Desperate Housewives/Brothers & Sisters

Desperate Housewives – Excited and Scared

     Paul’s attempt to blackmail Susan backfired, when she told Mike about her stint on the internet.  Then Paul went one step further and told one of the parents from the school at which she teaches about Susan’s extracurricular activities.  Word got back to the principal, and Susan got fired.  Eventually she figured out that Paul was the one who engineered all of this, and she went after him with a club that was part of MJ’s Halloween costume.  My major complaint in all of this is that the club should have, and would have, been plastic, yet while she was swinging it around Paul, it was obviously more solid, probably wood.  No parent would let their child walk around on Halloween with a giant wooden club.  It was a stupid prop contrivance that didn’t work for me. 

     Once Susan was fired, Mike had to take a job offer in Alaska, so it seems James Denton will be off the show for a while.  The other side of this is that Paul had finally had it with Beth, his wife, not being willing to have sex with him, and had told her he wanted her out.  When Susan went after him with the club, Beth stopped her, by threatening her with a gun.  Susan left the house, and Beth actually really kissed Paul, for maybe the first time.  I have no idea if it was because of a conversation she had with her mother, or because the she was excited by the violence, or because she was trying to keep her place as Paul’s wife.  I am still not sure what’s going on with her, but I am interested to find out.

     Tom’s mother was confused, angry, and emotional again this week, and Tom finally saw that she has a form of dementia or Alzheimer’s.  After she got confused and lost on Halloween night he spoke with his brother and sister, and together they decided she needed to go into an assisted living facility.  She was upset about it, but I believe deep down inside she understood.  I am glad nothing happened with any of Tom and Lynette’s children before they realized how serious the situation was.

     Gabby is spending too much time with, and giving too much attention to, Grace.  Grace is the child who Gabby and Carlos believe is their biological daughter.  Juanita is starting to get very jealous of the attention Grace is receiving, and I feel she has every right to be jealous and questioning.  I will be interested to see if/when they tell Juanita what is going on, and how she handles it.  My guess is she is eventually going to overhear her parents talking and find out that way.

     Bree found out that Keith has an anger issue, and has been arrested for it a couple of times.  He specifically has a problem when a man makes the woman he dating uncomfortable, and when he comes to her defense, he gets carried away.  Bree in turn told Keith about her issues with alcohol, so he would see she isn’t really perfect, and she can handle his issues, as long as he can handle hers.

     My favorite part of this episode was Lee showing up dressed as Marilyn Monroe at Renee’s party.  He walked in the door only to see Renee dressed exactly the same!  It was a good, laugh out loud, moment.

Brothers & Sisters – An Ideal Husband

     Tonight was basically the Kevin and Scotty hour.  I love them both, so I am okay with that, although I hate this cheating storyline.  It was good to find out that there were absolutely no feelings between Scotty and the “other man” since the other guy didn’t even seem to remember Scotty’s name.  He was working as a waiter at the restaurant the night Scotty cheated with him, and he was just “right place, right time”. 

     Kevin outs Scotty’s cheating to his whole family, so Scotty not only has to deal with the guilt he feels, and Kevin’s feeling, but then he also has to deal with the anger and disappointment of Kevin’s whole family.  Eventually Kevin tells Scotty he isn’t mad, he is in pain.  It was an excellent, heartbreaking scene.

     Kevin finally admits that he wasn’t there for Scotty at that time either.  He opted to avoid the biggest night of Scotty’s professional life, the opening of his restaurant, to sit in a bar and drink.  He admitted it first to his mother, then finally to Scotty.  So really, neither of them is without blame.  I hope this knowledge allows them to start coming back to each other and healing.

     In other storylines:  Kitty and her “boyfriend” broke up, thank heavens.  I am not ready to see her get serious with anyone.  Sarah and Luc considered not getting married, but eventually she came to her senses and they announced their engagement to the family.  It was nice to see some happy news for the family after a fairly dark episode.