GIVING AND RECEIVING SPERMS AT “BROTHERS AND SISTERS” NIGHTIME DRAMA

 

Last night’s episode of Brothers and Sisters (Episode 7 - Northern Exposure)  finally converted me as a follower of this nightime drama -  shown a few weeks back here in Melbourne. 

I am so impressed with the witty remarks and dialogues and the twist and turns of this seemingly familiar family events.  Husband and dad who is dead discovered to have a secret affair  and how his wife, Nora (Sally Field)   the sons and daughters (brothers and sisters)  and the extended family deal with the problems as brought about by this change. 

I feel at home watching this movie - as I emphatized with the currents of emotions while the siblings though living their own lives are still so much in touch with each other.

Well with the episode last night - it was all about sperms, sperms, sperms! 

The older brother Thommy  found out that his sperms are all dud thus he could not be a father much that he wanted to be. 

So he asked his gay brother Kevin to give or donate some of his sperms.   Kevin did not like the idea as this is like patronizing his role being the gay son.   He also held the notion that he does not want his child to experience the loneliness and alienation of being gay while growing up in an all-american family. 

Everyone disagrees with Kevin and Kitty (Calista Flockhart)  being a staunch republican and thus protector of the idea of an all time American family suprisingly  allied with him.  She still believes that in this case, the individual is much more important than the family.

Justin,  the youngest brother, offered his sperm but Thommy for no reasons at all did not want his straight brother’s sperm.  It appeard that he was more comfortable with his gay brother’s sperms being inseminated into his wife’s reproductive system. 

So it was all the judgement, prejudices and insecurities playing up within the members of the family - which came up wih a beautiful resolution at the end of this episode - to my delight - having Kevin and Justin both donating their sperms and mixing it so the identity of the father will never be known.

By the way - Sally Field (playing as mom) and and Dave Annable (younges son) are real life lovers.  Can you believe it?

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Brothers and Sisters is a compelling, new one-hour primetime drama from executive producers Ken Olin and playwright Jon Robin Baitz about the California-based Walker family. In the series, we meet a collection of incredibly intertwined and somewhat damaged adult siblings who embrace one another unconditionally while striving to reflect the perceived perfection of their role model parents. In the days ahead, they will navigate waves of temptation, deception and grief.

Brothers and Sisters follows the Walkers through the maze of American life today — the pressures, limitless options and the struggle to grow beyond our backgrounds into ourselves. Through these fascinating siblings — Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), the corporate VP struggling to balance motherhood with career; Tommy (Balthazar Getty), the loyal son and seeming heir to the family business; Kevin (Matthew Rhys), the gay lawyer cautiously learning about love; Justin (Dave Annable), the baby of the family, grappling with war trauma and addiction; and Kitty (Calista Flockhart), right-wing radio host turned TV pundit who has always been Daddy’s little girl — the show explores what it means to be a family in the 21st century, and how these brothers and sisters balance their own lives as they strive to accept their parents as people — flawed, contradictory and forgivable — rather than just as a father and mother.

The parents are Tom Skerritt as William Walker, the larger-than-life patriarch and president of the family business, and Sally Field as Nora Holden, the opinionated wife and mother to the five Walker siblings. Then there’s Ron Rifkin as Saul Holden, Nora’s brother and the company’s second in command; John Pyper-Ferguson as Sarah’s husband, Joe; Sarah Jane Morris as Tommy’s wife, Julia; and Patricia Wettig as the mystery woman who could bring the Walkers and their company down.

Brothers and Sisters stars Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) as Kitty, Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) as Sarah, Sally Field (Norman Rae) as Nora Holden, Ron Rifkin (Alias) as Saul Holden, Patricia Wettig (thirtysomething) as Holly, Balthazar Getty (Alias) as Thomas, Dave Annable (Reunion) as Justin, Matthew Rhys (Titus, Love and other Disasters) as Kevin, John Pyper-Ferguson (Unforgiven, Nightstalker) as Joe, Sarah Jane Morris (Felicity) as Julia, Emily VanCamp (Everwood) as Rebecca Harper and Kerris Lilla Dorsey as Paige.

Ken Olin (Alias, thirtysomething), Jon Robin Baitz (The Substance of Fire, The West Wing) and Greg Berlanti (Everwood) are executive producers. The series is produced by Touchstone Television.

BEING UGLY IS NOT SO FUNNY!

BUT UGLY BETTY IS !!!

Last night’s pilot episode of Ugly Betty was so hilarious - I nearly died of laughing!  What’s so funny about UB is that Betty is not that ugly at all!  

What is sooo funny is that she knows that she is not a glamour (fashionable) kind of a girl.  It is her tried persistence,  audacity and pure confidence to smile with her braces, bushy eyebrows,  unkempt hairdo and really ugly outfits, even in a crowd of offensively bitchy fashionistas. 

Like she got ”who cares or what if I am ugly!”  kind of attitude - drawing a lot of attention!  I love her fighting spirit - bordering on comedy, but not trying hard!

What really made me laugh was when she presented herself like a small boy in a superman or spidey costume with brave confidence wearing (a not so Sex in the city) poncho outfit on her first day of work!  And the scene where she suddenly appeared with that (not so sexy) sex-bomb outfit, without even having her face done!   OMG! I just love this sense of humour!

Anyway, I am so looking forward to the usual peaceful and quiet Sunday night!  For Ugly Betty will surely make me hysterically mad!

I bet she will be a new icon for the drag queens out there - for some comice relief !!!