Issue #14, 28 September – 4 October 2008

Posted by AJ in Entertainment and Pop Culture TV Rewind.

This week: the Walkers prove even rich families can be dysfunctional on Brothers & Sisters, Tim Kring recycles powers on Heroes, Greek’s Casey Cartwright has a soul and Franny doesn’t, and the ladies of Lipstick Jungle make me feel like a natural woman.  Check it out after the jump!

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Show: Brothers & Sisters
Episode: “Glass Houses” (3×01)
You Can Watch It: Sundays at 10pm on ABC

The third season of Brothers & Sisters premiered this week, and as it turns out not much has changed.  At all.  Tommy, who has decided to fire his own brother (Kevin) from the family company, is still an asshole.  Kitty still can’t have babies, but she has kicked off the search for someone else’s baby to love (aka the adoption process).  Sarah is still determined/obsessed to find her father’s real love child.  Justin is still carrying on a quasi-incestuous relationship with his almost-sister Rebecca (she’s the one who found out she wasn’t the real William Walker love child last season).  Kevin is still an uptight lawyer, and Nora is still going through menopause.  We hope.  Nothing else could or should explain her behavior.  Oh, and Holly, who spent the summer becoming a bigger bitch, got the emotional smackdown from Nora when she delivered the news of William having another lover who he got pregnant for real.

Conclusions:
If William was alive, he’d be so dead right now.

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Show: Heroes
Episode: “One of Us, One of Them” (3×03)
You Can Watch It: Mondays at 9pm on NBC

Heroes was a little fucked-up this week.  First, Parkman’s desert spirit walk guide apparently has dead Isaac’s power to paint the future (sans heroine addiction) and he seemed to loan it out to Parkman at will.  Then Tracy Strauss traveled to New Orleans to discover more about her doppelganger Nikki Saunders only to find her in a casket and traumatize her newly orphaned son, Micah.  Mrs. Petrelli sent Sylar out with Noah Bennett to round up the escaped Level 5 prisoners and Sylar ate one.  Needless to say, his rehabilitation isn’t going so well.  Hiro and Ando attempted to steal, well, intercept the other half of the formula from the Haitian, but Daphne the “speedster” foiled them again (curses!).

Conclusions:
I miss bad ass future Hiro whose roll went beyond simple and semi-racist comic relief.

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Show: Greek
Episode: “See You Next Time, Sister” (2×06)
You Can Watch It: Tuesdays at 9pm on ABC Family

Season 1 super bitch Frannie was back in full force on this week’s episode of Greek.  The ZBZ officers—Casey, Ashley, and now Frannie—traveled to their sorority’s national convention in Orlando where Frannie made a power play to get the rules changed to allow her to run for house president against Casey in the spring.  Instead of sinking to Frannie’s sickeningly low level, Casey opted to preserve her integrity.  Rather than lock the vote in her favor (meaning the rules are left alone) by doing Tagan’s dirty work and talking Lizzie into quitting her job at ZBZ, Casey (with Ashley’s assistance, of course) busted out the flat irons and helped Lizzie go from frizzy to fresh (both stylistically and sassily).  Back at the CRU campus, Kappy was totally jealous of Casey’s new book and Rusty’s new mentor, Max, and we learned that the Honor’s Engineering majors REALLY know how to party.  Also, Calvin cheated and Evan didn’t.

Conclusions:
How the hell did that happen?!?  Calvin’s gonna be sorrrrrrryyyyyyy!!!  Also, I would like to bitchslap Frannie more than anything right now.

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Show: Lipstick Jungle
Episode: “Chapter Nine: Help!” (2×02)
You Can Watch It: Wednesdays at 10pm on NBC

This week’s theme was all about being classy.  Wendy risked her career by forging medical release forms for her lead actor in her current big project when she found out he is dying of a brain tumor.  Seeing as how playing John Lennon is his dying wish, she put herself on the line to make it happen (fallout will be inevitable, yes, but we cheer happily now).  Victory knocked out two birds with one stone—she undermined one of Joe’s decisions about her business by hiring a contractor herself and she got a hot date with said contractor (who, by the way, is a cross between Gerard Butler and Kiefer Sutherland, no joke).  I smell budding romance that will lead to tensions and possible fisticuffs involving Joe!  And finally Nico got back together with Kirby (thank GOODNESS) and found a soft spot in her heart for her dead husband’s mistress who is impregnated with his love child (love children are popular this week!).

Conclusions:
This is the greatest show on television.  I’m drunk on their fashion sense and fantastical lives right now.

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