Brothers & Sisters – The Wig Effect – Recap

Monday, November 9, 2009, 12:52 PM | TV
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(Here’s Desi’s recap of last night’s episode of Brothers & Sisters: The Wig Effect)

As we start this week’s Brothers & Sisters, Rebecca is lying in bed with the aftereffects of the flu and she’s looking a lot like I feel. I, of course, don’t have Justin Walker crawling all over me but I’m willing to bet I’d feel a lot better if I did. He starts prodding her for symptoms, saying that it might not be the flu and could be something more serious, like a thyroid disorder or the Epstein-Barr virus.

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Scotty and Kevin are talking about money and how they’ll continue to fund their surrogacy since their line of credit has been cut in half. There’s a knock on their door and when Kevin pulled it open I almost laughed myself off my chair. “There’s an insane man outside,” he says about the grown man dressed in a superhero costume. “That’s my dad,” Scotty says, and explains Wally’s outfit since there’s a comic convention in town. They let him in and he spills his secret: that Wally and Scotty’s mom have split up.

In the Walker kitchen, Kitty is searching for her keys after letting Evan play with them. Nora pulls them out from under her stack of papers and asks Kitty what time her appointment with oncologist Dr. Avadon is, but she doesn’t have one: she’s cancelled the session, thinking about trying alternative treatments instead. Then Kitty says one of the most amazing things anyone has ever said to Nora: “Mother, I really wish you wouldn’t freak out.” Yeah, that’ll happen.

Moe and I had the same reaction to Robert and Kevin in a parking garage with flashbacks to his heart attack. This time, they successfully get in the limo and go off to a debate against a new entrant in the political race. After the debate, Robert runs into Henderson in the parking lot and the two have a showdown, Robert sputtering insults he shouldn’t. His remarks get posted on YouTube, and as Kevin tries to do damage control, Robert says this is his battle to fight.

We get our only look at Gilles Marini’s Luc in a brief scene at Sarah’s while she and Saul discuss the new Ojai wines. #bringbackgilles! Nora calls Sarah and summons her to Kitty’s side, telling her not to leave until she agrees to continue chemo since she has to go off to prepare for the foundation’s benefit that night. It’s here she meets a doctor named Simon who whisks her off on his motorcycle and explains to her that every cancer patient goes through wanting to stop treatment.

Sarah has been at the house with Kitty all day when Nora comes home to change for the evening, and after he conversation with Simon she decides to be supportive of Kitty’s decision. When Kitty overhears them talking about her, she gets angry that they won’t let her make her own decisions, and avoids them throughout the whole benefit.

At the event, the Walker children pretend to be on their best behavior, but as Justin and Rebecca harass Nora about her motorcycle ride (”did you wear leather?”) it becomes clear they don’t have that ability. Nora’s speech becomes a bit of a lecture to Kitty, who locks herself in the bathroom. When she finally lets her mom in, she walks out with a bald spot on her head: the chemo has finally started to make her hair fall out. Sarah and Nora help her arrange it so they can hide it for the night and return to the ballroom.

As Justin talks to Simon at the bar, something hits him and he goes running to Rebecca. Having apologized earlier for having “Intern’s Disease” and trying to diagnose her symptoms, he thinks he has it figured out and asks her if she is pregnant. She laughs it off, again citing a lingering flu, and proves it by eating shrimp as it walks by.

Kevin and Scotty had seen his father talking to a woman in their hotel lobby, and Kevin had joked that it looked like they hadn’t just met. As Scotty and Wally have ad drink at the bar, his dad reveals that Kevin was right and that he’s been seeing Moira for awhile, leading to his split with Scotty’s mom. A package comes to their apartment for Scotty, and he opens it to find his dad’s Captain America comic book from the 1940’s. A note tucked inside says “here’s something to help pay for the baby.”

The morning after the benefit, Justin apologizes again for thinking Rebecca is pregnant and says it would be crazy for them to have a baby now. He plants a kiss on her cheek as he walks out the door and Rebecca looks down at her hand… holding a positive pregnancy test. Drama!

The biggest issue I had with the episode was the melodramatic “shaving Kitty’s head” scene. I recognize that it’s a big deal, I just feel like it’s overdone (especially on ABC dramas.) Can we just walk out with a freshly shaven head and no big to-do about it? She does look cute, though, with her little peach fuzzy head.

Next week’s previews scared me for two reasons: they tease Luc and Sarah’s break-up (nooo! #signgillesmarini!) and Kitty’s wig. ABC must have spent all their wig money on Izzie’s Grey’s Anatomy wigs because Kitty’s looks like a cheap Halloween leftover.

1 Comments for Brothers & Sisters – The Wig Effect – Recap

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You couldn’t be more right with your wig observation. If they wanted to go the cheap way, they could have taken the idea from Samantha’s character in Sex and the City and gone all out. Who wouldn’t want to see Kitty in a hot pink wig at some political fundraiser? Ha!

And the best news I heard all day…Gilles told an interviewer that Luc has no agenda, that he hopes the relationship between Luc and Sarah will be a love story for the ages, and that he will be filming an additional four episodes in addition to the five already in his contract. Thank you @god!

Moe007 on November 9, 2009 at 6:48 pm