mothers together to work out their issues over Ryan. Rebecca gives Nora the file Holly made on him. The two women have it out, and Holly tells Nora maybe she should be the one to contact Ryan before she has a bad day.
This series has a way of turning chaos every week into great television. Sometimes predictable, but that is only because this family has their own way of dealing with things. I knew Nora would offer Sarah a job with her project, but Sarah didn’t take it. What has me curious here is Tommy and Sal. Will these two team up to get rid of Holly from Ojai Foods? This would make it easy for Sarah to return to the company. We will have to wait and see what happens. Don’t forget to check What’s Hot on TV for your daily listings.
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