Oh, man. I’m really
starting to get to like these characters, which meant this episode was full of
teary moments, and not only for those on screen.
Jumping right in, Julia
and Joel are still having loads of fun with Viktor, who continues to be
bratty—this week, he refused to change out of pajamas to leave the house, for
starters. Julia is also having issues at
work. After a long day(and a missed
recital), she is super stressed, and misses a major deadline at work, one that
costs her firm a case, and millions of dollars.
She goes to opposing council to try to get them to extend the deadline,
and when they (obviously) turn her down, she plays the, “I just adopted a 9
year old boy” card, to absolutely no effect.
Later, the kids are being obnoxious in the kitchen while
Julia is making breakfast, and she has a complete and utter breakdown. There is burning food, and sobbing on the
floor, the whole nine yards. They go to
Viktor’s baseball game(more on that later), and Julia gets called back to work: according to her boss, she WAS on the
partnership track, but has seemed flakey and not focused for the last six
months, and she takes that the entirely wrong way. Instead of acting like a grownup, and saying “yes,
with my new son, and the issues that come with adopting an older child, I have
been less than focused. Perhaps I can
lessen my responsibilities, and take on a lesser role here, so I can focus on
what has become more important to me,” she goes for the, “gah! Wha! Wait,
no! Totally not! I quit!”
I was not terribly impressed with her reaction, is what I’m
saying.
Moving on. Zeek and Camille didn’t have a large
plot tonight, but he did check back in on his frined Ryan at the VFW, who apparently
has gone a bit AWOL. Zeek tracks him
down to Ryan’s house, and reams him out for being a lazy layabout. So, totally the way to get a person to listen
to you. Anyway, instead of laughing in
Zeek’s face, and slamming the door, Ryan accepts and offer to go to a baseball
game, not knowing it’s Viktor’s game. In
case you lost count, that is 7 people at the game already.
Another couple that didn’t have a whole lot going on was Crosby and Jasmine, though their story
interweaved with the big one later.
Jasmine discovers that Adam makes a whole lot more that Crosby, and
takes it upon herself to get Crosby to fix that mess. Crosby talks to Adam several times, with Adam
getting more and more stressed each time, until Crosby blow up, and tells Adam
he’s being selfish, among other things, at the baseball game. Adam, visibly deflated, says they’ll figure
it out on Monday. And we have 10 at the
game
In slightly bigger stories, Sarah kissed Hank. Or, to be
more precise, Hank kissed her, but she didn’t pull away, or stop him until much
too late. They are all sorts of awkward
through the rest of the episode, and eventually talk about it. And then, Sarah decides her and Mark should
move in together, because that is definitely a good idea. Anyway, she and Mark end up at the baseball
game as well, bringing our count to 12.
Lastly, we have the big story, with Adam and Kristina. Amber
comes over for a visit, and, having been told of ‘the situation’ by Adam, acts
like a complete spaz when Kristina answers the door. Kristina uses her amazing sense of deduction,
and figures out she knows. The next we
see, Adam and Kristina are talking about how they need to tell the whole
family, starting with Hattie. They tell
her over Skype, or a Skype-like program, and she is fully emotional, mostly because
they aren’t actually telling her anything beyond ‘Mom’s sick, but she’s going
to get better.’
Hattie obviously doesn’t take that for an answer, and calls
Adam back, and he speaks to her like a grownup, and lays the whole thing
out. There is split-screening, and
crying, and it’s all very emotional. Definitely
a contrast to when they tell Max. He’s
like, ‘yep,’ and that’s it. Amber comes
over later, and talks to him, and he has clearly done his research, because they
have a good talk about what it means to be a grown-up, and oh, btw, my mom has
cancer.
And suddenly, we’re at the baseball game, and Adam and Kristina,
along with Max and Amber and the rest of the crew are there, and our final
count is 16 people to a youth baseball game for one kid that fails at baseball.
And this is where we have the biggest ridiculousness of the
entire episode. Zeek takes it upon himself
to get the coach to put Viktor in the game, and is a complete ass about the
whole thing. “Look, sir, my entire
family is here, plus this random veteran THAT PRESERVED OUR FREEDOM, the least
you can do is play my grandson that sucks at baseball, dammit.”
The coach is reluctant at first, but after such an…impassioned…speech,
the coach puts him in for the last out.
Of course, he gets two strikes, and then an infield home run, and wins
the game, because the other team failed hilariously obviously, and the whole
family was cheering and whatnot, until the whole crew make their way to…
A diner of some sort, and the chit-chatting commences. That is, until Hattie walks in, and Kristina
and she both break down at the same moment as I do…what a coincidence. Kristina say she has an announcement, and we
pan around the gathered grownups as the sad music plays, and I’m a mess in my
super comfy chair.
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